So, in 2014, amid one of the driest spells in California’s recorded history, residents voted to approve the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act, also known as Proposition One, which authorized “$7.545 billion in general obligation bonds to fund ecosystems and watershed protection and restoration, water supply infrastructure projects, including surface and groundwater storage, and drinking water protection.”
Nearly a decade later, as the state is drowning under a parade of atmospheric rivers and cyclone bombs, voters are watching trillions of gallons of water run out to sea and wondering what happened to all those promised reservoirs.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “none of the major storage projects, which include new and expanded reservoirs, has gotten off the ground.”
Because they pocketed the billions and never did any meaningful work they promised to do. Since the cali government is corrupt from the ground up nothing is ever done.
Because the State of California is held hostage by the Radical Environmentalists. They oppose new Dam and Water Reservior Construction, so when we have rainy years, we don't have the ability to store it and it goes to the Ocean. And the Radical Environmentalist have an outsized influence in politics throughout the state.
This post reminds me of the days on reddit. When a retarded liberal would come in and comment on something they knew nothing about, be completely wrong, but write as if they were correct.
A lot of posters are also just young and extremely inexperienced with the world, except for what they read on the internet. Combine that with your typical “know-it-all” youngster attitude and comments like the one above are what you get.
Capturing it in the mountains before it becomes a flash flood will work around those issues just fine. Look at the ones already in use.
The problem is no imagination is used for the mountain run off in Pasadena CA. They only store it for a short time to prevent down stream flooding. No attempt to store it is made
And here another example of if you let private individual setup their own water storage solution and then have the government buy excess it would be cheaper and more efficient then having the government try to do it
It’s also a red state that’s been forced blue via fraud yet still the majority of people even on this board are so brainwashed by the media they think it’s a liberal shithole with no water.
You ever wonder why countries near the equator never really develop?
No hardship, humans are typically content to "just exist". You need some adversity to drive people. Which also makes sense why there have been corporate pushes to get people to be "victims" in hopes it'll drive up productivity and yet is constantly failing.
California has great weather and great resources, they're just content with existing.
This is correct. If you lived in Finland in 1800 and didn’t meticulously plan for the next winter the moment frost was gone your bloodline would have died off. This created a significant IQ cleansing over the course of generations. In places where resources were abundant this cleansing and the notion of developing inventions and innovations to improve life simply never occurred.
100% We've made it easier to survive which means people with IQs of 49:get to have multiple offspring vs. dying off before they can reproduce.
Someone linked to a world IQ map in other post and I was impressed how much IQ could differ between neighboring countries. For instance Belarus has an average IQ of 101 vs. a 5-10 point difference around it.
Wouldn't places like Rome and Egypt sort of defy this though? There aren't exactly a lot of brutal winters around the Mediterranean and in North Africa, yet advanced (for their times) civilizations flourished there.
Just speculating here, but ancient and classical civs were in constant conflict with their neighbors. That would be a pressure to excel. You might not have to worry about the weather quite as much but the Carthaginians could roll in and sack half the state.
Early civilization largely required decent weather for agriculture. In the Mediterranean, the Mid East, and India you see civilization but it took further development to spread to the harsher climates.
Early on in Roman history they were nearly sacked by Celts. This deeply affected them and they never forgot it. It motivated their military investments and resulted in the Empire we know of today.
It's not literally the location that matters, it's the circumstances that don't require planning or thought to survive. Equatorial areas tend to have the easiest living conditions for humans in a "Stranded on an Island with nothing" situation.
It is a liberal shithole with no water because the liberal shitheads running the show let the yearly fresh water rains flow right back into the sea? It doesn't matter what the red counties that surround LA county think because that little parcel of land holds the majority of the states population so they get the majority of state seats which determine the legislation. The only way to save cali is to deport all the illegals and arrest the current leadership for treason and hang them publicly as a warning to future commies.
San Francisco counts tourists and commuters who don’t live in the city among its “population” to gain more state and federal legislative seats. None of those people vote in SF, of course (because they almost certainly wouldn’t vote for the commie bullshit) but the false number gets used so that the smaller number of commie voters in SF can override their less-retarded neighbors. You think LA doesn’t do the same thing?
