The media goofs can't give up their narrative about California's "climate change induced drought", so they're forced to make crazy statements like "This massive influx of rain and snow does not mean the drought has ended". Uh...yeah, WATER actually does tend to end droughts if you get enough of it, which we clearly have. Seriously - that's all our media here is talking about. That we're inundated, and it's catastrophic, AND the drought is NOT over". And then they give you a mini lecture on "climate change".
Anyways, here are the new reservoir levels as of yesterday, based on historical average capacity. Keep in mind that it's still raining all over California, and MORE storms are incoming!:
New Bullards Bar: 122%
Shasta: 80%
Oroville: 99%
Folsom: 110%
Camanche: 122%
New Melones: 64%
Don Pedro: 103%
Sonoma: 99%
McClure: 110%
Cachuma 130%
Diamond Valley: 84%
Millerton: 148%
Pine Flat: 119%
Castaic: 70%
Side note: the media is also pushing the idea that the latest California drought (where liberals inexplicably dumped millions of gallons of reservoir water into the ocean on a regular basis, draining our reservoirs ON PURPOSE) was so bad it was the worst in 1200 years! Yeah...no. They made that up.
About 30 years ago we went on a road trip from CA to KS. Took a day trip down to Springfield, MO and was amazed. For the better part of an hour, all we saw was water. Everything in Missouri was flooded so badly that it was just half of houses sticking out of the water every now and then. Some were all the way under. It was like driving out to the Florida Keys or something - just a little land bridge and then.....water in every direction. Really made me become a believer in: don't live in a basin, or in flood plains. Choose a plateau or slope, even if it's just a little one.
That was the year my brother got married. I was living in Denver on a three year contracting job. I had fallen 12 feet onto concrete and broke my elbow causing me to miss my flight back to Michigan. The only thing available last second was the train.
This was in early September, 1993. The great flood of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers began in April that year and didnt subside until October.
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993
Where we crossed the Mississippi it was probably 100 miles wide. The tracks were nearly the only thing above water.
I'm glad at least to hear that the flooding we saw was so rare it was called The Great Flood, because for all we knew at the time it was a regular affair for them, and made us wonder why the hell people were living there?! 100 miles wide is just astounding.
Yep I am in little rolling hills. Every ten or so years we get these sort of storms and it feels like I'm on an island in the swamp.
Interesting! Never thought on the photographic aspect of it!
I am now very fond of Flagstaff. A pity Sedona was overrun by artsy fartsy whackadoodle liberals, because it's perhaps one of the most gorgeous drives we've even been on, going through the Sedona region.
That's a nice looking town! Will have to add it to the list of places to see!