Ghost lake reemerges in California | Prime 

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She reclaim it.

So get ready folks, food prices will go up. We need to buy more toilet paper 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

very american of them.

It has only been dry for 50 years too! That is not enough data/time to determine that it wont happen again lol.

weather is always the karma

it may be you give the too much credit by accusing them of thinking.

Also,the ground level was probably different years back when that lake was last filled with water. I’m sure the depletion of groundwater in that area over the past decades may have contributed to its landscape surface to sink. I know the area that makes up the Central Valley of California is sinking water than any other area within the state.

Humans think too highly of themselves. Mother nature is always reminding us who's boss.

No Town is built on the lake. One town sits along its shores. Farmers unregulated ground water pumping caused 4-6ft subsidence in some areas. Farmers not wanting to flood their fields in the lake bed will push back till water levels are right at the top of the north shore line by the nearest city.

except that it's going to be hyper polluted when u consider all the human stuff which is underwater now. think of all the chemicals and other pollutants which are submerged now, and might be for decades. too bad they couldn't divert this water to the salton sea, which really needs it in order to avoid another environmental catastrophe there.

@@teklife Why the Salton sea? Any water that goes there can't be used for anything.

Right?!!!

Me too.

@@justsomeguy6474 then you don't know much about the salton sea. it was once one of the world's most productive saltwater fisheries, but the main thing i'm thinking as the benefit is that it will mitigate the toxic dust storms which are a thing now that it's drying up and leaving vast dry flats which create dust storms with all sorts of heavy metals, ddt, and other chemicals and insecticides used by generations of agriculture in the surrounding area.

3/4 of Earth is covered by water. We need more land.

@@garycastronova7939 there's tons of land, we just can't keep living on the coast cause the coast is coming for us.

@@garycastronova7939 America has abundant land. People just need to avoid living in places like this.

@@garycastronova7939 What you aren’t mentioning is that most of that water is saltwater. Bodies of freshwater are more valuable than land.

@@garycastronova7939 No we don't. We need fewer people.

well said indeed.

Bugger all. The environmentalists sucked the water out of the central valley and dumped it into the San Francisco bay because of the snail darter, dipsh+t!

Shush, you might offend the liberals. Climate change, or the return of those pesky NATURAL weather patterns, is always a THREAT. Money will be LOST. MONEY!!!! This is very BAD because it affects LIBERALS. Their pistachios will go up in price. Their wheat will go up. If this doesn't convince you, the conservative food prices will go up also. Time to ban fossil fuels. NOW, RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Facts

that's common sense, not sure who you are directing that towards

@@beanzburriton4263 obviously it’s not common sense because not everyone thinks that way

Don’t worry Mother Nature will pay us back😏

Amen

You are 💯 on the money. Soon Florida will be the Atlantic Ocean, not that I would be upset with nature.

@@7_of_9 all those rats are gonna go somewhere

Well they have to keep going with the climate change thing so it will eventually lead to the government enacting imminent domain to save civilization when it's the big banks wanting to land grab. Jamie Dimon said the government needs to do it soon that should tell you everything

But why didn't their defense of homosexual special rights prevent this disaster ?

O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave

And swings for the fences!!! ❤

Long period of low water is over for now.

Climate change. Permanent drought. Why plan reservoirs. Not going to be any more snow. Thing of the past. Well, this is what Newsom said up until last winter. Been quiet about that lately.

Yeah they just need to pump out all that water and conserve it for the drought time just like they did last time it had water.. I find it ironic that people complain about having too much water after being in drought... need to get creative with the water.. and use it for plants mainly hopefully thought it's not contaminated with all the other stuff they put In the area when the lake dried out originally

@@jesalf9604 Yeah and 60 years of pesticides are in the soil. You drink it.

Right on man !

​@@Floppytotsma'am*

@@avenuempire dude and man

It will be gone by the end of the year. Left coast morons cannot manage anything.

Oh yea do u remember who this land really belongs tooo ur granfather is a thief

How exactly does a lake, which is inanimate, want anything?

A body of water, whether lake, river, or ocean is a living thing. A functional part of the ecosystem. Far from inanimate. It was drained and diverted over the years, but nature's intentions do not reflect mankind's agenda. No massive dam was ever built to stop the flow of water to those acres. Are there houses under the returning lake? Because they're toast, and no real timetable for the lake to recede. The farmers have my sympathy, but this is an example of man's arrogant delusions that we can control nature, rather than working with the great resources that nature has provided us. We got greedy, and this is our reckoning!

