The Yakima, Wanapum, and Nez Perce nations are still around but I don’t know if their oral history goes back that far. They have claimed the “Kennewick Man” is their ancestor.

“Kennewick Man” was found along the shoreline of the Columbia River in 1996 and has been dated to around 8,900 – 9000 years ago. Quite a while after the Lake Missoula floods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/kennewick-man-finally-freed-share-his-secrets-180952462/

And many other articles ….

I’m wondering about the scab lands. Was there sufficient time between events for the land to recover and draw in the locals to settle. Or not? Or possibly some ancient tales about cursed land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz

It may have covered up to 170,000 square miles which is about the size of present day Black Sea.

If most folks had even a very cursory idea of the massive climatic changes the earth has experienced over millions of years, those greenies and their “scientific” cronies would be laughed out of the room with their patently false arguments of man made climate change or the fiction of a “climate emergency.”

But then again, we have “educated” people claiming that men can become pregnant, that it is impossible to ascertain at birth the gender of a baby, or to know if an adult is a male or female, etc.,etc.
What is truly astonishing is that people who utter this total bullshit are actually listened to and paid attention to (or are appointed to the SCOTUS), despite the fact that everybody knows what is being said is a complete lie.

Amazing how easy it is to cow the masses.

I understand that people who seem to know about these things have claimed that there was NO Ukraine connection.

After having seen SBF’s bizarre, smarmy denial that there was a connection, I can only conclude, given his sheer criminality and subterranean level of credibility, that one has grounds to believe the (Ukraine connection) claim.

(That is, if one considers bankruptcy a “catastrophic event”…)

You are talking out of your hat. The history of science and particularly geology as science has more to it than you have bothered to learn.
You would have to start back in the 1840’s (that’s a clue). Another term for “Gradualism” is Uniformitarianism as opposed to Catastrophism.

There are hierarchies in science, and some scientists think they know all about other disciplined it seems.
The piled higher and deeper (PhD) effect.

Cartoons indeed.

They always do and always have. There was never any geologist who said that no catastrophe ever happened, and never any who said nothing happened gradually. “Gradualism” and “Catastrophism” are cartoon versions of scientific history. The history of science is obscure and has only a small number of active participants, and so these cartoon versions get entrenched in the minds of future generations, who weren’t there and didn’t closely follow the issues, which they often don’t understand.

I’ve run into a lot of these cartoon histories in math and physics.