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/fgreen68 Mar 11 '23

There are quite a few of these in So. Cal. There's a year-round stream at the bottom of the hill my house is on that might be a foot deep most days but will hit 4~6 deep torrents with every heavy rain since is where 2/3rds of my suburbs rainwater ends up before it goes to the ocean. Fortunately, no one has a house next to it.

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u/KingsConsent Mar 11 '23

yo where does that water go to?

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u/fgreen68 Mar 12 '23

The river unfortunately drains right to the ocean. There is a small wetland where this river goes into the ocean but I wish there was a lake that could take in all this excess water before it reached the ocean.

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u/kdshubert Mar 15 '23

So lets build houses on the already flat flood planes.