Published by admin on Thu, 02/15/2024 - 3:05pm
You’re never too old to learn something new. And with all the weather reporting over the past two weeks, I learned about “atmospheric rivers.” The word was used repeatedly during the record rainfall in California. It was disastrous. The death and destruction left in the atmospheric river’s wake is almost unimaginable.
With almost 24-hour constant coverage, reporters were at a loss for words to describe what was happening. Or at a loss for words that weren’t repeated constantly.
One reporter kept mixing up “landslides” and “mudslides.” I figured with the deluge falling, a landslide might have started down the mountain, but by the time it went 50 feet, it was a mudslide. So either word was used correctly.
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