Scientists Predict Biblical ‘ARkStorm’ in California’s Future
- Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:02pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Residents Bob Lee, left, and Rick Schaeffer walk in flooded waters to secure a van and prevent it from going into a river in Silverado Canyon, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Storm runoff and mud has prompted the evacuation of about 30 people in the area. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
Scientists have issued an ominous warning for the golden state: build your arks now because a biblical “ARkStorm” is heading your way.
Among their predictions, the Daily Mail reports, are walls of 10-foot high water, rain falling in feet instead of inches and millions of homes caught up in floods during a hurricane-like “megastorm” that could last more than a month.
The every-other-century event last happened in 1861 and left the central valley of California impassable. The cost was impossible to quantify – but should a similar event happen today the damage could total more than $300billion.
The U.S. Geological Survey has now begun planning for the return of the ARkStorm, so named after the boat Noah used to escape the flood in the Bible. The capped-up ‘A’ and ‘R’ stand for ‘atmospheric river’.
They have recruited 17 researchers and a string of agencies to work with local emergency crews and government officials across California to ensure that should it arrive, they would be best prepared for it. The team says that a storm on the scale of that which struck in 1861 is ‘inevitable’ and it was widely considered the worst and longest on record.
USGS chief ARkStorm scientist Lucy Jones said the weather system will start in the Tropics due to atmospheric rivers of moisture forming, grow larger and gain speed as it travels to the West coast of America where it would become roughly the same strength as a hurricane.
It would take some weeks to form, which would hopefully give them time to better prepare when it arrived.
‘We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes,’ she said. ‘Floods are as much a part of our lives in California as earthquakes are. We are probably not going to be able to handle the biggest ones.’
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Comments (218)
moosebeeusa
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:53pmCould this happen on the eastern coast line?
Oh wait,.. we don’t want to go there. lol
Report Post »astrozombies
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:52pmBless the Beasts and the Children and the Conservatives and let the Liberals stare at the sky with jaws agape.
Report Post »ladykrystyna
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:52pmOkay, so something like this happened over 100 years ago, so apparently we’re due for a new one. Did anyone notice how that short little video really gave no information about how they know this? Was there another one 100 years or more before the one in the 1860s? What models do they have showing that it’s coming any time soon?
It sounds like a reason to put people in a panic or prepare them for some more gov’t control “just in case”.
Of course, people should be prepared for disasters of any kind. If you’re prepared for an earthquake, likely you are prepared for any other disaster – food, water, etc.
But it just seems like more fear mongering. I’m not a native to CA (I moved here in 1994), but how long have they been waiting for the “big one”.
BTW, it’s not physically possible for 1/2 of CA to fall into the ocean. Geology shows that to be otherwise.
Report Post »JohnnyJT
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:51pmAre they the same guys that warned us about Global Warming?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:47pmFearmongering… /sarc
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:32pmWow, reading all of the comments above just shows you all the love the Christian right has to offer.
Report Post »Ziplock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:45pmAnd CA has money to do surveys like this?
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:45pmAbsolutely beautiful. One of the best one-liners I have EVER seen on this site and i have been on here since it started. GREAT!
Report Post »mhills51
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:44pmThe USGS seems to have their heads together. Right before all the global warming Discovery had a show that the USGS said there has been 5 ice ages and we should have already been in the sixth, So I say pollute and pollute some more to keeps us out of the ice age. No wonder the last 10 years we have cooled were cleaning up to much lol!!
Report Post »Alan
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:40pmSo how many billions are they gonna spend because it could happen? Billions more down the drain, and they could just pay their bills and rescue the state from a flood of idiotic debt which is real and now, not born in the lefty science-of-fear induced future.
Report Post »Ron Burgundy
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:36pmIts called sex panther… a rather pungent smell, Ahhhhhh it smells like a terd with burnt hair on it, stay classy San Diego!
Report Post »heatherbotz
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:17pmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Too funny.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:35pmHow can they refer to an event in the bible when they don’t believe in it?
Report Post »Long reign Darwin.
HillBillySam1
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:22pmThat’s ok….they don’t believe in Darwin either…..
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:13amIt’s called a “figure of speech,” Texasfarmer.
Sort of like putting someone in your “crosshairs” doesn’t really mean you want them shot.
Report Post »Conservative Warrior Princess
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:35pmSeriously, California is just going to fall off one day.
Report Post »broncocasey
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:35pmLets just hope the people migrating east afterwards dont bring their ideas and belief systems with them.
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:32pmAre these the same scienctists that predicted global warming? Oh well, I guess Mexico will get CA back.
Report Post »blanco
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:03pmI thought they already did!
