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That was particularly bad for a few reasons 1. There wasn't any weather station in the areas so people didn't know the storm was coming. 2. The LA area didn't h
by freitzkriesler2 3y ago
That was particularly bad for a few reasons
1. There wasn't any weather station in the areas so people didn't know the storm was coming.
2. The LA area didn't have nearly as much of the US army corp of engineers' flood control systems it has today.
LA nowadays has an incredibly robust flood control system. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being a bad thunderstorm and mostly a nothing burger.
- ghaff 3y agoForecasting can make a huge difference. When a hurricane practically wiped Galveston off the map in 1900, US weather forecasting capabilities were extremely limited. [1] On a much smaller scale, there was the Blizzard of '78 which basically shut down Boston for a week and stuck many drivers on Route 128 from which they had to be laboriously evacuated. Quite a few people were stuck in their offices for a week--all in part because the storm pretty much caught everyone by surprise.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_bli...
- Retric 3y agoMudslides are upstream of flood control systems and likely the biggest threat. Similarly local flooding can cause a great deal of damage without being part of a stream system. “Remnants of” Hurricane Ida killed 44 people in the NYC area in 2021, this is expected to still qualify as a tropical storm when it makes landfall.