• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    el nino is fucking the weather pattern. last one i remember this weird was in 1995 or 1996. I expect massive floods next winter.

    i did whitewater rafting guiding back then (South Fork, American, California) and the houses along the river i guided were in different spots when we were learning the river after the bad flood year in the 90s. Which i think was 96 and right after el nino. we had been doing the chris farley joke right up until the flooding and seeing the houses moved like, a few hundred feet really put it into perspective. We figured they had been on pier foundations or something and the floodwaters just picked them up and carried them downstream a little.