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Northern California digs out, as another ‘atmospheric river’ takes shape
The Sacramento Bee ^ | January 13th, 2017 | By Dale Kasler, Ryan Sabalow, Peter Hecht and Bill Lindelof

Posted on 01/13/2017 7:09:00 PM PST by Mariner

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To: Mariner

But but but!

This has never happened before, ever! for the last 4 or 5 years!!


41 posted on 01/13/2017 8:40:15 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: willgolfforfood

We have this one area in our backyard where everything else drains. We’ve had so much rain that it has killed the grass and is now a mud pile. Just a few drops of rain and it becomes a lake again.


42 posted on 01/13/2017 8:40:42 PM PST by sheana
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To: willgolfforfood

We have this one area in our backyard where everything else drains. We’ve had so much rain that it has killed the grass and is now a mud pile. Just a few drops of rain and it becomes a lake again.


43 posted on 01/13/2017 8:41:47 PM PST by sheana
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To: IWontSubmit

If your comment is intended to provide comfort to those
of us who were harmed by the storms then thank you.
If you are inferring that Californians (including
us FReepers) deserve the hardship then you can
pound sand, asshat.


44 posted on 01/13/2017 8:47:14 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: DoughtyOne

Such an article was posted on FR maybe ten days ago saying we are now in for 1,000 years of monsoon-like storms.

Most likely written by the same guy who just five years ago said we were entering a 1,000 year drought.

I’ve been in CA 43 years and the wet / dry cycle runs like clockwork. The dry years come every 11 years or so and the wet years also come on the same schedule.


45 posted on 01/13/2017 8:56:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Patriot Babe
Now what will the morons who run this state do with this blessing?

Come on! We all know the answer to that. RAISE TAXES!!

46 posted on 01/13/2017 8:59:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: A message
Nope...nobody ever thought how handle drainage in LA. Simply cannot be done.


47 posted on 01/13/2017 9:05:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sheana

My dear old dad used to joke about “getting a spritz of that pineapple juice”!


48 posted on 01/13/2017 9:07:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TaMoDee; IWontSubmit

Thanks, I was going to say something FAR, FAR nastier to this pr**k, but your post and a few others kept me from doing that.

There are so many millions and millions of AWESOME people in our beautiful state, and despite the fact that liberals own the government and have tried their best to ruin it, it’s a fantastic place to live and raise a family.


49 posted on 01/13/2017 9:25:32 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: Sivad

LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


50 posted on 01/13/2017 9:26:44 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: Mariner

This winter will fill California water storage reservoirs to the brim. Jerry Brown will order them drained “for the Delta Smelt” bait fish and to create another artificial drought. Brown recently made the temporary drought restrictions permanent, and by damn, he is going to have his drought even if he has to drain every reservoir by June to get his way.

I hate the voters of California. I can’t wait to retire and leave this communist hell hole.


51 posted on 01/13/2017 9:48:09 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: RayChuang88

Don’t count on it. Jerry will order the reservoirs drained for the salmon and delta smelt. If he can’t have a drought, he is going to make one by draining the reservoirs before summer.


52 posted on 01/13/2017 9:49:56 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: TaMoDee

Add me to the ones trapped behind enemy lines in CA.


53 posted on 01/13/2017 10:05:58 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I disagree. They can’t drain the water at high rates due to possible threat to all that very valuable farmland in the Delta (those islands in the Delta are some of the very best farmlands in all of California) and also too much fresh water going into San Pablo Bay can really affect the ecology of that bay. Given the fact the dams in northern California are going to be effectively full by late February at the rate things are going, there’s only two places to dump that water—down the Delta Menota Canal and the California Aquaduct.


54 posted on 01/13/2017 10:26:24 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Enchante

It’s only human foolishness that kept California from having everything it needed.


55 posted on 01/13/2017 11:11:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RayChuang88

The blessings will still be so abundant, then, that even some lefties who are now thinking twice will ask why we can’t do something better with this.


56 posted on 01/13/2017 11:12:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RayChuang88

We will see. Folsom was 80% full before last summer and they drained it to 45% in short order. Just flushed down the river.


57 posted on 01/13/2017 11:15:05 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Well there is that stubborn thing called history. It tends to slap airhead theory right in the mouth.


58 posted on 01/13/2017 11:17:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: IWontSubmit

Weather is indiscriminate.

Politics has no say in who is affected you dick.


59 posted on 01/14/2017 2:06:23 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
I hate the voters of California. I can’t wait to retire and leave this communist hell hole.

I left, when I retired too. I have been to many places in the world, and I always thought California was the best, for weather, and natural beauty, but the libtards drove me out.

60 posted on 01/14/2017 2:57:05 AM PST by Mark17 (20 Years USAF ATCer, Retired. 25 years CDCR C/O, Retired)
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