You might have missed few things like noticing while farms have went under ” years back” thanks to Pelosi selling water rights to a friend of hers driving prices up those who couldn’t dig wells went under.
Meanwhile their golf courses are still green.
No matter, it’s said they shop at Safeway anyways Ya know.
Yes wildlife is suffering and put water in a bird bath it can be gone pretty fast to at least help a few of them.
Didnt hear about the rats but did about the deers from the horses mouth that can destroy the field like a field of fruit trees.
Lived here long enough to see these droughts as well as heat waves before which are followed by flooding. Also knowing kids will run out to watch the rising waters and without parental warning will drown. In fact as a young teen already surfing and water rafting did the same and a whole side of the bank caved in to the raging waters and I barley escaped by foreseeing it about 3 seconds before it fell by seeing and feeling what was happening above me and looked behind to see a crack and jumped over it before it fell in. People don’t realoze how fast a landscape can change. Faster then the fastest runners can run and I was one of the fastest. Or 220 in 20.7 seconds. Even I wasn’t crazy enough to try that water the soup above it was about 3 feet high ” foamy like water spray like the wave momentum after the wave falls.
Talk now is preceding the drought is the danger of a mega storm. In old Sac they have tours of parts of building now underground that were flooded. The storm affected all of Calif up to Canada the whole coast. Most parts of Northern cal were under water. Someone reminded me of it.
It’s called the Pineapple Express and comes from Hawaii. We are over due and doing research is said they are worried about it coming any time now. It’s a river of water about a mile up in the atmosphere that could come down on us like a hurricane.
Anyone who still has relatives here should read this and learn to be aware of the signs to get to the hills and if they can’t a plan B fast. ESPECIALLY anyone near rivers.
Texas will suffer increasing Taxes it’s already complaining about.
report from the Nelson Point Correspondencedescribed the scene: “On Friday last, we were visited by the most destructive and devastating flood that has ever been the lot of ‘white’ men to see in this part of the country. Feather River reached the height of 9 feet more than was ever known by the ‘oldest inhabitant,’ carrying away bridges, camps, stores, saloon, restaurant, and much real-estate.” Drowning deaths occurred every day on the Feather, Yuba and American rivers. In one tragic account, an entire settlement of Chinese miners was drowned by floods on the Yuba River.
This enormous pulse of water from the rain flowed down the slopes and across the landscape, overwhelming streams and rivers, creating a huge inland sea in California’s enormous Central Valley—a region at least 300 miles long and 20 miles wide. Water covered farmlands and towns, drowning people, horses and cattle, and washing away houses, buildings, barns, fences and bridges. The water reached depths up to 30 feet, completely submerging telegraph poles that had just been installed between San Francisco and New York, causing transportation and communications to completely break down over much of the state for a month. William Brewer wrote a series of letters to his brother on the east coast describing the surreal scenes of tragedy that he witnessed during his travels in the region that winter and spring. In a description dated January 31, 1862, Brewer wrote:
Thousands of farms are entirely under water—cattle starving and drowning. All the roads in the middle of the state are impassable; so all mails are cut off. The telegraph also does not work clear through. In the Sacramento Valley for some distance the tops of the poles are under water. The entire valley was a lake extending from the mountains on one side to the coast range hills on the other. Steamers ran back over the ranches fourteen miles from the river, carrying stock, etc, to the hills. Nearly every house and farm over this immense region is gone. America has never before seen such desolation by flood as this has been, and seldom has the Old World seen the like.
Brewer describes a great sheet of brown rippling water extending from the Coast Range to the Sierra Nevada. One-quarter of the state’s estimated 800,000 cattle drowned in the flood, marking the beginning of the end of the cattle-based ranchero society in California. One-third of the state’s property was destroyed, and one home in eight was destroyed completely or carried away by the floodwaters.
read more here it’s worth a read of you have relatives here.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/
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