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What Next - Cities’ Wetter, Wilder Future

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

California going from drought-to-downpour this month was a vivid illustration of the future we’re facing: with more dramatic weather in a warmer, wetter climate. But how can cities—built for a world where hundred-year floods happened only once a century—adjust to a new reality? 


Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer for Slate, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World


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0:48.0

It is jaw dropping when you see a lot of the destruction and yet here we go again.

0:52.8

More storms on the way.

0:54.2

For the last month, being a meteorologist in California has been constantly coming up with new ways to register surprise.

1:03.8

These storms have millions of people under alerts right now. There is just no relief. It's been one thing after another.

1:09.5

As soon as one storm ended, another started up.

1:14.3

And this is the 101 Freeway. You can see it is completely caked over in mud.

1:20.2

There is water that is completely washed over this freeway.

1:24.6

And over three week period, San Francisco was wetter than it had been since 1861.

1:32.6

Los Angeles set records too.

1:34.7

Below the freeway is a Ventura River in just 12 hours yesterday.

1:40.0

That river rose 17 feet.

1:42.8

Throughout this day loose, there was one term reporters kept coming back to by wave explanation.

1:51.2

It's not a hurricane or a tornado. It's called an atmospheric river.

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