Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

your interwebs are broken for you, maybe it was one of those facebook fake news articles?

http://www.kcra.com/article/feds-double-water-releases-out-of-folsom-lake/8495975

"Water releases out of Folsom Lake were doubled Tuesday morning after weekend rains increased the inflows into the lake, according to the Bureau of Reclamation."

Like I said, it is always flowing, they just increased its flow. The whole state does not drink from Folsom Lake, so one lake opening up more spill doesn't mean we are out of a drought. They measured underground water, and snowpack since really that is what we depend on, not one weekend of big rains.

Its cool though, I see what you are saying. We don't tap most of our lakes, and the whole dependence on the colorado river water could have been planned and handled differently.

 

Ask a farmer with a well. They have to keep going deeper to hit water. Due to over pumping, underground aquifers have collapsed and can never be replaced. So our state's groundwater holding capacity has decreased significantly.

I took a water rights and management class in collij and the issues are real. Especially with a growing population.

Water efficiency measures seem stupid when it's raining, but are necessary when the snow pack is low and when we have an early melt. Reservoirs were overflowing about 4 - 5 years ago and looked like this 2 years ago.

Shasta


Folsom


That being said, I take long showers, but for other purposes...

 

Full lake plus Sierra snowpack plus warm storm melting it faster than it can flow out of dam spillways...

 

possibly was a fake article disguised as a legitimate one. Im just tired of the state crying drought and prices increasing after we conserve like were scolded to.

EDIT: but to be fair i hate this fucking state and their politics so im just a bitter young old man.

 

California is one of the last states in the nation with unregulated ground water pumping, and it's fucking up a lot of stuff for everyone else, including other farmers who rely on surface water delivery. But that's changing now, and for the better.

 

Yeah the lame part of all that is that it is purely political. Every resident conserving hardly touches our real needs with all of the agricultural within the state (plant and animal). We are in a bad place for water, but the politicians and media really sell the problems and answers short.

 

someone needs to post up a bouncing titty pic, and quick

 

i would but you see, how my banning history is set up....

 

I brought 14 gallons on water to DV and only used 5. So you could say that I am somewhat conservative. Although I did consume almost 2 gallons of alcoholic beverages and burned 75 gallons of gas... so probably not.

 

Don't need no farmer to tell you. Many wells in the foothills are going dry in the summers. We got a highly discounted tank because ours came very close to dry.

 

Merced river inside Yose is over the roads. Early snow have Healy melted away. Badger opened on Dec 10 last year. I was scheduled for the 16th thus year but now it's questionable.

https://home.nps.gov/customcf/webca...49B9F0CCF1DD381DD8F90BC4EBEB386BB9D5A6D41C8FB

 

We got nothing down here in the bay. Just rain.

 

Golden ones don't count

 

Just called Micah to see how my rear shocks are coming along and he said he literally just loaded them on the ups truck

 

Any of you heading to so cal for Christmas?

Have a guy down there that wants my bumper

 

New boots time. Just found out the hard way the right one is very un-waterproof

 

Some good flooding going on up around Sonoma County

 

That sucks!

Salomon by far the best and most comfortable boot I've ever bought. I have 3 pair

 

I run those also for backpacking. Seal them once a year and they will last until the sole splits bad.