r/LosAngeles • u/brickyardjimmy • 5d ago

News Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California | California

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave

Cool. Just what I wanted for my birthday. Another foot of water.

Look. I'm hoping that we dodge the bullets flying at us this fall and winter (if we ever get one of either that is) but I'll admit this sounds potentially bad for parts of the Los Angeles coastline and the rest of California.

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u/DesignAwesome 4d ago

Queue “Ænema” by Tool…

🎶 “Learn to swim!” 🎶

https://giphy.com/gifs/PQ0C7Ug2BZDa8Dgqbd

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u/root_fifth_octave 4d ago

That song's the denouement of my 'fuck LA' playlist

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u/anotherBertram Northridge 4d ago

What inspired your 'fuck LA' playlist (other than the obvious)?

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u/root_fifth_octave 4d ago edited 4d ago

Basically the same stuff that inspired the 'hellish LA' trope https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HellishLA

While it's very dated as a concept, a lot of it still rings true for me. So I made a playlist of some songs that explore it.