All living things in California are under water People and houses are floating Big losses

Thanks to the climate crisis, extremely rare megafloods will become more common and more catastrophic according to a new study that has doubled the likelihood of them in California. The unexpected threat remains even as browning hillsides, steaming fields and bathtubfilled reservoirs serve as constant reminders of the drought in a state that could be woefully unprepared when the coin inevitably flips. In the past two weeks alone, the U. S. has experienced at least four extreme floods, events once considered 1, 000year storms with a 0. 1 percent chance of occurring in a given year Floods in California are different from floods in other parts of the world, and are usually caused by atmospheric rivers strong storms that dump large amounts of water at once. A long sequence, where severe storms occur in rapid succession, can quickly overwhelm landscapes and infrastructure. And while wetting storms were once welcome in the dry state, atmospheric river storms in a warming climate are li