Water, water everywhere! Stunning photos
show how historic California storms have
refilled once-depleted reservoirs in drought-prone
Golden State
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Paul Farrell
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/7/2023 2:25:54 AM
Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California's drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars drove into the center of what should have been Folsom Lake.
But those scenes are no more after a series of powerful storms dumped record amounts of rain and snow across California, replenishing reservoirs and bringing an end — mostly — to the state's three-year drought.
Now, 12 of California's 17 major reservoirs are filled above their historical averages for the start of spring.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
berthabutt 4/7/2023 5:05:24 AM (No. 1442908)
Give Gavin a minute or 2. He'll figure out how to tax it, whiz it away or ban it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chumley 4/7/2023 5:18:36 AM (No. 1442913)
If its anything like around here, a bunch of self appointed environmentalists will complain about it. Too much, too fast, displacing the endangered Salt Water Mud Flapper or something. Its never good enough with them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 4/7/2023 7:21:00 AM (No. 1442954)
It's a 30 year drought but anyway they're already destroyed so many of the old reservoirs to save worms and whatever that it will only take a few years before they're drained dry again.
An interesting side effect is how many cold cases got closed as skeletons started getting revealed on the bottom of what was once deep water.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/7/2023 7:31:27 AM (No. 1442957)
See that? Climate Change isn't so bad after all, is it? Can we get our money back?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 4/7/2023 7:47:02 AM (No. 1442967)
Thank you Lord.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/7/2023 7:55:05 AM (No. 1442978)
This is great news. Similar reports circulated last month that fill levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have also increased. In Colorado, we, too, had the good fortune of a very wet and snowy winter. Good for all of us.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NancyD 4/7/2023 8:09:45 AM (No. 1442990)
2019/2020 Lake Michigan was at a very high level. I don't recall if it was an all time record, but it was bad due to the waves and erosion that was washing away the shoreline. The lake has dropped over 2 feet since 2021 and Lake Michigan's high level is no longer causing damage.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/7/2023 8:28:13 AM (No. 1443005)
FTA: Some reservoirs are so full that water is being released to make room for storm runoff.
“Some!” What an understatement. Reports elsewhere state that 90% of the rain that fell was drained directly into the ocean. The reason more of the water wasn’t retained is because California has not increased reservoir capacity for over a decade. Somehow the politicians that run California did not understand that water demand would increase with the increase in population and farming. Thus, they did nothing. Instead, they built several miles of over budget bullet train track and other unnecessary projects. What next, a unicorn farm?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/7/2023 8:50:23 AM (No. 1443028)
The Left lunacy of Kalifornia voters will take of this in short order.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2023 9:43:39 AM (No. 1443076)
"..Instead, they built several miles of over budget bullet train track "
There were pictures last week of the Bullet Train construction site totally flooded...imagine a 200mph train hitting flood waters.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/7/2023 9:50:43 AM (No. 1443092)
Wait until the record snows melt.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 4/7/2023 11:31:02 AM (No. 1443173)
There have been some interesting articles (in CA news sites) about the once great Lake Tulare and how all the snow and rains are bringing it back to life. Of course, at the expense of farmers who have crops on its now flooded bed. It was the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi until farmers and others began draining it via canals, etc.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2023 11:32:53 AM (No. 1443175)
In over seven decades of living through weather, and 40 years of piloting aircraft around and less often through a lot of weather, my studied opinion is....."The weather varies, a lot."
Any statement beyond that is a foolish overreach. The "climate change" fairy tale is just that, a fairy tale.
Sometimes it is hotter than normal, and then it is sometimes colder than normal. And the same for drier and and wetter than normal. Most of California has always been a desert in the last two centuries - expecting it to not be a desert is foolish and irrational. Calling a lack of rain in a desert "a drought" is foolish nonsense. A drought in a desert is NORMAL.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2023 12:30:34 PM (No. 1443213)
I'd like to see a "word search" showing exactly when this term "Atmospheric River" came into being, and later into vogue.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 4/7/2023 12:44:16 PM (No. 1443218)
Let's see these places in a few months when all the snow has melted.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/7/2023 2:06:08 PM (No. 1443260)
While very good news, it was not something they had in their models since it caught them all off-guard.
So, how many more of these will happen in the near future? Is this the new climate change that will transform California? (doubtful)
The point, it was not expected and they didn't have this type of event in their computer models.
I can still recall how they were amazed at the strong El Nino in the early 80's, and how they mentioned they knew very little about them, at that time.
#13, I like it, "The weather varies, a lot".
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