Peter Glick: I'm a hydrologist and climatologist by training. We started the show with Dan Brecky, who works for KQED in California. The good news is that our weather forecasting systems today are remarkably good. But of course, extreme events are sometimes a surprise to people and we're not always prepared.
Rain is good for California, but the state was not prepared for what might be a megastorm. KQED’s Dan Brekke assesses the damage from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick explains how we can be better prepared for future storms.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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