In the midst of heavy rainstorms that have deluged Southern California, TV
personality Ellen DeGeneres blamed the human race for the torrent of
rainfall.

As a flash flood surged through the area just behind her, DeGeneres spoke of
her home in celebrity-laden Montecito while referencing the January 9, 2018
mudslides that plunged down from the nearby Santa Ynez mountains and through
Montecito, causing 23 deaths and destroying over 100 residences. The
mudslides had followed the Thomas Fire that had ravaged the area before the
torrential rains hit.

�So, Montecito is under complete evacuation, the entire town. This is the
five-year anniversary from the fire and mudslides that killed so many people,
and, uh, people lost their homes, their lives,� Degeneres said.

�This is crazy. On the five-year anniversary we are having unprecedented
rain,� she continued. �The street next to our house never froze ever,
probably about nine feet up and it�s gonna go another two feet up. � We need
to be nicer to Mother Nature because Mother Nature is not happy with us.
Adults, do our part. Stay safe, everybody.�

.@EllenDeGeneres on heavy rain in California: "We need to be nicer
to Mother Nature because Mother Nature is not happy with us. Adults,
do our part. Stay safe, everybody." pic.twitter.com/zT2bZsqxu2

� Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 10, 2023

In 2009, Reuters reported DeGeneres had signed on to play Mother Nature in an
untitled comedy film that was to be penned by �Sex and the City� writer-
executive producer Jenny Bicks.

The production was supposed to show Mother Nature returning to Earth for the
first time since it was created. �I�ve always wanted to control the weather,�
DeGeneres said.

After the 2018 mudslides, Mike Eliason, Santa Barbara County Fire Department,
stated, �It had to have been terrifying for those people in those homes that
night, to hear these boulders getting closer and closer and hearing all those
trees snapping as they were getting closer. I can�t imagine the fear in those
people as they knew what was coming and they had no escape.�

The Daily Wire reported Monday on the floods endangering Montecito. Fire
authorities reportedly said that Montecito saw over five inches of rain
between the early morning and late morning hours. Areas of Carpinteria and
Summerland, and Santa Barbara were also given orders to evacuate �due to
threats to life safety caused by the ongoing storm,� the Montecito Fire
Protection District reportedly said.

An evacuation location was set up in Santa Barbara and the fire department�s
website was no longer working after many people tried to visit the site on
Monday afternoon. Members of the community were reportedly encouraged to go
to the social media sites of the department. People who live in Santa Barbara
County were also told to shelter in place.

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Let's go Brandon!

In article <tpmar2$smbi$6@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> In the midst of heavy rainstorms that have deluged Southern California, TV
> personality Ellen DeGeneres blamed the human race for the torrent of
> rainfall.

Sure, because it's not like California-- while normally very dry--
hasn't occasionally experienced these torrential megastorms for
thousands years.

In 1831-- long before SUVs, carbon footprints, and 'climate change'-- a
river of atmospheric moisture took shape in the Pacific near Hawaii.
Atmospheric currents plucked a long tendril of water vapor and funneled
it toward the West Coast. The plume was enormous, hundreds of miles wide
and 1200 miles long and seething with ferocious winds. It carried so
much water that its flow was 26 times what the Mississippi River
discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment.

When the torpedo of moisture reached California, it crashed into the
mountains and was forced upward, which cooled its payload of vapor and
kicked off weeks and waves of rain and snow. Drenching rain pummeled
cities and towns. At times Los Angeles was drowning in two inches of
rain per hour.

While all this was happening, another filament of moisture-laden air was
forming out in the Pacific and hurtling toward California.

Then another.

And another.

After a month, nearly 50 inches of precipitation fell across the state.
Large swaths of the mountainous areas got much more.

And the geological record shows these storms have been happening
periodically for millennia. One such megastorm inundated California with
100 inches of rain within the space of mere weeks, turning the Central
Valley into a vast inland sea.

But sure, Ellen, we're the ones causing this. It must be 'climate
change'.

What an ego-bag. The hubris of people like this to think weather events
like this must somehow be about *them*, because everything's about them,
dontcha know.