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    Super El Nino not just a heat wave. The last time something of this magnitude hit the world there was a record famine and mass death in India, and the monsoons were mostly or completely dry (depending on where) for 3 years afterwards. That’s why people are joking about it being the last cool summer for 5-6 years… It’s just going to be hotter and drier…

    Other areas are going to get hammered with rain. I live in Canada and the prairies of Alberta and foothills east of the Canadian Rockies got hammered with record rain that’s drowning crops. They got an entire year’s rainfall in 1 month.

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      I’m in California. Normal el niños give us moderate flooding. I’m tempted to stock up on sand and sandbags this summer, before the rush

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        Probably a good idea… The irony is the Colorado River is so low a lot of southern Cali and Nevada might run out of water.

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          Funnily enough, Arizona has been taking this way more seriously than California. Probably because California has multiple water sources.

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            Yeah California’s entire existence isn’t spitting in the face of God 40 million times every day

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              yeah, that pisses me off, too. I worship the god of blasphemy (among other things) and how can i beat the existence of Phoenix?

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      The rain isn’t over yet either, more rain forecasted but not as severe. Except now everything is saturated so it’ll probably re-flood everything that is slowly receding.