Posted on 02/16/2017 7:08:38 AM PST by artichokegrower
Southern Californians have been drinking from the Feather River — and washing in it, flushing with it and sprinkling it over their lawns — for nearly a half century without giving it much thought, so the emergency at distant Oroville Dam provides a jolting reminder of our dependence on the wetter, northern part of the state. A disaster there could easily become a crisis here.
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Big ignored fact here in California. The ultra liberal environmental whacko coastal blue counties are sucking the inland red counties dry and have been for 100 years. The red counties should turn off the tap and say no water for sanctuary cities.
I’m not a big fire and brimstone guy, but one could say this is the hand of God forcing libtards like Moonbeam to bend the knee to Trump.
So AFTER the dam washes away the towns below it, what happens to the people who RELY ON the dam for power and water and travel on the lake?
A bigger disaster than The Rams and Chargers?
“A bigger disaster than The Rams and Chargers?”
And the Raiders
I seem to remember that during the drought, any suggestion of building new dams was practically laughed away as being useless.
Then first thing I thought when Oroville had problems: I bet Californians are going to wish they had some spare dam capacity next summer, when Oroville gets drawn down for repairs.
Ahhhhhhh.....California.
Great climate.
Beautiful scenery.
Run by idiots.
“Los Angeles gets water via William Mulholland’s Owens Aqueduct and later extensions”
LA destroyed the Owens Valley. San Francisco destroyed Hetch Hetchy. Must be nice to be a hypocritical environmental liberal living on the California coast.
That is until the state's environmental wackos come out of the woodwork indicating any such repairs or partial rebuild can't be done.
Does anyone have a clue if this dam (and others that haven’t been properly maintained) will hold for the forecast rainy weekend? I just don’t understand how anyone can have confidence in the evaluations of those who failed so badly in keeping the dams safe.
Not a problem.
Los Angeles can just pass another State Law all by themselves and by decree assign ALL California water from the north to themselves, when Colorado River water is turned off and the power to run all their pumps to exist--- are turned off.
New film in the works...
Escape from L.A.!
Tough noogies.
Nature is both relentless and pitiless. It does not abide stupidity.
But looking at the bright side,
The couple of dozen Delta Smelt, bugs and bunnies which survived the drought will have all the water they need.
I see the huge abandoned area where the auburn dam was suppose to be built almost everyday. Its a crying shame to see all that water just washing away. The amount of water we would have in reserve if we had the auburn dam is mind-blowing.
They finally get a lot of water, after years of drought, and they end up wasting it because they were too cheap/stupid to maintain the system for holding it when it came.
It’s not just water they are hypocritical about. It’e electricity, too. For a left coast environmental liberal, the electricity for their beloved high-tech gadgets is created “somewhere else” and magically delivered to them in unlimited quantities.
Was having a beer with some folks from over the hill in Malibu yesterday and they all paranoid about mudslides as its supposed to rain crazy today here - then I proceeded to tell them about the new weight on the fault and how that it is theorized that large rainfalls like this trigger major quakes and that they were doomed! Another fella then chimed in saying “oh yeah and how about all the fault lines they’ve recently discovered we’re about 150 years overdue” I guess there is fault that goes directly under downtown L.A - we are so screwed if there is a major earth quake in the next couple of days. Kinda just feels biblical
Instead of limiting the population, California encouraged more. Now millions of freeloaders live in LA and few pay for the privilege. LA has had their collective hands out to others for a long time. If it were not for the aquaducts and rerouting of rivers, they would be starving for water. Yup, the weather is great but I'll stay where I am and enjoy the 50+ inches of rain per year.
Cheap?
WTF?
They spent hundreds of millions tearing down the dams and reservoirs and elaborate recharging system along the Sierra foothills that the previous 5 or 6 generations of California so carefully built.
Whatever they are, cheap ain't it. Ignorant Stupid and arrogant fits better.
Check out the size of California's debt and what we taxpayers are paying on interest alone!
And the bond issues keep coming...
What about that long, thin, concrete viaduct of water from the Colorado River, that runs through San Bernardino County over the mountains to Los Angeles? Has that been shut off?
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