Dramatic photos show how storms filled California reservoirs
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2023
- Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California's drought that boat docks sat on dry land and cars drove into the center of what should have been Folsom Lake. Now, 12 of California's 17 major reservoirs are filled above their historical averages for the start of spring.
Millions of acres of feet of water.
m^3?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Prime example of uninformed newscasters. Wonder what else they say to misinform. Don’t believe everything they say.
an acre foot is ~300k gallons
@@NubRusty what is an acre of feet?
Now manage the windfall of water as if it were a scarce and precious resource. The drought showed how bad water levels can get and if the resource is managed as if the influx of water will never end then another crisis is just a prolonged drought away.
"WOW !! The reservoirs are full, so now we can WASTE plenty of water"
@@paullake1114 golf courses, lawns and swimming pools
Now FLUSH those toilets.
Yall are t totally fd.
You chose to build metropolises in the friggin desert by stealing water from others.
They won't. They will squander it, then cry about it the next drought.
The last photos that they used to show the “past” and “now” were incredible. Such an astounding water level difference.
Yes, very astounding.
Lake Oroville
Thank you anthropogenicglobalwarming! WooHoo
Some folks suffered during floods, I know. But this is very good news. Hope this gift is managed well. For boaters, have fun!
So I guess California is no longer in a drought
@@jdos5643I guess that a drought can also happen when it's rains a lot just few times in a year but most of the water runs off.
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 but apparently it rained so much last year into this year that the dams canals and reservoirs were filled up to the brink. There was flooding in some areas also. Not to mention Death Valley getting water. So we can consider the possibility of being blessed. There are many places in the world that don’t get a drop of water. Dry hot places like many parts of Africa. But water is life.
@@jdos5643 I agree with you. If you have water now you should try to do everything that water can soak in the soil and only come out again through plants and trees or goes underground into the ground water level. That works in already dry areas as well so it should be like walking in the park for the rest of the world. It would also create a better foundation for organic agriculture and again a solid base for a good business. clean, green, reasonable prices and substantial. Also in California it properly could help to fight back the drought and the horrible fire. Yes water is life and a human right but water is useless when it doesn't go into us through nature 🌍🛠️😎🍚
So great to see. Lake Oroville up here looks so much better. And it's even more full now and still raining this week. Much needed.
I have no idea where lake Oroville is but I am so glad to hear that.
@@anacletwilliams8315 It's like an hour drive north of Sacramento. One of the largest in the state. It was looking seriously sad five years ago.
As a resident of California and kern county I am more concerned with getting the aquifer back to normal levels as well. It’s happening but I hope they don’t stop doing it. To note it’s done by flooding segments of land with water and allowing it to seep into the ground so if you see water just sitting on a piece of property where water never was then that’s what is happening. It’s like having a bunch of little lakes everywhere and that’s how I knew the drought was official over
Now remember just because the dams are full doesn't mean go back to what things were. You all should remember the worst of drought and install into your water management
You are talking about california. No chance of common sense practices happening in that state
@@davidreed3357Facts.
California: the state that uses common sense in all the ways that don't matter, and none of the ways that do.
@@davidreed3357And yet California has the strongest economy in the US, one of the top 3 in education and lowest unemployment.
Maybe stay off Fox News?
@@str8ballinSA maybe find some current news. Roflmfao
That's great news and a huge relief for residents. I've been watching the slow decline and am happy to see it filling up again!
Don't worry, the environmentalists will lobby that the fish need more water and force California to drain down the reservoirs to help the fish, then, when next winter only has the normal amount of precipitation, they will declare a drought again as the reservoir are again low.
Yes but don't rest on your laurels. God has not given America a free pass; only a reprieve.
If nothing is done to prepare for the next extreme weather crisis, shame on you.
@@meilinchan7314 California hasn't started a single major water works project in the last 50 years yet their population has grown a lot. Why is it surprising to anyone that they don't have enough water? People want to solve the water issues but environmentalist won't allow any projects that would actually improve the situation.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 Wow, someone is keeping racism alive.
