62K views · 2K reactions | The word “cataclysm” comes from kataklysmos—the ancient Greek term for the great flood. And that flood? It shows up everywhere. Deucalion and Pyrrha. Utnapishtim. Native Americans in a great canoe. These are not just myths. They’re global memory echoes of something massive. Maybe it’s time we stop treating ancient flood stories as fiction—and start treating them as data. | The Randall Carlson | Facebook

137K views · 3.2K reactions | In any cataclysm, survival depends on access to resources—and on where the destruction isn’t complete. After Mount St. Helens erupted, even a scorched landscape held pockets of life. Ferns survived. Forests began to return. Nature knows how to rebuild. Do we? | The Randall Carlson | Facebook

⁩Mesas, buttes, pinnacles, potholes...the land carries its own vocabulary of cataclysm. Fast-moving, turbulent meltwater drills circular potholes into solid bedrock. Floods ripping out of mountain valleys leave behind boulder trains, gravel bars, and massive alluvial fans spreading into open basins. These aren’t slow, gentle processes. They’re fingerprints of sudden transitions, from ice to unimaginable volumes of meltwater, the kind of forces it takes to carve entire regions in a geological ins