Trying to collect a raging rapid can be deadlier than the drought itself. If you are unprepared or lose your footing, you can be crushed by the overwhelming force of water or sucked under and drowned, maybe both.
This is properly and safely done, with public works, not buckets... So public stupidity - regarding misappropriations and lack of responsible prep - is the point.
Look at the San Gabriel Mountains to Los Angeles, many decades ago they built the only dams they could in the area; if Trump was emperor of California for 50 years, this water would all still be going to the ocean.
The drought stuff is all from central and northern California.
Here's a neat fact, we have these machines called "excavators", and what they do is excavate the ground so that things like man-made reservoirs can exist without the need for finding a good spot on a river.
Cool, you can imminent domain hundreds of properties. These "rivers" are dry much of the year and have had houses and businesses next to them for over a hundred years.
They did build a couple reservoirs like that in the past 40 years, but for one of them they took my friend's family ranch and many others.
The fact is, there never is a real water shortage in Southern California, the population growth has coincided with all the once numerous farms getting paved over, and people use less water than citrus groves.
The real shortages are for the rest of the state, with the farming water sent out to the Pacific. They could use more reservoirs in the Western Sierras, and could do without sending all the water to the ocean, but none of that water in Southern California is really wasted. They could make a pipeline I guess, but if they go that route might as well just pipe it in from the Pugit Sound, because that could be used more than every 5 years.
I pray and hope that Trump-like people somehow get into state government.. CA is a beautiful state and it’s been mismanaged for a long time by the dem goons in office.
Hence the praying and hoping - was only stating what is needed, not that it will happen.. you are correct - there are too many idiots that reside in this state which blindly vote blue and then wonder why things are so f’d up..
Is it? I dont think that really matters and is universally true. 10 feet is the acceptable average for the sake of universal conversion . As i said ruffly seeing i never measured could be 80 could be 90
If they had a secondary water supply just for flushing toilets and watering lawns like some parts of the State/Counties actually do this runoff would reduce potable water usage by a huge amount.. This takes infrastructure and the will to do it.. A reservoir could be built in the ocean and at several points along the waste water river if they really wanted to..
True, they could use this water for farming as well, since most of the water used in Cali is for irrigation. The problem is they don't want to solve the water problem. They like water rationing and other things they can do to control the population.
My city in Florida collects rain run-off in ponds and treats it just enough for watering lawns. Our entire city has the infrastructure for this, and we are charged way less for this grey water than the potable water our houses use. We even sell the excess to neighboring cities. This has been going on for decades. There is no reason for water shortages anywhere unless the politicians want water shortages. The idea that rain run-off in California is too polluted to use, is silly.
Hell, even the air there is known to the State of California to cause cancer. There's a reason the first thing you see is a Prop 65 warning when you step off a plane and onto a jetbridge anywhere in CA.
Environmental impacts from those projects are offset by campaign donations to Newsom, Pelosi, Harris, et al. So you see, they’re very environmentally conscious!
If you live or visit the area with any frequency this is a pretty rare sight, normally there is just a foot of water or so in the center trough that is only a few feet wide. Basically the water that makes it into this canal 99.9% of the time is runoff from street gutters.
The last new major water project in CA opened over 40 years ago. The population doubled since then. There's a massive backlog of work to do in CA, but the tax money just gets lit on fire.
Did you know southern CA gets basically all of its drinking water from the Owens river valley in northern/central CA?
Colorado river water doesn't make it that far west. It is used to irrigate alot of crops in imperial county.
There would be alot of problems with trying to store and make that water useable from all the storm drains. Then you'd have to pump it back up to a higher elevation because it's draining to the ocean.
You name me one city on earth that's next to the sea that does this. It's very expensive and difficult.
I think the answer is building another aqueduct that beings water from up north. They did it 120 years ago. William Mulholland built the aqueduct that still provides Los Angeles it's water today. It wouldn't be hard to update it or build another one like it but newer and better.
What’s weird is a lot of turdfish end up in the Gulf of Mexico where they swim upstream and look for turd free water to create, you guessed it, a whole lot of turds.
