Pineapple Express is going to slam Cali in the next several days. They expect the first ever hurricane force winds to hit. Whoa, now. Hang on, y’all.
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7 minutes of highlights from Reed Timmer posted yesterday
Category 5 atmospheric river event causes life-threatening flash flooding in Southern California
Category 5 atmospheric river event causes life-threatening flash flooding in Southern California
if you think it is in any way feasible to "store" a month's worth of water that falls in ONE DAY...
you don't understand the most basic concepts of civil engineering or stormwater mgmt and you should probably just sit this out
He’s a republican. They become instant experts on the subject of the day, despite having a complete lack of relevant knowledge, education or experience.
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Los Angeles recorded more than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rainfall in 24 hours, nearly doubling that city's record of 2.55 inches (6.48 centimeters) set nearly a century ago in 1927, according to weather officials. The weather service said a month's worth of rainfall had deluged California in the past 24 hours.
The city’s other reporting site at Los Angeles International Airport also picked up record rainfall Sunday. Rain at the airport totaled 1.76 inches – more than triple the date’s previous record of 0.56 inches set in 1958.
Southern California under state of emergency as 'atmospheric river' pounds region
Torrential rainfall, flash flooding, hurricane-force winds, heavy snowfall pose severe threat, weather authorities say - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
NBC San Francisco
Storm turns deadly in Santa Cruz Mountains
Storm turns deadly in Santa Cruz Mountains
What's with you and posting all these youtube videos about the rain in California?
We all know it rained.
It rains everywhere at some point, sometimes heavier than other times.
Early historic record
Geologic evidence indicates that "megafloods" occurred in the California region in the following years A.D.: 212, 440, 603, 1029, c. 1300, 1418, 1605, and 1750.[3][4] Prior to European settlement, these early floods predominantly affected the indigenous peoples of California.California flood of 1605
Main article: California flood of 1605In 1605, present-day California was subject to massive flooding due to an unusually powerful atmospheric river. This was potentially the largest flooding event of the prior 2,000 years.[3][
December 1861 – January 1862: California's Great Flood
Main article: Great Flood of 1862Beginning on December 24, 1861, and lasting for 45 days, the largest flood in California's recorded history occurred, reaching full flood stage in different areas between January 9–12, 1862. The entire Sacramentoand San Joaquin valleys were inundated for 300 miles (480 km), averaging 20 miles (32 km) in breadth. State government was forced to relocate from the capital in Sacramento for 18 months to San Francisco. The rain created an inland sea in Orange County, lasting about three weeks with water standing 4 feet (1.2 m) deep up to 4 miles (6 km) from the river.[1]
The Los Angeles basin was flooded from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, at variable depths, excluding the higher lands which became islands until the waters receded. The Los Angeles basin lost 200,000 cattle by way of drowning, as well as homes, ranches, farm crops and vineyards being swept-away.
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So building dams and reservoirs stops atmospheric rivers? Your delusion knows no bounds. Libs wrecked CA in more ways than one.
Water is to California as coal is to Kentucky—yet its use is being curtailed by those least affected, if affected at all, by the consequences of their advocacy. But environmentalists, who for 40 years worked to undermine the prudent expansion of the state’s water infrastructure, have a rendezvous with those consequences soon. No reservoir water is left for them to divert—none for the reintroduction of their pet salmon, none for the Delta smelt. Their one hope is to claim possession of the water in the ground once they’ve exhausted what was above it. Redistribution, not expansion of supplies, is the liberal creed for water, just as it is for wealth.
The Scorching of California
In mid-December, the first large storms in three years drenched California. No one knows whether the rain and snow will continue—only that it must last for weeks if a record three-year drought, both natural and man-made, is to end. In the 1970s, coastal elites squelched California’s...
www.city-journal.org
This has nothing to do with your claim about L.A.'s record rainfall, Cletus.
Uh...it minimizes flooding impacts, Cletus.
