Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "Southern California faces possible flooding from Tropical Storm Kay" video.

  1. I remember being a kid in the central valley and it being 120 in the summer. No AC having to sit an a plastic blue pool trying not to melt. Everything is drama now a days
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  2. Ah yes, the two seasons in California, Fire and Mud.
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  3. This is what happens when you build into semi arid to desert grassland environments. California wont do what natives did for millennia, control burns. Its "bad" for the environment. Makes the air all smoky for the locals. So it just burns out of control when the winds rage. Its fine. They are use to it.
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  4.  @SparkySharky  You always have this happen in Sept in La Nina. You get a high pressure system off the coast of Nor Cal and it pushes all that colder air north. It also makes the winters drier since the air stream with all that moisture gets pushed north too. So Oregon and Washington Idaho and Montana have higher snow packs and California less. There isnt a conspiracy about it. These weather patterns and their outcomes have been known about for centuries, the 1600s to be exact. But now with satellites and ocean temp gauges we can see the how and whys of it.
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  5.  @SparkySharky  A lot of people dont understand how "tall of a state that California is. If California was on the East Coast of the US it would run from mid Georgia to the border with Penn and New York. Thats a lot of climate differences, Then you have the three main zones in California that run from north to south, the costal area, then the central valley/southern desert and then the Sierras.
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  6. You are probably thinking of up in Northern California. The Shasta and Lake Oroville systems werent designed for reservoir purposes. They were built for flood control. Historically all those basins would go dry every summer. Most Californias are just historically ignorant of their states Climate. But to your question, because those systems are designed for flood control, they have to release water prior to storms coming, so there usually is a fall dump. During normal years this isnt a problem, but when it just doesnt rain, then you have a problem. But if you dont dump the water, and you do get a killer storm, you cant dump the water anyway because the rivers are already full and you would have to risk a levee breach or lose a damn. Thats not a choice. So you do the fall water release.
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