And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Highway 99/Acampo/Woodbridge/ Lower Sac Underpass - Between Galt and Lodi
This has been a regular occurrence in California. Regular not common. Mom spaces it out enough that everyone forgets and gets complacent, then boom! A rivulet you could step over last week is a mile wide torrent.
That's not brushfire country. There's no dams and reservoirs to hold that water there because it's already reached the low point for the moment. It'll eventually dump into the SF Bay through slow runoff to the San Joaquin River, in a few days to weeks, because Lodi only sits at an elevation of 35' above sea level. Hell, from those spots there it's barely 20 miles to Suisun Bay and then into SF Bay.
For comparison, Baton Rouge LA sits at 56'.
They need more dams and reservoirs back in the Sierra foothills, to be sure, but when it rains heavy in the Central Valley, they wouldn't do any good. Live in the flatlands, take your chances with wet years.
These pictures remind me of the two times in the last 15 years that I-29 in NW Missouri and SW Iowa were closed for months because of flooding in the Missouri River valley. During the second of those floods, Fremont, NE, where one of my daughters lives, was an island for two weeks because the Elkhorn River also flooded. Too many people these days don't understand that certain places have extremely fertile farmland because of the cycle of rivers overflowing their banks, depositing material, and receding, something the Egyptians learned 5000 years ago or more. Many Americans, especially those in cities, tend to think they are immune from the effects of natural cycles.
"Attention shoppers - please tell the owner of a white pick-up with quad in the back that your driver's side window was left open. That is all ..."
ReplyDeleteaint mother nature grand. every once in awhile she lets us know who's boss no matter where you live.
ReplyDeleteUp next: mudslide season.
ReplyDeleteYou should read this:
ReplyDeleteen.wikipedia.org//wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
People have been brainwashed to believe weather just started in 1960.
DeleteThis has been a regular occurrence in California. Regular not common. Mom spaces it out enough that everyone forgets and gets complacent, then boom! A rivulet you could step over last week is a mile wide torrent.
ReplyDeleteTucson had signs for underpasses in town: "DIP"
ReplyDeleteWhich my brother said was short for "Dangerous in Phloods".
A lot of water in the wrong places....for now.
ReplyDeleteLike living between Galt and Lodi wasn't punishment enough.
ReplyDeleteOh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.
ReplyDeleteYou can get a good Zinfandel there.
Delete-Snakepit
Calif was screaming about running out of water. So I guess the drought is now over?
ReplyDeleteShame there's no reservoirs and dams to hold all that precious water to stay around for fire season...
ReplyDeleteCheck out a map, Beans.
DeleteThat's not brushfire country. There's no dams and reservoirs to hold that water there because it's already reached the low point for the moment. It'll eventually dump into the SF Bay through slow runoff to the San Joaquin River, in a few days to weeks, because Lodi only sits at an elevation of 35' above sea level. Hell, from those spots there it's barely 20 miles to Suisun Bay and then into SF Bay.
For comparison, Baton Rouge LA sits at 56'.
They need more dams and reservoirs back in the Sierra foothills, to be sure, but when it rains heavy in the Central Valley, they wouldn't do any good. Live in the flatlands, take your chances with wet years.
These pictures remind me of the two times in the last 15 years that I-29 in NW Missouri and SW Iowa were closed for months because of flooding in the Missouri River valley. During the second of those floods, Fremont, NE, where one of my daughters lives, was an island for two weeks because the Elkhorn River also flooded.
ReplyDeleteToo many people these days don't understand that certain places have extremely fertile farmland because of the cycle of rivers overflowing their banks, depositing material, and receding, something the Egyptians learned 5000 years ago or more. Many Americans, especially those in cities, tend to think they are immune from the effects of natural cycles.