​@@solascripturamjc9681 because

@@theOGabcduong You're right, we don't have control over nature. But it sounds like you have nature confused with God.

@@solascripturamjc9681 god and nature are one and the same. We wouldn’t be here without either. The ego is keeping blinders on you and the roll you play in this universe.

Sorry to hear that your grandfather died so young. Mine was a boxer and died in 1990, 1904 - 1990 RIP: while I was in Desert shield my grandmother soon afterward. During daytrip drives - i did visit Bakersfield and also Fresno, very Hot and the fireplace/burn ban was inplace

@unknownidaho - Awww, my mom was born the same year as your mom and she just passed away ❤

The fog comes from the San Francisco Bay and the wet estuaries near Sacramento. There is no mountain or hill area blocking the fog from coming through those areas and they get very high winds. Also, the Dutch have a large area of their country because they reclaimed it from the North Sea. One doesn't try to change nature, only use nature in ways to direct it into something people want.

@@SS-yj2le Never been there, so don't know. That makes sense, thank you.

As it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end

You are 100% correct - she does speak clearly and is well modulated. I too HATE vocal fry, and annoyingly high pitched voices - those people need to find another career which does not entail using their voice.

Gonna be increasingly difficult to insure my home here in FL. Cost of home insurance has nearly tripled in the last few yrs here. At a certain point there is no financial advantage to live here in FL, I think we're at that point

​@rubber band I feel that. I left CA years ago, because I couldn't afford to live where I'm from anymore.

Developers don't care about where they can build as long as they can suck the money..

Thank you!! People will never fully understand how much money developers spend to get flood plains deemed suitable for home, even with studies saying (usually Army Corp of Engineers) don't --that area needs to be protected. As a Texas resident this is the most infuriating aspect of public policy.

@@texasgirlmomx2342 Harvey was a perfect example. Houses built in drainfields for levees. Houses built in low spots that turned out to be recharge areas. Developers will say and do whatever it takes. County commission/water board/flood control people often veerryy flexible about the regulations. People get flooded. Insurance companies then say we won't pay and oh your premiums will go up anyway even if we won't pay. Regular people left holding the bag..

The Earth is correcting itself, without our help. We just need to let it do so and adapt as needed.

That is what I was thinking.

Your plan is not approved.

Blame climate change, scare the public to justify raising taxes to combat climate change and pocket the money... win/win.

That can’t happen if you knew anything about the lake…. It was a shallow lake when it was still around to begin less the 20 feet deep so it wouldn’t have been enough for hydro power…. It was the digest lake in the sense of acres covered not in depth

How did the “residents” come to own natural lake bed? This land should never have been for sale. Whomever sold it stole it from nature, who was temporarily not filling it. Nature doesn’t recognize your flimsy land rights.

Because of the major draws from that aquifer, the land has subsided so much that the hard pan is only allowing a fraction of what you see sink in. This is the problem. This water will barely make it down. It’s been pumped so much that they messed up the ecology of the land below the surface. If El Niño come through next year, Tulare lake could very easily be there for another decade +. At least it will become a wetland and force the farms away from its bed. And a small amount will recharge the aquifer but not like what it could have been.

Came here to say exactly this and you NAILED it!! This needs to be up at the top!

"...everywhere we have "reclaimed" a large wetland it has caused problems." Really? Like Holland? But, I agree we have lost wetlands and we need to keep enough to work as water storage and for wild life. On the upside, the US Corp of Engineers started to reverse a lot of their 'improvements' to the Everglades from 100 years ago because they had learned how draining the land and straightening rivers had big downsides - land subsidence, salt water intrusion of ground water and increased drought. Not sure how far they've got but it involved putting rivers back in their old meandering river beds. Germany learned the same with the Rhine where building more flood barriers actually increased damaging floods downstream.

@@coolwiz7994 It took time to get to the state that the area is in now, it will take time to get to a better place.

@@stephenskinner3851 Even in the Netherlands there have been issues. Recently there has been a big effort in the Netherlands to restore wild spaces in a very strategic ways, making "room for the river" and building/restoring climate buffers. I believe there was a large marsh, the Onlanden (sp?), upstream of the city of Groningen that has been restored to protect the city from flooding.

Ikr? And who would ever, insure them? Something underhanded going on, as usual. Gen pop, being used as a tool again. It's disgusting.

