1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: and that makes this Stuff you should Know the podcast 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: The Saturated Podcast. This week Super Saturated, Bloody Podcast. I 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,319 Speaker 1: don't know why this came to mind. I didn't see 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: any flood that happened on the news. It just I 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: think I happened across it searching randomly in a thought. 10 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: It's a good one. Look cover with that one. Yet 11 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: flooded stuff always creeps me out. Oh yeah, yeah. I 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: think it goes back to my days in Toledo as 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: a young boy. Um many times growing up in my 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: house on Beverly Drive, there were there the mommy would 15 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: flood and um my basement would flood as a result, 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: and times it would come all the way up to 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: like the top step. Really yeah, I just think about 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: like all my dad's tools down there like underwater, and 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: it weren't supposed to be. It was just really creepy 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: because you just opened the door and step on the 21 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: landing and then there's just water. You can kind of 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: see like the top couple of steps that was, you know, 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: suggested all the other stuff that was down there. So 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: I think since then, I've always been fascinated and creeped 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: out by the idea of things that are supposed to 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: be above ground submerged like ships. When we talked about 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: the Bermuda Triangle, like down there in the trench never 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: to be found, Like, yeah, that's creepy. Yeah, the same 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: thing with floods. Man, it didn't It doesn't creep me 30 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: out like that, but I get it, okay, so um chuck, Yes, 31 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: I take it you're familiar with flooding. Do you remember 32 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: the one in ninety four done in Albany, the Great Flood, 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: the Flint River flood. Oh man, it was all over 34 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: the news like they were like, um, in Albany, Georgia, 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: don't remember. There were caskets, like four hundred caskets were 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: loosed and we're just kind of floating around. They were. 37 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: They had this weird tendency to congregate towards trees or 38 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: around trees, and um they some people started lashing into 39 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 1: that because they had to have a court order to 40 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: even grab the caskets, but apparently it was the second 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: worst cemetery disaster in the United States. Couldn't find I 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: was in Athens at the time. I was. I was 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: not up on it was a big it was a big, 44 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: big thing. I'm surprised, but it was really creepy. You 45 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: can see pictures of like caskets just kind of floating around. Um. Yeah, 46 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: they recently found a human school that they think was 47 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: part of the remains that was moved by the flood. Yeah, 48 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: it's amazing how out of the news loop I was 49 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: while I was in college. Yeah, because it was pre Internet. Yeah, 50 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: I didn't get the paper. I was in college. Who 51 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: gets the paper and reads it? I knew people who 52 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: sold the paper. I didn't have TV, so yeah, I 53 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: knew about class and working at Maskalie Grill and sleeping 54 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: late and all of the kinds of things that I 55 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: can't talk about. That's awesome. I remember the Gulf War 56 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: that happened, well because of the Internet, that um came 57 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: after your college years, like two decades after your college years. Um. 58 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: You can see video of the news footage. You're fine 59 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: stepping back in time. I will do. Well. Let's talk 60 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: about flooding chuck um. First, I guess to understand floods, 61 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: we need to give a brief primer of the hydrological cycle. Yes, 62 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: we do, if you ask me. Uh, there's been about 63 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: the same amount of water on Earth for a long 64 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: long time. Yeah, I thought this was fascinating. Yeah, but 65 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: it hasn't always been in the same place as we know, 66 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: and it's not it's not the same water necessarily. There's 67 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: a constant loss and gain of water. Yeah, every day 68 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: you lose water, obviously to the atmosphere where like um, uh, 69 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: the solar rays and other cosmic radiation just blasts water 70 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: vapors into like nothing, You're gone, You're by longer water. Sorry, 71 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: as that is going on. Volcanic activity in the core 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: or not the core necessarily, but in the inner Earth 73 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: is releasing water and it about balances out on a 74 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: day to day basis. But did you know that volcanoes 75 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: released water? Sure after I read this. Yeah, we even 76 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: did a Hot Volcanoes Work podcast and I don't remember 77 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: talking about it releasing water. But when water is generator 78 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: introduced into the upper Earth in the atmosphere, it comes 79 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: from volcanoes of volcanic gas is water vapor, so it 80 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: about it balances out on a day to day basis, 81 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,239 Speaker 1: which is pretty remarkable. Yea, almost as if it's happening 82 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: that way for a reason. And are you familiar with 83 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: the anthropic principles that we'll talk about it