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California Told To Prepare for Biblical 'ARkStorm'

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Walls of water 10ft high in a month-long mega hurricane: California told to prepare for biblical ‘ARkStorm’

By Daniel Bates
Scientists are now warning Californians that the long-awaited ‘big one’ earthquake could be the least of their environmental concerns.
Another more deadly threat awaits the West coast of America – in the form of a biblical ‘ARkStorm’, which could bring death and destruction on a scale never before seen.
Walls of water 10ft high, rain falling in feet instead of inches, and nine million people’s homes flooded during a hurricane-like megastorm that could last more than month.
 

Just the beginning: A truck and a house are buried waist level in mud after the torrential rains that soaked California in December. Scientists are warning of an even greater storm, the ARkStorm, which they say is long overdue
The every-other-century event last happened in 1861 and left the central valley of California impassable.
The cost was impossible to quantify – but should a similar event happen today the damage could total more than $300billion.

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1861?

Large storms have struck in 1969 and 1986 but ‘the big one’ is still that which hit in 1861, the last ARkStorm.
Beginning on Christmas Eve, the storm continued into the following year and lasted 45 days in total.
The flooding was so severe it turned the Sacramento Valley into an inland sea and in southern California lakes were formed in the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin.
Across the entire state storms wiped out nearly a third of the taxable land, leaving the state bankrupt.

The U.S. Geological Survey has now begun planning for the return of the ARkStorm, so named after the boat Noah used to escape the flood in the Bible. The capped-up ‘A’ and ‘R’ stand for ‘atmospheric river’.
They have recruited 17 researchers and a string of agencies to work with local emergency crews and government officials across California to ensure that should it arrive, they would be best prepared for it.
The team says that a storm on the scale of that which struck in 1861 is ‘inevitable’ and it was widely considered the worst and longest on record.
USGS chief ARkStorm scientist Lucy Jones said the weather system will start in the Tropics due to atmospheric rivers of moisture forming, grow larger and gain speed as it travels to the West coast of America where it would become roughly the same strength as a hurricane.
It would take some weeks to form, which would hopefully give them time to better prepare when it arrived.

A California golf course is flooded during the December storms. Scientists predict that up to nine million homes could be flooded in the ARkStorm
‘We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes,’ she said.
‘Floods are as much a part of our lives in California as earthquakes are. We are probably not going to be able to handle the biggest ones.’
Californians have a long history of coping with natural disasters, not least earthquakes as the state sits atop the San Andreas fault.
The most destructive earthquake to hit California was 7.9 on the Richter Scale in 1906, when more than 3,000 people died.
The 6.9 quake of 1989, also known as the World Series Earthquake, left 63 dead and nearly 4,000 injured but many more had their homes destroyed.
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    • Pix

      And when will idiots learn to not build in areas that flood, or are subject to earthquakes, vulcanoes, tsunamis etc. The mind boggles at the constant repetition of the same stupidity.

    • Anonymous

      well unless they move to mars no place is safe now, havent you been paying attention to world news..

    • HIDDENTEXTOR

      Anyone recall that this will be radioactive water?

    • Buckworth Jackson

      Anyone with half a oz of brains is leaving/has left California.
      It once was a beautiful state, but the PTB invited in the third World and turned it into a bankrupt sh*thole. :^(

      But they vote Democrat so no one cared.

    • marcryan71

      Pix, ANY area you build on will have SOME type of disaster problem. Flood. Earthquake. Volcano. Landslide. Tsunami. Drought. Dust storm. Sinkhole. — You cannot chalk this up to “stupidity” because anywhere you go on this earth, will have an issue with nature at some point. People must role the dice in where they settle and hope for the best.

    • Maryjo

      Well Pix beings us people are so stupid, and I’m guessing you must be so smart. Where should we all move to? Is there a place on this Earth that don’t have some type of disaster problem?

    • Buckworth Jackson

      Well – you are smart enough to read this site so you have something going on upstairs ;^)
      May I suggest Montana?
      Cost of living is about 25% less than any other state. The beer is cold and the women are beautiful.
      Serious, check the US NAVY/Hopi maps.
      No where is it going to be easy, just one increases the odds when they choose Montana.
      (Unless you are a Obama voter)

    • Anonymous

      ANY area you build on will have SOME type of disaster problem. Flood. Earthquake. Volcano. Landslide. Tsunami. Drought. Dust storm. Sinkhole

      Clarkston, Washington–one of the best places to live weather and disaster wise–just as long as the dam holding back the reservoir holds up.

    • Buckworth Jackson

      Oh Hillary’s queef, all the dams are going to break!

    • ErnieD

      First off i grew up here in so. cal and no one ever warned anyone in regards to a mega storm like this, they just recently decided to pull it out their butt from where they shoved it. and why is the uk so concerned about california to report something thats not even reported here, is it british haarp thats the cause? weve been experiencing our share of strange weather luckly its been mild changes. clearly all areas are a danger but in my opinion, large earthquakes like the supposed big one happen many decades apart where as hurricanes and tornados are a yearly thing, i agree with pix in that i would never live in what is called torando alley or rebuild an area like new orleans that a waste of tax money and is unbareable to have to sit and watch on tv every year so please do me the favor.

    • Anonymous

      Ernie, the UK is reporting about it because if it happens, the insurance claims on all that expensive real estate will likely bankrupt several insurance companies causing economic ripples around the world. Not to mention that North America’s largest sea and airports are in California and if they’re inaccessible it would put a serious crimp in North American trade, further damaging an already unstable economy.
      As for your comment about how “they just recently decided to pull it out their butt….”, they didn’t. This isn’t something “they” made up. Its a part of your history.
      Here’s the final nail in your coffin:
      http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Scientists-cite-Atmospheric-River-for-Near-Continuous-Rain-112228904.html

      Los Angeles is in South California, isn’t it?

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