[carapace]

Just a head's up for those of us on the West Coast of N. America, every so often it rains for forty days and forty nights and the whole place floods.

> The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

> An ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000) is a "megastorm" proposed scenario based on repeated historical occurrences of atmospheric rivers and other major rain events ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm

The Central Valley (of California) becomes the Central Sea. Sacramento would be washed away, as would most of the communities in the lower-lying areas.

The time to deal with this is now. (E.g. if you live in these places move away!)