the ARkStorm wikipedia USGS

I've read about potential disaster shit forever and I hadn't seen this till now

a quarter of America's food is grown under that inland sea on the map

here's a long article which goes into detail including how the 1862 storm was the final death knell for the rancheros in the Central Valley who were forced to sell their land to settlers for next to nothing

The cities of 160 years ago could not boast municipal wastewater facilities, which filter pathogens and pollutants in human sewage, nor municipal dumps, which concentrate often-toxic garbage. In the region’s teeming twenty-first-century urban areas, those vital sanitation services would become major threats. The report projects that a toxic soup of “petroleum, mercury, asbestos, persistent organic pollutants, molds, and soil-borne or sewage-borne pathogens” would spread across much of the valley, as would concentrated animal manure, fertilizer, pesticides, and other industrial chemicals.

i'm still staggered at how apocalyptic this is and how small it is in public consciousness, even the researchers who modeled the ARkStorm hadn't heard about the Great Flood of 1862 when they began according to the article