Every reservoir in CA is releasing water as fast as they can. The high Sierras have stored as much as 30, or more feet of snow.
Oroville reservoir is the second largest in the state holding 3.5 million acre feet of water. I's the tallest dam in the USA at 791ft. And water is now gushing over the emergency spillway as the main spillway was torn to pieces by the outflow over the last month. Two days ago the inflow was 220,000 acre feet every 24 hours.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132154774.html
More storms coming next week.
If we get a full-on Pineapple Express in late March we'll all be swimming out of this bowl. And the governor will still refuse to lift the drought controls.
And the state California authorities will continue telling you “there is no problem here” until they are forced to tell you to “RUN!!!!!!”
Yes, and for the usual biblical reason.
That would suck for them if Pres Trump cuts off their Fed funding. No FEMA funds!
But they’ll have plenty of illegals to rebuild... right?
what if the big one is a flood, not an earthquake?
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Could be both! The water could lubricate the fault lines to trigger a large release.
No. This whole “overdue” thing is silly. Nature doesn’t have a clock. Will there be floods? Yes. When? Whenever.
Some areas of California are overdue for numerous Biblical catastrophes. Pity, it’s by and large such a beautiful place. Beauty always draws the leftists and their attendant social maladies, have you noticed? It’s as if they’re determined to destroy all that’s beautiful and good.
All hyper wishful thinking.
That didn’t take long. Just 6 months ago the media was banging on about how California was reverting to 1000 year desert climate. Thanks to global warming, of course.
Take a look at this data:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES
We have plenty of water and more is on the way.
Drought controls?
Sounds like the drought is pretty much over!!
The one that was never going to end because of global warming...
Seems like the state doesn’t prepare for the droughts or the eventual hard hitting rainstorms.
The Oroville Dam possible disaster is probably due to spending $'s for dam maintenance, Moonbeam and his legislature spent those $'s for dam maintenance on illegals to make them happy rat voters in California land.
We’re in a permanent drought, don’t you know. Thank god at least we don’t have to worry about plastic grocery bags anymore. At least we can bail water with those pretty printed ones we’re forced to lug into the store now.
Hope you have a life vest
What’s even more surprising there wasn’t a single mention of global warming or climate change in the San Fran Chronicle article! It’s a miracle!
If California had the good sense to upgrade and expand their reservoir systems, even in water lean times, they’d be sitting pretty right now, but no, bloated retirement pensions and BART janitors that make bank and sleep all day are more important.
I was born and raised in California, and back then it was paradise. Then the libs began to destroy it, and I got the hell out of there in 1979. Today it isn’t even part of the U.S.
No, the Water Resources Control Board just ruled California is still in a drought. So we don't really need to worry about any Biblical flooding.
I don’t see how California could be overdue for ‘biblical’ anything, as most of them seem to deny the existence or relevance of the Bible. They’d sooner blame W Bush or Trump.
I’m good with it. Flush all the illegals and libs out.