Woah, be safe & baten those hatches now!
This will really help your reservoir levels out, but it's not the kind of gentle, steady, weeks long rain that recharges the groundwater, unfortunately. A lot of it will blow down the streams and rivers into the oceas (along with a lot of things that were formerly on the land).
I think a large number of rain storage cisterns – like they do in Bermuda – is the answer out there. These boom-and-bust rein cycles are the new norm with our warming world now.
A huge cistern is under construction down in Los Angeles, it's right next to the freeway in Griffith Park, I get to watch the progress once a week while stuck in traffic there. It is amazing to watch these gigantic projects get constructed, not to mention the fact that it's right in the middle of a major metropolitan area.
Some other reservoirs now use black plastic balls to float on their surface, to keep evaporation down (and to look really funky).
There might have been. Honestly I've been so swamped lately I haven't been following stuff very closely.
ETA: I do know that the local fire department has extra staff on all shifts for the next few days and has been putting out info on where to get sandbags.
Good start. We put in a stone Geogrid parking lot in this Critical Area lot:
The grid pockets were the largest (1' or so) and, filled with crushed stone, turned the whole lot into one large retention basin. Not one drop of rain went into the tideway. Can drive and park on it instantly.
Our aquifers are still severely depleted, though. The water table at my house used to be at 18', before this winter it was almost at 100' due to constant pumping by the City of Los Angeles, 250 miles to the south. Bastages.
I read somewhere that there's some areas (Imperial valley?) that are experiencing a significant amount of land subsidence due to the drought and groundwater extraction. If that's true it is a Very Bad Thing, because that means the aquifer's voids are no longer there and it's no longer permeable. I'm not sure that it's recoverable, in that case.
At my desert compound (about one mile inside the NV border) a neighbor had to re-drill their well due to lowering of the water table there. I hope I can sell before my well is impacted. A few miles away, and a few years ago, some houses basically sank into the desert due to subsidence. Here in CA, my elderly next door neighbor called the fire department to sandbag her back door, "just in case". At present, it is raining sideways. Our new normal is not normal.
word on the street is the low pressure cell is circling around SF is likely to set the all time record for lowest pressure recorded in SF. We're at 992 mb at my place and falling (corrected for elevation)
Woah! Trying to query my station now, and it looks like the lowest recorded barometric pressure was 967.5 mb. That was probably during one of the hurricane near misses.
Managed to get my dogs outside before it really started to rain. I hope we'll get a break so I can do so again tonight. Otherwise, I get the joy of walking them in the underground garage and begging them to go on the concrete. Fun times!
Eight inches of rain expected in my parched community that is otherwise months away from declaring a stage 4 drought.
Left to its own devices, nature would eventually come up with the perfect animal for So Cal- a camel with gills
– Mark Reiser
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMo… Situation before the rain
See that red bit? Guess where I live…
I'm guessing it won't be red for long!
Woah, be safe & baten those hatches now!
This will really help your reservoir levels out, but it's not the kind of gentle, steady, weeks long rain that recharges the groundwater, unfortunately. A lot of it will blow down the streams and rivers into the oceas (along with a lot of things that were formerly on the land).
I think a large number of rain storage cisterns – like they do in Bermuda – is the answer out there. These boom-and-bust rein cycles are the new norm with our warming world now.
A huge cistern is under construction down in Los Angeles, it's right next to the freeway in Griffith Park, I get to watch the progress once a week while stuck in traffic there. It is amazing to watch these gigantic projects get constructed, not to mention the fact that it's right in the middle of a major metropolitan area.
Some other reservoirs now use black plastic balls to float on their surface, to keep evaporation down (and to look really funky).
So , no emergency declared ? State, County. City?
There might have been. Honestly I've been so swamped lately I haven't been following stuff very closely.
ETA: I do know that the local fire department has extra staff on all shifts for the next few days and has been putting out info on where to get sandbags.
Good start. We put in a stone Geogrid parking lot in this Critical Area lot:
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The grid pockets were the largest (1' or so) and, filled with crushed stone, turned the whole lot into one large retention basin. Not one drop of rain went into the tideway. Can drive and park on it instantly.
There's |permeable concrete, | too, which is pretty amazing stuff.
I'm not suggesting an ark so much as a segment of a circle
Before I retired, we were messing around with [open grade asphalt.]
Cool! Permeable parking lot!
RIP Callfornia drought 2011-2017
Trump made America rain again
It is crying.
Our aquifers are still severely depleted, though. The water table at my house used to be at 18', before this winter it was almost at 100' due to constant pumping by the City of Los Angeles, 250 miles to the south. Bastages.
I read somewhere that there's some areas (Imperial valley?) that are experiencing a significant amount of land subsidence due to the drought and groundwater extraction. If that's true it is a Very Bad Thing, because that means the aquifer's voids are no longer there and it's no longer permeable. I'm not sure that it's recoverable, in that case.
I read something to that effect | here |
At my desert compound (about one mile inside the NV border) a neighbor had to re-drill their well due to lowering of the water table there. I hope I can sell before my well is impacted. A few miles away, and a few years ago, some houses basically sank into the desert due to subsidence. Here in CA, my elderly next door neighbor called the fire department to sandbag her back door, "just in case". At present, it is raining sideways. Our new normal is not normal.
word on the street is the low pressure cell is circling around SF is likely to set the all time record for lowest pressure recorded in SF. We're at 992 mb at my place and falling (corrected for elevation)
Woah! Trying to query my station now, and it looks like the lowest recorded barometric pressure was 967.5 mb. That was probably during one of the hurricane near misses.
Managed to get my dogs outside before it really started to rain. I hope we'll get a break so I can do so again tonight. Otherwise, I get the joy of walking them in the underground garage and begging them to go on the concrete. Fun times!