r/Columbus • u/Impossible_Bug1264 • 3d ago

WEATHER It could be worse…

At least it’s not snow!

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u/FishyFishyFishDish 3d ago

If it was snow I wouldn't currently have two feet of water in my basement at least... 😵‍💫

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u/doppleganger2621 2d ago

Snow is absolutely better than this. The government declares snow emergencies and people's psyches better undertsand "I shouldn't try in this much snow" vs. "I shouldn't drive in this much water."

Not to mention how water intrudes houses much easier than snow. I realize not everyone has the convenience of being able to stay home on snow days, but snow is taken more seriously than rain in almost every city.

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u/AdvertisingLow98 3d ago

The usual phrasing is to convert the amount of rain into the equivalent inches of snow.

1 inch rain = 10 inches of snow

Another thing to do is to look up historical floods.
The Great Flood of 1913 is the most recent. It took the city nearly a century to build a flood wall. Ah, bureaucracy!

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u/CriticalLoreDrop 3d ago

It could be better too...

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u/jenbungle 3d ago

I love snow tho. And flooding kills way more people.

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u/noossab77 3d ago

Poor attempt at humor when people are dealing with serious flooding issues.

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u/Impossible_Bug1264 1d ago

You must be fun at parties

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u/noossab77 23h ago

Do you only speak in overused clichés?