firing pin? trigger mechanism?” The truth is that if any one of those things is missing, nobody gets killed; they are all

necessary, and they all “kill people.” If any one of the changes in humidity, temperature, CAPE(where is the missing

hotspot?), jetstream that have been caused by global warming in the last 100 years hadn’t occurred, the sequence of

weather events and proximate conditions that destroyed the house wouldn’t have occurred. There might have been a flood

that destroyed the house, but it would have happened on a different date, the flotsam blocking the bridge would have been different, the water overflowing the banks of the river would have been different(you can’t step into the same river twice). The tax cuts, that prevented maintenance on the bridge and clearing of flotsam, and primarily benefited the wealthy, who bribed the zoning commission, to develop the lots without adequate runoff controls, also destroyed your house. Voting for Republicans, who denied & delayed addressing global warming at the national level, and chose to give tax breaks to Trump casinos instead of repairing bridges at the state levels, and who appointed real estate developers to the zoning commission at the local level, also played a necessary part in destroying your house.

“… the erosion of floodplain areas and soils, and the terrestrial discharge must have strongly increased during the onset of the PETM …”

http://www.geo.uni-bremen.de/geochronologie/PDF/Schulte%20et%20al.,%202011.pdf

Rate of change currently is, what, 10x to 100x faster than at the PETM?
Hey, what could go wrong?

Was when built, anyhow. Of course in dry years trees really like to push their roots into that sort of culvert, making a debris plug much more likely to accumulate eventually. I trust the neighbors routinely crawl through that culvert with sharp shovels and other cutting tools to clean it out and keep it free of anything that would catch and hold anything floating downstream.

Everyone does plan for these things. Right?