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Old 12-14-2025, 03:26 PM   #1753 (permalink)
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An atmospheric river doesn't have banks. The problem isn't the downpour, it's the run-off.

In any case, my location is at the upper end of the Willamette Valley, where the three forks come together. My son is in WA state, but close by the Sea-Tac airport. If Puget Sound were raised 20 feet, then the airport (and his house) would be an island so even he was unaffected.

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Been to both, consider you to be in a more hazardous environ...
The would be the Cascadia Subduction zone. Earthquakes are triggered by space weather. Right now the Sun is being perturbed, and there is a planetary alignment in early January that might be enough.

Venus and Mercury in opposition, Jupiter at our back.
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