Posted on 01/07/2005 10:29:23 AM PST by BurbankKarl
Snowing in Las Vegas....Antelope Valley....I-5 closed at Grapevine.
yes ma'am, close to 200 cars still up there
This was just completed about two years ago. Hal usually gets it right. The below reservoir is huge.
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The new Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir near the city of Hemet in Riverside County is billed as the largest earthworks construction project in U.S. history.
Construction began in 1995 and involved 31 million cubic meters of foundation excavation and 84 million cubic meters of embankment construction. This set of Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images captures the most recent phase in the reservoir's activation. At the upper left is a natural-color view acquired by the instrument's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera on March 14, 2000 (Terra orbit 1273), shortly after the Metropolitan Water District began filling the reservoir with water from the Colorado River and Northern California. Water appears darker than the surrounding land. The image at the upper right was acquired nearly one year later on March 1, 2001 (Terra orbit 6399), and shows a clear increase in the reservoir's water content. When full, the lake will hold nearly a trillion liters of water.
According to the Metropolitan Water District, the 7 kilometer x 3 kilometer reservoir nearly doubles Southern California's above-ground water storage capacity. In addition to routine water management, Diamond Valley Lake is designed to provide protection against drought and a six-month emergency supply in the event of earthquake damage to a major aqueduct. In the face of electrical power shortages, it is also expected to reduce dependence on the pumping of water from northern mountains during the high-demand summer months. An unexpected result of site excavation was the uncovering of mastodon and mammoth skeletons along with bones from extinct species not previously thought to have been indigenous to the area, such as the giant long-horned bison and North American lion. A museum and interpretive center is being built to protect these finds.
I think we already got that much - this is not fun.
It was warm today and I'm in New York, a little rain but this is definately not winter weather. Could Art Bell be right?!
The incident began somewhere around 4 a.m. (cementing in my mind that they were skiiers) and they've had snowcats in touch throughout the day. I don't know at what altitude this stretch of highway exists, but the storm might turn to rain tonight? Is that right?
Boulders rolled in a slide after the traffic jam, from what I understand. I can't get the bigbearscanner site to work, so I haven't been listening first-hand.
Yes but he was just complaining about the lack of reservoirs last night..
Snow Valley is just past Running Springs a few miles, on the way to Big Bear. Near the Green Vally lake cutoff.
'Could Art Bell be right?' Ask yourself that question three times and then meditate on the subject. :)
He's no doubt going to froth about his own desert rain tonight. I think Pahrump got some, too.
Heavy rain in the desert is as dangerous as mountain mudslides. I hope Art is okay.
His wife is a real witch, what could go wrong for him? LOL
I hope they clear the people out so they don't freeze.
Whatever happened to his son? I heard the teacher that kidnapped him had AIDS :(
Stormwatch.... one of my most overlooked efforts. http://www.music-sites.net/articles/show.901.html
Yes, he was raped by a person with Aids from what I remember and that was the cause of Art's first retirement.
The son being discussed is taboo, haven't heard anything, but Aids can hide a couple of decades, so he won't know for sure until decades pass as to whether he caught the virus from his assailant.
Thanks, Joe, for the pointers, now I really get it!
There are THREE ways up there. I was looking at the two, those being 1) to/from Hesperia and 2) to/from Lucerne Valley. Now I see the 3) Hwy. 30 route. Duh!
The folks are stopped after where the 30 and the from-Hesperia 18 merge, from what I can tell.
thanks... pretty sad thing for a father to go through. I like Art Bell's old website. He had a lot of info up there with family pictures,etc.
Things got better with his son, then worse, then he went quiet and came back to his show.
He's a big Short Wave Radio guy and then fell from a house or tree onto his back.
His back was crippled, turned his show over to George and now only works weekend with his bad back.
Looks like it's close to starting up again.
Amtrak Train #6, the California Zephyr, has had an incident at Fulda in Donner Pass....apparently one wheel is one the ground.....so the train is stuck in this blizzard.
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