May end up being that way no matter what people think they can do.

Whereby they will sell those new houses to the next suckers wanting a new house.

Tbh tho the most prosperous time for a country comes from rebuilding after a war or disaster. So maybe they’ve always known

Same in my city too had bad flood 10 yrs ago and started building houses that people have to live in and they know nothing about cause they are migrants or refugees living in them so they don’t know any better they see new and think it’s safe

Right same happened here in the East coast recently we had more rainfall then normal & the rivers tend to flood, and of course the properties that are mainly in the lower level of land near it... (after seeng people put a lot of their furniture outside their houses near the road I travel by that river it reminds me to not buy property near a lake/river or beachfront also especially if it's low ground.. I am glad that even though I am a few blocks from the river at least we are on the area that's on the higher hill side and I didn't see flooding on the hill side of the river.. it only affected the houses next to it where the ground was lower than the road next to the river..

Yup. That sounds like Texas...but it's happening everywhere.

Yup! I am Californian and so true

That's what I was thinking! The majority of humanity (especially here in the states) are spoiled, arrogant, “oh well”, “do what thou wilt” imbeciles. Recklessly walking around infected with the Veruca Salt Complex!

the drought situation down there has been terrible for years, also groundwater has been pumped out so severely that the ground has been sinking, they shouldnt be complaining at all about the surplus water!

You must learn to calibrate saving more water better and spendibg less. There are no quick fix. Well planed long term solutions are needed. Te new dam are a cheep quick fix only. The second quick fix is desalting waater frm the sea. It works but according to the weather rapports for the future, that cant cover it at all. But a help will be much more and cheeoer electricity not only for watercinsumption but for replacing very expensive fossils for cars, homes and everything. I live in Denmark by that Im not good in spelling but its about long term planning. You can build more insolated houses which dont fly away. They keep hot out and warm in. You can use much less water inside by smart functions. Fx most of Your toilets are aquarium seize. Your showers mainly are insane. You has tó change for flexibel handhold models. You shower all over faster amnd save a lot of water. Ypuir gardens has to be more as the climate. Irrigating gras as You live in Northern Europe is insane. Your climate often is varmer then Spain, Italy, Greece and North Africa. Go there on vacation. They have niice gardens too. And farming. You should stop making products hardly none will buy. You should reduce Your use of meat fx 10 to 20%. You are biggest consumers of meat in the world. You also are the fattest nation in the whole world. Everytibng is added sugar as well. By that You will have enough water to the good and also mre healthy food. Its not difficult. You should stop americanizing food. You also will live longer and better and save alot of money at Your sj´kyhigh hosptals systems as well as Your skyhigh prices for fx insulin. You can find many comparing RU-vids made by amerucans and others. They should be in Your next election campaign instead of Trump in jail and Biden in a coffin.

A aa starr You might erase the senior system in Congres, Senat and Your highest Courts. Being old is no qualification in itself. Too many old look back and do everything to live in thepast. They invented the mirrors in the cars. ❤❤

All a bunch of jokers. Here in Winnipeg after the 1997 flood of the century people have to build all homes within the recorded blood basin a few feet higher than the maximum water height. You'll see all new home built up 20 feet in the air. At least we learn from our mistakes unlike these chumps

My Dad said it was the "land of fruits and nuts" and I don't think he was talking about farm produce!

No, really??!!

The earth is not going back to its "natural habitat", but is going "from bad to worse", with "climate change" causing death and destruction. Earth's "natural habitat" for now goes from drought to floods, from no rain to massive rainfalls that also creates deadly tornadoes and mudslides, and whereby hurricane season at times brings devastation. Who would not like to have the weather PERFECTLY controlled, so that rainfall comes at the right time, keeping grass green and forests lush, bringing delightful weather, enjoyable springs, cool summer breezes, colorful autumns and with pleasure of having winter arrive, with light snowfalls. Well, that is exactly what is to happen when a heavenly government called God's Kingdom, takes full control of the earth from God's archenemy Satan in the near future. Jesus gave a preview of what God's Kingdom will do, such as with the weather, at Mark 4:35-39. There, Jesus was asleep in the stern of a boat with Peter and some other of his apostles, when unexpectedly a severe storm came up on the Sea of Galilee, to the point that the boat was about to sink, and in which Peter frantically woke up Jesus saying that they were about "to perish". What did Jesus do ? He calmly got up and said to the storm, "Hush ! Be quiet !", and instantly a great calm set in, showing what he will do as king of God's Kingdom during his upcoming Millennial reign (Rev 20:4-6), tame the weather, like a vicious beast into one that is docile. Jesus also gave further previews of what he will do at that time, healing the sick and resurrecting the dead.(Matt 9) So, for now, as we reach deeper into "the final part of the days" (Dan 2:28), the weather and mankind will only go "from bad to worse", but things will change dramatically when "the great tribulation" arrives (Matt 24:21) and God's Kingdom takes over earth's affairs, permanently. It will be then that the "meek" ones at Psalms 37:11, 29, can look forward to enjoying life forever in "the abundance of peace", as God, whose name is Jehovah (see Isa 12:2, KJV) originally intended when he created Adam and Eve, hoping that what he had created would remain as "very good" or perfect forever, but which instead a rebellion happened, "upsetting the apple cart", and along with it, the weather.(see Gen 1:28-31; 3:1-6)

