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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Well, California is 164,000 square miles, so I’d suggest your relatives’ experience may not be representative. Lake County, for example, is very geologically active and the water is super hard. You wouldn’t drink it on a bet. But the snowpack components of those tens of trillions of gallons of precipitation we got is definitionally pure as the driven snow. My community gets is water from Folsom Lake, and you wouldn’t have the slightest objection to its taste
But look at how much rich farm land has been removed from production - a WEF objective.
The aircraft industry in Southern California used a lot of trichloroethylene for parts cleaning back in the day. After it was used and became dirty they just dumped it, sometimes into old water wells. From there it kind of spread out through the area ground water. Trichlor causes kidney cancer.
It’s a catastrophe when they dry up, and when they come back.
Sidonio Palmerin told CNN that he remembers the 'last great flood in 1983' and how it took nearly two years to dry out.
What this probably means to us south of the lake is the very dense fog we used to get during the winters.
In highschool, back in the mid to late 70s, driving home from sports practice was a deadly right of passage. Couldn’t see more than halfway down the hood of your car. And most of the winter was less than a mile visual range during every day.
Suicide rates would go up a lot in the winter back then.
Originally it was “Tule lake” that was the cause. the fog even carried the name “Tule Fog”.
Oh look! A nice, flat, dry lakebed. Lettuce plant solar panels there!
Yeah, Chuckles Manson called it home
Hm, would the prison complex be in trouble if there is widespread flooding?
You Tube vid with more background and history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxCbjEoJxj0&t=845s
The sabotage of some levees and such (see vid) is an additional problem...
Most of the rain and run-off is just flowing into the ocean. Not only has California refused to build new reservoirs to collect rain water, they have taken down a number of dams over the past decade or so thus reducing the amount of water available for both homes and businesses. They then blame the lack of water sources on climate change. The snow-pack hasn’t even started melting yet so it’s going to get worse over the next month or so.
There seem to be plenty of recent (last few days) news reports on the situation worsening...
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