L.A. Breaks 97-year Rainfall Record as Massive Storm Floods City

Global Cooling?

WHY did you use a question mark? Global Cooling IS A FACT!

In 1999, NASA published a graph which showed that the 1930's were the warmest period in the US since 1880

In 2019, NASA published this garbage that shows a WARMING TREND after the gubermint liars cooled the warmest data around the 1930's and warmed the period up to the 1990's!

The average American thinks that NASA is showing measured temperatures but that is NOT true, the psychos in the gubermint are CORRECTING ALL THE DATA that is FIT TO BE CHANGED!

And the last graph shows the number of hot summer days in the US is declining= Which means it is getting cooler and that has NOTHING to do with green energy.

Source: REALCLIMATESCIENCE

Too bad LA basin is right on the coast and there is a mountain range on the east side of the basin with the ocean to the west. There is no way to store the water without flooding a portion of the city with has built out over the entire LA basin floor and up into the hills yes those Hollywood hills. You would have to pump billions of gallons up over the basin divide and into the central valleys area. Edwards AFB sits in the bottom of the closest valley to the LA basin...The other valleys are the yucca valley that flows down to the salton sea you would flood Palm Springs and some very rich unhappy people. Look at Google maps in terrain mode then zoom out to the LA basin it’s a bathbowl against an ocean surrounded by other housing devs.

The best LA can hope for is to build floating ring dikes offshore at the river outlets a few miles in diameter and touching bottom at shore and out to 100 feet depth or so let the deeper parts float. Fresh water is less dense than seawater so when it flows out into the inside of the ring dikes it displaces the seawater downward and out the open bottom end.

What you end up with is a pinned in area of floating fresh water offshore that you can then pump from the top down over a few weeks until it mixes naturally back to seawater salt levels. The LA basin has a large aquifer under it pump that fresh water into that aquifer as underground storage like a lake underground but with zero evaporation losses. Added benefit is all the sediments sink to the open bottom end and flow down dip offshore to the basin depths just like they would.naturally had you not trapped the outflows this is important from environmental protection.

I know right...LA is semi arid at worst with many years above semi arid levels.

A nice chart showing rain totals from the 1820s till 2022

https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13.php

I’ll take a 3% cut of the profits for my offshore runoff polder solution to runoff capture. It would work the physics is solid and having an open end makes sediment disposal a trivial issue. You would need an outer breakwater ring to keep wave action to a minimum thus extending your mixing time into multiple weeks in the center of the freshwater bubble which is where you tap from away. Something like a 200 billion gallons just ran offshore out of the LA basin a single dike 5 miles in diameter and 100 feet deep would hold 7.84 square miles of water at a depth of 100 feet that’s 502,400 acrefeet of water or 163,707,040,000 gallons. The Dutch routinely build dikes that are hundreds of miles in length ask them for the know how. The LA basin drains into a single outlet at long Beach it’s a major port so ship locks would be needed or a bypass flow structure to an off channel dike polder either world work. Expanding to a Dutch know-how sized ten mile wide ring size makes for truly massive capture amounts. Over a million acrefeet California gets 7 million acrefeet from the Colorado per year for comparison. Ten miles is too large for a 827 square mile capture basin 5mi is the right size it will full capture a 6 inch rainfall at a statistical 500 year event like this. Which means every smaller event is fully captured and the larger 1000 year event just drains harmlessly out the open bottom end.

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