This thrills me. I used to windsurf on Lopez in the late 70s, and in those days you could practically roll out of your sleeping bag and be lakeside. Think maybe a surfin' safari down south is in order.
Fantastic - happy for you guys over there. The reservoirs over here in Mid Wales (Elan Valley UK) have been super low but are flowing to. Love to see it no matter where we are in the world. For sure water is life. Mark
Here in the East Riding of Yorkshire the grass was dying on the park outside where i live in February its been that dry, the rain usually comes from the west so the west of the country gets all the rain first but here in East Yorkshire because of the Pennines the water gets dumped loads up there first and it can lead to lots less water falling for us. Im proper worried about this year we need hosepipe bans in place now and they are just dithering...
@@dreddykrugernew We've had a fair bit of rain this month down here on the Welsh border near Hereford. The same the Black Mountains shelter us from the Westerly - hope you get the rain.
Wish this were to stay, I've never seen CA so green and beautiful! I went to LA, Anaheim and SD area and it was lovely! Can't wait to visit some more this year from AZ :D
Artificial rain… it’s natural but we are setting up all kinds of devices to trigger rain Mexico 🇲🇽 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and UAE 🇦🇪 have also been practicing it.
Water IS life. I know that the weather has a big role in reservoirs staying filled, however, better water management is key. Let's hope that with the lack of water for so long, people will appreciate it a lot more and conserve it in many diverse ways.
I remember sliding down that spillway when I was a student at Cal Poly nearby. There was a small lake at the bottom. And as a somewhat skinny kid I could lean back and with my legs lifted somewhat, skip somewhat as I hit the bottom. It was treacherous climbing up the slippery surface and there was not a lot of water coming over (circa 1974), Partly dry. I saw one guy slip and hit his head on the concrete, crazy jock type. He fell away endangering others below on the south east end of the spillway climbing up. Used to try to grab the chainlink fence or cracks or an old rope. There were several dozen college age kids there on a sunny weekend day. Strictly unsupervised, under the radar.
We are experiencing serious flooding here in N AZ as well. Getting snow again this morning 3/24/23. All reservoirs are full except for lake Powell and Mead still empty.
A mate of mine moved from Liverpool to San Luis Obispo 40 years ago and I couldnt remember the name of the place. This is the first time Ive ever heard it mentioned in that time
40 years ago the boat launch was more on the east side of the lake and there was an island to the right of launch. The dam must have been lowered since then.
@@roberthindle5146 Nope and it won't fill significantly this year. Projections are that the level of water will actually fall. All water available will be used to fill in Lake Powell which is in much worse situation.
I'm from Canada and it good to hear you guys getting so extra rain and snow every drop counts. So does this mean the drought in some of these places is coming to a end? I have heard it was getting pretty bad.
No. It's not really a drought either. The southwest is a desert and has been for at least thousands of years. the 1900s were a much wetter than normal century which gave people unrealistic expectations of what is normal.
@@mro4ts457 Thank you for your reply i come from Alberta witch is just north of Montana and can get really dry but in 2013 we had a once in a 100 year flood when it rained for a week strait i ended up losing everything i had.
@@Sodiumreactor I come from Alberta just north of Montana where it can get pretty dry and the last few summers have been really hot but back in 2013 we had a major flood.
I don't know... I looked at the channels you subscribe to and I don't think you have the best judgement. Bikini MILF Mom? C'mon dude, you can do better.
Lake Oroville 2.0, 20+years on spillways that likely overgrowth and not needed maintenance. Happy to see water for all but please watch out below. Expect higher currents and eroded materials possibly to break more than usual. (Grass, mud, trees, garbage, even heavier debris if poorly maintained spillway areas go unchecked
@@oculosprudentium8486Sure. I’m not stopping you from asking whatever you want. What I’m doing is judging you for asking such a moronic question that could be answered by yourself in less than the time it takes to post your question, which speaks to your inherent laziness, in which you ask others to do the work for you.
its funny because its true. They will keep building more neighborhoods and more people will move in, and the problem will grow. Constant growth all the way to our demise
2:21 “This is not temporary . . . at least a few weeks”. That is the definition of temporary. If a house stood for a few weeks and then fell over that would be temporary housing.
This is a change in the height of a lake and Dave did a terrific job of showing us what it is like according to the anchor man. Thousands of other lakes all around the world are seeing their heights change as more or less water fills them. Maybe the giant redwoods have less water content than the week before. Dave, go and measure the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada... In tomorrow's snooze
CA just needs another reservoir or two so we can keep the water when we have the years that bring us water. People just do not understand that most of this state is not the big cities but is the farmland and farmers that feed this country and others. Go watch the musical video the Petersen Brothers did on Farming in CA that is on you tube. You’ll be surprised
It will still take 10 years of this type of continuous weather to fix California's drought. That's what happens when you try to turn a desert into a living space.
It’s a damn shame that all that water is going to waste. You would think after going through drought for the last 25yrs the state didn’t develop more lakes to hold more water.
It wasn't empty, it was at 25% capacity when these rains hit and it filled. So it did what it was supposed to do, save water in rainy years for years of droughts in the future and that's all you can ask for enough storage to see you through the rough periods.
I wanted to edit but anyway my example is San Bernardino County, one of the largest populated counties in CA. We have some land that reclaims groundwater and replenishes aquifers that now has beautiful new houses surrounding that land😢
Has anyone noticed the 3 obvious landslides on the hill over his left shoulder. There’s a slip line failure that any geotechnical engineer can see. That’s a killer just waiting for enough rainfall to cause a landslide into the lake.