My brother just passed through there two days ago and said it was dry saw some homeless lady crawling up out of there dragging a pile of shit with her.
She made it to smoke another day.
We can only hope. Unfortunately the worst ones are squatting in people’s yards, parking lots, sidewalks, and parks nowadays. Hobo camps in the storm drains were only a thing when the bums were kept out of decent areas.
First thing I learned as a firefighter in California: it’s always going to be the Worst Fire Season Ever!
If it doesn’t rain, “Everything’s so dry! It’ll burn so easily! Worst Fire Season Ever!”
If it does rain, “There’s so much new grass! It’ll burn so easily! Worst Fire Season Ever!”
Of course, in actuality, it has a lot more to do with criminal mismanagement of rangelands by the democrats in charge, but we’re not supposed to talk about that…
Then on top of the mismanagement you have those retards out there intentionally starting them also.
I always wondered what that would be like though. Do you guys have separate crews for structural/urban/etc vs. wild or do you do it all as it comes at you?
It varies by state, but in California state, county, municipal, and local departments are all-risk. We have equipment that’s optimized for one or the other (Type-1 engines are geared towards structure fires, Type-3s are better for wildland), but we’ll use both on any incident that pops up. My first structure fire, my first interior attack, and my first time cutting a roof were all done on a Type-3, and I went to my first vegetation fire on the back seat of a Type-1. If it has wheels and pumps water, you can do work with it.
Federal agencies (US Forest Service, USBLM, NPS, and FWS) are wildland-only. That being said, Forest Service engines often respond to structure fires on a basis of “threat to the wildland,” though they’re officially limited in what they can do (no interior attacks, no roof ops), and they also respond with us to traffic collisions and wilderness rescues quite a bit.
The LA River is notorious for being dry (basically think of that giant river thing that runs through the main city of GTA V) because the government of CA does nothing for storing excess water such as this.
Remember Terminator 2? This chase scene takes place in the LA river. That little splash through an inch of water at the link below is how much water it usually carries.
The biggest deficit looks to be Trinity Lake. It seems like the total predicted inflow for 2023 will be well above normal so they increased the outflow to about double the usual winter amount, to help when the spring thaw hits. It can be tricky to just glance at current levels (as media minions will do when this is useful) without knowing WHY. Another common reason a reservoir may be low is ongoing repair work:
"The B120 forecast was released by the California Department of Water Resources on February 8, 2023. This forecast includes a 90% probablility that inflows to Trinity and Lewiston Lakes will meet or exceed 945,000 acre-feet for water year 2023 (Oct. 1, 2022 through Sept 30. 2023). Under TRRP’s Winter Flow Variability plan, this allows scheduling 60,000 acre feet of release from Lewiston Dam, above the winter base-flow level, as of February 15.
[Click here to download PDF notice for flows beginning February 15, 2023.]
Flow releases from Lewiston Dam to the Trinity River will change from the 300 cubic feet per second (cfs) baseflow to the flow schedule presented below beginning February 15 through March 14, 2023. Dam releases are then likely to remain elevated above the 300 cfs baseflow until the spring flow release commences on or around April 15."
I imagine it's tricky to calculate spring runoff and shift from storage to flood control. BUT, most are not even up to historical average levels for this time a year. My trust meter is on E. I do not underestimate the psychological value of cracked dry earth in empty reservoirs when it comes to propagating global catastrophe narratives.
All that water but no new reservoirs for decades to store it despite California growing their population for decades. This is the real reason for their lack of water. It all just flows into the ocean.
All goes out to sea....so they can complain about not having enough water and a drought by the summer.
Came here to say this.
CA doesn't have a lack fresh water, they have a lack of competent leadership.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/01/17/california-sat-on-authorized-and-much-needed-reservoir-plan-now-massive-storm-flows-head-to-sea-1325404/
Because they pocketed the billions and never did any meaningful work they promised to do. Since the cali government is corrupt from the ground up nothing is ever done.
Because the State of California is held hostage by the Radical Environmentalists. They oppose new Dam and Water Reservior Construction, so when we have rainy years, we don't have the ability to store it and it goes to the Ocean. And the Radical Environmentalist have an outsized influence in politics throughout the state.
