""Malibu" is said to be the local Native American term for "Don't build here."

Honestly, we've got so many places in California that are like that now. It's really, really criminal. I can think of countless residential areas that are built almost on top of the San Andreas fault line. Literally almost directly on top of it. Likewise, I can think of apartment complexes built immediately beside major dry washes. Those dry washes are huge - meaning that when 100-year rains come, that area is a swollen river of raging water. But since the flood only comes every hundred years, people just forget about it.

I suppose that is one of the big problems about "Mother Nature's Fury". She doesn't show that fury very often - so we tend to forget about it. But heaven help us when it actually materializes.

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