California’s rainstorm hell ‘among the most deadly disasters in our history’
The series of storms that have pummeled California since late December have killed at least 19 people,
19 people is just over a third of the number of daily deaths from car crashes in California. 19 a month as against 55 or so a day? Deadly?
Fuck off.
Expensive, sure, but deadly?
If they’re crying already, wait till God sends the frogs.
Perhaps people in California have already ‘priced in’ the costs of road deaths, and even then believe (as each believes they are a better than average driver) that they can reduce their personal risks.
Now extreme weather events fall on the just and the unjust, cannot be avoided, and therefore are perceived as more risky. Plus the media don’t help ‘if it bleeds it leads’ – only with water.
California’s rainstorm hell ‘among the most deadly disasters in our history’
Worse than the arrival of Henry Mountbatten-Windsor? That must be something.
The media call any weather event out of the ordinary ‘the worse evaaahhhh!’. I’m not sure if its just ignorance of reality (though with weather we all have to live through it so there’s no excuse for not knowing the weather patterns that have happened in your own lifetime) or a more sinister need to try and prove that ‘climate change’ is happening, but either way perfectly normal weather periods get painted as some sort of ‘extreme’ event. The cold weather snap just before Christmas was a typical one – the weather was freezing for a week to 10 days. Something that happens almost every winter and certainly once every few winters. And far worse events have happened within the last decade. Yet looking at the media you’d think it was the end of the world.
“Yet looking at the media you’d think it was the end of the world.”
It’s worse than that. It threatens the end of their lying climate narrative.
Did they not have a small tremor in San Francisco in 1906? Which according to Wikipedia (so it may or may not be true) killed 3,000 people and destroyed 80% of the city. “Among the most deadly disasters in our history”, yeah, right.
I read somewhere last week that one of the reasons for the flooding is due to housebuilders being banned from installing storm drains to deal with exactly what we are seeing. Aren’t planners wonderful?
@Jim
I wonder how much that’s due to what one could call the highjacking of our collective memory. Was a time when the information we had of the past was very much memories of the people we knew. So you’d have maybe 50 years of experiences to draw on.*
I was thinking of the recent Great Drought! I can remember going through the 1976. No rain from what was it? April through until end August? I saw what was supposed to be the hottest ever recorded UK temperature. About 0.2C less than what the newspapers were telling us was the hottest ever recorded temperature in ’76. I can remember that because it was in Romford, where I was on the day. And I’d say there have been dryer years before & since. There was a newspaper photo of the grass in Hyde Park all burnt yellow. Shock horror! Yeah. Hyde Park looks like that sometimes in August. Did at the time of one of the big concerts, if I remember rightly. Blind Faith?
Collective memory’s been drowned out by media memory. Often presented to us by people who weren’t even born when the events happened. Even comparatively recent events get rewritten.
Adolfff All too likely.. See also Not Burning Off Deadwood to Protect Gaia.
Bloke: See also We Must Do Something About Air Pollution!111!!!1111
Don’t any of these people know about the 1950s?
@jgh
“Don’t any of these people know about the 1950s?”
It would appear that every generation has to ‘discover’ big problems on their own, and also appoint their own leaders to deal with them.
Which is why history (and politics, and economics…) loosely repeats itself.
It’s been stormy, but we’ve had stormy winters before, just not in the last few years so people have forgotten. Five years is a long time for the average media type to remember.
If you get decadal climate cycles, which we do, then for these people it genuinely is the worst ever. However you might expect any self-respecting journalist to research the past before making statements like that. Perhaps research is now a lost art amongst journalists, which is sad given the vast cornucopia of stuff now at all our fingertips. I guess research spoils the narrative.
I’ve lived in California for 60 years. This year’s floods are nothing new. There were years where the rain was measured in feet, others in tenths of an inch. Like the song says:
“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain,
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.”