Posted on 01/05/2017 8:46:06 PM PST by Mariner
ierra travelers trapped by back-to-back storms that dropped more than 2 feet of snow have a brief window to pass before the arrival of a weather system Saturday so wet forecasters are calling it an "atmospheric river."
Up to 12 inches of rain below 8,500 feet is expected, and massive amounts of snow — up to 6 feet — above that elevation. A fifth, colder storm two days behind will drop yet more heavy snow.
“It’s a once-in-10-year event,” said Zach Tolby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno. “It’s the strongest storm we’ve seen in a long time, the kind of setup we look for to get significant flooding.”
The atmospheric river, or “Pineapple Express,” will be felt across much of California this weekend, though rains will be much heavier in the north than in the south.
Tolby said the storm is packing the same wallop as an atmospheric river that hit Northern California a decade ago that caused $300 million in damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The state has already made a political declaration that we are in a "permanent drought".
In CA if you control the water you control everything. But sometimes the water controls you.
Get out the boats.
Basically, CA government is saying - water is NOT wet!
Yes, drought and global warming...
Why pass up a perfectly good crisis where government can grab more power.
When it pours, man it pours.
Do the farmers have containers to store the rain?
Wait a minute. Once-in-ten-year storm? You mean the climate has a cycle?
Winning!
So the same “experts” who said El Niño was going to flood us last winter (not) and said this year would be a dry La Niña will continue to lecture us on the evils of AGW... um, ok.
Can’t be true, the article is not printed in all caps.
“Officials and experts say that widespread flooding, overflowing reservoirs and rivers does not end the drought.
The state has already made a political declaration that we are in a “permanent drought”.
In CA if you control the water you control everything. But sometimes the water controls you.
Get out the boats.”
I have a few hundred sandbags already filled stored on the side yard. When we started to get storms a few weeks ago, I went to the local city yard and got several truck loads of sand and bags. No one I know has even considered getting sand bags.
I live a couple hundred yards from a creek running through the burbs here, and it is possible it could flood.
I can hardly wait. I have my sandbags all ready. May not need any Hip Boots this season. This is how it used to be every year, heavy rains from October through March. Hoping the season of the wet has returned for good. I don’t want to drive through it though. Traffic becomes paralyzed.
Do the farmers have containers to store the rain?
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My recollection is that collection of rain without a government license is a crime, and a tyrannical organization called the EPA will assess very costly fines for doing so.
Two hit wonder Albert Hammond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4
A lot of this rain will make its’ way into the groundwater...but see, we need a $100+ BILLION high speed rail system that almost no one in the state will use, while there have been no major improvements in water infrastructure in the state for decades....so alas, most of that rain will flow uselessly back out to sea.
“The state has already made a political declaration that we are in a “permanent drought”.”
It’s a bizarre game to raise water rates. If you use less water, they raise the rates. If you use the same amount of water you used - they fine you. The idea is of course to use less water.
AND it is way to get people to use the low flow toilets, washing machines, dish washers, low flow shower heads. I don’t bite, I like my 3 gallon per flush toilets, my 40 gallon per wash washing machines - they work and work better than the new gear.
Dumbass state I live in.
Of course not. Storing the rainwater would offend the Delta Smelt, the fish that rules our lives.
With any luck it will break off along the Arizona boarder and drift out to sea.
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