California Floods: A Tragedy—or a Warning We Ignored? | The Karel Cast

All right.

Welcome back.

Yes, Jane Schnabel in the chat room at youtube.com forward slash Willie Carell.

That basin is normally dry, except when it rains and when it rains a lot.

And it rained a lot.

And there was 12 foot of standing water.

And now it's gone.

Of course, there's dead rats and all kinds of stuff there today because the park has this giant inlet, which comes from another basin out by Red Rock.

So that's the first one.

When it overspills, it overspills into my basin.

When that overspills, it overspills into Steve's basin.

Or no, that overspills into the Flamingo Basin.

When that overfills, it fills into the Tropicana Basin.

And then there's one more before it hits the Strip.

It's supposed to mitigate flooding on the Strip.

It doesn't.

Vegas is not set up for the new climate, but neither is Long Beach or Newport Beach.

Now, for those of you that have ever been to Long Beach, The part of Long Beach that you're hearing about the most is the peninsula.

It is a little jetty of Ocean Boulevard where it's a peninsula.

There's water on three sides of it.

Also, a lot of the beaches in Long Beach have now lost a lot of their beach.

At Junipero Beach, at Ocean and Junipero, there's normally 200 feet between the parking lot and the ocean, and now there's literally less than 10 feet.

And so I commented underneath, it's sad that people lost their houses, but we've known about this for 30 years.

Al Gore tried to tell us with an inconvenient truth, we wouldn't listen.

And the people who did not listen especially were the rich people.

All right.

Welcome back.

Yes, Jane Schnabel in the chat room at youtube.com forward slash Willie Carell.

That basin is normally dry, except when it rains and when it rains a lot.

And it rained a lot.

And there was 12 foot of standing water.

And now it's gone.

Of course, there's dead rats and all kinds of stuff there today because the park has this giant inlet, which comes from another basin out by Red Rock.

So that's the first one.

When it overspills, it overspills into my basin.

When that overspills, it overspills into Steve's basin.

Or no, that overspills into the Flamingo Basin.

When that overfills, it fills into the Tropicana Basin.

And then there's one more before it hits the Strip.

It's supposed to mitigate flooding on the Strip.

It doesn't.

Vegas is not set up for the new climate, but neither is Long Beach or Newport Beach.

Now, for those of you that have ever been to Long Beach, The part of Long Beach that you're hearing about the most is the peninsula.

It is a little jetty of Ocean Boulevard where it's a peninsula.

There's water on three sides of it.

Also, a lot of the beaches in Long Beach have now lost a lot of their beach.

At Junipero Beach, at Ocean and Junipero, there's normally 200 feet between the parking lot and the ocean, and now there's literally less than 10 feet.

And so I commented underneath, it's sad that people lost their houses, but we've known about this for 30 years.

Al Gore tried to tell us with an inconvenient truth, we wouldn't listen.

And the people who did not listen especially were the rich people.