Ever seen "the descent"? group of women friends go spelunking in a Virginia cave system and get absolutely destroyed by blind cave people that move around by echo location
Southern California is the main homeless destination in the country. The Los Angeles basin is unusual. It is a bowl of surrounding mountains against a rare deep ocean upwelling current. We actually have fewer really hot Summer days near the coast than you might think. There needs to be a pattern that pulls the desert out over the cold ocean to make the signature SoCal beach days. The rest of the time, within a few miles of the ocean, the temperatures stay quite mild. San Diego gets hot, and just north of LA it gets cold enough to freeze in winter, but not within the basin. It also only rains for a few weeks total every year, and all of that will pretty much happen a week at a time. Up near the center, Sierra mountains are the likely cause.
No joke there are 100k homeless people in the LA basin right now.
Ok, but this has pretty much nothing to do with unexplained disappearances, especially given the large homeless populations in other cities that are not showing on here. But really, this map cannot be relied on since we have no idea where the data is derived from, and we can barely even see it due to the poor resolution
Super interesting! As someone that was born and lived the vast majority of their life in Florida, LA is odd to me. I've been a few times. The main things we have in common are similar economic models, language (almost a different dialect tho), and are in the same federation. Mostly everything else is different. It's almost a different country.
Here are some differences that stick out to me:
Mountains and hills vs nearly 100% flat
Deserts vs swamps
Dry vs humid
Sparse vegetation vs tropical rain forest
Clay sand vs dirt sand
Cold beaches w/ major waves vs warm beaches w/ flat water
You might also want to read about the Devils Hole incident. Imagine getting sucked into an underground river that is impossible to swim against, while you get sucked deeper and deeper into the void as your oxygen tank starts to run out.
Between Nutty Putty and that story, I've decided that I never want to go anywhere near a cave, regardless of whether it's underwater or above ground where it's located.
In the future, the lazy Eloi will be living above ground. But underground, there will be cave monsters that use the above ground people for food. Dean, they eat them.
Haha, they’re all related to caves in some way, descent is about cave exploring, cloverfield is about subterranean dwelling stuff and 10 cloverfield place is about basement dwelling, at least that was my logic 😊