California mega-storm warning: The major risk threatening the future of California
California is overdue for a mega-storm capable of drowning coastal areas in 20ft (6m) of water at any moment. Experts are preparing contingencies for wet weather so extreme it might tear open a 300-mile-wide ocean across the US West coast. … The devastation of such flooding could match the severity of “big San Andreas earthquakes”, according to the USGS.