I guarantee the farmers use the most water but they kinda have to. You want food, they have got to grow it. So you want to be able to eat but you don't want farmers to get more water than you.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 How about equal distribution for all. Why does skin color matter? If every person is allocated 250 gallons per day, why are you bringing the amount of melanin in a person's skin into play.
I know the feeling. We once had less than 12 months water coverage in my country due to droughts only for the dams to be filled in roughly a weekend due a tropical storm. As our country also so happened to be the one naming the storms that year in SADC, we named the devastating storm that wrecked havoc for our neighbors as 'gift' in our language
When it doesn’t rain for a long time the reservoirs look empty and when it rains a lot they look full again.
Incredible, who would have thunk it.
Yeah! Unbelievable!
Haha - we all learned this basic premise as toddlers during our bath times...
Climate change!
That is great for California. I used to live in Fresno California and I remember the droughts how bad they were.
It looks beautiful filling up.
Im curious on why these western states that experience water shortages do not create dedicated reservoirs with holes drilled in the bottom that reach the underground aquifers so when they do experience seasons of high rain and snow they can also replenish the natural aquifers that have been being drained. Letting it run off when you dont know when its going to rain again seems like a waste. ancient people were doing this thousands of years ago... Roman cisterns are still collecting water underground and being used to this day... so why doesnt these states just create a way to replenish the aquifers that already exist?
They do exactly what you wrote it's called Aquifer recharge (AR) and aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)
@@drscopeifywhere? I know UT does, but cali?
I figured the storms helped somehow. I just hope the Colorado River is full now.
Certain areas are but the Colorado River going through needles ca was low last week
Colorado river gets its water from a totally different water shed. East of the mountains, hopefully snow pack will help
So California can steal all that water too?
It should be. CO has seen massive amounts of snowfall this year.
This is such good news.
And there are multiple reservoirs of water sitting upon the mountains in the form of snow pack.
Ok I hope people learn to conserve and not take this for granted.
Your sentiment involves people, and unfortunately, "people" aren't worth all the Hope's or prayers. I honestly don't have much faith in our species.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto I wish the cockroachs better luck.
lets hope the government does not drain them again to increase prices oh i mean to save a fish...
Now let's hope that they can use the water responsibility and not end up how they always have in the past.
The majority of the water is used for agriculture, and the majority of that water is used to grow hay and alfalfa, and we feed much of that to animals we are going to slaughter and eat. It can be argued that it is the meat industry and all the carnivores that have created this problem.
@@stephencampbell2018 did I .. did I find the vegan?
So what plans does California have to take advantage of all this extra water, what with the Colorado River going dry. Utah has by diverting more water to the aquifer recharge zones, saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water in a way that protects from evaporation. California definitely needs to be doing something like that, as well. They should have had a system in place a long time ago to collect and store water, just like a rainy day fund. Instead of flooding, it would be amazing if they had a way to divert the extra water to prevent the flooding and save it.
Keep in mind that more water means more people. The scarcity of water is a reason why cities in California don't allow massive new construction; and water isn't the only thing that makes California a difficult place to afford.
I guess you didn't watch this video
Yes! We need it!
Yes, we do.
California really lucked out that the rain came back, California has been looking doomed in a lot more ways than just one in recent years.
Corn Pop... where's the rest of the Pops??
Corn Pop - I’ve heard that you’re a bad dude.
It's going to be the politicians, not the weather, that dooms California...
That's what you get when you live in a desert.
Wow so awesome!
I love to see before and after pics.
A sight to see
No way we are still in a drought! Really, manage the water correctly and we can make it through dry seasons.
Rich assholes and corporations were hoarding and wasting water during the worst of the drought, you think they're going to pull a 180 and start being responsible now?
That’s why I hate California, not for the usual reasons, but there are so many issues that could easily be resolved with fairly simple actions from its government, including water usage.
"WOW !! The reservoirs are full, so now we can WASTE plenty of water"
Outstanding..!
So this means water metering rates will go down now right? ... Right???
