California was declared totally drought free for the first time in more than seven years on Thursday, following unusually abundant winter rains and snowfall statewide, according to the government’s weekly report on U.S. drought conditions.
The U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest survey reflected an astonishing turnaround - at least for now - from a severe, prolonged dry spell that reduced irrigation supplies to farmers, forced strict household conservation measures and stoked a spate of deadly, devastating wildfires.
A relatively small swath of California’s southern-most region, including most of San Diego County, remains labeled “abnormally dry” on the drought map index, as does a tiny patch at the state’s extreme northern end along the Oregon border.
But this week marks the first time since mid-December of 2011 that 100 percent of the state has been classified as being free of drought, defined as a moisture deficit severe enough to cause social, environmental or economic ills. Conditions were classified as normal across 93 percent of the state.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-drought-idUSKCN1QW09A
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:34AM (12 children)
"LOS ANGELES -- California’s rainy season could be the wettest in 40 years, but experts say the state is missing a major opportunity by failing to collect the trillions of gallons of storm runoff that currently flows wastefully into the ocean.
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In February alone, an estimated 18 trillion gallons of water fell on the state. In urban areas and coastal cities, 80 percent ends up diverted into the ocean, as Los Angeles and other cities built long concrete channels for flood control. The Los Angeles River, for example, is a 51-mile-long canal as wide as a football field. Almost none of the water seeps into the underground aquifer." foxnews.com/science/despite-californias-long-drought-trillions-of-gallons-of-rainwater-wastefully-flowing-into-sea [foxnews.com]
This what I've been talking about. They foolishly divert massive amounts of readily available water to Pacific Ocean. They call it a river, it's not a river. Then the rain stops, wildfires are everywhere but they have no water. And they come crying to F.E.M.A. This must end!
From my "Pending" Sub. Don't hold youre breath waiting to see that one, folks. Because it's been "Pending" since Saturday -- and it's almost Saturday again!!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:45AM (7 children)
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=32395 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:17AM (6 children)
Troll? It is fact proved with over 100 years of data: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tempByPres.png [columbia.edu]
Every democrat president has warmed the climate, republicans are equally liable to do either (it averages to a slight negative).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:46AM (3 children)
This image should be banned, it gives people the wrong idea on a very important topic.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 16 2019, @01:53PM (1 child)
No, you should be banned for having suggested a ban. Fokking censors, everywhere.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:02PM
We should all ban together and ban the banners.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:27PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @06:27PM (1 child)
Perhaps that is because under republican presidencies the economies have downturned and under democrat the economies have improved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @09:34PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspots_(economics) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:06AM (3 children)
(cont) By the way, check Original Sub, the time on the Original Sub. Little more than an hour before it "hit" the Front (Main) "page." That one sailed right through. At what, for Soylent News, is light speed. Otherwise known as the "speed" of light. Because it's mocking me. Makeing fun of me. It has a Fake, and very nasty headline. Letting on, "oh, President Trump cured the California Drought, he made it rain." Well, Daddy Trump did make it rain. But, not the whether. I'm making our Economy rain money. So important. And we've been sending an incredible amount of money to California. But their drought is something that money alone can't fix. It's going to take money, that's not enough. And rain alone can't fix. It's going to take rain, that's not enough either. What California needs is Brains. Political Brains. Because so much of the Drought is politics. They put their Farms where there's very little rain. They put their Cities where there's very little rain. And as I said, they're diverting massive amounts of readily available water to Pacific Ocean. Also, they don't rake their forests. Leaves, branches pile up and the wildfire goes through that very quickly. It goes through like wildfire, killing so many people. Big problems and John Cox would have fixed them by now. But supposedly he "lost" the Election. He didn't lose, the California voting system is totally screwed up, they're loosing hundreds of thousands of votes. And there are millions of phoney votes -- illegals from Middle East, Cuba, Venezuela voting. Something we're working on with our very special Voting Machine. MAGA!!!
(Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:19AM (2 children)
Great. Now he's even started dog-whistling to zombie-Americans.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:37AM (1 child)
Gonna win another term, then...
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @08:40AM
Good point -- he could probably take Illinois [youtube.com] with that added to his voting base.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:47AM (4 children)
Don't know if it's related, but a hummingbird built a nest on my lemon tree for the first time.
(Score: 3, Informative) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:45AM
The sign! Cthulhu is nigh!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 16 2019, @01:55PM (1 child)
Most likely means the lemon tree is blooming. Amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @03:42PM
No bloom. Just one of those things not related, I guess.
(Score: 2) by The Shire on Saturday March 16 2019, @05:21PM
Their eggs are delicious but not very filling.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:23AM (2 children)
It seems like just a couple months of rainy weather [unl.edu] made the difference (pick State -> California -> Jan 22 -> Mar 12).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @05:03AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 16 2019, @01:56PM
So, some rivers and reservoirs are filled, or nearly full. What about all those aquifers they've been borrowing from for the last 100 years? I'll bet none of them are refilled, or even close to it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:31AM (3 children)
Just in time for the announcement of more multi-story "low-income" housing developments to be built here. Which means that there will be multi-story developments shitting up previously-quiet single-story neighborhoods. I'm talking 6-story buildings jammed in the middle of single-story tract-housing.
By the way, say, for a building with 300 single-family units, only 10 will be dedicated to "low-income" housing. Just the way it works here.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:46AM (2 children)
They went 6 times higher, that's so interesting. Too bad it's California. And, too bad I'm not doing real estate anymore (until at least 2025). Because I see how to make a ton of money on that one. I'd buy up all the 1-story. Tear them down -- we call it demolish. And say, here's this neighborhood with the 6-story buildings. That are 6 times higher that what used to be on my property, you let them go 6 times higher. Well, I want to go 6 times higher. I want to go 36 floors. And by the way, you're doing a great job, here's $1 million for your R.E. Election Campaign, little token of our appreciation. R.E., if you didn't know -- Real Estate. MAGA!!!!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 16 2019, @05:22AM (1 child)
Around these parts, we have Molon Labia type people. There is hope in this world.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:36AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Redundant) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:35AM (1 child)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:10AM
1 trick pony