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 bathtub-filled 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 1,000-year 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