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Nonetheless, there are no recorded instances of large storm-induced floods in the SFBay area that I'm aware of. Do you know of any? Fires, earthquakes, heavy r
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Nonetheless, there are no recorded instances of large storm-induced floods in the SFBay area that I'm aware of. Do you know of any?
Fires, earthquakes, heavy rains causing mudslides that have actually killed people: yes. Some very localized flooding around the Russian River happens all the time. The Guadalupe River in San Jose flooded a few years ago. But storm surge from the ocean? nope, nope.
- sdenton4 2y agoThere was a pretty bad flooding event portrayed in the documentary movie San Andreas. https://youtu.be/jvIGFhqbe0c?si=ZCaVjWjw-oi84HgD&t=1m39s https://youtu.be/jvIGFhqbe0c?si=ZCaVjWjw-oi84HgD&t=1m39s
- AlbertCory 2y agoYou're calling it a "documentary movie"?
- vdqtp3 2y agoJust because he didn't add /s doesn't mean it's not implied
- AlbertCory 2y agoyou never know what someone thinks /s. There's another guy here claiming there are supernatural phenomena.
- mistermann 2y agoAnd there are also people who are big talkers but can't defend their "non-supernatural" claims when challenged.
- AlbertCory 2y agooh, you're just so busy here, aren't you? we don't have to prove the negative; you have to prove your claim.
- mistermann 2y agoImpressive, but fairly normative[1] rhetoric[2]. Can you please take that courage over to the thread in question, where the cat seems to have gotten your tongue? Some alternatives: 1. Engage in even more rhetoric (which is easily identified) 2. Pretend that you have not seen this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954874 [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cognition/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cogn... Note: - you and I are both Humans - this conversation is "a situation" [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
- sdenton4 2y agoUh, OP here.... Calling the Rock's San Andreas a documentary was, in fact, a joke. You are now free to experience the many other surprising and delightful things that this life has to offer.
- AlbertCory 2y agoanswered elsewhere. Yes, my bad.
- AlbertCory 2y agoSorry. I've had so many "jokes" taken literally that I don't even try it without the /s anymore.
- jwkpiano1 2y agoNah, I was just pushing back on the notion that Houston is that much “lower” than SF, when it is not. Wild to get downvoted for that factual statement.
- inferiorhuman 2y agoBut storm surge from the ocean? nope, nope. In the Bay Area there's not much development on the coast. There are fancy cliff top homes, but not much at sea level. Even in SF things go uphill from the ocean pretty quickly. A good chunk of central and southern Marin is below sea level (and yes it floods during big storms) but that's well inland.