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California’s dilemma: How do you harness an epic amount of rain in a water-scarce state? Let it flood, scientists sayWhat about aquifers?But the abrupt shift from drought warnings to flood warnings highlights the dilemma California faces: How do you manage an overwhelming amount of rain in a water-scarce state? And is it possible to harness that water so it’s available in the dry summer months?
Part of the solution, climate scientists told CNN, is drawing levees back to allow rivers more room to flood safely into surrounding land.
NOAA's hurricane hunters are now targeting the West Coast's atmospheric rivers
“We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons,” Peter Gleick, a climate scientist and co-founder of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, told CNN. “Instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them.”
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For what its worth, Cali has acquifers.
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California has had a long history according to scientist of droughts earthquakes and floods. Droughts, California has had a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years. https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01...sted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/Evidence of Huge Prehistoric L.A. Quakes Found https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-17-mn-4539-story.html and Tsunamis involving the Cascadia subduction zone and earthquakes. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/cfusion/external_grants/reports/08HQGR0076.pdfThey happened in the past and will happen again. We humans think we can control nature, but every so often, nature pokes up her head and reminds us in a big way, we’re wrong.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
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Mammoth Lakes, California (East side of the Sierras) has had over 33 feet of snowfall this winter.
My brother-in-law says the big surf is back on the North shore of Maui. That's like 40-50 foot swells.
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