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There's a short stretch of Hwy 52 between here and Portland that cuts through a small hill and water coming out of the rock face is a regular occurrence.
The first time I saw it, I looped back around and pulled over to take a picture which I promptly sent to one of my buddies in California who had been bitching to me that very morning about his water bill that kept going up.
He accused me of photoshopping it, so my next trip through there, I took a video of it to send to him.
I believe historically speaking, most the building in Vegas/desert, happened during an unusually wet period.
ReplyDeleteThe area is moving back to normal rainfall and this is woefully inadequate for all the residents who moved into the area.
This issue won't be solved by mother nature anytime soon.
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Meanwhile, people in the desert, 3000 years ago were very good at water management......
ReplyDeletewell, a lot less folks back then, before suburban sprawl and vegas hotels. lol
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Still got that picture?
ReplyDeleteNah, but next time I go to Portland I'll try to remember to take my camera.
ReplyDeleteI won't hold my breath. Heh.
DeleteWhen you grow up in a dry climate like I did it's hard to believe it when you see cool clear water bubbling out of the ground. On my Grandfathers land in Northern Michigan you could dig a well with a shovel. My private well for my house in Texas is 400 feet deep with a 19 hp pump motor.
ReplyDeleteMickey, believe it or not, if you want good well water here in Central Florida, you have to down to 400 feet also but it don't take a 19hp pump motor to pull it, 1 hp is the average around here.
DeleteUpon thinking about this subject for a minute, I rememeber a time years ago when I was working with the ROK Navy in Pohang, the was a local artesian well that people came to from miles around to fill up water jugs. I filled up the 3 gallon water jug I was keeping in my hotel room and drank that the whole time I was there with no ill effects.
DeleteYeah, when you drive down hwy 107 south below Cashiers NC, the rock face on the left about a third of the way down is always wet with water. After a hard rain, there will be waterfalls down the face, often splashing out into the road.
ReplyDeleteDuring the winter, the rock face will have ice as much as a foot thick from the seepage.
Is it limestone like it is here?
DeleteMore like fractured Granite and Shale. The water oozes out of fissures in the rock.
Deleteyep - I was going to mention the same. And yes, it's water being pushed up through granite. On 64 west of Asheville you drive through a mountain top - cut right through the middle about 80 feet high on either side - always has water running down it and it's the "top"... amazing really.
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Just about the whole length of US 64 west of Ashville, all the way to the bottom going into Franklin NC, except for the plateau around Hendersonville and Brevard. There are a whole lot of "wet weather" springs that seemingly pop out of nowhere during a rainstorm.
DeleteWhile living in Southern Alabama by the Georgia border I owned about nine acres and most on a downward sloping ridge and at the bottom I had a year round artesian spring that a hydrologist estimated about 35 gallons a minute flow. I watered my goats and the the across the street neighbor that had about 12 cows with that spring. So yes, water does come out of the ground and rock faces.
ReplyDeleteSure does. Go to Andersonville and a chapel has been erected over Providence Spring, which has been putting out cool clear spring water since a lightning strike opened up the ground in 1865. It's delicious.
Delete"Go to Andersonville"
DeleteHard pass.
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Back in the 90's, I lived up in Eastern Kentucky for a few years. There was one road I would drive on, at a flat spot and coming down from up the mountain was an old iron pipe that always had a flow of water coming out of it. You would drive by and people would be lined up with milk jugs and buckets getting water for the day.
ReplyDeleteThere's a pull off like that on SC Hwy 107, an extension of NC 107, called Moody Springs, about half way down the mountain from Cashiers NC. There's a concrete spring box with water coming out of a pipe.
DeleteWe lived near Albany, Ky in the early 80s and had a pipe like that. Icy cold spring water and the best I ever tasted.
DeleteThe California gubmint/Water Board dumped millions (or more) of reservoir water directly into the sea this year.
ReplyDeleteThis 'drought/shortage' was manufactured.
"Your government at work."
Wasn't it reported in January that we had a record breaking 200% above average snow pack in the Sierras?
ReplyDeleteNo, California hasn't seen a number like that since May 1st, 2017 when the survey showed 196% of average statewide as California was recovering from a 5 year drought. In March of 2019 the snowpack was at 150% of average and the reservoirs were all pretty much full.
DeleteI have commented on this elsewhere but it bears repeating:
ReplyDeleteCalifornia water resources have been traditionally very poorly managed but what has happened over the past two years is criminal malfeasance on a massive scale. Oroville was at 98% of capacity and 118% of its historical average in June 2019 and nine out of twelve of the other major reservoirs in the state were at 92% capacity or better. What should have been a 7 year supply has been wasted. This is a carefully manufactured water emergency and the State Water Board should be in prison. The human cost alone demands it but the financial cost can't even be calculated yet.
Starvation takes time to kill excess labor. Biowar takes quite a while, too. But thirst? That'll drop headcount in a hurry.
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It's yet another tool n their control box, everything anymore is designed and implemented for population control. This will NOT end well. We'll have the green new deal, the hard way. By introducing commies to the fertilizer gene pool. There ya go, instant green.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're still watering golf courses..
ReplyDeleteMoney talks.
DeleteCalifornia has become both physically and politically HELL. Build a wall now before any more escape that state.
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