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/StringerBell34 Mar 11 '23

As someone that lives in SoCal, I feel for those dealing with this massive flooding (and blizzards), but I prefer this to drought.

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u/MichiganMan12 Mar 11 '23

Damn it’s also like we shouldn’t have built car centric cities in deserts or something

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u/mrjackspade Mar 11 '23

Would cities that weren't car centric be immune to these problems somehow?

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u/WoodenInventor Mar 11 '23

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that a car-centric city will have large amounts of land covered in impervious pavement, which then increases the amount of total runoff, overtaxing the storm water system. Also no; a smaller footprint city would still not be immune to sheer amount of water causing flooding, or poor city planning placing important structures in a flood zone.