5.5K views · 1.2K reactions | Mega-floods aren’t mythology, they’re measured. The Bonneville Flood hit ~40 million cubic feet per second. The Missoula floods? Up to 400–800 million cubic feet per second. Water volumes so massive they carved canyons, moved boulders like pebbles, and reshaped whole regions in days. These weren’t rivers. They were planet-altering forces. | The Randall Carlson | Facebook

35K views · 896 reactions | The Bonneville and Missoula floods—two of...

The Missoula and Bonneville floods are the most famous in North American history—but they may have only been regional expressions of something much bigger. New evidence shows floods with even greater peak discharges once ripped across the continent. This wasn’t just water—it was a continental-scale catastrophe. | The Randall Carlson

64K views · 1K reactions | Hurricane Katrina was devastating—but the Lake Missoula floods were on another scale entirely. Modern floods? Measured in millions of cubic feet per second. Missoula? Try 350 million. That’s up to 10 surdrops—the same unit used to measure ocean currents. And it wasn’t minutes or hours… it surged for days. We’re just beginning to grasp the true power of these ancient megafloods. | The Randall Carlson | Facebook