As a California firefighter, I can confirm. Seen it firsthand many, many times. And it gets innocent people killed.
Thank you for your service--my cousin's husband is a county firefighter in the Central Valley. I pray for y'all's safety each and every day.
And on that note, I'll echo the message of the Valley farmers: "Food grows where the water flows". F*ck the Delta Smelt.
Radical environments = depopulationists.
Change my mind.
Storing resources to help during lean times is a Biblical principle .... so we can't have any of that now, can we.
It is also common sense
That's why it's in the Bible.
The Bible could be renamed "Book Of Common Sense"
Common sense comes from the Bible ... it sez so in the Bible ; )
Muh environment is just an excuse, they're more corrupt than Ukraine.
That runoff is contaminated as hell: worn tire and asphalt dust, smog fallout, urban contamination. you wouldn't want to drink.
The local aquifers were long ago also polluted by MTBE leaks from gasoline storage. A cup of MTBE is enough to pollute a whole aquifer.
There is no easy way to utilize this water.
People calling this "fresh water" are possibly uninformed.
Fresh water means it’s not salt water. Fresh water does not mean it is magically potable (drinkable) water.
Do you think what comes out of your tap comes directly from a reservoir without any processing?
My water comes from a cloud /Martin Prince
This post reminds me of the days on reddit. When a retarded liberal would come in and comment on something they knew nothing about, be completely wrong, but write as if they were correct.
Thanks for the nostalgia.
When they do that now it's, "wow this post blew up!," and, "thanks for the gold, kind stranger!"
A lot of posters are also just young and extremely inexperienced with the world, except for what they read on the internet. Combine that with your typical “know-it-all” youngster attitude and comments like the one above are what you get.
I think many are leftovers from the old newsgroup days
Well you still run it though a plant, no one is saying to pump it directly into the water systems.
Capturing it in the mountains before it becomes a flash flood will work around those issues just fine. Look at the ones already in use.
The problem is no imagination is used for the mountain run off in Pasadena CA. They only store it for a short time to prevent down stream flooding. No attempt to store it is made
https://pw.lacounty.gov/swe/devilsgate/
https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-water-levels-major-reservoirs-california
Do you think other reservoirs are super clean? Go take a swig out of your nearest reservoir and report back how it went.
You are right sir! You vote for more gov programs abs they just steal the money
Environmental impact analysis fees just happened to come out to exactly 7.545 billion dollars.
CEQA is a scam.
Nancy Pelosi has entered the chat
And here another example of if you let private individual setup their own water storage solution and then have the government buy excess it would be cheaper and more efficient then having the government try to do it
Upvote!
We need high speed trains to nowhere! Shut up bigot.
Still in design phase?
It’s also a red state that’s been forced blue via fraud yet still the majority of people even on this board are so brainwashed by the media they think it’s a liberal shithole with no water.
Umm...it is.
Someone summed it up awhile back.
You ever wonder why countries near the equator never really develop?
No hardship, humans are typically content to "just exist". You need some adversity to drive people. Which also makes sense why there have been corporate pushes to get people to be "victims" in hopes it'll drive up productivity and yet is constantly failing.
California has great weather and great resources, they're just content with existing.
This is correct. If you lived in Finland in 1800 and didn’t meticulously plan for the next winter the moment frost was gone your bloodline would have died off. This created a significant IQ cleansing over the course of generations. In places where resources were abundant this cleansing and the notion of developing inventions and innovations to improve life simply never occurred.
100% We've made it easier to survive which means people with IQs of 49:get to have multiple offspring vs. dying off before they can reproduce.
Someone linked to a world IQ map in other post and I was impressed how much IQ could differ between neighboring countries. For instance Belarus has an average IQ of 101 vs. a 5-10 point difference around it.
What's the point of working a 9-5 cubicle job if you live in paradise?
We'd all do the same....
You can't possibly believe that, can you? We landed on the moon for crying our loud. Explain why we would even bother.
Wouldn't places like Rome and Egypt sort of defy this though? There aren't exactly a lot of brutal winters around the Mediterranean and in North Africa, yet advanced (for their times) civilizations flourished there.