Report Post »Wyatt
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:29pmYes. It’s inevitable. Go ahead and send them their deserved bailout money now.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:28pmThis is just a plot by AZ to get people to leave CA and move to AZ.
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:31pmNo, trust me West Phoenix has turned into East L.A. County as it is….gangs and crime. There are a lot of houses in Las Vegas, they should move there.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:20pmMan, you Beck-Bots are thoroughly trained, I’ll give you that.
obama_binpharteen
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:23pmI suppose that applies to you as well?
Report Post »ladykrystyna
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:46pmThoroughly trained in what exactly?
Thanks for wasting time posting drivel.
Report Post »Pocono Countryboy
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:36pmcrawl bak under your rock Broker.
u suk
Report Post »TimGalbreath
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:36pmPocono, I like the cut of your jib. Bringing your A-game to the message board. u suk. Brilliant. I knew I was here for a reason.
Report Post »chuck_wagon
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:19pmWould anyone really care?
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:18pmAlthough I am not a huge California fan I wish nothing like this on anyone. I have heard for years that California would break off and go into the ocean. Maybe it will happen, but that would mean the loss of so many lives and I pray that it won’t.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:10pmAnd it will be Bush’s Fault
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:44pmTo paraphrase the old mustard commercial “But of course…”
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:00pmNo, no, that’s gotten old. Now it‘s Palin’s fault.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:08pmThe every-other-century event last happened in 1861 and left the central valley of California impassable. The cost was impossible to quantify – but should a similar event happen today the damage could total more than $300billion.
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Report Post »Awwwwww….isn’t that nice.
Now the Central Valley is destroyed totally and
this time ,
Pelosi and Boxer and Feinstein and Arnold did it
So who is more powerful in CA ?
Mother nature or corrupt politicians ?
simple thought
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:58pmwhat he said
Report Post »joelackey92
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:08pmIf you live in California, I suggest you call that number under the sign that reads, “Need swimming lessons?”
Report Post »Spawnomite
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:44pmJust ask a Mexican there since most have learned how to swim.
BruceB
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:07pmGee, couldn’t happen to a nicer state.Must be due to GW/CC.They had better move the smelt darter to protect it. Maybe put it in ALgores swimming pool.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:25pmHey, here’s another good reason for thinking people to leave California!
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:33pmOOPS that should have been WHAT4
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:57pmRuffnex
you lost me on that one……………..?
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:20pmCalifornia is a beautiful state, and that is why we have so many people move in here, unfortunately the radical liberals move to the coastal areas and control our state. If it rained as much as they say it “MAYBE” will, they would move inland and destroy the inland for us.
Report Post »randy
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:06pmIs that you Al Gore?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:31pmI guess Gore, Biden and Al Sharpton must have been playing down in the pond once again and left the water running.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:39pmIt can’t be AlGore.
Report Post »He bought a $ 9 million property by the beach in Montecito.
He knows there is NO chance of such flooding
Everyone in Hollywood knows that too.
This is just another “ study”
which needs more“ grants”
for a “task team” of “ experts” .
RobertCA
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:09pmBring it on , I don’t think it will be worse than having Pelosi .
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:32pm“WhatFor.”….That should be “Brown”…with a Capital “B”
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:38pmIt was supposed to be snow. This is what happens with global climate change.
Report Post »tothestars2
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:04pm“I’m singin in the rain, just singin in the rain”, sorry, just couldn’t resist.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:29pmThis proves that scientists watched the news about Australia.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:30pmAnyone wonder if DC is soon to return to the swamplands she was built from in the first place when the nation needed a capital? Would be nice to the eco extremists to have a natural swampland to be made into a wetland again for the wildlife and the waterfowl.
Anyone know the weather lately for DC?
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:30pmWhats up with all these references to Bible and Noah and the Ark ?
Aren’t “ scientists” supposed to believe in “ evolution ” ?
grandmaof5
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:45pmConstitutional Conservatives, forget the arks and move to FL. No state tax (just sales tax), nice people, Disney World (in case you miss Disneyland), lots and lots of houses for sale (more bang for the buck) and no Hollywood. You will, however, need to bring your business‘ with you as the unemployment rate is kinda’ high but we do have alot of people ready, willing and able. Come one, come all.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:47pmThe “scientistst” can’t get the 5 day weather forecast correct. Who are they kidding.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:55pm@Grandmaof5
Lived in Pensacola for several years, loved the area save for the summer humidity. Hope today has been better for you, seen the weather maps of the storms and a tornado watch. Hopefully it was not in your region of the state.
Hotter than anything today. Wonder if it has to do with the man made junk of “global warming.”
