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I was telling Elmo just the other day that a few years before I left California, I checked out the annual rainfall for the San Joaquin Valley where I used to live dating back to when they first started keeping records, the late 1880s.
It showed 6 years of 'drought', then a wet year, then another 6-7 dry years, then a wet year. It's a normal pattern.
Democrats: Never let s crisis go to waste".
ReplyDeleteSays it all. They'll kick you when you're down, and fuck you over a barrel.
Then there're the really heavy rainfall years. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-flood-20180325-htmlstory.html
ReplyDeleteWouldn't bother me much to see another winter like 1862.
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Great photos!
DeleteInteresting that California can't manage water near as well as some ancient civilizations.
ReplyDeleteNot one shovel has been turned on an off-site water storage project that has been ready to go for years, the Sites Reservoir. The Democrats are too busy spending money on our new friends from south of the border and back-filling pension deficits.
DeleteThen there's the Train in the Middle of Nowhere...
DeleteOn the other hand, in Florida, a private corporation has teamed up with the Florida East Coast Railway and is busy building a high-speed rail system from Miami to Cocoa and from Cocoa to Tampa.
DeleteAnd they are open to people watching and reporting on their construction.
Like, say, this youtube channel... https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRoamingRailfan/videos
Private funding. For a train to carry people at 125mph. Florida rocks.
Yeah, sure. But how many high paying government jobs does that project actually create?
Deletehttps://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2019/state-of-california/brian-p-kelly/?pk=31653195
Comrade, do we need another session in the hole? it's climate change. CLIMATE CHANGE, and you must never speak of this "history" thing you refer to again. are we clear on this Comrade?
ReplyDeleteYep. Kenny is doing wrongthink again.
DeleteOnly a couple of feet just up the road. I need to get my gas guzzling, carbon spewing snowmobile out for another ride soon.
ReplyDeleteThe recurring Salinas Valley drought is a pivotal incident in Steinbeck's "East of Eden."
ReplyDeleteSnowpack is to water storage as wind and solar are to energy. Totally unreliable.
ReplyDeleteNormal patterns do not sell news.
ReplyDeleteIf global warming were true that resevoir would be brimming full from the extra rain that warming would cause.
ReplyDeleteI've seen an amazing amount of water come down the Santa Ana and San Gabriel rivers in SoCal. Each has a flood control dam or two but nothing to keep water even through the next summer.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, there is one small reservoir on the San Gabriel up Azusa Canyon that the Navy used to test torpedoes. The infrastructure remained long after tests stopped. I'm guessing it's gone now but you could still see it as recently as 20 years ago.
I went to Google Earth and saw there are still two reservoirs in the canyon, one just upstream of the other. The uppermost reservoir is the one that was used by the Navy. Interesting stuff.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Reservoir#Morris_Reservoir_Naval_Weapons_Test_Site
Columbia, SC, 2015. They said then it was a "500-year storm", now, apparently, it's a 100-year disaster.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was a disaster, folks, along the lines of the 1861 storm in CA Anon posted above.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/05/the-meteorology-behind-south-carolinas-catastrophic-1000-year-rainfall-event/
Oops. Morris Reservoir is downstream from San Gabriel Dam and reservoir.
DeleteSounds almost biblical.
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