sometimes, right, Oh, 84 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: it's not directly relating to this, No, it's about the 85 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: concept of why everything is so falling and has fallen 86 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: so perfectly into place that we are able to notice 87 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: this and say, wait a minute, it almost seems like 88 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: we're supposed to be here, right, And the anthropic principle 89 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: is like, yeah, and there's like five million other worlds 90 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: out there that didn't happen like that, so we aren't 91 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: there to say, wow, it's almost like everything fell into place, 92 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: so we're supposed to be here. Interesting, we'll see. You 93 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: just told me about it right now. Trick to you. Uh. 94 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,559 Speaker 1: Water can be all around the earth in three different forms, 95 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: as everyone knows. You have liquids, rivers, oceans, lakes, uh, 96 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: rain solids we've talked about and this this kind of 97 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: collects a lot of our podcast in a way, like 98 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: the clouds and the and now we're talking about the Antarctica. 99 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: Lots of frozen water at the falls the Antarctica, or 100 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: it can be gas which is water vapor in the air. Yes, 101 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: and it's all moved around by the wind thanks to 102 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: the sun. And remember, I can't remember which podcast we 103 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: talked abo and whether it was the sun or clouds 104 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: or something, but wind is created by um. The exchange 105 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: of air is warm air is heated at the surface 106 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: and rises cooler air rushes in to fill that vacuum. 107 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: There's your windpal Yeah. And then well, once that warm 108 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: ay rises, though, it's also going to get colder and 109 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: form little droplets of water which form together to form clouds, 110 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: which we went over in fluffy little clouds, right, Yeah, 111 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: because the the sun um heats the ocean surface, that evaporates, 112 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: like you said, it rises, forms clouds, and then eventually 113 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: those clouds become pregnant with rain and rain falls down. Right. 114 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: As the rain falls down, it fills waterways, rivers, streams, 115 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: that kind of thing underground um. But for the most part, 116 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: some of it does go to phil aquifers and that's storage, 117 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: but the vast majority of it makes its way back 118 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: to the oceans where the process begins again and everything 119 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: is complete in the circle of life. That's right. The 120 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: cool thing here is wind is pretty consistent across the globe. 121 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: Wherever you live, your weather is pretty consistent. You might 122 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,119 Speaker 1: think if you live in Atlanta, like, oh, that's crazy 123 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: in December here at sixty degrees. But by and large, 124 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: if you look at the big picture, your weather systems 125 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: are pretty consistent on a day to day basis, although 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: in the case of flooding, anything can happen on any 127 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: given day to knock things out of whack. Right, So 128 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: you have, um, a storm comes about, a thunderstorm, and 129 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: you're like, wow, it's a pretty bad storm. Um, because 130 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: you are capable, your area is capable of experiencing a storm. 131 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: Your area is capable of experiencing a freak storm, like 132 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: a huge thunderstorm. Sure that dumps so much precipitation on 133 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: on the ground in such a short amount of time 134 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: that these normal waterways that have been formed to hold 135 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: the normal amount of water become overwhelmed. The water fills up, 136 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: spills over the banks, and there's your flood. Yeah, And 137 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: that's the key what you just said there is these 138 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: waterways they form over a great, great period of time. 139 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: You don't a river doesn't just spring up over the 140 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: course of a year. Because there's a lot of rain, 141 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: it takes like of several years. It takes a long 142 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: long time to sort of get a feel I guess 143 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: of how much rain there is generally, And so this 144 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: is how big I'm gonna be if I'm a river 145 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: in Georgia, exactly. This is all I need to be, 146 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: except for the freak of currenc in. Oh my god, 147 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: now it's a flood. But then after a flood, it 148 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: goes right back to where it was before. It's not 149 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: Rivers don't tend to plan their size for the worst 150 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: case scenario. They're very lazy. That's a great way to 151 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: say it, lazy lazy rivers. UM. So, like we said, 152 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: the the most common cause, the one that people are 153 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: most familiar with. Um. The most common cause of flooding 154 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: is um, a large storm that allows a an anomalous 155 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: accumulation of precipitation. Yeah, with rain, could be uh, melting 156 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: ice from a mountain or snow, but rain is the 157 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: one we think about most often. And like you said, 158 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: because weather and patterns are pretty um, pretty stable over time. UM. 159 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: In a lot of places, depending on the season, you're 160 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:24,719 Speaker 1: going to get anomalous normal precipitation, right, like monsoon's seasonal flooding. Right. 