Posted on 09/02/2023 1:19:59 PM PDT by dragnet2
After years living with a lingering sense of doom, residents have taken some pleasure in seeing Lake Mead fill up a little bit on the strength of a record snowpack for the Colorado River.
In fact, the lake is 23 feet higher today than its low point in July of 2022.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcia.com ...
there were some rains about aug 20 from the moonsoon that came up from baja and flooded southern california. That monsoon also brought about half an inch of rain to vegas. was that flood less than the rain yesterday?
I pray just about daily for rain over Lake Mead. It left an easy open for this conversation recently-
“It’s raining!”
“I know. I prayed for rain yesterday (and God answered.)”
Now, prayer for the homeless because rain does come with some unintended consequences here in Las Vegas if one wants to see it bloom like a rose in the desert.
Great to hear the water level has risen!
Global cooling alert.
Wait, no. Global warming. They told us the sea level was going to rise. It must have risen at least 1,230 feet if the ocean is flowing into Lake Mead now. I must be at least 600 feet under water at this point.
They still will. Got some snow dusting over night on Mt. Rose just south of Reno. Same system giving burning man fits.
I lived in Oman many years past. This is on the Arabian Peninsula. Rainfall was scant to none. When I opened the tap for water it was there and clean. It came from the ocean via desalinization plants powered by abundant fossil fuels.
Oddly, California has abundant fossil fuels they refuse to exploit to the max. My sentiment is to let them swelter in the heat and be thirsty. The answer to their problem is desalinization using their fossil fuels and nuclear which they both refuse to exploit and use. I have no sympathy.
Screw the delta smelt by which by EPA regs must be protected though it is not really in danger. Thus great amounts of fresh water are released into the ocean to preserve the delta smelt. Even if the EPA was right about the delta smelt and they are not, the choice needs to be made on which is more important. Choice 1 is a small fish of no importance ecologically. Choice 2 is the welfare of people and farmers that feed the people. I choose choice 2.
Nailed it.
Rush use to say something along these lines.
No matter what happened with the weather it would be attributed to climate change.
It seems so simple! But large scale desalinization requires lots of reliable, cheap energy, and Climafornia thinks energy is icky.
Hooray! Man, that's a lot of water.
Burning Man is flooded out!
There are lots of lakes in California that are full. The feds run the dams and release the water. So stop with the myth of calif releasing all the rain water
They’ll find a way to “prove” global warming from it. Everything “proves” global warming. Drought, floods, hurricanes, no hurricanes, blizzards, heat waves, you name it it “proves” it.
From https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/03/california-storm-reservoirs-flooding/
“”To make room for more water, state and federal officials who manage California’s major dams and reservoirs are releasing water.””
One of the most famous (infamous?) reasons for NOT SAVING water is the Delta Smelt. Whether it is Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Delta Smelt, or just because, liberals hate wasting a crisis. An unending drought is a terrible thing to waste.
Your first paragraph is in accurate. Because of inadequate storage, they’ve got to dump water according to certain schedules to leave room for melting snowpack. Across the northern Sierra, where the biggest reservoirs are, there was up to 600 inches of snow in the ground at the end of the season. If room hadn’t been made in the reservoirs there would have been massive flooding in The Central Valley, as was historically the case before the age of the dams. And even so, while vastly more storage could be created, I heard one estimate in early January, after the first big waves of storms, that 30 trillion gallons of water had fallen on the state as rain. No amount of storage could handle the water resources in a wet year.
It’s not a perfect system, but note that the biggest reservoirs in the state, are still not that far from full. Shasta, the biggest at 4.5 million acre feet, is still 78% full
Only 160 feet more to go to be full. But each successive is much harder as it requires more surface area. They had a lot of snow in Colorado this year.
Yet the climate fascists claim the entire connected oceans and seas will rise by meters if the polar caps melt somehow.
If Earths temperature rises from polar ambient -37 to above 32 in order for ice to melt the rest of the Earth will be an uninhabitable temperature and a few meters of sea coast rising won’t be a problem at all.
All life on earth will be dead.
Math is correct!
Btt!
Speaking about dead bodies in lakes, I don’t think anyone beats Lady Bird Lake in Texas.☺
Fifth dead body of 2023 has been found in Austin’s Lady Bird Lake...
The fifth such death in sixth months has fueled rumors online of a serial killer stalking Rainey Street
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/austin-serial-killer-lady-bird-lake-17881296.php
One reason not to live in a desert is water has to be pumped in. That reason is enough to keep me from living in a desert.
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