Posted on 02/11/2017 9:21:52 AM PST by Mariner
Californians are always talking about the coming Big One, but what if the big one is a flood, not an earthquake?
With this recent cavalcade of rainstorms, there's been renewed interest in a 2011 USGS study on the so-called "ARkStorm." In it, the USGS lays out a case for a hypothetical "megastorm," one that could cause up to $725 billion in damage and impact a quarter of California's homes.
The ARkStorm would bring with it catastrophic rains, hurricane-force winds and hundreds of landslides. Central Valley flooding alone is projected to span 300 miles.
If that sounds far-fetched, there's historic precedent: Geological evidence indicates that California endures massive flooding caused by atmospheric rivers every 100-200 years. And settlers who moved to California after the Gold Rush soon found what the native population had known for centuries: Northern California is prime flooding territory.
The most prominent example is the Great Flood of 1862, a natural disaster that still ranks as the largest flood in the history of the American West. Between Dec. 1861 and Jan. 1862, the West Coast received a near-constant deluge of rain. Sacramento received a stunning 23 inches in that period, turning the city into a watery ghost town.
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Every reservoir in CA is releasing water as fast as they can. The high Sierras have stored as much as 30, or more feet of snow.
Oroville reservoir is the second largest in the state holding 3.5 million acre feet of water. I's the tallest dam in the USA at 791ft. And water is now gushing over the emergency spillway as the main spillway was torn to pieces by the outflow over the last month. Two days ago the inflow was 220,000 acre feet every 24 hours.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132154774.html
More storms coming next week.
If we get a full-on Pineapple Express in late March we'll all be swimming out of this bowl. And the governor will still refuse to lift the drought controls.
And the state California authorities will continue telling you “there is no problem here” until they are forced to tell you to “RUN!!!!!!”
Yes, and for the usual biblical reason.
That would suck for them if Pres Trump cuts off their Fed funding. No FEMA funds!
But they’ll have plenty of illegals to rebuild... right?
what if the big one is a flood, not an earthquake?
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Could be both! The water could lubricate the fault lines to trigger a large release.
No. This whole “overdue” thing is silly. Nature doesn’t have a clock. Will there be floods? Yes. When? Whenever.
Some areas of California are overdue for numerous Biblical catastrophes. Pity, it’s by and large such a beautiful place. Beauty always draws the leftists and their attendant social maladies, have you noticed? It’s as if they’re determined to destroy all that’s beautiful and good.
The words “could, may, should, and likely” should confine such conjecture to the entertainment section. It is not news.
All hyper wishful thinking.
That didn’t take long. Just 6 months ago the media was banging on about how California was reverting to 1000 year desert climate. Thanks to global warming, of course.
Take a look at this data:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES
We have plenty of water and more is on the way.
Drought controls?
Sounds like the drought is pretty much over!!
The one that was never going to end because of global warming...
Seems like the state doesn’t prepare for the droughts or the eventual hard hitting rainstorms.
Hi Jim
You know as well as I do the residents of the Central Valley as not your typical west coast moonbats. Trump swept the counties of this valley in the last election. By large margins.
If this was God’s hand, he misdirected it.
The Oroville Dam possible disaster is probably due to spending $'s for dam maintenance, Moonbeam and his legislature spent those $'s for dam maintenance on illegals to make them happy rat voters in California land.
CA is not just beautiful, it’s the American crown jewel and the left currently controls it. And you’re correct, they are driven to destroy anything even resembling American. No joke.
% of capacity doesn’t show a drought.
With the snow melting off the mountains you guys should be good to go, no?
One outlier at 15 percent full. Wonder how that happened?
The emergency spillway cuts into the dirt that supports the dam. If it doesn’t stop raining it will cut clear through.
3.5 million acre feet will create a lake from Yuba City to the Stockton delta several miles wide and as deep as the roof on my house.
We’re in a permanent drought, don’t you know. Thank god at least we don’t have to worry about plastic grocery bags anymore. At least we can bail water with those pretty printed ones we’re forced to lug into the store now.
“Beauty always draws the leftists and their attendant social maladies, have you noticed? It’s as if they’re determined to destroy all that’s beautiful and good.”
That’s why the $hit liberals from the Northeast passed over “flyover country” and came here to California to crap up our once great state first. But not to fear, all you middle of the country folks, they are now getting around to you too. So my question to you is what are YOU going to do when your major RAT-run cities finally achieve critical mass where they control your state ( if they don’t already)? Are you going to recommend that your state be kicked out of the Union? What goes around, comes around, and you are in their sights and you are next! And then guys like this bunghole here from VA who is always calling for California to leave, finally realizes that his state is as big a piece of crap as he thinks California is. We need to send him some water wings for when the country starts crying that we cut Virginia loose into the Atlantic!
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