161 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: So with the monsoon, um, you have in the winter time, 162 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: the air over the land is colder than the air 163 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: over the ocean, So the air over the ocean is 164 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: rising in the air over the land is moving out 165 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: to fill it up, so that that means the wind 166 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,239 Speaker 1: is blowing out toward the ocean's uh. In the summertime, 167 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: the opposite is true, and so the wind is blowing 168 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: in toward the land and that brings with it the 169 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: monsoon rains brings with it water and this annual monsoon flooding. Um, 170 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: we talked about it. We didn't call it that because 171 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: we're not that small, aren't. But in the how of 172 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: the Nile River works, yeah, exactly, it was. It was 173 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: and still is a very big part of their how 174 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: they thrived over the years was they knew that the 175 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: Nile would flood each year and extend the water out 176 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: and when it waters were seated, that left a nice 177 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: fertile banks on which to live and plant foods. And 178 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: remember we talked about some of the problems from the 179 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,599 Speaker 1: Aswan Dam and other dams that they built along the 180 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: Nile to control flooding. Basically say we're gonna release this 181 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: amount of waters and go crops year round and people 182 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: aren't gonna lose their houses to the nile flooding every year. Um. 183 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: That is actually one of the big causes of flooding too. 184 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: Damn breaks. Did you see that damn video I sent you. 185 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: I didn't have a computer. You didn't look. You didn't 186 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: see it on your it was flash. Uh it's really neat. 187 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: I'll look at it later. I can't remember the name 188 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: of the damn, but it's in Washington State, And in 189 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: October of this year. UM, it had like a controlled 190 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: demolition and they just blew a hole in the bottom 191 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, this water search comes pouring 192 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: out and fills this area up, and then it starts 193 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: to recede, and you see the water behind the dam 194 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: just start to go down as the water in front 195 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: of the dam starts to go up. It's really neat 196 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: looking not to check that out. Or if you're from 197 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania or a historian, then of course you know about 198 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: May thirty one nine, the Johnstown flood. Um And it 199 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: wasn't just Johnstown by the way, It's known as the 200 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 1: Johnstown flood, I think because that was the largest town 201 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: that it flooded, but it was I think fourteen miles 202 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: up stream from Johnstown was the South Fork damn, and 203 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: it hit a couple of towns on the way. Finally 204 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: hit Johnstown, Uh six to ten inches of rain in 205 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: twenty four hours, to the tune of a sixty ft 206 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: wall of water going forty miles per hour wow, rushed 207 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: through town. UH twenty million tons not gallons, twenty million 208 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: tons of water. And it was the first big disaster 209 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: relief effort by the Red Cross. Yeah. Um, I got 210 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: a number of two thousand, two hundred nine deaths, UH 211 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 1: seventeen million in damages, which would be over four hundred 212 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: million dollars today, like close to a half a billion 213 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: in damages. And Springsteen fans might remember that from the 214 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: song how We Patrolmen. These sings about the Johnstown flood 215 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: really folk hero, He's all over it. We also remember 216 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: we talked about in the Human Caused Earthquakes episode the 217 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: Viant Damn in Italy, a landslide caused a wave to 218 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: go over the dam and killed two thousand people. That 219 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: seems to be the number when a damn breaks or 220 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: for each two thousand people die. You know what I 221 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: think it's cool is after having done like four hundred 222 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: plush shows like the our world is starting to narrow 223 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: a bit. You know what's really crazy, What is we've 224 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: already had this discussion and now we've come back to 225 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: having it again. That's really narrow Well. I just think 226 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: it's cool when you do a podcast on flooding and 227 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: it's also one about the Nile in clouds and volcanoes, 228 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 1: and I mean, we're still a long way from covering yeah, 229 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: the sun, We're a long way from covering everything. But 230 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: our world view is narrowing in a good way, and 231 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: now we're like men and knights. Um Land plays a 232 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: big part because you know, you can have a lot 233 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: of rain, but depending on what kind of land it's 234 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: falling on, it's gonna affect how much it floods. If 235 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: it floods at all, like the soil in the middle 236 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,439 Speaker 1: of a forest, it's gonna really soak up a lot 237 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: of water. Hard clay or rock or obviously concrete and 238 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: asphalt aren't gonna soak up much if anything, so that's 239 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: gonna lend itself to