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2023 came pretty close to your nightmare scenario

• 0xbadcafebee 4mo ago
  And yet the "worst" didn't come to pass, because we act as a community... people shared food and water (and dry space), gave rides to people who needed to leave early, used sat phones to call out sick, etc. The biggest problems were from people who didn't want to act collectively, and tried to drive out through the mud by themselves, then (predictably) got stuck, and blocked the way for everyone else.
• leptons 4mo ago
  No, it wasn't close. Did vehicles sink into the mud making them unmovable when the place dried up many weeks later? No.