Posted on 02/21/2017 11:07:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Last week, I said that up to a foot of rain could be seen in the Lake Oroville watershed due to a series of “supersoaker storms” coming through. Now, the largest of the storms is bearing down. Dr. Ryan Maue of WeatherBell says there’s going to be an unbelievable “10 trillion gallons” in the next 7 days as more storms come through.
Excessive rainfall on way to California 4 to 10 inches of rain along coast from Santa Cruz north … same for mountains above Oroville. –Dr. Ryan Maue on Twitter
Result in California over next 7-days is widespread heavy rain … 5″+ along coast up to 10-12″ at elevation. All told, 10 Trillion gallons –Dr. Ryan Maue on Twitter
Atmospheric moisture well above normal (150-200%) w/plume to landfall California but look at center of North America (250-400%) spring-like –Dr. Ryan Maue on Twitter
Ha....this isn’t the island of Guam.
There is basically no place for more heavy rain to go in California from the Oregone border to Mexico.
The predictable Coyote Creek flooding from the Anderson reservoir in the San Jose/Silicon Valley has been very bad.
More rain is predicted for this weekend, Sun/Mon.
The feeding reservoirs above the Oroville Dam are full and have 0 holding capacity.
True.
Really? 8 X 10 trillion gals. It is 80 trillion pounds. That wasn’t very difficult. lol
By the end of summer, the CA government will be trying to explain why there will be no fruitcake for Christmas. Because there will be no more fruits.
Salads next winter are going to suck. A lot.
Yeah...what is going on...a Typhoon in southern Cal...I was in it....no power for awhile.
No comments.
However, Moonbeam is in charge of our National Guard.
So anything said or not said, I would doubt.
We have heard of looting in the evacuated areas of homes without people in them.
Actually some of our fruit and nut trees do very will with winter flooding.
We have a pistachio tree and plum tree that never did anything until a neighbor’s drip irrigation sprang a leak over a long weekend. We were away and so was he. We had a foot of water over the ground where the trees were.
Later, both trees did great. We are expecting similar results after our heavy rains. Even with a french drain around those trees, there is standing water of 3-4 inches.
My wife gave me an olive tree for Christmas, and it was planted a few days before Christmas. A friend, who has an Olive orchard for olive oil, said the rain has been great for a new tree and their older trees. Her olive trees have been in at least 6 inches of standing water since early Feb.. She is very happy.
I wish I could grow that stuff in MA.
I am really praying that the dams hold the big stuff back. I drove through that part of California (from Yosemite up to the coast and then to seattle.)
That “heartland” was just gorgeous.
That’s a lot of pineapple.
Opinion: What if California’s drought is permanent?
I guess he blew it.
The calculations I can do. :)
That “heartland” was just gorgeous.
The heartland not only feeds those of us on the left coast, it feeds a lot of the nations. The rice grown here feeds a lot Asians.
Lettuces will do fine after the floods go back down.
The tricky thing in N California re gardens and flowers is the often late frosts and cool to cold nights. Natives and those know better never plant tomatoe and anything that can be killed by a frost.
My wife gets great tomatoe from a woman known as15 the tomato lady. The tomato lady provided my wife with some tomato plants for a test. My wife is one of those organized type A’s, and she wants to do things when she wants not with Mother Nature.
My wife was to plant some at about Mid April, and the others after 15 May. We kept the late planters inside until 15 May.
The early tomatoes if not killed by a frost never did as well as the 15 May tomatoes. The psot 15 May tomatos were bigger, sturdier, blossomed earlier and had significantly more and better tomatos.
So now, my wife buys the tomatoes in April and we keep them inside until the 15 May planting.
The gromet lettuces are even more fragile/frost sensitive. We plant those in late May.
Sounds similar to the lack of Reporting on Anderson Lake and Coyote Creek in the San Jose area. Using 6th grade math last week, I was noting that with any more rain in the catchment area of the lake, there could be flooding.
Well,it happened last night and this morning.
50,000 Urged to Evacuate from Flooding in San Jose, California; Mayor Admits Failures in Flood Evacuation Order
Evacuation orders remain in effect in numerous northern California counties.
Some 50,000 residents have been urged to leave their homes in San Jose as northern California continues to deal with record flooding.
The mayor of the city came forward Wednesday and acknowledged that residents were not properly notified to evacuate during the emergency.
“If the first time a resident is aware that they need to get out of their home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, that’s a failure,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said at a news conference. “We are assessing what happened in that failure.”
“We’ve got to address the needs of the families who have been displaced first,” he added. “We’ll have a lot of time to analyze what went wrong.”
Resident Sandy Moll said she had prepared for about a foot of water, but the flooding spilled over sandbags stacked 3 feet high and broke down her back door. Moll told the Mercury News that she was angry at the lack of warning.
“I’m seething,” she said. “It’s the lack of information and forewarning when they had to have known. They never even said you need to prepare for a major flood.”
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/california-flooding-impacts
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