[blam]

"The Black Sea breach has been proposed as having caused the biblical flood for some time. This is the first time I’ve seen heard of a connection to the Canadian event. That is also familiar, but I think the connection is new."

May be the first connection I've seen too. Albeit, RightWhale may have spoken of a connection in the past.

[RightWhale]

"It just goes to show how people and the environment are intimately linked."

When I was much younger some people I used to know then used to smoke some kind of tobacco and then come out with these kinds of revelations.

When Lake Agassiz broke out it flooded all the way down the Mississippi and carried all of Canada's topsoil down to Illinois and even Oklahoma. The weight was also unsettling to the region and perhaps contributed to the new Madrid series of earthquakes, but at least the soil was still loose enough to be greatly disturbed during the earthquakes. Later the Dust Bowl moved much of that topsoil again, which surprised some people but shouldn't have since it was recently deposited and wasn't that well rooted.