flooding. Yeah, and um, agricultural lands, 240 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: crop lands that have been tilled, they're more prone to 241 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: flooding than woodlands. Do you want to know why? Yeah? 242 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: Why I was wondering. You got that. We're about to 243 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: circle right back again. But to earthworms, that's exactly why. 244 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: That's why woodlands don't flood like farmland because there's more 245 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: little passageways from earthworms. Yes, and if you till cropland, 246 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: if you till the land has a a deletrious effect 247 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: on the earthworm popular that word like that. Yes, the 248 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: earthworm population in the area, they basically leave, they take off, 249 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: or else they're cut in a bunch of pieces. So 250 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: it does have a very delus effect. Deletrious, deleterious. What 251 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: is it species that called out big time? It's species. 252 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: It's deletrious. It's not deletrious. Um say talk about species. 253 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: I was wrong on species because it's there are two 254 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: acceptable ways of saying that. No, there's a right way species. No. No, 255 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,479 Speaker 1: if you look it up, it says species or species. 256 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: I can't say anything. I can't even keep track of 257 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: the difference between I and I and me. Concrete an asphalt, 258 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: which I mentioned Josh here in the western world. There's 259 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: a lot of that going on. If you go to 260 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: a city like l A, which I lived in, as 261 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: you know, Uh, they have these concrete flood relief channels 262 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: built in. You don't even have to go to l A. 263 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: You can travel there via the movie Greece. Oh the 264 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: like the l A River basins that what that is? Yeah? Okay, yeah, 265 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: that is in T two. It's in the movie Them 266 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: and These that that you know, the where they have 267 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: the car, they called it the l A River, which 268 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: is kind of funny. Yeah. Um, before they paved it 269 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: with concrete. Um, they used it for the canoe scenes 270 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: and a lot of the Tarzan movies in the thirties. 271 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: It's all just smoking mirrors. Mash was in Malibu for 272 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: God's sakes. Um Levies Josh are another reason it can flood, 273 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: as we all saw with the disaster with the Katrina 274 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: New Orleans when the levee breaks, as Robert Plant said, 275 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: got no place to stay. No, you don't. And do 276 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: you remember earlier this year when they purposely opened the 277 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: Morganza spillway. Yeah, basically they sacrifice some local crop land 278 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: for a lot more downriver. And that's one of the points, 279 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: like the reverse of the thinking usually or it has 280 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: been historically. Well, that's the point they make about all 281 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: levies though, is generally they're great for that area, but 282 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: there's generally there's gonna be a problem on down the 283 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: line at some point. Well, the same thing with concrete 284 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: storm basins. It's the same. It's you're you're basically just saying, 285 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: all right, let's get the water through here, and then 286 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: when like the tower base runs out your county line, 287 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: you handle it, and here's your flood county, but beneath us. Well, 288 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: what I couldn't find about the Morganza spillway was the 289 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: the effect, Like I saw like a hundred articles on 290 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: the fact that they're going to open it up. And 291 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: then the only article I found Poe releasing like I 292 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,239 Speaker 1: think it was first time since nineteen seventy three they 293 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: opened up a lot of these gates, was like a 294 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: week after they said, well, it doesn't look like it's 295 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: going to be as bad as they thought. And that's 296 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: all I found. If it's the one I'm thinking of, 297 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: it was a huge cluster that was on the Army 298 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: Corps of Engineers. They they created an incorrect estimate and 299 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: it really screwed up a lot more land than they thought. 300 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: If it's the same one I'm thinking of. It was 301 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: this year last year. Yeah, it was spring when the 302 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: rivers were rising, and they said, we can't devastate New 303 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: Orleans again, so we're gonna open up a lot of 304 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,239 Speaker 1: these gates, like up in like Missouri or something. Right, 305 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: No, no no, no, it was in Louisiana. Okay, Well, there 306 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: was one in Missouri where they let the levy loose 307 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: um and flooded some crop land and it ended up 308 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: like screwing things up all the way down or over 309 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: to like Tennessee. I can't remember, so I guess that's 310 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: those are two different stories. So if you live in Louisiana, 311 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: I like to know the effect because I know they 312 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: said it wasn't as bad as they thought, but I 313 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: couldn't really get a pinpoint of the damage. And I 314 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: want to know what happened in Missouri. Okay, okay, uh, 315 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about the coastline. Yeah, and we didn't mention, 316 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: by the way, um hurricanes too, tsunamis. Yeah, tsunamis hurricanes 317 