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What:
Shaping SF Talk: Washed Off in A Torrent—Newfound Extreme Weather History
When:
January 21, 2015 @ 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
2015-01-21T19:30:00-08:00
2015-01-21T21:30:00-08:00
Where:
Shaping SF
518 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Joel at Thinkwalks
415-505-8255

Thinkwalks and Shaping SF present:

A talk at 518 Valencia

Washed Off in A Torrent—Newfound Extreme Weather History

If you’re on my mailing list, you know I’ve been saturating my brain with discoveries about the Noachian Deluge of 1862. Yeah, that’s the Noah.

This steamship was frozen in 12 inches of ice on the Columbia, the biggest river around. A week of hard freeze between deluges disrupted commerce and killed hundreds throughout the west.

I’ve learned that the girl who’s “lost and gone forever” in Oh My Darling Clementine died in the floods of 1862. I’ve discovered that the extreme weather disaster, that so few people seem to even realize occurred, killed people in many states. Fatalities numbered in the thousands, including a famous singer who froze to death in SF, indoors. (Yes, SF was hit pretty hard and a number of houses collapsed, undermined by water flows!)

Here’s a chance to get caught up in person on what I’ve found, from cattle industry stats to telecommunications. I’ll focus first on the stories, systemic, personal and climatological.

Then I’ll bring it around to how this storm can be an example for what a really extreme weather event could be like in our future.Of course, we’ll also get into why this history is so lost and gone, dreadfully (but not forever).

I’m looking forward to this talk because the discussions after are always so great. I’ll be presenting this talk as the launch event for my crowdfunding campaign to  raise funds for the first wide and deep social and historical research project on these storms.

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