Silly Rabat...
that is amazing! I live in Canada, but I was very concerned for these people and farmers down south.
With Thanks & Gratitude to you....:)
Thank goodness!!!
It rained. The water drained to the reservoirs. The reservoirs filled. Pure rocket science.
Now what if Death Valley gets filled up too
No more death
@@KarlenBell no more valley
I feel like you might be on to something 🤔🤔
What if a frog had wings ?
@@FuckOffShitTube001 it doesn't?
Thank goodness! I know things were getting pretty desperate for a lot of Americans (and manufacturing that many extra plastic bottles would be a disaster on its own)..
happy to see california get their water supplies straightened out.
As a second year Californian now, we have made tremendous strides in the right direction. I feel that a slow, steady, upward trajectory will bring us back from the brink. Please do not give up folks, there are more good samirtans than bad folks throughout the world.
I’d still say we need more rain!
That doesn't mean you lift the restrictions. It means you better take care of what you have now or you'll go right back to where you were before.
=AND THAT'S *TERRIBLE* =!!!!!
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It's almost like they were designed to do this...go figure?
I think they know that? They’re just shocked at the difference in water levels before and after.
Damn that last photo had a huge difference!
Millions of acres of feet of water
Im so confused to the point where I ask myself what kind of measurement is water
Hard to believe that about a year ago climate change experts prognosticated that it would be years before California reservoirs would be near normal.
Whats even harder to believe is anyone listens to those yahoos anymore after how wrong they've been every single time.
climate is changing , it's not a matter of years , but it's changing , what ever you say or beleive , stay tune ....
The system skipped over normal rainfall into monsoons. Expect the drought to come back in a year or two.
You are a zero content troll!
Mother nature and God are in charge
well when you are over populated and live in a more or less desert how long do you think that's going to last ? glad too see that they got snow and rain water . they have been dry !
technically California was more of a wet lands marsh type until we drained the central valley. Ca once had the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi but the government got involved
@@timg2973 too many people moved in compared to the water supply that's why lake Meade and the hoover damn was built yet they drained it
After years of drought maybe California should have added reservoirs to hold this new rain water.
Somebody did a hell of a rain dance for this much water.
The same people built a bridge over lake Shasta at 140’ water depth the next 5 years it was zero feet deep. Probably cost 10x more due to poor prognosticating .
Same people said don’t raise shasta dam as it will never rain enough to fill the lake , nice work .
Imagine that, kinda like nature just works. Dry spells and wet spells. Hot years and cold years, a cycle of nature.
But people think that THEY are watching a 10,000,000+ yr old planets climate change in THEIR lifetimes..silly humans
yeah, but climate change amplifies the dry spells and wet spells
yep true. And those cycles are changing pretty dramatically with the huge surge in CO2 over the last couple centuries, or maybe you hadnt noticed
Some folks blame climate change, but I’m not one of those folks
Yeah, it's almost as if climate change zealots and rabid environmentalists don't know what they hell they're talking about. Imagine that.
Great to see!
To some people that is still not enough. Mother Nature has been very generous this season. She won't be doing that every year. #BeThankful
Should have used this opportunity while the land was dry to excavate earth to increase the capacity of how much water those reservoirs can hold. Would be better to try and double the capacity to meet the demand especially as the population increases.
I’m no expert but that may mean an increase in the weight of water the dams have to hold back?
@@Oligodendrocyte139 he’s only using his 5th grade brain
@@Oligodendrocyte139no, the pressure is only given by the water-height vs the dam, not the volume.
@@martin096 name one
@@jmpoulsen1 My Physics was never great so I’ll take your word for it but it seems counterintuitive that a dam whose base is level with a flat reservoir floor experiences the same pressure as one of the same height but the reservoir floor slopes away from the wall. I’d have thought that the water pressure in the deeper parts would exert some back pressure on the wall. I feel an experiment coming on 😀
Love California and everythin g that is in it ...what a bless the rain was for them... Hope no wild fire this year
You can bet pg&e is going to produce another record breaking fuck up them and caltrans to make new roads or highspeed railway yet they still can't fix the roads or actually work
California used to be cool til all the techies came and pushed natives out and made it over priced and super restricted
cali was cool in the 90s and before.... now its a giant scum hole, and honestly what ever craps going on in is the residents own doing
Beautiful land and state but a dumpster fire from a government standpoint.
