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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1050962)1/27/2018 7:09:36 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1578460
 
There would be no floods if not for fossil fuels.

“in 1910, a January deluge turned Paris into Venice for a week — river levels rose nearly 30 feet above normal — causing roughly $1.5 billion worth of damage, in today’s terms. … Topographically, Paris is a basin, with hills in Montmartre and Montparnasse rising in the north and south of the city, respectively. When it comes to flooding, that means big trouble for anyone who lives in the city center, which in 1910 was not so different than it is today



The streets of Paris looked quite different during the Great Flood of 1910. Boats are seen here rowing down what would have been a busy street
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