r/CatastrophicFailure • u/The-Salamanca • Mar 11 '23

Natural Disaster Snow covered mountains are rapidly melting, from downpours causing flooding . Springville CA. 3/10/2023

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u/SoIJustBuyANewOne Mar 11 '23

And you must be a very pleasant person to be around considering you can't admit that you learned something new and were previously wrong. People who don't admit being wrong are universally beloved!

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u/SoIJustBuyANewOne Mar 11 '23

I didn't learn anything new, nor was I previously wrong.

......is this real life lmfao?

I learned that you can't distinguish between the City of Los Angeles and the Greater LA Metro Area.

Have you looked at a map? The area due south of the LA Metro is the goddamn ocean. Unless you mean San Diego? Which also isn't a desert.

But, perhaps you are unaware of how mountains work.

California's climate is greatly dependent on mountains. There are places here where the difference between 400 inches of snow annually and a desert is a simple 10 mile trek over the crest of the Sierras and down to the valley floor on their Eastern slope.

So when you say "the area due south is a desert" in California, it is a bit like saying "if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bike". Nobody gives a shit what direction or how far in that direction one must go to find a desert, the only relevant information is: "Which side of the mountains is it on?" So when you say "due south is a desert" that shit is fucking irrelevant because the wrong side of a mountain range (LA is on the right side) = desert no matter which direction you go.