The more rain they get the more green plant life that dries out and burns from fires. The fires are historically worse after they get a lot of rain.
Beautiful
Californians apparently are now discovering that weather has cycles. Some of them are just random streaks and others are true autocorrelative cycles.
They were in panic with the drought, thinking that they were going to become a desert. Now they are amazed that rain came back again.
The next thing perhaps will be the amazement for an earthquake in San Andres Fault!
😉🙂
Whatever happens, I hope that they feel well, with or without water!
Thank you father God for answering our prayers, for abundance of clean water!!! ...
then the government poisons it.
Wait until the snow melts
Exactly!! Hope it’s a slow melt and not a drastic melt!
So nice!
Let's see how long it lasts
And weather modification is real af
Yes, burning millions of tons of fossil fuels modifying the weather is real AF!
Humans haven't evolved to change weather yet.
We can move the jet stream?
@@kingssuck06 yes they can manipulate it.
@@redlightrunner930 I heard China launched a bunch of weather balloons with table fans strapped to them in order to change it permanently. Worked a charm.
raise those dams higher,drill big holes in river bottoms and floodplains to help the water soak in.
That might solve problems...they can't be doing that!
If only you had a clue about engineering!
There is a new reservoir being built through too late for this season, and they are raising the height of a few dams...again too late.
Its amazing how much rain water isn't captured to help maintain lake and reservoir levels.
I remember March 1 1991
We had a severe drought. I was living in
Santa Barbara. It rained that day and I was watching the 6pm news. The lady announcer said
“Experts say it will take 5-6y to refill Lake Cachuma.” I thought they have no clue. It rained everyday in March.
Lake Cachuma overflowed the damn on March 31.
It didn't rain, then it did. My reality is shattered...
Then the water, without being asked, filled up those big dry holes.
@@oldbatwit5102 Majestic.
Dozens of words of letters of meaning.
This was a miracle.
more like cyclical . But whatever floats your boat 😂
Enjoy it while it lasts!
GRATITUDE------- SHOW YOUR GRATITUDE TO GOD BY PRAYING AND THANKING HIM FOR SAVING OUR LIVES BY SENDING US ALL THIS WATER.
He sent too much to Pakistan and drowned a lot of people 🙄
In all the photos there was still a lot of shore line showing. Looked much fuller than before, but not full to the brim.
One snowy season is not enough to fill years of drought, hopefully a few more very snowy seasons will fill them to the brim again.
The army core of engineers will keep them low on purpose, blue states can't afford to not have a crisis.
Hopefully the water stored in the high elevation snowpack will completely fill the reservoirs
And hopefully the state does not squander this bounty
Wow.!!! Is this how reservoirs work.???
Who would have knewn...??
Home is where you make it.!!!!
man, i hope the area of water is HUGE!?!.....amazing how high the water level rose in a short period of time in these pics!!!.......lol
lets not waste it this time
Droughts are cyclical. Water shortages are created by liberal politicians and their environmental activist masters. For example, environmentalists are aggressively trying to prevent the construction of the Sites Reservoir.
Define waste
@@pabloyescobar334
I mean…AG uses the overwhelming majority of water in the state.
And the top 5 AG companies in California are:
-Bayer chemicals and pesticides
-Monsanto chemicals and pesticides
-Wilbur Ellis Chemicals and pesticides
-Del Monte
-Monster Energy
Soooo…I’ll take the tomatoes.
I’d call the rest “waste”.
@@pabloyescobar334 allowing the water to run straight out to sea.
