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What:
Randall Talk: The Most Extreme Storms Yet
When:
March 19, 2015 @ 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
2015-03-19T19:30:00-07:00
2015-03-19T21:00:00-07:00
Where:
Randall Museum
199 Museum Way
San Francisco, CA 94114
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
For info
415-505-8255

Thinkwalks and SF Natural History Series present:

A talk at the Randall Museum

The Most Extreme Storms Yet

Joel Pomerantz of Thinkwalks on the big stage! (It’s actually the last Natural History Talk that will take place in the intimate space of the Randall Museum Theater before a year of renovation begins.)

Randall TheaterJoel will share his research on the weather disaster that determined so much of what’s around you today. In early 1862 the sky dumped upwards of ten feet of rain in the mountains (about four feet in San Francisco). In the middle of that, there was a hard freeze for a week down to sea level. Thousands died. Dead cattle and cord-wood piled up on Bay Area beaches, washed out from the river system.

No previous research has connected so many of the dots on this, the most extreme weather disaster in North America’s history.

Come learn about the widespread disaster that spanned more than four states (before all were states), changed the course of rivers and history, destroyed the California economy and brought in invasive grasses, new songs, changes in the way government works, extensive levee projects, and much else. At a time when major increases are expected in overall storm intensity throughout the world, it would be clever of us humans to learn from past extreme weather events.

Knowing how extreme it can be might be the wake-up we need.

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