Hillary’s tears are falling all over the state.
So what...200 years ago, there were no dams and 3 people lived in that area....and likely lived on a hill.
We were told to expect very high winds last night gusting to 60 MPH. After hyping that for days, we barely got 20 MPH winds. Friday winds were much worse and not really promoted as anything like what happened. On Friday we lost lots of trees and the wind blew hard (above 30 MPH) much of the day.
Started raining in Reno yesterday, changed to rain/snow mix, back to rain and since about 0500 it’s been snow in my part of town. As usual, the snow plow piled a nice mound at the end of the driveway. Got about 4” of really high moisture content snow and still coming down.
It’d be a bad deal if the big earthquake and the big storm hit at the same time.
>>creating a vast lake where California’s Central Valley had been.
I’d expect that made the mud flats in Death Valley a joy to float/sink a wagon into.
back in the mid 80’s, we had a storm with flooding nobody had seen before..so the MSM called it a once in a lifetime event, hence, a hundred year flood.
The next year, we had a flood that was worse..,
They still didn’t get it.
God is always large and in charge.
If we were smart here in California, we would’ve used the impetus of climate hysteria over drought (which makes no sense anyways because a warmer climate is a wetter climate, but to humor the argument) to build more water infrastructure so that more of the billions of gallons of water now flowing out to sea could be captured and used during dry times, but alas we are not smart as a state. Better to spend that money providing legal services to illegal aliens . . .
This is not surprising. The Oroville Damn problem is a perfect example of the failure of the state and feds at supplying the funds and work to take care of this.
More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California’s largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people — could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.
Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process, urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen hillside.
The groups filed the motion with FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They said that the dam, built and owned by the state of California, and finished in 1968, did not meet modern safety standards because in the event of extreme rain and flooding, fast-rising water would overwhelm the main concrete spillway, then flow down the emergency spillway, and that could cause heavy erosion that would create flooding for communities downstream, but also could cause a failure, known as “loss of crest control.” “A loss of crest control could not only cause additional damage to project lands and facilities but also cause damages and threaten lives in the protected floodplain downstream,” the groups wrote.
FERC rejected that request, however, after the state Department of Water Resources, and the water agencies that would likely have had to pay the bill for the upgrades, said they were unnecessary. Those agencies included the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, San Diego and other areas, along with the State Water Contractors, an association of 27 agencies that buy water from the state of California through the State Water Project. The association includes the Metropolitan Water District, Kern County Water Agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Alameda County Water District. Because of their reports, federal officials at the time said that the emergency spillway was designed to handle 350,000 cubic feet per second and the concerns were overblown.
It is thinking like this, and applying pressure upon lack of completion of commitments based upon available funds, and the state government not stepping in with pressure being applied to agencies that could have assisted the problem long ago, that has them in the position they are currently in. An ounce of prevention could have alleviated a pound of cure.
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Biblical proportions my Asspertame! Unless of course you ignore the drought ending rains of the 80’s and 90’s, and the floods of 1825, 1850,1861,1909,1933,1937...........Such hyperbole, OMG we are all gonna die, die die!!!! Next up in spring, when the snow melts into the full reservoirs, we are all gonna die die die!!! And please be prepared for the summer when the threat of a major earthquake scare screams we are all gonna die die die!!! And then we have the asteroids, and disease, and oh yeah, zombies!
All this rain is going to raise the sea level! Global raining! Where’s algore? lol
Overdue for a real good cleansing. Wash San Francissy and LA right out to sea and cleanse the land.
Ok,I am not a scientist but the Earth has probably shifted several times in the last 200 years.The Quake in Japan,in 2011,literally pushed Japan several inches.
So we are not actually living in the same world,as say 200 years ago.Geologic events would have changed or created new weather patterns.
New Zeland’s earthquake lifted the Seabed by about 2 feet for example,I am going to assume that is going to change how that area floods.