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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7546 on: May 02, 2023, 05:54:43 AM »
Interesting.

This one is man-made though:

3. The Johnstown Flood

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7547 on: May 02, 2023, 05:58:47 AM »
Yeah, that appears to be manmade.
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« Reply #7548 on: May 02, 2023, 06:26:21 AM »
If the New Madrid fault were to act up again, it could cause more damage than we've ever seen, and more lives lost than ever reported. 

It would change the country, for sure. Who knows where the big rivers would end up? Most certainly not in their current paths.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7549 on: May 02, 2023, 06:44:11 AM »
Yellowstone might be the one with the most damage potential.  San Andreas could hit highly populated areas badly (again).

I think we could "weather" even a massive hurricane in terms of loss of life.

I was told all the infield dirt from the five baseball fields in North Port was washed out, they had to truck dirt back in to fill the holes.  I gather the grassed areas held up.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7550 on: May 02, 2023, 07:07:00 AM »
I think that was riverine flooding up there. If so, the grass is fine in that. Saltwater flooding means dead grass.
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« Reply #7551 on: May 02, 2023, 07:10:17 AM »
Yup. it was.  The grass was in excellent shape in January.  (So were the infields, but they told us they were close to canceling.)

They were still working on sections we didn't use.  The club house areas must have been flooded also along with the dormitory.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7552 on: May 02, 2023, 07:39:23 AM »
Where exactly is this place?
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7553 on: May 02, 2023, 07:45:59 AM »
I'd throw in the dust bowl 

Ask a sooner 
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« Reply #7554 on: May 02, 2023, 07:58:02 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7555 on: May 02, 2023, 08:04:24 AM »
After $10 million in damage, Braves spring training complex back after hurricane (ajc.com)

Dunn explains that, after the hurricane, the infield dirt and outfield grass were not on even ground. The infield was a step down because the wind had sucked up a few inches of the clay and swept it somewhere. This happened on all seven major-league fields here.
“It acted like a typhoon and it just sucked up the clay and took it – we don’t know where,” Dunn said.
Describing what the infield looked like without the clay on top, Dunn said: “It was white. It was more sand, whatever was left.”
The Braves ordered over 150 tons of clay at a cost of over $1 million.
After the hurricane, no one had any clue where the wind blew the clay.
“The only place we had a pile of clay was in right field here (in the main stadium),” Dunn said. “All the other clay on all the fields, we’ve never found it. It’s in somebody’s yard.”

In the days and weeks that followed the storm, CoolToday Park’s parking lots served as staging areas for Florida Power & Light (FPL) employees and the rescue and recovery crews contracted to help. Every part of the parking lot was covered. There were cars, trucks, pop-up kitchens, laundry services and more. At that time, 620 FPL employees slept onsite for three and a half weeks.

“They brought in tractor-trailers that were bunkhouses – male, female, male, female – and they slept 24 to a camper,” Dunn said.


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« Reply #7556 on: May 02, 2023, 08:09:22 AM »
And people keep moving there because they don't like snow 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7557 on: May 02, 2023, 08:42:02 AM »
Yup, and lower taxes and costs of living, golf nearly year round, etc.  The occasional hurricane is a downside, every place has them.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7558 on: May 02, 2023, 10:21:44 AM »
no hurricanes in south dakota

no state income tax
low taxes overall
plenty of clean air and water
very low cost of living

but, brutal winters
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7559 on: May 02, 2023, 10:30:43 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 02, 2023, 10:21:44 AM
no hurricanes in south dakota

no state income tax
low taxes overall
plenty of clean air and water
very low cost of living

but, brutal winters
yes but in the summer you can go find T-Rex
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