Well that was unexpected. I never thought I’d see a sizable hurricane heading for California. I also never thought it would happened before the Atlantic hurricane season really kicked off.
Flooding and landslides will most likely be the biggest danger. There is going to be an awful lot of rain in a wide area.
Unlike in places like Florida, California doesn’t know what to do with these high risk storm conditions. People should be hunkered down and stay put. Roads are already closed in some places. It’s going to be dangerous. Flash flood emergencies are a clear threat to life.
Unfortunately, this is going to be a big learning experience for a lot of people. If you move to a place like Florida you accept hurricane prep is part of the deal. In California, not so much.
When you live in an area you learn the things that are the most likely threats to life. In my area of the frozen north it’s often blizzards and cold weather. In the spring we deal with floods from the snow melt and rain. This year it’s a little different as the wet summer repeatedly produced spring flood like conditions.
I’ve even received tornadoes warnings on my cell phone. It’s an eye opener to get warnings for weather events that were once considered impossible in your area. I guess that’s the big take away: nothing is impossible anymore.
-Sixbears
Having went to UCSD in La Jolla. I minored in geology while there. One of the concerns would be liquifaction and lubrication affects of the San Andreas fault line.. Much of that major fault line lies in the Imperial valley , which by the way is mostly below sea level too. If a large surge were to be pushed up the gulf of California. It only requires a few feet to spill over and could flood a huge section of that fault. The added weight could trigger the Palmdale bulge to move. If so ,,, look out buddy....
ReplyDeleteThere already has been some increased earthquake activity in the area. Interesting times.
DeleteMother nature is a great balancer. With all the dry, super hot weather in the southwest, A fairly large Hurricane is a likely way she is balancing the energies. I wonder how that is going to effect the situation going on in that region. Hot, dry, then wet to cool. We just get in the way of the inevitable. Probably our faults in the first place. Curious...
ReplyDeleteCurious indeed.
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