The Daily Clog » water http://clog.dailycal.org A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Berkeley Burns in the Past and Floods in the Future http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/09/09/berkeley-burns-in-the-past-and-floods-in-the-future/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/09/09/berkeley-burns-in-the-past-and-floods-in-the-future/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:54 +0000 Jill Cowan http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=12733 True story, bro.

Over the past couple of days local blog InBerkeley has posted not one, but TWO somewhat terrifying visuals of Berkeley succumbing to natural disaster.

First they put up a link to an interactive flood map. Did you know that when the sea rises 14 meters as a result of global warming everything west of San Pablo Avenue will be pretty much effed? Well, now you do. Then they put up a couple of (actually really interesting) newsreels showing the great Berkeley-burning fire of 1923. Despite that they are cool in a “Wow, look at these old time-y people doing old time-y things” kind of way, they still show Berkeley burning to the ground. And that’s a little scary.

Knock on wood about that huge friggin’ earthquake we’re due for.

1923 Berkeley fire films [InBerkeley]
Flood map shows Berkeley stays mostly dry as sea levels rise [InBerkeley]

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