Posted on 02/20/2017 8:08:52 PM PST by Mariner
MANTECA, Calif. (KCRA) —
A levee near Manteca was breached Monday night leading to mandatory evacuations in the area, according to San Joaquin County officials said.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered for people living within the below boundary:
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The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the pictured area on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, due to a levee breach south of Manteca. The warning is set to expire at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
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The water was diverted away from them into new waterways/canals/pipes (to the ocean), and the dams / reservoirs were left to rot, rust, decay and crumble. No maintenance or upkeep. Abandoned in place. It would be impossible to use them again without destroying what remains and rebuilding them from scratch.
“... Sense of humor LOL ...”
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Nope.
You go ahead and “Laugh Out Loud” if you want to.
That’s fine.
But there is nothing humorous about someone having to evacuate their home.
Nothing funny at all.
You go ahead and dig yourself a hole if you want to.
Some people may lose everything they have.
(and the horse you rode in on)
Hurricane Katrina arrived at the end of August 2005. Some people predicated that Carnival, which starts Jan. 6th, and Mardi Gras would be called off for 2006. It did not happen and I went to several parades in 2006 and it was difficult to believe that we had just had a major hurricane 4 months earlier.. There was was devastation around but the locals did not not seem to care.
BTW, a lot of "locals" had not come back to New Orleans during 2006.
I am on the other side of 5 also. only two or three miles from the flood area but on the upslope of the Altamont Hills. My area isn’t even in the 500-year flood zone.
I believe the eco-fascist Luddites that run California into the ground think reservoirs are unnatural and interfere with the little fishie’s upstream/downstream lives. Humans shouldn’t store water that way—we can just go to the store and buy bottled water.
Dang I live in Tracy, a few miles from Manteca, and had not even heard of this til now. We are a little higher in elevation, so I think we are safe...but it was a very rainy day and the ground is pretty soggy out here.
Would these be the same "some" who are often relied on as anonymous sources on by intrepid MSM reporters?
So instead of fixing their dams during the “permanent drought” where did all the money go?
A flooded home is a cruel thing. You’ve lost everything yet you still have it.
The truth is that California used to have the infrastructure to contain this, and they let it crumble or in some cases tore it down. I left 36 years ago. People chose this both through where they moved and how they voted.
People who are negligent (and the CaliPorno voters are) create chaos around them.
There is an old fashioned concept called “responsibility” and most of the rest of us on this thread still hold to it.
He who will not work, let him not eat.
He who tears down his reservoir system, let him flood.
One more thing: not one damned dime of federal money to repair any of this.
Yeah, right.
“... stuff happens ...” is not flippant, right?
gfy
That was a direct Quote from Governor Jerry Brown regarding the situation. He has been in and out of office for years and helped create the current lack of flood control capacity.
That hardly anyone in the state was upset at his statement should tell you a lot.
You seem upset by the statement but If you can’t show that Jerry Brown is posting on this thread then you lied about the attitude being displayed.
And I do not care one whit whether you lied because you are ignorant or because you are emotionally overwrought. Stop it. You have been corrected repeatedly on this thread by people who know the situation, but you keep trying to justify you knee-jerk quip as if it had merit.
It does not.
I did live in CA for 55 years. My father was working on the levy 200 yards north of the breach at Shanghai Bend in 1955. Your comment certainly seemed flippant to me.
I know..... I got bit by a squirrel once, oh the humanity of it all!!!!
I once rescued a small dog from Manteca shelter. Hope the shelter animals are safe along with the people.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings comes to mind.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
The Gods of Copybook Headings are returning to California at the moment.
So tell me great sage, what comment that I made seems “flippant” to you?
Well Damn! We had a “scare” for about five minutes when the EMERGENCY BROADCAST broke in on our TV. We live about half a mile from that river.
Once they gave the location, we were relived to see it was about six miles downstream. Most of that land is farmland and there are only around 300 homes in the evacuated area.
They did a temporary repair last night and will do a more permanent repair today.
I was just gonna ask, “Is the drought officially over yet?”
NO. Last week Sacramento voted to continue water restriction rules.
My Mom tells the same story. She was born in 33 and so I'm thinking the flood was in 1937 for her to remember. No livestock ... just my grandfather coming with a boat and the house flooding.
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