Glenn County's Office of Emergency Services said this year's drought is breaking records, in a bad way. During the last drought, from 2014 to 2017, the maximum number of residents at one time with dry wells was 30.
This year, OES says the statistics are alarming:
That was ONE of the reasons we moved out of east Sandee Eggo county at the beginning of 2015.
ReplyDeleteFuck em.
ReplyDeleteNo, really, had the greatest climate on the whole North American Continent ..... and they fucked it up with petty squabbling and corrupt goobermint.
Fuck.
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You don't know what you're talking about. Glenn County is a Conservative County.
DeleteNot to mention, Glenn County has a large Mennonite population. They're some of the best people on Earth. Family is first with them but they'd also give a stranger the shirt off their backs.
DeletePeople just don't realize what it's like to live in a conservative county and be dictated to by Los Angeles.
The northern third of California has one Republican state senator. Los Angeles County has 15, 13 of which are Democrats.
Any word on how the delta smelt is doing?
ReplyDeleteThere were zero delta smelt collected in the latest California Department of Fish and Wildlife survey which ended 7/1/2021. Meanwhile, CDFW flushed a several million acre feet of water out to sea in a valiant attempt to save fish that weren't there and to prove that Climate Change was responsible for everything bad that has happened in California and will be responsible for everything bad that happens in the state for years to come.
DeleteYes. I've been worried about them.
DeleteMy childhood home a few miles outside of Santa Fe NM had its own well. When drilling a well in those days - if it had been a wet winter - you could hit first water at a bit over 100 feet, guaranteed to go dry in a typical summer. Second water was around 225 feet of so, and was usually reliable except in a very dry spell. Third water was at and below 360 feet. Our well was at 400 feet with the casing settling on a clay layer. At that depth, you could get standing water in the casing up to 70 feet. That would be pumped down when our surface tank needed filling, nice, because refilling the casing up to that 70 foot mark was slow.
ReplyDeletethis was in the 40's and 50's. When my Dad died, watching the well became my responsibility. In 1979, I had the "well man" measure the standing water in the casing. It was down to 17 feet. In other words, the aquifer supplying our well was drying up. very bad news.
After having read this article, I wonder now many of those dried up wells were drilled only to 1st or 2nd water, or if the aquifer proving their water is vanishing also.
Bad news under any circumstances.
Zactly. Crop irrigation will end a lot of aquifers.
DeleteCalifornia's state level management has screwed the growers. Water that should be available has been squandered on fish that should swim downstream. Same stuff is happening in Colorado where housing developments are hitching on to water districts and stressing the systems with lawn watering then demanding the farmers ration water.
ReplyDeleteToo many people, not enough water. The story of the west.
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And Commiefornia hasn't built any water storage since Reagan was governor.
DeleteWhat so many don't realize is that California is a semi-arid clime and always has been. That water was brought in from so far away to meet the needs of a growing population is often ignored and skews people's perceptions of what is normal for that area. The past ~100 years has been 'wet' for California as compared previous periods. If it is returning to the norm - much drier - it's going to become even worse.
ReplyDeleteA lengthy drought which lasted for over ~400 years wiped out the Anasazi civilization in the Southwest (which includes California) and West 'back in the day'. The high temperatures seen in the West and PNW were not all that unusual 'back in the day' either.
The climate changes and it always has.
"The climate changes and it always has."
DeleteAh, but THIS TIME, we're doing something about it! And it will only cost you nearly all of your money and quality of life.
- Government and Do-Gooders