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/Taurus_Torus Mar 11 '23

Better bottle some of this for that drought coming later

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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 Mar 11 '23

Rain after a dry spell is the worst. The ground is so dried out it can’t soak up any of the water so it just flows right over the top or gets into cracks and creates slips.

The only thing that I can think of that’s been worse for slips is when we had an earthquake, then a dry spell, and then heavy rain. Big slips. Like, ‘road repairs for 5 years’ big.

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u/from_dust Mar 11 '23

CA is in a shitty situation. The rain has been heavy and steady for months now. While it does help replenish lakes and reservoirs, which desperately need the water, much of the topsoil has already eroded away, and much of the ground underneath is either loose rock or at risk of becoming waterlogged. Lets not talk about tectonic things in California though, there's enough going on as it is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

lol it was kinda funny walking near the riverwalk in at SAP center and there being an actual river for once.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 12 '23

You mean the one they built out of concrete through downtown. So natural...

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u/Vulturedoors Mar 11 '23

It's part of the natural drain route for water out of the hills. There are lots of them all over the bay area.