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This is Great Lakes of Canada and the USA type distances here ladies and gentlemen. Crazy stuff.
by 3pt14159 4y ago
This is Great Lakes of Canada and the USA type distances here ladies and gentlemen.
Crazy stuff.
- lhorie 4y agoI was trying to figure out a relatable comparison on a map. Looking from one side of the flood lake to the other would be like trying to spot Niagara Falls from Toronto, or San Jose from San Francisco - never mind that the distance is large enough for Earth's curvature to get in the way. And that's just thinking of it as a cross-sectional view of the lake, which doesn't say much about area. The way I ended up explaining it to my kids was that 33M people were affected. San Francisco population is ~800k, so around 40 SFs worth of people are impacted.
- boppo1 4y agoWell, not quite. The great lakes are rather deeper. That's not to say this isn't shocking or a sign of radical climate change.