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: big problems um as far as creating flood conditions. But yeah, 318 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: the coastline Um, you're talking about levees and dams. They 319 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: fall into man made ways of diverting water to other 320 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: people's problems. Um, And we've figured out ways of I guess, 321 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: protecting our beautiful coastlines from mother Nature. And that's building walls, 322 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: basically walls. It's like, have your worst waves, You're not 323 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: gonna erode this beach. But the problem is is the 324 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: whole process of erosion is part of creating and keeping 325 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: beaches healthy. Yeah and beautiful. Yes. I remember I used 326 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: to go to Hunting Island, South Carolina when I was 327 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: a kid, and my mom went not too long ago, 328 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: and she said that they have actually, like the whole 329 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: coastline is different now. For when I was a kid, 330 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: they had they had to move a lighthouse inland because 331 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: it had eroded so much. But they just, you know, 332 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: they let it happen because it is a natural part 333 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: of beaches, and it's a natural like oceans, beaches, rivers, 334 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: they're all dynamic, right exactly. You know, they're all gonna 335 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: move earth and water and that's just the way it's 336 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: supposed to be. And when humans step into try and 337 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: prevent that, bad things can happen. Well, and we try 338 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: to prevent it because we tend to settle near water. 339 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: It's um, each transportation it puts living on the beaches nice. 340 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: Well yeah yeah, but I mean even with the river too, 341 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: it's like there's your crop land. Yeah, there's your easy 342 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: access to irrigation, easy transportation, um food water obviously, so 343 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: we need to live near water. And then when these 344 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: natural processes happened and takes our houses the way, we're like, okay, 345 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: let's figure out how to how to solve this. And 346 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: sometimes the solution is just kind of exacerbates the problem, 347 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: that's right, or creates a new one. Yeah, So we 348 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: just gotta figure things out. I think we're working on it. Uh. 349 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: This is one really cool part I thought was you 350 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: always see how you know a flood, floodwaters will wash 351 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: a car away or something, and it doesn't even look 352 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: like that much water, and you think, you know, I 353 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: drop my I drive my truck like through a river 354 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: in the North Georgia Mountains and you just plow right 355 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: through it and that's like twice as deep and really 356 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: rushing river that nature take that nature. But the difference 357 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,959 Speaker 1: here is I thought, this is really interesting, is is 358 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: water what water wants? To do is level itself out. 359 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: So when you've got a lot of water from a 360 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: flood in a place where there's previously no water at all, 361 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna want to find its level as soon as 362 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: possible by rushing really hard. So it's just gonna be 363 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: a lot more force than the steady stream of a river. 364 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: It's really easy as that, and that's all there is too. 365 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: So like a couple of feet of water can wash 366 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: a car away, two ft two ft of water in 367 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: a flood condition where it's rushing from one from a 368 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: higher higher level to a lower level it's balance out 369 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: can wash a car away, and six inches under those 370 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: conditions can knock you human off his or her feet. 371 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: And that's how people die in a flood. Well, I 372 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: think half half of the deaths associated with most floods 373 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: are from people trying to ford a rushing um uh 374 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: water in their car, sill away in their car. That's 375 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: the problem, because you get carried out and you're in 376 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: your car and you're trapped, and that's that. That's that. 377 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: It's very sad. Flash flooding the most dangerous of all floods. Yeah, 378 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: this jogged my memory when they was talking about um, 379 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado. I think we might have hit 380 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: on that at some point because it jogged my memory too. 381 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: You want do you want to talk about? Well, yeah, 382 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, July one, Colorado was celebrating its 383 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: centennial and at about five or six o'clock it started 384 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: rain and it was a really weird thunderstorm that didn't move. 385 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: It just planted itself for four hours over Big Thompson Canyon. 386 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: Ranged twelve inches in four hours, and that's how much 387 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: the area gets in a year usually. I mean, yeah, 388 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: that's crazy. In four hours and uh, a twenty ft 389 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: high uh rush of river going about fourteen miles an 390 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: hour by nine pm washed through the canyon, and it 391 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: was so like out of nowhere, which is what a 392 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 1: flash flood is. It's not like, hey, you know, with 393 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: the Johnstone flood, they had warnings even though people didn't 394 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: heed them, and most of the times you know a 395 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,479 Speaker 1: flood's coming. But with a flash flood, they were just 396 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: like trapped. Plus they're they're also just happened to be 397 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 1: thousands of campers down there celebrating this centennial of Colorado. 