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California's Super Storm
- hugh3 16y agoHacker News: now with weather!
- anigbrowl 16y agoI found this quite interesting for the insight on how much natural phenomena can confound the best-laid plans; having a third of all taxable land (ie private property) wiped out by rainfall was enough to bankrupt California, and makes a mockery of conventional budget arguments. Arguably, the relative dryness of recent decades may be the exception rather than the rule, with long-term statistics suggesting reversion to a historical mean: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/07/california-climate-pdo-lod-and-sunspot-departure/ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/07/california-climate-pdo... I registered a few domains like californiaflood.org and similar last year - I can't even remember exactly which ones now, because I didn't really anticipate using them. That was around February, and it's rather surprising to see evacuations already taking place this early in the winter. Who knows, they might serve some purpose after all.