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Atmospheric Rivers and Selling His Cliffside House
from Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431 · #431
3 min
Tim riffs on the media's overwrought terminology for storms ("atmospheric river," "raging torrents") hitting LA after the fires, and clarifies that his house didn't burn down—he sold it last year.
- Tim notes Los Angeles is getting hit with another atmospheric rain event, a 48-hour storm that's supposedly the strongest in a year.
- The terminology for weather has gotten absurdly dramatic—it used to be "it's going to rain," now it's "atmospheric river" and "raging torrents."
- Tim sold his cliffside house because of the atmospheric river and potential mudslides, though he clarifies he didn't lose it to fire as some listeners assumed.
- Atmospheric river storms are long plumes of water vapor from the Pacific that carry enough water to be called "a river in the sky" and can deliver a third to half of California's annual precipitation in just a few events.
- Despite getting more rain than ever, California still can't fight fires because there's no infrastructure to trap and store the water when needed.