Just speculating here, but ancient and classical civs were in constant conflict with their neighbors. That would be a pressure to excel. You might not have to worry about the weather quite as much but the Carthaginians could roll in and sack half the state.
Early civilization largely required decent weather for agriculture. In the Mediterranean, the Mid East, and India you see civilization but it took further development to spread to the harsher climates.
And then they gave their women rights....
Early on in Roman history they were nearly sacked by Celts. This deeply affected them and they never forgot it. It motivated their military investments and resulted in the Empire we know of today.
It's not literally the location that matters, it's the circumstances that don't require planning or thought to survive. Equatorial areas tend to have the easiest living conditions for humans in a "Stranded on an Island with nothing" situation.
It is a liberal shithole with no water because the liberal shitheads running the show let the yearly fresh water rains flow right back into the sea? It doesn't matter what the red counties that surround LA county think because that little parcel of land holds the majority of the states population so they get the majority of state seats which determine the legislation. The only way to save cali is to deport all the illegals and arrest the current leadership for treason and hang them publicly as a warning to future commies.
San Francisco counts tourists and commuters who don’t live in the city among its “population” to gain more state and federal legislative seats. None of those people vote in SF, of course (because they almost certainly wouldn’t vote for the commie bullshit) but the false number gets used so that the smaller number of commie voters in SF can override their less-retarded neighbors. You think LA doesn’t do the same thing?
We also found out that the census was counting illegal aliens, and also overcounting blue states and undercounting red states.
I always said, if California, NY & IL were actually blue then why all is all cheating needed in the big cities???
To make the margins seem impossible, thus encouraging wimpy conservatives to flee instead of fight
Texas is next if they don’t prepare
California has excess communism.
Correction: They have a lack of legitimate leadership. The "incompetence" is intentional contempt.
I thought Used Car Gavin was the most popular and competent Governor in the country though?
If they dam it up, hillbillys will be fishing on weekends. Can't have that.
Yup, I'm never saving water for an artificial drought. 20min showers every day.
Username checks out
Basically an annual courtesy flush of all the needles, bum piss, and general trash.
our most precious resource lost forever! - some dumb lib, probably
Drought next week. They're collecting NONE of this.
Stupid is deadly; and it's all that's left.
Stupid IS left.
(The sentence says that too.)
Yes.
Oh I wasn't trying to correct you. I'm pointing out the double entendre.
The left is stupid and the only thing left is stupid.
So.
Stupid is left. (double meaning)
Some ignoramus upthread imparted the wisdom that this water, in its current form, isn't drinkable. So no great loss.
Trying to collect a raging rapid can be deadlier than the drought itself. If you are unprepared or lose your footing, you can be crushed by the overwhelming force of water or sucked under and drowned, maybe both.
This is properly and safely done, with public works, not buckets... So public stupidity - regarding misappropriations and lack of responsible prep - is the point.
Look at the San Gabriel Mountains to Los Angeles, many decades ago they built the only dams they could in the area; if Trump was emperor of California for 50 years, this water would all still be going to the ocean.
The drought stuff is all from central and northern California.
Here's a neat fact, we have these machines called "excavators", and what they do is excavate the ground so that things like man-made reservoirs can exist without the need for finding a good spot on a river.
Cool, you can imminent domain hundreds of properties. These "rivers" are dry much of the year and have had houses and businesses next to them for over a hundred years.
They did build a couple reservoirs like that in the past 40 years, but for one of them they took my friend's family ranch and many others.
The fact is, there never is a real water shortage in Southern California, the population growth has coincided with all the once numerous farms getting paved over, and people use less water than citrus groves.
The real shortages are for the rest of the state, with the farming water sent out to the Pacific. They could use more reservoirs in the Western Sierras, and could do without sending all the water to the ocean, but none of that water in Southern California is really wasted. They could make a pipeline I guess, but if they go that route might as well just pipe it in from the Pugit Sound, because that could be used more than every 5 years.
I pray and hope that Trump-like people somehow get into state government.. CA is a beautiful state and it’s been mismanaged for a long time by the dem goons in office.
You'll be praying and hoping to the grave unfortunately.
CA politics isn't going anywhere.
