Good Heavens, California!

[digitS']

The snow pack average is 180% of normal!

More than 160,000 people evacuated because of the danger of failure to the spillway of the Oroville dam. Sacramento Bee

Troubling climate problems! Hang in there, California! Too little water, too much water ... infrastructure hanging on by a thread.

Steve

 

[valley ranch]

Well, Steve, I'm at the mountain place, much snow, much! This is a shot up to the hot tub deck, in the back ground you can see the roof of the greenhouse further up the hill.

 

[digitS']

That is one very impressive ..

. pile of snow!

Snow creates a quiet place. Of course, I live in a quiet world but a blanket of snow absorbs even more sound. When it blankets the trees and one begins to dig paths with the berms on either side, a winter landscape of white contrasts with the memory of what things looked like, only a few months or weeks before.

@ninnymary likes snow and so do many. I have a working relationship with it . @valley ranch , I imagine that you just have to relax any great desire to find any sort of outoftheway place to put it all ...

Hopefully, the snow will not quickly change its quiet and still nature and rush away, downhill ..!

Steve

 

[jackb]

If @ninnymary likes snow I have a few feet of it on my driveway. She is welcome to come and take all she wants.

 

[Carol Dee]

WOW California has really been hit hard. 1st and extended drought, now TOO MUCH water!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

That's because we didn't plan to be in anything but a long term drought. No, we have to build a trillion dollar hi speed rail system, which is not needed, that is behind schedule with cost overruns. No, we have to be trying to cede from the USA like crazy people. No, we have to fight against all that America stands for, by threatening to hide the illegals. We have a Governor who rails against the new President, and then goes begging when things get tough.

I so wish our state could have had the forethought to plan for storage of water, beyond the reservoirs that have been mostly empty. The one 10 min from me is only 40% full and its HUGE (New Melones)! I want more perc ponds, education to the masses that flood irrigation is GOOD, esp for the underground aquifers, and that conservation needs to remain in place. A wet warm winter does not allow us to lessen our vigilance on water saving.

 

[thistlebloom]

I always wondered why there weren't more cisterns, public and private, under buildings to capture the runoff that just goes out to sea.
It could be used to irrigate landscaping if nothing else.

 

[bobm]

That's because we didn't plan to be in anything but a long term drought. No, we have to build a trillion dollar hi speed rail system, which is not needed, that is behind schedule with cost overruns. No, we have to be trying to cede from the USA like crazy people. No, we have to fight against all that America stands for, by threatening to hide the illegals. We have a Governor who rails against the new President, and then goes begging when things get tough.
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I so wish our state could have had the forethought to plan for storage of water, beyond the reservoirs that have been mostly empty. The one 10 min from me is only 40% full and its HUGE (New Melones)! I want more perc ponds, education to the masses that flood irrigation is GOOD, esp for the underground aquifers, and that conservation needs to remain in place. A wet warm winter does not allow us to lessen our vigilance on water saving.

You know that Cal.'s governor, " captain moonbeam " and his "progressive " cronies know what is best for us , then let us pay for it. After all, he and they told us so.

 

[Zeedman]

I always wondered why there weren't more cisterns, public and private, under buildings to capture the runoff that just goes out to sea.
It could be used to irrigate landscaping if nothing else.

I often wondered that myself, when I lived in SoCal. You would think that it would be common sense, when water is so valuable, to trap as much as possible during the rainy season - and not just in the reservoirs, but EVERYWHERE.

Funny thing is, here in Wisconsin, there used to be a lot of cisterns in the older homes, before the advent of public water utilities. Most of those have been torn down now, but my late uncle's home still has one. He had asbestos siding, though... so the captured rain water would have been of questionable potability.

 

[valley ranch]

Damage to Orovill dam!>

https://www.rt.com/usa/377147-oroville-dam-collapse-evacuation/