Crazy Floods

[Caliyak]

How's everyone doing today? after the crazy floods this past weekend 

Lake Success utilized the spillway for the first time in years. 

homes along the Tule River were evacuated and whole streets who flooding in small towns. 

[roadwarrior]

Several "authorities" are saying the drought is officially over.  The heavy rains

continue, but more importantly the snow pack continues to grow. Good times 

are here again!

[padlin]

Looking at the drought map, KS and NE could use some of the excess.

 

[gim]

4 hours ago, padlin said:

Looking at the drought map, KS and NE could use some of the excess.

 

Absolutely, areas of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas could still use a good dose of moisture.  Drought isn't something that just goes away with one big rain or flood.  It takes a long time to go into drought, and it takes a long time to come out of it.

 

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

[Darth-Baiter]

I will continue to save water for myself.  like money we shouldn't spend all our water at once.  just this one opinion.  I dont think surface water is the thing.  how do we get this to restore our underground sources?  I can't imagine a few months will do it.  

 

but this rain has been epic.  my job is heavy highway construction and we are spending MILLIONS fixing crap.  my lakes are full.  Shasta is up something like 90 feet?  where I camped last year is way under water.  I finally get to see what is up at the north end of Clearlake.  first time I tried it I had to walk my kayak in shin deep water 200 yards to float the thing.  and I got skunked hard.

 

I feel bad for the folks flooding out.  my friends are eyeballing the approaching water to their home.  yikes.

 

I am ready for summer.  not wildfire season, but summer.  

[WRB]

California terrain is high mountain ranges with large valley’s. The rivers are short in length dropping thousands of feet altitude creating fast moving water resulting in flooding the valleys.

To save water dams creating reservoirs and levies to reduce flooding towns along the larger rivers.

Bottom line California uses more water for agriculture then our human needs, about 80% vs 20%. Agri has been pumping the under ground water for over 100 years while the population has increased by 30 million people.

Water is a big problem in California with Agri fighting the population and environmentalist fighting building new or higher water storage dams.

Good to have the storms for everyone, we need the water.

Tom

[J._Bricker]

  I was surprised by a report on this morning’s news that Mammoth Mountain, which is where a lot of Southern California residents go skiing, is projected to surpass 600 inches of snow (an all time record) with this week’s storms. In my younger days, 290 inches of base up in Tahoe was considered a lot of snow. It’s looking like the spring skiing season could possibly extend into July. 
  It’s good to finally get the water for fish, farms, residential and our business needs. Since our current weather patterns are one of plenty in regards to precipitation it’s important that other leeves and infrastructure hold and communities that have been affected get help in as soon as possible.

[TnRiver46]

I’ve heard they use like 90 or 900 gallons of water to make a lb of almonds. Somebody lost they mind, I drink 1-2 gallons of water a day and wouldn’t care if I never ate another almond as long as I lived 

[gim]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve heard they use like 90 or 900 gallons of water to make a lb of almonds. Somebody lost they mind, I drink 1-2 gallons of water a day and wouldn’t care if I never ate another almond as long as I lived 

Its true, almonds are very water intensive.  So are pistachios and pecans.  They grow on trees and it takes years to mature.  And when they mature, you can't even harvest the nuts off of them every year either, otherwise you will kill the tree.  And you wonder why pistachios and almonds cost so much.

 

I went to Las Cruces, NM a few years ago for work and visited a pecan farm along the Rio Grande river.  Most of their water was from the river itself and they used flood irrigation to keep the trees watered.  The owner said it took about 15 years for a pecan tree to mature where they could actually harvest pecans off it.

[WRB]

The “River” that supplies water from NorCal to Central and SoCal is the California Aqueduct. The canal was part of the Feather River project in the 60’s.

The big Agri business in the San Jauqine  valley about 300 miles long used 80% with 20% supplying water to SoCal. 
The walnut and cherry growers are loosing out to China and Brazil. Big Ag owns the almond business with guaranteed water supply tax payers supply via MWD. Water is extremely valuable in SoCal.

Let it rain?

Tom 

 

[Chowderhead]

On 3/13/2023 at 5:28 PM, gimruis said:

Absolutely, areas of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas could still use a good dose of moisture.  Drought isn't something that just goes away with one big rain or flood.  It takes a long time to go into drought, and it takes a long time to come out of it.

 

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

Nebraska checking in - yep, we could use some moisture for sure. 

[Don51]

Massa2shits! I used to live in Whitman. Have to say I do miss the fishing up there. Go Sox!  ?

[DogBone_384]

No floods, snow, or ice here in Eastern MA.  Water levels where I've recently fished are high.

 

All good news.

[Caliyak]

army corp has closed many of the boat ramps in the area. only bank fishing, very limited areas. 

[Darth-Baiter]

i was going to ditch work today to go fish Clearlake, then remembered i am interviewing candidates today.  that would have been awkward.

 

my friend went and he says the water level is epic.  but he is well into a skunk.  hahahah.. we found a hireable guy today.  win for me!!