RE: Unexpected level of stupidity
August 17, 2016 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 2:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's still a hell of a stretch. A flood plain is not a bowl, the earth is porous, the sky can only contain so much water before the pressure beneath becomes the equivalent of a sustained explosion. The authors of these stories couldn;t have known any of that, ofc...not because they didn't have our modern tools...but because they'd never seem a storm even a fraction as large as the ones as they wrote into their fairy tales. They just assumed that "a whole lotta rain" would pile up just like trickling rain does, and it made a good setting for an adventure story.
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