Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Yeah, I am calling BS on this.
Nobody got 12 inches in a 24 hour period, at least not UCLA.

Dude, you gotta quit equating twitter with the truth.

Here is the rainfall in Santa Monica basically a stone's throw away. 8-something inches for the month.

https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we139b.php

 

No it’s real.

More than a foot of rain in parts of Southern California. See how much has fallen in your area

 

THREE DAY RAINFALLS

 

I live here. There was no 12 inch downpour in a 24 hour period.

 

One, was just about to post to clarify. I realized based on what you put where the mistake was.

Two, your source doesn’t have UCLA past Feb 3, so it’s TBD how much UCLA measured

Three, a foot in three days is still a qualified shit-ton

 

For perspective, Hurricane Harvey dumped about 40" of rain on Houston in four days.

 

The silver lining is it will replenish the reservoirs and hopefully add to the snowpack in the mountains. Also hopefully, some of it gets to the Colorado Basin.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/06/california-drought-flooding-storms/

But storms like these won’t be able to wash away California’s long-term water worries Kennedy and the rest of the state hold: whether there will be enough water to sustain the state for the future.

When so much rain falls in such a short span of time, it overwhelms the natural and man-made systems that try to contain it. Rather than filling up reservoirs or sinking slowly into the soil, the floodwaters surge across landscapes and rip through communities before finally washing out to sea.

 

Also saw a story that was trying to make the argument that this much rain will help vegetation grow and thus increase wildfire danger.
Some people will never be happy unless they're on the brink of living in an apocalyptic hellscape.

 

You buried the lead.

With very few exceptions, environmental "happenings" have positive and negative consequences. Fuck, even hurricanes help the planet in a dozen different ways. They're only a problem because people CHOOSE to live in their path. Or choose to live on top of a goddamn continental fault line. Choose to walk a tightrope every day, and . . .

 

Naaaaaa, that's covered in the Economy thread.

 

Must refrain from making a joke about this.