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So I get downvoted for saying that this kind of thing scares me. I clicked the link and read the article, if you read the article correctly yourself then you would realise that this isn't an event that happens precisely every 150 years. There's nothing stopping this event happening again next year... Ever heard the weather experts say something along the lines of, "This is a 75 year weather event" or "100 year weather event" it just means the odds of it happening again are slim, not impossible but slim.

The HN community has really deteriorated as of late. People down voting comments for no warranted reason, this site is starting to become Digg...




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