Nature doesn't care and it's always doing its thing - the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami. the Boxing Day Tsunami. Also, we are nature too.

@@timhaley3459 😂

In nature there is no good or bad just is. The only reason why it’s bad is because we are affected by it. This is a way of nature reminding humans how at mercy we are to it.

@@bannaboy89 Yep

Good ethical work

Smart man. Too bad others let greed determine the outcome. When will we learn that f**king with nature is NEVER a good idea.

You realize that area has a portion of the largest food supplier on the planet right? If that lake stays, there is going to need to be some serious new projects for that area to redirect that water elsewhere.

@@SS-yj2le They need to reconsider other options given it's likely to happen again. Currently they can't grow anything for a few months after the water is drained according to their standards. Otherwise they could use the water and reconsider what crops they grow in that area. Keeping it would help california with the water shortage and there are other places where they can grow crops they just need to stop selling the land to developers. A lot of those cow farms use to be further south but they bought them out to build houses.

@@SS-yj2leCalifornia is huge and can grow in other places. As a Californian, we desperately need water

@@onelove7883agree… Many places in my county are building new homes left and right. Just hope they would stop and let more argiculture resume

@@SS-yj2le you do realize there are other places in the Central Valley they can use right? I’m guessing you’re not from California?

Ikr? Whoever approved all the building there, was a nutcase!

Not only that, if they were going to build in it and wanted it to be permanent, they should have a system to pump out the water when it does rain/pour and a place to pump it to as well. Poor planning all around.

They won't be allowed to build any levees or reclaim any land. Environmentalists will lock it up in court.

@@ethanmurray2203 I hope so. It's a waste of money. Move your farms out of the lake, that's a long term investment. Levees are a bandaid, and when we have another wet season next year, they will have to raise he levees again.

like in some of the lands where the sea has dried up... people don't think water could return there and once they start to build things there either out of ignorance or to make money eventually it will catch up to them... if however they built it to give it to someone else.. so they don't have to deal with the issue in the future then that also is a sad thing to do..

Which could happen. Levees will not hold back tons of water indefinitely, so reclamation is a pipe dream. Leave the area alone.

Many Australians have built houses on flood planes with the local councils blessings, we have had massive flooding's recently

As a country we're ignorant about the earth replenishing itself. We've concreted our grasslands, diverted water, and built communities on flood plains and we're shocked that this is happening. It's not global warming either, it's weather.

Truth

Actually, look up Lake George near Goulburn in Australia. It disappears & reappears at seemingly random intervals.

That was a lake. Not a flood plain.

Waht this People have no Respekt for the Nature and that is then the Result. The People have bekom waht the People will have.😉👍

@@Baba-fy1jc do you live in woods with no home?

Most of them probably have flood insurance. They'll be ok.

​@@thecalmbeforethemaelstrom Doubtful

Didn't these folks realize that it was all built in a dry lakebed? How on earth, did they ever get insurance? I don't get this, at all. 😢

Yesssss @AMills! Nature will ALWAYS win

@@cabezitadealgodon humans are natural you dumb son of a bltch, meaning everything we do is natural, quit trying to separate us, based on science we all came from the "big bang", its just we got lucky and we're blessed to somehow have a consciousness and an ego, which you've clearly weaponized against nature as you think yourself as a human is above nature, you're a hypocrite

We have an accord!

Most of it is exported outside the US. Maybe other then avocado's that the only difference you will see in us food prices.