398 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: It was well, the perfect storm, but the river that 399 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: feeds the canyon. Normally Big Thompson River um is apparently 400 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: normally pretty slow moving, the old Big Titty, but because 401 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: of this flash flood, it was dumping two hundred and 402 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: thirty three thousand gallons eight d two thousand liters of 403 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: water into the canyon per second per second, so that's 404 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: a lot. So basically, a flash flood is like a flood, 405 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: but it's even more concentrated and the water is moving 406 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: even more violently. That's crazy. I got the number between 407 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty nine to a hundred and forty 408 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: five dead, five were never seen again, four hundred cars, 409 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: four houses, and forty million, which would be about a 410 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million today. And interestingly, and three years ago, 411 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: this one guy was found alive in Oklahoma that they 412 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: thought died. He got he left town that morning and 413 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: like didn't tell people, and I think they were that 414 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 1: came up in records and he was like, no, I'm 415 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: I'm out here in Oklahoma. I'm just fine. I didn't 416 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: he didn't even realize that he was on the death list. 417 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: But they still room every July thirty one, they still 418 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: pay remembrance. Obviously, in Colorado Um, there's also I mean, 419 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: you think about cars being washed away and people being 420 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: knocked off their feet and being flooded in canyons, But 421 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: there's also a lot of problems with flooding after the fact, 422 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Like a flood brings with it a lot of silt 423 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: and mud and nastiness, sewage, sewage, and um. When the 424 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: floodwaters recede once again, Um, all that stuff sticks around. 425 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: Apparently Florence, Italy suffered a pretty big flood on the 426 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: um Arno River, right, Yeah, And Florence, of course is 427 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: one of the great repositories of Renaissance art, and a 428 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: lot of the repository in that repository were basements and 429 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: for stories, and that stuff got flooded. And apparently they 430 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: got a lot of the stuff back to at least 431 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: good quality, a lot of it, but they were I 432 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: looked up. There were six hundred thousand tons of mud 433 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: and sewage after they left, fourteen thousand works of art 434 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: and a hunt um sorry, three to four million books 435 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: and manuscripts and records. And I don't know how many 436 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: of the fourteen thousand were restored, but I bet it 437 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: wasn't you know what I'm saying. Yeah, because a lot 438 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 1: of stuff was completely destroyed. That's awful, very sad. At 439 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: least invading hordes didn't set it on fire on purpose. 440 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: Also killed about a hundred people, which you always hear 441 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: about the artwork, like I had to really research to 442 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: find the amount of deaths. Really Yeah, well, well not 443 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 1: that much research, but a few extra clicks, I guess. Um, 444 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: and then disease is another big problem to you said, sewage, chemical, um, 445 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: the deceased, All of this is mixed together and albany. 446 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: That probably was not a fun soup. No, So if 447 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 1: you are if your area is flooded, you want to 448 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: basically boil any water that you're going to drink or 449 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 1: drink bottle of water. Um, get one of those one 450 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: uh the water manufacturers that sucks the water vapora of 451 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: the ambient air and converts it to bottled water. Did 452 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: you hear about the Nettie pot deaths? Recently? These two 453 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: people in Louisiana died and they believe it was from 454 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: using the Nettie pot, which I use on a daily basis, 455 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: and it got they got a brain eating amiba into 456 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: their nasal passage from using contaminated water to Nettie with 457 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 1: and my friend. You know, I've been netting for like 458 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: six years every day, and my friends drew bout that 459 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: I would do that. Who are you? It's like, come on, 460 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: did your friend know that he sounds like that? When 461 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: you say I was, I was aping him. He sounded 462 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: much more intelligent than that. But I'm not gonna stop knitting. Well, 463 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: you have to boil the water, at least yourself that 464 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: you're going to do that, chuck brainy eating ambo would 465 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: not look good on you. I'll take my chances, all right, Okay, 466 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: I guess that's it. I got nothing else. I got 467 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: nothing out flooding. Do you want to call out for 468 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: anything in particular? Yeah? Sure, if you live in Big 469 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: Canyon or or Johnstown or a story. Yeah, I bet 470 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: you got some some personal anecdotes the family member. Man, 471 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: yeah you can. Oh wait, wait, we haven't done less 472 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: