Posted on 03/02/2009 2:38:13 PM PST by lightning10
Meteorologist Kevin Martin predicted in the Summer of 2008 that the California rainy season would be above average in many spots and give an edge on the state's suffered drought.
We are in a state of emergency due to the drought in California. We haven't seen much rain where it is needed for several years. That is just the way California is. SCWXA Meteorologist Kevin Martin expects March to bring more storms to help the drought situation.
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Whompin’ pouring rain last night > today in No. CA. I can’t speak to the accum’ed amount, I’m sure it’s not very much. It’s not so much what falls here where we use it, it’s what falls in the Sierras that counts.
No, it sounds like they’re falling behind in drought.
It's been raining here (Northern California Sierra Foothills) all of February and now pouring non-stop the first two days of March. All the local ponds and lakes are full. The Sierra sbow-pack is well over 14 feet and very dense.
For some reason the State wants a drought and we're going to have one regardless of the real weather. Maybe they will change their minds if a few levys overflow and the valleys are flooded again. I don't get it.
The environuts don’t like irrigated agriculture. They will try to use any evidence of a drought to take irrigation water away from agriculture permanently. Too bad this hits illegal immigrants hard. C’mon Dems. Let’s get an internal fight going!
The people funding the enviro-nuts like squeezing farmers into selling, cheap.
In eastern Fresno County land is still relatively cheap. Developers are optioning/buying mile wide swathes at a time.
The results: Lots of work for Mexican framing and flat work crews producing homes 15% less than their nearby city cousins and 60% less than the same structure on coastal property.
The great irony is that the product is destined for a foreign market. These homes are ultimately being put in the hands of Mexican anchor babies who are fleeing their LA havens.
Many of these developers had the horse power to convinced local authorities to allow multiple family occupancy. Cheap, two story, seven bedroom homes are not uncommon in tracts in the San Joaquin Valley from Modesto to Visalia. These instant ghettos are also suffering some of the higher foreclosure rates in the state.
What counties in your area are under flood alert...
http://www.sfgate.com/weather/rainfall.shtml
0.14 inches in the last 24 hours in San Jose.
A pitiful amount of rain.
I know we got more than that in Contra Costa County, but I’d be surprised if it was more than maybe 1.5”. Still waaaaaay behind.
I don’t think any are as of the 10:PM TV news.
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