Posted on 08/01/2014 12:33:42 PM PDT by Lorianne
ore than half of California is now under the most severe level of drought for the first time since the federal government began issuing regular drought reports in the late 1990s, according to new data released Thursday..
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor report, in July roughly 58% of California was considered to be experiencing an "exceptional" drought -- the harshest on a five-level scale.
This is the first year that any part of California has seen that level of drought, let alone more than half of it, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, which issued the report.
“You keep beating the record, which are still all from this year," he said.
The entire state has been in severe drought since May, but more of it has since fallen into more severe categories -- "extreme" and "exceptional." Nearly 22% more of California was added into the exceptional drought category in the last week alone.
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I thought forcing fake “marriage” would cause God to bless the state. What foolish thinking.
Woo Hoo! A new world’s record! This is almost as exciting as low information voters “electing” America’s first “black” president!
Mother Nature is reclaiming her land back ,she’s tired of these Californians
Keep dumping water into the ocean though.
That’s what happens when you embrace homosexual “marriage.”
Maybe making pedophilia legal will do it.
How can that happen in California!?
The state passed cap-n-trade a couple of years ago to prevent global warming, cliate change and droughts.
California parked next to an ocean and they don’t build desalination plants OH wait they need a high speed rail system.
The state is a poster child of stupidity.
Someone needs to tell these geniuses that it rarely rains in California between May and November. Whatever drought we had in May is the same one we have now.
Sounds like they convenitely lost the data from 1977.
I don’t know about the rest of the state. 1977 had more dusts bowls from where previous water reservoirs used to be, than this year in Northern California.
I wonder what Texas did to feel the wrath of God.
And it is fake drought, too.
Once upon a time, the Central Valley in California, in its natural state, was a desert about ten months of the year. For about two months, there was a flood from snow melt rushing down from the Alpine heights of the Sierras, at which time, most of the valley floor was a vast shallow lake. But the lake drained away/evaporated, and there is a vast desert, with high salinity in the soil, fit only for the growth of sagebrush, much like most of Nevada.
Early in the Twentieth Century, some of the pioneering agriculturists believed it they harnessed this spring melt, by building dams high in the west front of the Sierras, they could capture and release the water at a controlled rate, and thus provide irrigation to what had been an arid and largely barren land. They succeeded far beyond their original dreams, turning the San Joaquin into the garden of America, exporting fresh produce throughout the nation and into foreign lands, with a growing season that stretched year-around. The desert bloomed, so long as the irrigation water arrived on schedule.
But a political decision was made to turn off the irrigation water, and decommission the retention dams high in the Sierras, for the preservation of some little fish about three inches long, which in fact, was never native to its present habitat. And for this, much arable farm land in the Central Valley was left parched, unable to provide even a fraction of its former bountiful produce.
At one time, California was MUCH blessed. And part of that blessing was having people with vision and ambition, to realize a dream of making the desert bloom. But now they are absent that advantage, and the now blighted land is reverting to its state of underdevelopment that existed a century ago.
Well, not passing our own version of a religious liberty law is inexcusable (Fort Worth, San Antonio, and now Houston required that its inhabitants must grovel before sexual pervert cross-dressers because of this failure.) We are also lax on illegal immigration, having passed our own "dream act" even before California.
I could go on, but you get the idea. For the Lord's own, much more is expected at the threat of more severe punishment.
Oh is that why there were tule swamps so large the Spanish explorers couldn't find their way around them? Who knew?
Most of that valley was in annual wildflowers, not sage brush. The Indians burned it too frequently for sage to take, and much of it was too wet for the plant to survive anyway, especially the Sacramento River Valley in which there are massive rice fields today for that very reason. As to whether it was a desert as you state, there was sufficient forage in the San Joaquin Valley for horse herds twenty miles long in the early 19th Century. There were so many animals they had to run them off cliffs to protect the range.
It's all just another land grab scheme, and the rank & file environuts are merely pawns and useful idiots used to perpetrate the scheme.
If you want to find the real answer, follow the money, and the sleazy politicians, along with the real estate brokers and local CoC.
Prayers up for rain in California and other SW states. It’s really painful to think about how much farmland, how many crops, how much beauty, and how many animals, wild and domestic, that we’re losing.
I really love the CA beaches, but the rest of the state should look like a dry, sandy beach. Enough already, Lord. Please turn on the faucet.
Yeah, it’s crazy. Water should be desalinated at plants up and down the coast. ALSO, the power of ocean waves can be harnessed to produce all the electricity the country needs. Time to get a little bit creative. Of course, the oil cartel will put you on their hit list immediately, but public opinion could be swayed in favor of those trying to use the FREE ocean to help humanity.
To think that God is acting out weather events at local targets is thought that I would have died hundreds of years ago, but the success of Pat Robertson should have convinced me otherwise.
So, you think that God’s hand is completely detached from events here on earth?
God says otherwise. And he gets to make the decisions.
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