Posted on 01/13/2023 12:56:40 PM PST by rktman
Severe flooding hit California’s Salinas Valley on Thursday, as the Salinas River burst its banks, flooding farmland and threatening to cut off access to the Monterey Peninsula.
Several levees have broken along the banks of the Salinas River, located just south of the Bay Area, with footage of the destruction going viral on Friday morning. So much water is pouring out of the basin that the entirety of the Monterey Peninsula risks being cut off entirely from road access, NBC News reported.
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The Yuba and Feather are still inside their banks at Marysville... not sure how long that will hold.. rain just began again.
Climate change oping. I like how the “professionals” call this unprecedented and changed the name from the more mundane Pineapple Express to bomb cyclone and atmospheric river.
“Global warmfloodingorsomething....”
As a life long and fourth generation Californian, I take floods and the danger thereof seriously. That said, I expect better than this from the Daily Caller.. fam
Buildings and other buildings may be damaged are destroyed but per the headline no farmland is being destroyed. Once the mess gets cleaned up, that farmland should be more fertile than ever with a fresh deposit of silt. There’s no discussion of the size of the area flooded, and the Salinas Valley prides itself in evil the salad bowl of the nation, but it’s going to have to be pretty extensive to have a really big impact on prices.
Interestingly, I was attended a conference at a luxury resort in Carmel in 1997 when the coastal route, state Route 1, washed out at the Carmel River just south of Monterey, and at Watsonville to the north. We were essentially refugees staying at a luxury resort for about 36 hours until the Highway subject to this flood, State Route 68, the back door from Monterey on the coast to Salonas inland, reopened
“Bomb Cyclone” is their latest rediculous term.
They used ‘atmospheric river’ the last time one of these occurred in 2017, ‘bomb cyclone’ is a new one.
And more coming . Wait until spring snow melt. Snow packs are well over 200% and this stuff is wet.
Perhaps they meant crops. Minus ‘the big one’, the land isn’t desroyed. Or destructed. 🤔. Stay dry.
Are these man-made levees that were neglected, or natural ones?
Here they have over 20’ of levee to climb after bursting over their banks. I don’t recall the levees ever being topped here... they have broken twice in my lifetime... causing major flooding both times... 1986 and 1997.
Nothing like this has ever, ever happened before in California. s/
Lived in Carmel early 50’s. Went back a few years ago. Still nice to see. We made our way back to “the 5” by using a back road out through Carmel Valley. Interesting drive in a desolate area. Can’t remember the route #. NOT a main road. Some motorcycle fans like it.
“Bomb cyclone?”
Reminds me of women’s Roller derby.
5.56mm
Absolutely correct those fields were in desperate need of rejuvenation. Should also help the aquafer recover a bit.
Man made, I should think. They could have been poorly maintained but, given conditions here, even properly maintained systems can be overwhelmed.
Fun fact for you, even though it’s hundreds of miles from salinas. The largest reservoir in the state is Shasta, capacity 4.5
Million acre feet. Since these storms started it has increased from 31% capacity to 45. If my math is correct that’s about +630,000 acre feet. That reservoir alone, just in the last two weeks, has therefore impounded an additional about 205 BILLION gallons of water behind the dam. When you hear reports that it’s been very wet here, they’re not kidding
a fresh deposit of silt
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Usually durring floods I rant about flood control resivours,
,, thanks for this reminder.
( farmers need all the silver linings they can get /-)
I think it is neck-and-neck with “atmospheric river”
LOL!
Meanwhile Newsom still has plans to take out more dams-—Which hold back high amounts of water.....AND provide power.
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