You might look that up w/ as many dams and reservoirs there are around Iowa and along the Mississippi.
10 minutes of highlights from Reed Timmer, posted today
BIG-TIME ATMOSPHERIC RIVER event clobbers Southern California with 1 in 1000 year rains!
BIG-TIME ATMOSPHERIC RIVER event clobbers Southern California with 1 in 1000 year rains!
Yep. They were on the right track til they decided to try to appease the tree-hugging socialists.
How's that working out for them? 🤣🤣🤣
Nope
No chance in hell of "containing" that much water.
But it won't stop you and your buddies from making dumb statements.
It's amazing how people who don't know shit about our water storage are internet experts.
Same ones that post anti-vax memes and think they are immunology experts.
BAU
That was already addressed. In fact, the board's resident expert on EVERYTHING, commented with two different posts that the building of 'dams/reservoirs' 'minimizes' (not PREVENTS, but minimizes) the effects of these atmospheric rivers; a meteorological phenomenon known about for centuries. But once called out for looking like a tool he moved the goalposts (again) because that's all he's capable of.
In the 1970s, coastal elites squelched California’s near-century-long commitment to building dams, reservoirs, and canals, even as the Golden State’s population ballooned. Court-ordered drainage of man-made lakes, meant to restore fish to the 1,100-square-mile Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, partly caused central California’s reservoir water to dry up. Not content with preventing construction of new water infrastructure, environmentalists reverse-engineered existing projects to divert precious water away from agriculture, privileging the needs of fish over the needs of people. Then they alleged that global warming, not their own foolish policies, had caused the current crisis.
Even as a fourth year of drought threatens the state, canal water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park keeps Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area a verdant oasis. This parched coastal mountain range would have depopulated long ago without the infrastructure that an earlier, wiser generation built and that latter-day regulators and environmentalists so casually deprecated. (See “California’s Promethean Past,” Summer 2013.) Gardens and lawns remain green in Palo Alto, San Mateo, Cupertino, and San Francisco, where residents continue to benefit from past investments in huge water transfers from inland mountains to the coast. They will be the last to go dry.
LAX plane spotting Tuesday. Visibility is much better today
🔴LIVE BIG LAX STORM! | LAX LIVE | LAX Plane Spotting
🔴LIVE BIG LAX STORM! | LAX LIVE | LAX Plane Spotting
Lots of rain but no flooding in my area (Long Beach).
To be honest, it's been pretty similar to a spring storm in the midwest but nothing crazy. Other areas, such as San Diego, were getting it much worse
To be honest, it's been pretty similar to a spring storm in the midwest but nothing crazy. Other areas, such as San Diego, were getting it much worse
You quoting an unsourced op-ed does nothing.
California has diversion dams on EVERY single of it's rivers except one. That one is nowhere near a population center.
There are 1400 named dams in the state (and many more smaller unnamed ones) and 1300 named reservoirs.
Most are set up for weather like this to mitigate flooding.
BTW, Hetch Hetchy is an ecological disaster.
Tuesday storm chasers
🔴 FLASH FLOODING THREAT in Southern California & Arizona - Live Storm Chasers
🔴 FLASH FLOODING THREAT in Southern California & Arizona - Live Storm Chasers
Exactly
They can mitigate a 5- or 10-yr flooding event.
Not a 100- or 1000-year flooding event.
Cletus is too dumb to understand that point.
They're typically set up to mitigate 100 and even 500 year floods, but certainly not a 1000 year event. And not multiple events back to back.
Much like what happened with the Coralville Reservoir in '93 and again in the early 2000s.
Why do you have to bring up history? It's in the past. After all, you only get 1 side of the story, Im just asking questions......
/sarcasm
Looks like your standard 10 mile long traffic jam in Donner Pass tonight on the CalTrans cameras.
Survival of the fittest.
Survival of the fittest.
Humans started affecting the climate when agriculture started moron