Grow and raise your own. Keeping food sources local means fresher food, lower cost. Can't get fresher than picking it in your own yard.

Now they are in the south hunting for nature resources. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be a war because they were not taking any more of our indigenous ancestors'land.

Most likely, but we know that river's and lakes will always go back to their causes and farming has always been a risk. God bless the local farmers and their family's

I always say, "Please rain, but only 1 inch!" It is getting worse every year, there is a long time between rains but when it rains, it rains for days and we get 5-6-7 inches. Then, it doesn't rain for another month. This is in northern MN where it used to rain 1/2-1 inch at a time with a few widely separated 2-3 inch rain storms.

No it's mismanagement blaming non existent climate change. And you fell for it.

Actually God gave us dominion over the earth and animals

@@ryanehlis426 However, there are many peoples and cultures that refer to nature as mother.. I am not asking you to believe this. I'm just asking you to accept that others do believe in it. It's called tolerance for other peoples belief systems.

@@maevelogan6069 I don’t tolerate false beliefs, there are mentally ill people today who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman. Tolerance is stupid and dangerous.

​@@ryanehlis426 God created the world and Eden before Adam and Eve. Therefore Nature has seniority x'D

Who is this mother nature?

@@solascripturamjc9681 your momma

@@dkpqzm hahaha 🤣

That water is contaminated from years of pesticide application.

Don't forget almonds. Also, why is there dairy farms out here? This is ridiculous! I live in New England and we had hundreds of small lovely dairy farms that survived on nature's bounty. But we lost most of them due to GREED! Only the very large dairy farms survive now and we can't compete with California. I am so happy that Tulare Lake came back! Mother Nature got her revenge.

That's deep!! One thing about ( Nature ). She or He is sum you don't play with!!!

Road minnow, " I am the captain now"

They chose it because it's hugely productive/profitable. Lots of sun and cheap subsidized (courtesy of taxpayers) water. They ran off the indigineous Indians (burned them out by setting fire to the tules), and wiped them out by introduced western diseases.

It was very fertile land. Rich soil. Grew many of the countries' crops for generations. When the Widwest and East is cold and frigid. The west is producing food year round. It's just nature taking it back. Was a good run though.

Not the only things grown here. A lot of fruits like oranges, strawberries, grapes, tangerines, peaches ect. One of the biggest milk producers is or was in that exact area called Land O Lakes. Because of the favorable weather of this state, so much of the country's crops are grown here year round. My family is from this area for 4 generations.

Exactly they're not natural to our country. They planted in desert lands that they made by draining the lake and then their way to solve their water problems are to have a tunnel built underneath the san Joaquin delta river and take all the water from is up north to have water for their desert crops which we have fought for over a decade. Even though we send millions of gallons of water thru the Delta-Mendota canal to them. I honestly think it's mother nature coming to reclaim what was hers

@@marit7189 And? The point of OP still stands.

@Maria Lindell Not really. The mid west and the east buys much of the the food grown here, so Food will cost that much more now because we won't be growing it. Frankly, I'm ok with the lake comming back. We should keep what we produce here. Might make it more affordable for me and less drought.

Those nuts don't contain much water. The water is wicked away from the trees into the dry air. Which ironically also happens on a large shallow lake bed. The problem is the tree population can't vary with rainfall variations, the lake bed can.

Let's make up our minds peOple😂😂

You nailed it. Propaganda from corporate agribusiness to avoid being scrutinized for having drained the lakebed themselves.

I understand but this should be a national security issue because we need to find a new place to farm. Food prices will rise and there could be food shortages for the crops grown there. California produces massive amounts of food.

​@@feliperivas3814 Yea bad farmers helping feed ungrateful people such as yourself. Where does your food come from? Us farmers get no respect when in reality we should have all your respect so you don't have to go out garaging for your next meal.

@@meep2253 it’s not that hard to grow your own tomatoes

@@wknogl2210 Very classist. Not everyone has a yard and a person living in an apartment can only grow so much food.

I live in Washington we grow a lot.

The quantity and especially quality of CA produce can't be understated. CA doesn't grow much grain for cattle.

@@xxxYYZxxx Midwest and east coast vegetables are equal to california...however...California grapes and pistachios can't be beat.

right, the plants won't care about having too much water, but the animals will.. just like people will but at least people can move away.. the animals need dry land near the lake which unfortunately has been taken by people