Hence the praying and hoping - was only stating what is needed, not that it will happen.. you are correct - there are too many idiots that reside in this state which blindly vote blue and then wonder why things are so f’d up..
Evil kills itself, though. And life goes on thereafter...
But only after evil has nothing left to kill
Imagine the trash and chemicals in that water, and where’s it going ?
Cleaner than Palestine water
*East Palestine, Ohio, USA
And? What? Why did this come out of your brain?
You, uh, didn't see where Palestines environment got decimated by burning toxic chemicals?
What the fuck does that have to do with this?????
The two events are only related because of the word water and your brain went, "Ooh! Ooh! I know something about contaminated water!"
Seems like people got it, you and one other dope are just wound too tight. But hey, just keep running your mouth, you're the best at it.
Yeah, there are a lot of dopes out there.
You would be quadruple jabbed the moment you put your toe in
That water is full of psych meds and birth control.
https://files.catbox.moe/wvitzi.jpeg
TURNING THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!
I wish it would show just how deep the culvert is.
The dumb drag race from Grease is happening under all that.
Remember Terminator. Or The Italian Job. (a lot of movies)
Washing Travoltas dildo collection out to the sea.
its around 4 storys from the top of the bridge
I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSdDtio9Ixs
i think you do now seeing how many people told you you asked when you didnt know i answered
I've walked that river many times
I walked a few blocks once but didn't want to leave my bike too far out of sight
have you tho
Aka 40 feet
i never measured it wile riding my bmx down it when i was a kid but sounds about right
A story is 10ft
Is it? I dont think that really matters and is universally true. 10 feet is the acceptable average for the sake of universal conversion . As i said ruffly seeing i never measured could be 80 could be 90
Repo Man shows it basically dry in 1984.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
It's usually dry all the time
After every rain the beaches in LA smell like a chemical toilet for a week.
The LA River is a sewer. That water is not potable. That water would need to go through a serious purification process to be drinkable.
Like the water everywhere else?
Like Lake Erie for example?
If they had a secondary water supply just for flushing toilets and watering lawns like some parts of the State/Counties actually do this runoff would reduce potable water usage by a huge amount.. This takes infrastructure and the will to do it.. A reservoir could be built in the ocean and at several points along the waste water river if they really wanted to..
True, they could use this water for farming as well, since most of the water used in Cali is for irrigation. The problem is they don't want to solve the water problem. They like water rationing and other things they can do to control the population.
Seems Pelosi and Newsome etc. have enriched themselves and others dangling the carrots for years..
My city in Florida collects rain run-off in ponds and treats it just enough for watering lawns. Our entire city has the infrastructure for this, and we are charged way less for this grey water than the potable water our houses use. We even sell the excess to neighboring cities. This has been going on for decades. There is no reason for water shortages anywhere unless the politicians want water shortages. The idea that rain run-off in California is too polluted to use, is silly.
Yep, you dropped one in the pickle barrel from 20,000 feet..
All reservoir water is undrinkable. Everywhere.
See if those dumbfucks retain some of the water for the next drought
They can't because a damn would disrupt the natural habitat of some bugs and a couple ground cover weeds
Retaining water in reservoirs is known by the state of California to cause cancer.
Hell, even the air there is known to the State of California to cause cancer. There's a reason the first thing you see is a Prop 65 warning when you step off a plane and onto a jetbridge anywhere in CA.
Bugs are important man. How do you expect us to put dinner on the table? Reeeeee
But not their shopping malls and parking lots. Also stadiums and theme parks
Environmental impacts from those projects are offset by campaign donations to Newsom, Pelosi, Harris, et al. So you see, they’re very environmentally conscious!
wow a river with water in it who would have thought......was this man made? ......everything is cyclical
Roads falling apart? Nature’s fault.
Rains more than usual over a given period? Man’s fault.
If you live or visit the area with any frequency this is a pretty rare sight, normally there is just a foot of water or so in the center trough that is only a few feet wide. Basically the water that makes it into this canal 99.9% of the time is runoff from street gutters.
A foot? Try less than an inch in most of it.
I was being generous lol
Imagine if they had reservoirs and used that water instead of just flushing it all out to the ocean then using up all of the Colorado river.
