alt Hacker News> that's thousands of years of stored water and energy released
You make this sound like it matters whether the water accumulated over 10,000 years or 30 days. It doesn't.
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glitchcrab • today at 5:54 PM
Quite, it's the volume water and the speed of release which matter, nothing else.
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0xd00d00 • today at 6:11 PM
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The point is that if the local environment is used to dealing with X amount of water every 30 days, the life and environment will be adapted to the flood zone. If X amount of water comes once in 10,000 years, this is not the case.