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Evacuations ordered as biggest storm in years moves into Southern California (drought over)
LA times ^ | Elmahrk and Serna

Posted on 01/22/2017 11:06:26 AM PST by PilotDave

The National Weather Service is warning that the storm hitting Southern California on Sunday could be the strongest since 2010, prompting at least two cities in burn-scarred areas to issue evacuation notices in advance of heavy rain, flooding and possible mudslides.

Light rain was falling across the region Sunday morning, with more intense rain expected as the day progresses. The heaviest rain was expected Sunday afternoon and evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Weather
KEYWORDS: california; drought; flood; rain
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While it's not making the news much, California is over the drought and quickly moving towards dangerous flooding. Most of the reservoirs are dumping as much water as possible in preparation for the massive runoff which is coming. Google the great floods of 1862. Every few hundred years the central valley floods to the point of becoming a massive lake from Sacramento to Fresno. The worst case scenario is lots of rain and especially massive snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. We have that. Then a warm weather rain event that melts the snowpack quickly and it all runs down into the central valley!
1 posted on 01/22/2017 11:06:26 AM PST by PilotDave
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To: PilotDave

Moonbeam says , “Kool”


2 posted on 01/22/2017 11:13:28 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Will try to figure out a way to tax it; and by the way citizens do not collect any rain water for you own use. It belongs to the state.


3 posted on 01/22/2017 11:15:48 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: butlerweave
"for you own use" ... strike 'you' and change to 'your' ....
4 posted on 01/22/2017 11:18:01 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: PilotDave

Praise God for the rain. Our drought is ending!!
May those in harms way be protected.
As Franklin Graham said in his Inaugural Prayer... Rain is a sign of blessing from God.


5 posted on 01/22/2017 11:18:21 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: PilotDave

Meh. Nature and stuff.


6 posted on 01/22/2017 11:20:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: PilotDave
Mammoth mountain ski area is recording January snow as the most ever recorded and we still have a week left. It's going to be a rough spring with all that runoff. This is what you get with RATS in power, idiots who promote a choo choo to nowhere instead of rational water storage plans. Filled reservoirs in Northern California are now spilling BILLIONS of gallons of water to avert flooding— water that could have been stored for future use in times of drought. http://www.mammothmountain.com/winter/mountain-information/mountain-information/snow-conditions-and-weather
7 posted on 01/22/2017 11:22:17 AM PST by Fungi
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To: PilotDave

“But when it pours, man it pours.”


8 posted on 01/22/2017 11:25:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: PilotDave

Oh gasp! The worst in SEVEN WHOLE YEARS! Wow! Oh noes! The same mentality that panics on the Stock Exchange if the numbers are down for one quarter. What happened to the concept of the 100 year storm?


9 posted on 01/22/2017 11:29:05 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: PilotDave

I work with a grower near Fresno who in 2014 spent $700,000 just to dig a new water well.

I doubt they need it now


10 posted on 01/22/2017 11:31:10 AM PST by PGR88
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To: I am Richard Brandon

The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862. This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood that extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory. Immense snowfalls in the mountains of the far western United States caused more flooding in Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora, Mexico the following spring and summer as the snow melted.

The event was capped by a warm intense storm that melted the high snow load. The resulting snow-melt flooded valleys, inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals, and ruined fields


11 posted on 01/22/2017 11:33:50 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: PilotDave

5.1” last night and 3.93” night before last in a wino county north of gay frisco.

More than that in the counties just north and west of here.

A younger female relative living in a couple of counties east of gay frisco, caught a drought nazi thug in his truck driving around apparently looking for someone wasting water like washing their car or water their lawns.

She got out of her truck with her Smart Phone and started taking pictures of him doing his drought nazi monitoring.

He got out of his truck and asked her what she was doing.

She told him that if he was doing his old drought nazi job after the drought is over, he should be fired. He got back into his truck and fled the scene.

The state drought Nazis are apparently saying we need 8-10 years of rain like this year to be over the drought.


12 posted on 01/22/2017 11:51:46 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Obama's greatest legacy to America/Americans was the election of President Trump!)
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Here is a link to the great flood in Scientific American:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/
13 posted on 01/22/2017 12:02:18 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: PilotDave

Does this mean we’re all gonna die...AGAIN??? Or maybe just the Californians?


14 posted on 01/22/2017 12:02:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Fungi
When Algor was running for POTUS, New England had some isolated drought areas, but that didn't stop the woman governor of NH from dumping millions of gallons of water so Algor could get a photo op of him canoeing.

Not sure that the water could be piped to where it was needed, instead of being dumped, but still...

15 posted on 01/22/2017 12:04:05 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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16 posted on 01/22/2017 12:06:07 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: PilotDave

Born and raised in California. I moved away at age 27. We had droughts. We had deluge. When there was drought, we conserved, but always had water in the reservoirs. We never heard of the Delta Smelt, the Three specked marsh frog. Whatever else. I moved out the year some farmer had his entire operation shut down because of some kangaroo rat was found nesting on his field. That’s when I am really thankful I moved. I miss the geography but the place is a dysfunctional mess.


17 posted on 01/22/2017 12:07:15 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

You can see the map of the California drought as well as other parts of the US at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ .


18 posted on 01/22/2017 12:07:34 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: PilotDave

If those cities are ‘sanctuaries’ then ICE should be standing right outside the boundaries and load ‘em into trucks as they leave their little safe zones.


19 posted on 01/22/2017 12:17:09 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: WMarshal

fascinating. Thanks!


20 posted on 01/22/2017 12:22:06 PM PST by GOP Poet
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