serious and maybe dumb question for those of you that left Kommie Kalifornia for one of these fucked up states where weather can kill you. im watching footage of whole neighborhoods flooded, water up to the roofs. Entire blocks and neighborhoods submerged. First of all, my sympathies and best wishes to all affected. What a freaking mess. I imagine everything is lost, except the stuff in the safe, within the safe, within the safe inside the concrete closet surrounded by cinder block. Where does all that water go? The ground can’t absort it( I’m guessing). The stench of dead pets, sewage, in that heat, must be horrible. Too much water to pump out. Does it take weeks or months to get rid of all that water? The stories drop from the news cycle after a few days. What happens to all that water?
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Dendritic drainage patterns are on every natural terrain. Sooner or later the water drains ot the icean except in Utah, death valley and the like. Florida and a few place like Yucatan have undergraound flowing water in limestone.
This is when the bottom 3' to 4' of sheetrock on everyone's interior walls is cut off with saws-alls and removed. Home Depot just keeps shipping drywall (like they did in New Orleans) to affected markets. Interior of homes has to dry out. Mold and fungus issues for years to come. Good luck crawling under your raised floor house anytime soon.
Rinse.....Wash.....Repeat. California is a "NET EXPORTER" of Federal Tax dollars to help pay for these backwater states that are "NET IMPORTERS" of our Federal Tax dollars every few years because of natural disasters.
humidity; that's where all the water goes
Actually, that part the world is known for megalodon teeth. Think bigger.
Water goes back to the ocean from whence it came.
It will take a few years to cleanup and rebuild. The worse is all the mold in the structures that develops after flooding. its really tear down and rebuild after waters recede. you’re talking a trillion dollars. But the Govt will pay for it all and raise taxes like they always do. People now homeless get revolving credit cards and will move to other Cities and live in hotels for a year. All free of course. HappenEd in New Oreleans. Some milk that system for years.
Isn't the everglades basically all that water, like one big slow draining/moving river? Obviously 3 feet of rain takes just a wee bit of time to dry out and go through all that but I thought that's what that was, like the bottom corner of a wet sponge.