Monday, September 30, 2024
90s in temperature in Florida
This isn't good for the folks who don't have water or air conditioning now and likely if they don't have gasoline or diesel generators their food has all spoiled or was in Salt Water so it is not longer good. Then there likely are no garbage trucks operating so this food in 90 degree temperatures without refrigerators is going to spoil in the trash bins all over if they didn't wash away there in Florida. I was watching a video with sand piled 8 feet high that was in the roads of one area near the beach where sand had completely covered their roads and skip loaders and removed it from the roads and it remains to the right and left of the road sort of like what a snow plow does in the wintertime only with sand instead. The only problem here is this sand is never going to melt and will have to be hauled at some point back to the beach where it belongs.
What caused the 2018 mudslides in Montecito (near Santa Barbara)
Basically what happened is fires happened too close to a big rain. So, the fires were in the hills above Montecito which burned off everything that prevents mud and rock slides from happening. Then just after the fire within a few weeks I believe a huge rainstorm hit and dropped an amazing amount of rain on denuded ground that had just been burnt off. Then this land which has many boulders and rocks above the fancy rich homes just started rolling down the hills into the homes and through them because they rolled down the hills with no trees or plants to stop them and the mud came like a river in some places and went all the way to the ocean and buried the local Freeway 101 there in the underpasses in 10 to 15 feet of mud and debris which close the freeway there for a long time too. Then the water and mud kept going until it drained into the sea leaving a complete disaster in it's wake. This caused people to have to find another way to Los Angeles because all the routes south from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles were buried in mud.
So, because of the terrain there people likely had to drive north to Santa maria (or another location I might not know of) to route 166 to get to even Ventura and points south so this disrupted anyone who had jobs either in Santa Barbara or further south in Oxnard or ventura who couldn't get there for weeks until Highway 101 reopened.
Basically it became a "You cannot get there from here" (unless you flew on a plane or took a boat) during these weeks of repair to the 101 freeway there which was possible because of the boats in Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Airport which is a jet port too. But, if you were not rich enough to do this you couldn't even get to your job in Carpenteria or Oxnard or Ventura from Santa Barbara otherwise.
Also, we let people who were friends stay in our Santa Barbara house who were in danger of the floods during that time too which helped them survive all this.
I think if you are in a flood prone area where it rains a lot you need to prepare non-perishable food and obtain water so you can better survive these floodings
Because if it is doing this now it could be worse this winter when all the storms tend to be the worse (at least in the more northern States and Western States. Though we did have a year ago a Tropical storm Hilary that had been a Hurricane in Western Mexico up through Tijuana then it hit Palm Springs and buried that area in mud and water about 2 to 3 feet deep which I believe was around this time last year. One of the stranger things about this storm is that it trashed everything in the Sierras and up through Mt. Shasta where it made a new stream from the flooding down the mountain from about 11,000 feet where it brought flooding down the mountain consisting of rocks and boulders and mud and pieces of wood all the way into the High School in Town and across the playing field of the Junior High school too. So, the city has to pay around 30,000 dollars to 60,000 dollars to clean up every time it rains hard in the area ever since last year. So, the point is that where it floods and changes the landscape various places from these storms of Hurricanes or Tropical Rain Storms often these physical changes to the landscape become more permanent over time.
For example, the Montecito Mudslide happened in early 2018 and killed about 25 people and washed away many very expensive homes. As a result of this it changed the whole landscape there and whole areas have been condemned where wealthy homes were from rebuilding:
Begin quote:
Jan. 9, 2018
Residents were awoken in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 9, 2018,
to the horrifying sound of mud and boulders plowing down the Santa
Barbara hillsides; the sky glowed orange from fires blazing from a
ruptured gas main.
begin next quote of maps of this area:
