You know I listened to this idiot weatherman today that said Oh the Hurricaines in Fkorida, this past year the Tsunamis and the heavy rain in the west is normal this is not strange wether or whacky weather or global warming it's Just normal? Who let him out of the Camarillo State Hospital?
Methinks Chicken Little hatched out a whole brood of little "chicken littles."
It's normal. If 4 hurricanes hit Florida every year for the next 10 years, then THAT would be abnormal.
What was genuinely abnormal was the very low number of hurricanes hitting Florida in the previous 40 years.
If there are 5 M 9.0 quakes and giant tsunamis in 2005, THAT would be abnormal. Having an M 9.0 quake and a big tsunami that kills a lot of people is perfectly normal every few decades.
Yes this is normal. Not regular... but normal.
Gov Moonbeam.
Camarillo State Hospital is now: Cal State Nuthouse, (Channel Islands). One more thing. Kalli gets rain every seven years, whether they need it or not. This is a desert. Ever hear of "El Nino?".
We get winters like this every decade or so due to a phenomena called "el nino" or what they're calling it now "pineapple express"... or a type of move in the jet stream which moves warm water and weather into southern california.
We had one in 1982, 1987, 1994/5, and this year.
1982 was especially destructive. I live in Long Beach and that winter we had 25 foot surf, the Seal Beach pier was destroyed, part of the breakwater at the Seal Beach naval weapons station and the port of long beach was destroyed... dozens of houses were washed out on their bottom floor, etc.
I almost had my car washed out in an intersection last night due to flooding in the streets.
See... southern California is a flood plain. When we get really nasty storms... there is no place for the water to go since its so developed and the flood control basins are way too small. Coyote Creek which runs right by my house was almost cresting over the top last night... and today you guys might have seen those crazy videos of the man being rescued from coyote creek (concrete river basin) and lost his pants... but escaped with his life.