There’s a lot of reservoirs, actually. Newsom has ordered all of them to keep their floodgates open so they don’t actually save anything.
Haven't had a new reservoir built in decades, despite our population increasing. Governors are the fucking worst, all of them.
Commies...commies are the worst
The last new major water project in CA opened over 40 years ago. The population doubled since then. There's a massive backlog of work to do in CA, but the tax money just gets lit on fire.
Did you know southern CA gets basically all of its drinking water from the Owens river valley in northern/central CA?
Colorado river water doesn't make it that far west. It is used to irrigate alot of crops in imperial county.
There would be alot of problems with trying to store and make that water useable from all the storm drains. Then you'd have to pump it back up to a higher elevation because it's draining to the ocean.
You name me one city on earth that's next to the sea that does this. It's very expensive and difficult.
I think the answer is building another aqueduct that beings water from up north. They did it 120 years ago. William Mulholland built the aqueduct that still provides Los Angeles it's water today. It wouldn't be hard to update it or build another one like it but newer and better.
30% potable water, 70% libtard tears
They have too many spike proteins
The endangered turdfish must not be stopped from reaching the ocean.
What’s weird is a lot of turdfish end up in the Gulf of Mexico where they swim upstream and look for turd free water to create, you guessed it, a whole lot of turds.
And all you can do is "catch and release."
It's not even fun fishing for them anymore.
Lol the coney island whitefish
Thinking how many needles piles of trash and tents just washed out into the ocean.
Poor fish gonna get aids. 😂
My brother just passed through there two days ago and said it was dry saw some homeless lady crawling up out of there dragging a pile of shit with her. She made it to smoke another day.
"Look at me, there has to be...something more than what they see. Wholesome and pure, oh so scared and unsure. A poor man's Sandra Deeeeeee"
The lesson of Grease is “don’t be yourself”.
"Want to get the man? Dress and act like a whore"
And Danny tried to be a jock, but that didn’t move the needle for her. He threw away his letter jacket the second he saw her dressed like a whore.
Yup. 2nd movie I thought of when I saw this. Haha.
So much for the, “forever droughts!” predictions from then”climate change” cult 🤷🏼♂️
We haven't been in a drought for almost 2 years. Newsom keeps it that way for power.
Wash it all away.
Learn to swim
Probably wiped out a ton of homeless camps.
Nothing of value was lost
We can only hope. Unfortunately the worst ones are squatting in people’s yards, parking lots, sidewalks, and parks nowadays. Hobo camps in the storm drains were only a thing when the bums were kept out of decent areas.
Why would climate cha ge destroy all those government owned hobo tent homes ?!??!
If only they captured all that water instead of always butching about a lack of water.
Next storm will bring the frogs.
I guess they can't complain about grass or droughts anymore.
First thing I learned as a firefighter in California: it’s always going to be the Worst Fire Season Ever!
If it doesn’t rain, “Everything’s so dry! It’ll burn so easily! Worst Fire Season Ever!”
If it does rain, “There’s so much new grass! It’ll burn so easily! Worst Fire Season Ever!”
Of course, in actuality, it has a lot more to do with criminal mismanagement of rangelands by the democrats in charge, but we’re not supposed to talk about that…
Then on top of the mismanagement you have those retards out there intentionally starting them also.
I always wondered what that would be like though. Do you guys have separate crews for structural/urban/etc vs. wild or do you do it all as it comes at you?
It varies by state, but in California state, county, municipal, and local departments are all-risk. We have equipment that’s optimized for one or the other (Type-1 engines are geared towards structure fires, Type-3s are better for wildland), but we’ll use both on any incident that pops up. My first structure fire, my first interior attack, and my first time cutting a roof were all done on a Type-3, and I went to my first vegetation fire on the back seat of a Type-1. If it has wheels and pumps water, you can do work with it.
Federal agencies (US Forest Service, USBLM, NPS, and FWS) are wildland-only. That being said, Forest Service engines often respond to structure fires on a basis of “threat to the wildland,” though they’re officially limited in what they can do (no interior attacks, no roof ops), and they also respond with us to traffic collisions and wilderness rescues quite a bit.
