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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Climate change could change things, but California's history of hurricanes is pretty okay. Better than Texas, anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes

[–] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In recorded history, California's only had one hurricane to ever make landfall, in 1858

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, though a tropical storm in 1935 killed 45 people, and we get storm surges from hurricanes that remain at sea.