@@sendthis9480 that's being intellectually, and factually dishonest. Bayer is not an AG company...neither is Monsanto or monster energy. they are chemical companies, manufacturing products used by the ag industry. Del Monte is the only Ag company, and they are owned by a large conglomerate now. Here are the largest Ag companies...#1. Dole Foods · #2. Foster Farms · #3. Wilbur-Ellis Co. · #4. JD Heiskell & Company · #5. Hilmar Cheese ·
Why didn't they take the time to remove some of the exposed dirt and rocks to deepen some of these reservoirs while they were low?? They will mismanage this windfall and be back to drought conditions in no time!!
Maybe because the accepted view is that global warming and reduction in water supply is the reality. They didn't think they'd ever see much water again.
We need to work to keep them that way. State should give massive rebates for rain catching & filtering systems.
So……..
What you’re saying is the weather and climate rotates in cycles?
Excellent - thanks for the proof.
“This is the bond of water. We know the rites. A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
Keep the faith, Californias Water Management will turn this into a drought by summer!
Look, a Doomer.
Let us thank God for the rain and snow!
I lived the first 21 years of my life in central CA. CA has a 10 yr. weather cycle. Within that 10 yrs. it gets 2 years of flood, 2 years of average weather, and 6 yrs. of drought. Spread out through that 10 yr. cycle and then it just repeats. It's not climate change. Its CA's weather. Every other decade it gets hit with a EL Nino or Nina and 1 of those years get repeated. CA has always switched back and forth from drought to flood with the switch being more pronounced the farther south you go in the state. This is just normal for CA.
Also, they stopped releasing water to create an artificial scarcity. Remember, you're more impressionable when you're fearful.
randym1• You still don't understand, do you?
It is not at all about being "impressionable and fearful".
It is all about money!🥴
If I can maintain the illusion of the water scarcity then I can increase the price of water continuously.
Why do you think that more water storage capacity, reservoirs, etc are not built in, for example, California?🤔
Be smart!🥴
Belief in conspiracy theories is a sign of extreme gullibility. FYI.
@@jkflipflop98 trying to gaslight me is a sign of weakness.
Conspiracy theories are sexier than real life.
It is great news. However, how are they protecting this resource? What if next year there isn't the gift of snowmelt?
Perfectly said friend.
They're in the process of building multiple new reservoirs.
Full reservoirs are a glorious gift.. Greater water storage capacity is sorely needed. Municipal systems for capturing rainwater should be a greater priority. Rainwater capture and storage systems can potentially capture milliond of gallons for municipal gardening, school irrigation, reduce city sewer costs, emergency fire department water, and for public uses. etc.
Hopefully it will attract some wildlife too.
Don’t forget the snow pack still has to melt.
Thank you God
...for bottled water?
"Wow, yeah" two words that can mean almost anything to a news anchor.
Wow, yeah, you're right.
Does the bottom of the reservoir get cleaned when empty?
Has California invested in any many of capturing and storing this excess of water? These storms weren’t normal, will we be back to a drought in a year or two?
God be thanked
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Wouldn’t suprise me if newsom said he was the main cause of this water coming back to the reserves
I don’t live in California but that is beautiful! ❤
Not living there is beautiful .
They should be digging more holes for more reservoirs. Bring back Hetch Hetchy
I'm building an ark
Stock some booze.
Georgia went thru the same cycle with their water shortage. The dust bowls of the thirties. I believe they refer it to weather cycles.
Water. Millions of decalitres. A Treasure.
Thank You USN Navy. Out
It's amazing! It's almost as if this is part of a natural cycle that happens from time to time. You know, you guys chose to live out in an area of the country that's pretty inhospitable to large numbers of people, and then you freak out when nature basically shows you how insignificant you are.
Was hoping California and everyone in it would waste away, what a shame.
How is the weather in Haterville? TROLL
Drought may be over, but flooding is back. California has never ending problems.
Climate is certainly changing!
As it has for Thousands of years.
I wonder when Governor Hair Gel is going to release all that water into the Pacific ocean just to keep the people of California inner his thumb?
Haha ok boomer
Watch them let most of the water out for unknown reasons before summer starts 😂.
Wow!
That's the view we want to see when you talk about changing water levels!