Posted on 04/16/2023 3:30:37 AM PDT by dennisw
A ghost lake that vanished decades ago in California's central valley has come back to life with a vengeance after torrents of rain resuscitated the body of water Tulure Lake, wedged between San Francisco and Los Angeles, was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River but dried up by the 1920s
'All of the crops are completely flooded and ruined,' resident Martina Sealy told CNN.
'It takes a lot of jobs for people. That's a lot of food that we provide for up and down California and all around the nation. It's pretty scary.'
'This is just from the rain. But when the snow melts, there's nowhere for it to go besides here.'
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles told the outlet that the ground 'literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade.
'That has literally changed the topography of the historical lakebed. Some places are lower even than they were the last time there was a big flood event.'
Sidonio Palmerin told CNN that he remembers the 'last great flood in 1983' and how it took nearly two years to dry out.
'We lost half our school population and about one-third of our city population,' he said.
'A lot of the people that were relocated lost their homes, their cars. It took a long time to recuperate.'
It comes as a massive snowpack that piled up on the Sierra Nevada over the winter threatens more flooding tripling in size by summer
A ghost lake that vanished decades ago in California's central valley has come back to life with a vengeance after torrents of rain resuscitated the body of water and drowned thousands of acres of farmland.
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In decades since, communities and farms growing vegetables, cotton and grazing cattle began to occupy the dry lakebed – one such community is Corcoran in Kings County.
Known as the farming capital of California, Corcoran now faces having its farms, residents and even a local prison being flooded by rising waters in the low-lying land.
It comes as a massive snowpack that piled up on the Sierra Nevada over the winter threatens more flooding potentially tripling floods by summer and threatening communities and could cost billions in losses.
And CA hasn’t built a new dam/reservoir in over 40 years.
Is Corcoran where there is a large prison?
The last time there was really serious flooding in California, was in 1862. A lot more people there now.
That whole general California area has dikes along the roads for when Tulare Lake reappears. My Father’s family migrated to the area (Corcoran) from Texas during the Dust bowl. I was very familiar with the area in my youth. All family has moved out passed on at this point.
“Is Corcoran where there is a large prison?”
Yep, former home of crazy Charlie Manson.
“That whole general California area has dikes along the roads for when Tulare Lake reappears.”
In this thread the jokes will write themselves.
>>And CA hasn’t built a new dam/reservoir in over 40 years.
This despite having issued bonds and (and presumably starting taxing the populace to pay for them) almost a decade ago to pay for reservoirs. California’s government is completely unable to accomplish the normal tasks of government.
$2.7 billion bond fund to build water reservoirs sits idle in California
https://news.yahoo.com/2-7-billion-bond-fund-110000548.html
Our idea of the normal tasks of limited government.
Deep State has a different goal.
And in CA I’d say it’s accomplishing its goals quite effectively.
Question: how did people buy land that was once a lake, and who did they buy it from?
Which is why you never purchase property and build on a flood plain.
Whenever we house hunted, that was one of the FIRST things we looked at.
Have always been into maps, had an old 1920s map that clearly showed Tulure Lake but indicated it was temporary, did it dry up every summer?
For a state that continually invokes the climate change bogeyman, they don’t really seem to understand the “science”
Here on FR we don’t say “dikes”. Instead we say “women in comfortable shoes”.
CC
The deep state works for the uniparty which caters to the largest lobbyists and that entire system is built on the 17th Amendment.
Time for a Convention of States to specifically repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service.
The first thing we have to do in order to have a hope in Hades if fixing this is secure our elections.
Until we restore our republic, the rest doesn’t matter.
Loss of wetland is a tragedy.
Gain if wetland is a tragedy.
I thought it was ‘dykes’.
I disagree, the foundation of all the malfeasance is built upon, including election fraud is the 17th Amendment.
Remove the 17th Amendment, the Republic is restored, the rest in due time, will be corrected. The uniparty ends when the 17th is repealed.
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