That's badass. Much respect my fren. Hopefully you guys get the appreciation you deserve.
I don't get it.
The LA River is notorious for being dry (basically think of that giant river thing that runs through the main city of GTA V) because the government of CA does nothing for storing excess water such as this.
Come summer, they will complain about a drought.
So all of the shopping carts and burnt out and rusted cars will be swept away?
Can’t remember where I read it… but there’s a really good story about a flood cleansing a bunch of people who need cleansing…
Can you not be so cryptic? Nobody Noahs what you mean
If only I was able to, I’m doing the best I cain!
You are Abel to, just do it!
Y'all just Jonah get it....
Throw in a earthquake and some hate raining down from the sky just to be sure.
False.
LA irrigates much of it's water supply from Northern and Central California via the California Aqueduct.
And will be dry again in a week.
And "Gone In 60 Seconds".
Kek
I liked Grease when I was a kid. Actually saw it IN a drive in theatre. So meta!
The only time have ever watched grease is when I was out working in the garage.
The river is usually dry year-round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSdDtio9Ixs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo_(creek)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River
Remember Terminator 2? This chase scene takes place in the LA river. That little splash through an inch of water at the link below is how much water it usually carries.
https://youtu.be/fv98_CNTvDA?t=302
Here's the reservoir level. Not even average. https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
The biggest deficit looks to be Trinity Lake. It seems like the total predicted inflow for 2023 will be well above normal so they increased the outflow to about double the usual winter amount, to help when the spring thaw hits. It can be tricky to just glance at current levels (as media minions will do when this is useful) without knowing WHY. Another common reason a reservoir may be low is ongoing repair work:
"The B120 forecast was released by the California Department of Water Resources on February 8, 2023. This forecast includes a 90% probablility that inflows to Trinity and Lewiston Lakes will meet or exceed 945,000 acre-feet for water year 2023 (Oct. 1, 2022 through Sept 30. 2023). Under TRRP’s Winter Flow Variability plan, this allows scheduling 60,000 acre feet of release from Lewiston Dam, above the winter base-flow level, as of February 15.
[Click here to download PDF notice for flows beginning February 15, 2023.] Flow releases from Lewiston Dam to the Trinity River will change from the 300 cubic feet per second (cfs) baseflow to the flow schedule presented below beginning February 15 through March 14, 2023. Dam releases are then likely to remain elevated above the 300 cfs baseflow until the spring flow release commences on or around April 15."
https://www.trrp.net/restoration/flows/current/
I imagine it's tricky to calculate spring runoff and shift from storage to flood control. BUT, most are not even up to historical average levels for this time a year. My trust meter is on E. I do not underestimate the psychological value of cracked dry earth in empty reservoirs when it comes to propagating global catastrophe narratives.
Lets just say that Oroville Dam was literally a few inches away from killing thousands a few years ago. It would have been horrific.
So they steal fresh water from states Iike Colorado because their leaders are corrupt as fuck.
And they are storing NONE of that water I guarantee you.
Have they built and reservoirs or any method to save this water yet? Or will they just complain about not having enough water when summer hits?
No.
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/01/13/down-drain/
Fuck no, that’s a logical solution and a racist one at that!
Hey, that's where they shot the Terminator 2 bike chase!
👍
Sooo we shouldn’t hear them bitching about droughts this summer right?
They'll be complaining they're in a drought again by summer.
All that water but no new reservoirs for decades to store it despite California growing their population for decades. This is the real reason for their lack of water. It all just flows into the ocean.
Let's see Terminator ride his Harley through there Now
Straight to the ocean. Probably against the law to water your garden with it.
Is that the T2 river???
yep
Full of feces, needles, a few homeless people and many more forms of LA aids right into the Pacific
Wasteful. They should-be capturing.
They’d keep releasing water to save <insert some stupid fucking fish here>
at least the rain washed all the homeless crackheads and giant ants out of the sewer system.
That was awful sudden, I wonder how many homeless got washed out to sea…
Cities don’t like spring flooding so they build huge diversion channels and then wonder why their aquifers are dry.
Breaking: New water flow in unsuspecting trough washes away part of power grid lol