“Under climate change,” Underhill says, “floods of this magnitude or higher will happen with increasing frequency.

  • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
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    7 months ago

    If you swim in that lake you turn into a techbro and the only way to change back is to wait 130 years until the time the next time it appears

    • SSJ2Marx
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      7 months ago

      This has happened before, it's tied to the fact that we've had a ton of rain this year.

  • mapiki@discuss.online
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    7 months ago

    This happened in 2023... So a year ago now. This is what happens when California gets a wet year.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    a geographer made a theoretical satellite photo of 1850s california some time ago.

    “[The Central Valley] used to have a big lake and lots of marshes from water runoff from the mountains. Dams and irrigation stopped all that many years ago. But I’ve always wondered what it looked like around here before that.”

    it's kind of fascinating to look at.

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    one can imagine being alive in those days and looking at what whites half-assedly named "central valley" as a heavenly place on earth.