Posted on 05/24/2015 8:13:40 PM PDT by Rockitz
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake (originally reported 5.4) shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas Friday morning causing roads and bridges to be closed. The quake went little-reported outside of local news (since there was at first glance minimum damage caused) but, since the quake's occurrence, something considerably more worrisome has occurred.
In the 36 hours since the quake's occurrence, water levels at Lake Mead have plunged precipitously. While we know correlation is not causation, the 'coincidence' of an extreme loss in water levels occurring in the aftermath of one of the largest quakes in recent Vegas history does raise a suspicious eyebrow - especially when there has been no official word on the precipitous decline.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
What are we talking here? one Inch? One foot? twenty feet? What do the drama queens at zero hedge consider a plunge?
You have to read the article, to see what’s in the article ;-)
.....Since then, official water level data shows an incredible 8 foot plunge in water levels since the earthquake....
....considering the (average drop in the last 10 years is 1 inch, this is a troubling outlier.
Google the "author" Tyler Durden, and you'll have your answer.
Actually, it was originally called Boulder Dam in the building phase but was officially Named Hoover Dam when dedicated. The a-hole FDR changed it to Boulder because that’s the sort of thing a Democrat would do in order to deprive a Republican of any credit for doing something ahead of schedule and under budget. In 1947 it was renamed Hoover and has remained so ever since.
“You have to read the article, to see what’s in the article ;-) “
Sorry about that. I long ago quit giving them hits for their daily world ending pronouncements. ;^)
Really? A value, it would seem, is the most meaningful information missing from the whole bit of news.
Something put together by third graders?
“Now there is a big canyon underneath getting filled up?”
It could be filling up Harry Reid’s secret lair!
lol
Maybe the issue is downstream of the dam.
Dropped >8’ elevation (600,000 acre ft) 5/21 - 5/23. Typical drop <.1’ per day.
Dropped >8’ elevation (600,000 acre ft) 5/21 - 5/23. Typical drop <.1’ per day.
10 ft should be easily visable.
Nevada!
Jerry Brown is stealing your water!!
I have found this to be quite fascinating.
Using the moons gravitational pull and the tides to determine the highest potential of weight the water in oceans are exerting on fault lines to help predict earthquakes.
So, the headline should read:
“Earthquake Smashes Lake Mead Water-Level Sensors, Chaos Ensues!”
Anything in your data banks/
Have you seen the weather video loop at Dutchsinse that shows all those dormant volcanoes venting at exactly the same time on Thursday and then again on Friday after the earthquake? It looks like steam being pushed through a perforated cheese grater across 4 states. Crazy.
“I don’t know why California doesn’t have two dozen desalinization plants going already.”
I’ll tell you why:
Northern California generally has enough water.
Southern California has abused the power of Sacramento to wring water out of — in order:
— the formerly agrarian Owens Valley
— the Colorado River
— the San Joaquin River (a.k.a. Northern California)
Bluntly stated, Southern California has simply NEVER been forced by the rest of the State to put on the big boy pants and get it’s own damned water from its own damned sources that it pays for with its own damned money. They’ve always been allowed to bully everyone else into selling them the water they want. Well, now the rest of the State is in a bind serious enough that those purchase agreements are beginning to be second-guessed, but not seriously. Not yet, anyway.
Just you let this drought roll on for another year, and you get the right players to finally grow some stones and turn off the spigot to L.A. and environs, and you’d see desalination plants shooting up along the coastline like corn in Nebraska.
BUT — and you KNEW there’d be one — the same fast-and-loose politicos the got L.A. sucking everyone around them dry, will bully their way around Sacramento and make everyone around them pay for those desalination plants.
Today, it’s “Give us water for our money.”
Tomorrow it’ll be, “Give us money not to use your water.”
Like a Mafia coin toss: heads they win, tails you lose.
They made a “seasonal adjustment” to correct the data.
If accurate it was a dramatic drop.
I’ve heard people talk about seeing streams rise and dip before and after quakes.
Because they’d have to use nuclear, coal, oil or natural gas to run them. Nobody has figured out how to capture all the smug sniffing farts out there to harness all that methane.
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