your mail yet. Man, we're about to jump the gap. 473 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: Were you? I thought you're about doing that. It's about 474 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,959 Speaker 1: like give our email. Well, if you want to learn 475 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 1: more about floods, you can type in floods in the 476 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: search bar at how stuff works dot com. And I 477 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: said search bar, So it's Chuck's turn for a listener mail, Josh, 478 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this uh request for Adam to save 479 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: birds before this table? Your request of what request from 480 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: Adam to help save birds before the bowl? He has 481 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: he has a thing going on and it ends at 482 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: this bowl, so we want to get it out. I 483 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: come to humbly beg a favor. Guys. He said he 484 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 1: could apply us with beer if his loyalty is not sufficient. 485 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: In this case it is sufficient. I don't know beer 486 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 1: canunail my NGOs fundraiser needs a plug. We are the 487 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: Alamos wild Lands Alliance. I'm the research director there and 488 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: we are trying to create a reserve in a rare habitat. 489 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: We also do research and education in a remote part 490 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: of northwest Mexico. We run a biological field station called 491 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: the Navopatia Field Station. You can check us out on 492 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: Facebook and our website is www dot Alamos wild Lands 493 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: dot org. That is a l a MS wild Ds 494 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: dot org and it's a US based nonprofit. It's very small, 495 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,719 Speaker 1: run by volunteers. Most of you says, run by birds, 496 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: run by birds and put the second in a row. 497 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: They're doing a fundraiser called the Bird a thon and 498 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: it's like a walkathon, but instead of miles walked, people 499 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: get pledges for the amount of bird species they see 500 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: in a given day. My team had a hundred and 501 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: sixty three last year one day. It's pretty good. It 502 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: is a fun way to raise money for conservation in 503 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: a place that is unique and rare. That runs from 504 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: January February. We often have a Super Bird Saturday when 505 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: most people go out the day before the Bowl, which 506 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: is a football game played here in the United States, 507 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: American football and not here a people, not soccer or 508 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: the rest of the world football. Yes, uh more. Teams 509 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: are always welcome. We have at least eight now, though 510 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: some have yet to register, and anyone can start their 511 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: own team or just donate. It's really easy and it's 512 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: on our website. The money goes to a good cause 513 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: is text deductible. And here's something sad, josh uh, the 514 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: environment and animals only get about two percent of charitable 515 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: giving worldwide. I have to be honest, I'm surprised that 516 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: the environment and animals And he says, yeah, so humans 517 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: get the other nine percent. I guess so, which, you know, 518 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: charitable giving us good no matter what. But forget about 519 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: our free creatures. Attached our some pictures of my team, 520 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: the Luca Doors. We wear masks and capes while birding, 521 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: so it kind of ties him nicely with the podcast 522 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: we did on Mexican Rensity, which was not this one. 523 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: Can we post that picture? I don't know, I'll check 524 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: and uh then he has His wife's team is called 525 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: the Boobies, named after the blue footed booby, a common 526 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: bird that we have down here. Regardless, guys, thanks to 527 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: both of you for helping to make being smart cool again. 528 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: So please go check out www dot Alamos wild Lands 529 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: dot org and sign up and sponsor someone for this 530 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: bird of fon Super Bird Saturday. Get a team together, 531 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: help these guys out. That's awesome. Tet Uh did you 532 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: mention the s Bowl? Did you use the actual name? 533 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: Because I think we can get in trouble for that 534 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: for saying I don't think you should say it. Really yeah, 535 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: we'll find out. How can we get in trouble? Like 536 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: apparently they actively sue people who use that word, like 537 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: even mentioning it. Like remember the Simpsons, they never mentioned 538 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: what they're where they were going when they went to 539 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: that huge football game and Dolly Parton the episode that 540 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 1: Dolly Parton is on. Now I have the halftime of 541 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: my life. Yeah, all right, so we can just beat 542 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: that out and people be like, smol, what's that right? Exactly? Okay, Well, 543 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: if you have an NGO that you think we'd like 544 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: to plug, we're happy to do that from time to time. Um, 545 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: you can tweet to us, especially if it's a bird 546 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: ngo at s y s K podcast. Um, you can 547 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: send us uh some sort of message on Facebook at 548 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash stuff you should know, and you 549 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: can send us an email. Remember now to Stuff podcast 550 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: at Discovery dot com. How do you? 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