Every 200 years California suffers a storm of biblical proportions — this year’s rains are just...

The Verge ^ | Feb 21, 2017, 11:15am EST | Rachel Becker

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Hillary’s tears are falling all over the state.

[Sacajaweau]

So what...200 years ago, there were no dams and 3 people lived in that area....and likely lived on a hill.

[w1andsodidwe]

My impression. Yesterday's storm was totally over hyped. We were told up to 10 inches of rain. I cannot find any location that got anything like that. I found some mountain community with around 3 inches. Down here in the valley we got less that 2 inches yesterday.

We were told to expect very high winds last night gusting to 60 MPH. After hyping that for days, we barely got 20 MPH winds. Friday winds were much worse and not really promoted as anything like what happened. On Friday we lost lots of trees and the wind blew hard (above 30 MPH) much of the day.

[rktman]

Started raining in Reno yesterday, changed to rain/snow mix, back to rain and since about 0500 it’s been snow in my part of town. As usual, the snow plow piled a nice mound at the end of the driveway. Got about 4” of really high moisture content snow and still coming down.

[rktman]

LOL! NEVER build too close to the creek or down hill from a dam. Not too hard to figure out.

[BenLurkin]

[Vermont Lt]

I hope for your sake that this is ALL blown out of proportion. My location is on the down river side of a big damn in Western MA. If it went, there is nothing that could be done to prevent the only two hospitals in the area from being washed away.

The state of the spillway there is concerning.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

It’d be a bad deal if the big earthquake and the big storm hit at the same time.

[HLPhat]

>>creating a vast lake where California’s Central Valley had been.

I’d expect that made the mud flats in Death Valley a joy to float/sink a wagon into.

[BenLurkin]

Yup.

[stylin19a]

back in the mid 80’s, we had a storm with flooding nobody had seen before..so the MSM called it a once in a lifetime event, hence, a hundred year flood.

The next year, we had a flood that was worse..,

They still didn’t get it.
God is always large and in charge.

[umgud]

Dad lives in west/north Reno and sent snow pics from this morning.

[Sacajaweau]

That's cool....I was born and raised in Rochester NY. In the early days of the village, it was royally flooded a few times until we put in some controls.

Same thing all over the country.

[smokingfrog]

Global warming.

[w1andsodidwe]

Last week the Board of Supervisors here is San Joaquin County voted to not declare the drought over. So I guess I am hallucinating anyway.

http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_98a56980-edd4-11e6-904b-e742777f1b60.html

[Sacajaweau]

Years ago, an attorney asked me why farmers always built on a hill. Hated to think he was that stupid....but thought he needed to know that water ran down hill.

[Sacajaweau]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zrdk0FGpWL0/VKmDqn7f9DI/AAAAAAABMfI/3CA1e_O8QrM/s1600/rochester-ny-flood-march-1913-10.jpg

[smokingfrog]

[Sacajaweau]

Just guessing, but maybe a canal system would/could help.