Posted on 05/10/2015 7:41:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Hmmm. Don’t recall Cali doing an eminent domain thing with Lake Mead. LOL! Yeah, no doubt the get some of the voltage from there though. Luck thing they installed a bunch of super efficient solar panels at that big chunk of desert tortoise habitat/sanctuary south of Vegas. Just how many tortises did the relocate for that site?
We've built 5 dams since 1959.
CalWatchdog.com: CA added just 5 dams since 1959
5. Diamond Valley Lake
Diamond Valley Lake is an 800,000 acre-feet off-stream reservoir located in Riverside County in Southern California. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California built it in 1995.
It is also not counted as contributing to statewide water storage. It is a backup reservoir that holds surplus water for droughts and emergencies for Southern California only.
The reservoir is connected to the State Water Project by the 44-mile Inland Feeder pipeline. Diamond Valley Lake only takes water from the State Water Project when surplus water is available for storage for future use.
He is such a turd.
Fingers crossed.
That gives me an idea for a new movie starring Matt Damn, John Krazinski and Tara Reid.
Droughtnado!
Copyright!
However, rainfall is actually slightly above normal for the rainy season, which started on October 1st, and just slightly below normal since the first of the year.
Unfortunately, the warmth radically reduced the Cascade snow cover, which significantly increases our summer fire risk.
I read an interesting summary of a scientific paper about the “warm blob” of sea water that has puddled against the northwest coastline.
Apparently, this is a recurring weather event that can be traced to prolonged northwest warm spells in previous decades.
Amazingly, about five years ago, we had a puddle of record cold seawater against our coastline.
The Cascade snow cover that year was the heaviest I've ever seen, and in June that year I had to turn my heat on in the morning several times to take the chill off the apartment.
Well I didn’t positively state that as fact. My ‘thereabouts’ was a catchall :0)
“When did they start making urinal cakes big enough for the liberal toilet that is California?”
Oh, behave! :0)
When 1 in 8 people in America (those were numbers from a decade ago) is illegal, deportation looks better every rainless day.
Selfish celebrities ignore California’s drought to keep lawns green
Will capturing and using this water harm the environment? Yes it will harm some species, that damn delta smelt will be harmed and possibly eliminated. However, that does not mean the environment is worse off, it means the environment has changed as it always does. Preserving the Delta Smelt is not important as compared to preserving California Agriculture. The Rio Grand here in Texas is virtually dry at its entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. Each side of the river is abundant with fields of Agriculture products. This was a good decision by Mexico and Texas to use the water the river gave us.
If California had allowed sufficient damns to be built there would be no water crisis and that damn delta smelt would be in good shape.
California has inflicted this injury on themselves, I have zero sympathy for them with the exception of the farmers.
I have also read that because of environmental laws CA lets most of the rain water flow out to the ocean. Dummies
No problemo:
Even now, amid a historic drought that has prompted deep, state-mandated water cuts for urban users, capital area leaders show no sign of backing off their plans for another major growth surge. The six-county Sacramento region is projecting 285,000 new housing units over 25 years, expanding the region by nearly 30 percent.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article20600319.html
2" salamanders in Austin, TX out rank humans. Considering the caliber of many humanoids there, salamanders should be on top.
n 1925 the Department of Water and Power (DWP) was established and the voters of Los Angeles approved a $2 million bond issue to perform the engineering for the Colorado River Aqueduct. The DWP brought the cities of the region together with Los Angeles in 1928 to form a state special district. An act of the State Legislature created the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). Its original purpose was to construct the Colorado River Aqueduct to supply supplemental water to Southern California. In 1931, voters approved a $220 million bond issue for construction, and work began on the ten-year project that would bring the water 300 miles to the coast.
Part of the success of the project was the spectacular Boulder Canyon project, now known as Hoover Dam. The DWP, manager of its own hydroelectric power facilities along the Los Angeles Aqueduct, was instrumental in the struggle to gain federal approval for the project which combined flood control, water supply, and energy production for the three states that form the lower Colorado River basin.
I love the photo they used with all the backyard build-in swimming pools...still full.
Reap what you sow.
ROFLMAO
He's mentioned your "blob" a number of times and its effect.
Now I'm trying to remember if he mentioned yesterday, any immediate weather other than watching a developing storm in the Southeast.
He's been pretty good about "snow" for Easter, and temperatures in the NE, and yes, I broke down yesterday and turned on the A/C.
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