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While it's not making the news much, California is over the drought and quickly moving towards dangerous flooding. Most of the reservoirs are dumping as much water as possible in preparation for the massive runoff which is coming. Google the great floods of 1862. Every few hundred years the central valley floods to the point of becoming a massive lake from Sacramento to Fresno. The worst case scenario is lots of rain and especially massive snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. We have that. Then a warm weather rain event that melts the snowpack quickly and it all runs down into the central valley!
1 posted on 01/22/2017 11:06:26 AM PST by PilotDave
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To: PilotDave

Moonbeam says , “Kool”


2 posted on 01/22/2017 11:13:28 AM PST by butlerweave
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Praise God for the rain. Our drought is ending!!
May those in harms way be protected.
As Franklin Graham said in his Inaugural Prayer... Rain is a sign of blessing from God.


5 posted on 01/22/2017 11:18:21 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: PilotDave

Meh. Nature and stuff.


6 posted on 01/22/2017 11:20:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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Mammoth mountain ski area is recording January snow as the most ever recorded and we still have a week left. It's going to be a rough spring with all that runoff. This is what you get with RATS in power, idiots who promote a choo choo to nowhere instead of rational water storage plans. Filled reservoirs in Northern California are now spilling BILLIONS of gallons of water to avert flooding— water that could have been stored for future use in times of drought. http://www.mammothmountain.com/winter/mountain-information/mountain-information/snow-conditions-and-weather
7 posted on 01/22/2017 11:22:17 AM PST by Fungi
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“But when it pours, man it pours.”


8 posted on 01/22/2017 11:25:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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Oh gasp! The worst in SEVEN WHOLE YEARS! Wow! Oh noes! The same mentality that panics on the Stock Exchange if the numbers are down for one quarter. What happened to the concept of the 100 year storm?


9 posted on 01/22/2017 11:29:05 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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I work with a grower near Fresno who in 2014 spent $700,000 just to dig a new water well.

I doubt they need it now


10 posted on 01/22/2017 11:31:10 AM PST by PGR88
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5.1” last night and 3.93” night before last in a wino county north of gay frisco.

More than that in the counties just north and west of here.

A younger female relative living in a couple of counties east of gay frisco, caught a drought nazi thug in his truck driving around apparently looking for someone wasting water like washing their car or water their lawns.

She got out of her truck with her Smart Phone and started taking pictures of him doing his drought nazi monitoring.

He got out of his truck and asked her what she was doing.

She told him that if he was doing his old drought nazi job after the drought is over, he should be fired. He got back into his truck and fled the scene.

The state drought Nazis are apparently saying we need 8-10 years of rain like this year to be over the drought.


12 posted on 01/22/2017 11:51:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama's greatest legacy to America/Americans was the election of President Trump!)
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Here is a link to the great flood in Scientific American:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/
13 posted on 01/22/2017 12:02:18 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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Does this mean we’re all gonna die...AGAIN??? Or maybe just the Californians?


14 posted on 01/22/2017 12:02:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Born and raised in California. I moved away at age 27. We had droughts. We had deluge. When there was drought, we conserved, but always had water in the reservoirs. We never heard of the Delta Smelt, the Three specked marsh frog. Whatever else. I moved out the year some farmer had his entire operation shut down because of some kangaroo rat was found nesting on his field. That’s when I am really thankful I moved. I miss the geography but the place is a dysfunctional mess.


17 posted on 01/22/2017 12:07:15 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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If those cities are ‘sanctuaries’ then ICE should be standing right outside the boundaries and load ‘em into trucks as they leave their little safe zones.


19 posted on 01/22/2017 12:17:09 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Freepers just don’t get it. If you lived in California and spent a little time listening to our great Governor Jerry Baby, you would understand that man-made excess See Oh Too in the atmosphere is the primary cause of both drought AND massive rainfall and subsequent flooding.

Plus you would learn that 97 out of every 100 scientists agree with Governor Baby.

But of course most Freepers have the brains to not live in California so they are both blessed and forgiven.


25 posted on 01/22/2017 12:32:16 PM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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Not that much rain, The last time I saw REAL RAIN in Los Angeles was the winter of 1976-77. Water was 2 feet higher than the bridge on Foothill in Sunland, , coming out of Big Tujunga Wash, before the 210 was there. the 14 at Sand Canyon in Canyon Country was also Under Water.

(San Fernando Valley)


35 posted on 01/22/2017 2:59:39 PM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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Double whammy as Southern Californians CANNOT drive in rain.


36 posted on 01/22/2017 3:03:08 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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Gee, maybe it would have been a good idea to build some more reservoirs? I wonder how much fresh water will be lost?


38 posted on 01/22/2017 7:59:42 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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