Report Post »Aither
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:01pmDoes this mean we will have those Californian immigrants begging to come onto our US soil? Oh joy, the stupidity of California will spread across America :((
101
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:02pmMaybe that ocean front property people are always trying to sell in Arizona will become a reality!
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:03pmMaybe just maybe, Boxer will let the the San Joaquin Valley kept some water. It only produces 1/5th of the vegetables in the US. Wait, two inch minnow may need protection. Well done Barbra,45% unemployment in the valley??? Over a stinkin minnow.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:07pmAnd you think the ******** are broke now
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:10pmWell now we know what caused Noah’s flood
Global warming and Sarah Palin
grandmaof5
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:19pmSnow, rain stopped but predict more tonight (30%) which is fine as we need it. Good day, hung around the house ’til the rain stopped and then went to feed stray/abandoned cats I feed everyday, in addition to the 19 I have. Did you get your computer up and running? Have a good night.
Report Post »cece959
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:50pm@Maulemall…..I think your post is SO right on the mark that I don’t even have to read anymore posts! Absolutely brilliant!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:51pmBiblical Proportions!
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:24pmForcast, that would be a 30% chance of rain tomorrow, overcast conditions….actual conditions, sunny and no rain…with all their science they get it right just 30% of the time…make one wonder?
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:46pmSOUNDS LIKE MORE EPA REGULATIONS AND TYRANNY.
All homes withing 100 miles of the sea must be tourn down and people must move inland. TSA will supervise this migration.
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:16pmSeems it never rain in Southern California
Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl, don’t they warn ya
It pours man it pours.
and I thought that it was just the “Shake and Bake State”…you know..earthquakes and fires..
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:28pmTeam of experts to do studies…
Translation…Weathermen need some jobs and this is their stimulis package paid for by TAXPAYER money…I hope it hits and they drown like rats for stealing our money…Who the helll needs to study this and waste monsy???
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:39pm@ GRAMAOF5…..As a former resident of Athens GA, i decline, respectfully, your invitation. I too lived in northern Florida in Tallahassee, and through the God-rotted summers there of steam-filled sauna-like conditions, but the main reason I won’t go: Again, as a former resident of Athens GA, Too damn many Gotors.
Report Post »GO DAWGS, SICK ‘EM!!! WOOFWOOFWOOF!!!
My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:25pmOn a VERY serious note, if this goes down the way it’s supposed to, then God help those in the California vallies, especially the ones who have not repented their sins yet. This may be their last chance to get right with God, and just one act of “nature” could condemn them forever in hell. You should weep for all who die before personal redeption, for they shall be eternally out of the Grace of God. I don’t wish that on ANYONE…
Report Post »EXCEPT the recent Arizona shooter.
And may God have mercy on my soul…
LadybugsTX
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:29pmHate to break the news to you Leopard, but DC already is a swamp land…
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:27pmMY SACRED HONOR, follow those Gators you love to hate but don’t bleed orange and blue. 1/2 family for the Gators the other 1/2 Seminoles – no one looked good in black/red, sorry. Have many Bull Dawg friends, however. You have a good one now, ya hear!
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:42amCould this be yet another push for the Global Warming/Global Redistribution of Wealth scheme?
Report Post »here today gone tomorrow
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:18amCali-fornication could use a good cleansing !
Report Post »Sparkyspool
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:55am300 Drips under pressure (expurts) Ex-Spurts Note even worth watching.
Report Post »svan71
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:15pmBut will the delta smelt be ok ? Dam the water, destroy farms and the lives of thousands…I guess Gods gonna turn the water on for you…
Report Post »infidelamerican
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:33pmmaybe it could wash some sense into californians. It would certainly provide construction jobs now wouldnt it?
Report Post »infidelamerican
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:34pmBy the wat… it will be Bush‘s fault I’m sure.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 3:17pmJust another project to steal money from the tax payers/Gov’t. It will lead to nothing because when you ask the question how are they going to stop this storm they will have to say the obvious we can’t but we need to spend more money on finding solutions to deal with problem.
Just like “Climate Change/Global Warming” you can’t stop the process since it is why the earth is habitable. Scientists have proven that there have been higher levels of CO2 before the industrialized age of humanity. So why is the atmosphere still functioning??? I thought that if CO2 levels rise to certain extreme they would rip the atmosphere away like what may have happened on Mars?
It is getting to be a lot like God telling NOAH BUILD THE ARK message is rooted in fear mongering etc etc etc. And its Sarah Palins and George Bush’s fault…
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:56amHMMMMMM…. is seems there is some truth to ~EVOLUTION~
Report Post »….scientists have evolved from nay-sayers about The Bible to belivers in its truths