frightening flood picture from western Europe.

[Fritz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/world...hange.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/world...mages.html

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Sort of reminds me of the tsunami ten years ago in Japan.

This is why I told a relative looking to move to Oregon, to look at flood maps and add 10 feet of elevation before considering a location.

[hal]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Sort of reminds me of the tsunami ten years ago in Japan.

This is why I told a relative looking to move to Oregon, to look at flood maps and add 10 feet of elevation before considering a location.

Funny you should say that - I did just that the other day. Knowing that the potential for a flood of biblical proportions is expected to happen ONE DAY here, I checked a flood map.

Here at 60' above sea level, I'm safe. I really hated it when I moved from the lovely mid-town area. It was nice, but was getting too expensive, and I knew that I was leaving a flood plain and heading to higher ground - that made me feel a little better.

REALLY glad when I got my mom moved out of this area. There was a possibility of a dam break in 2019 and that would have been very scary for mom.

These 'once in 100 years' events that haven't happened my whole life suddenly feel not so far away now that I'm old...

[Ken Sp.]

Two of my friends are traveling from the US there right now--They are safe, but stuck in their hotel, and can only look out at the massive amounts of water.
Luckily it is a rather long trip, and they will be able to go to other towns, once passable.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

hal wrote:
Here at 60' above sea level, I'm safe. I really hated it when I moved from the lovely mid-town area. It was nice, but was getting too expensive, and I knew that I was leaving a flood plain and heading to higher ground - that made me feel a little better.

REALLY glad when I got my mom moved out of this area. There was a possibility of a dam break in 2019 and that would have been very scary for mom.

Oroville Dam was in 2017, was there something else since then?

Do you know what the gates on H Street (about 5800 block) are for? I am curious if it is general flooding, or problems at Folsom Dam. I lived on the second floor of an apartment in mid-town that I figured was mostly safe as long as the building didn't float off of the foundation or catch fire. I had a route planned and practiced to a three floor parking structure downtown to stash my car. Alternate was get it up on the raised section of Cap Cities Fwy. Getting to I-80 through West Sac was questionable and it has flooded near Suisun at least twice. I-5 along the river downtown was a hard no since it floods every ten to fifteen years.

[hal]

I was thinking of 2017 - 2017 & 2019 were both HUGE rain years - I get them mixed up.

The gates at H st are to protect the midtown/downtown area. I have an old Sacramento history book with a picture from a flood (1940, 1950 or 1955 - can't remember which) of the entire area on the OTHER side completely flooded. The area where Campus Commons is now was totally under water and the Sac State area was not. The book said that those levies have since been raised.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Thanks!

[blooz]

Some of those pictures are horrific. It's been raining like the devil here in MA and I'm watching the river rise. But we are built on granite so I'm not sliding anywhere, and the river has to rise eight feet just to get withing spitting distance of my foundation. Not likely here in the hills. Except in 2010 when a hurricane blew thru here. Another foot…