Build Your Ark - Noah Rain Coming!

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  1. Sharpie

    Sharpie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We've got an atmospheric river in the West, with flood warnings everywhere.
    You all know what hits the West moves towards the East -- get to filling those sandbags!
     
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    Either Trump or Obama caused it. Oh wait, it might have been Bush.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah I heard the weatherman yesterday talking about an "atmospheric river" and thunk to myself, "Why don't you just call it a storm front?"
     
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    here in California the great governor Brown jusy said we are still in a severe drought and we need to conserve water..yje idiot should go outside once in awhile we are drowning in water..
     
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    That water isn't for you.

    Its for the wealthy Californian elite who have to fill the pools, water the grounds, and wash the cars in on and around their mega mansions which they might only live in 3 days out of the year.

    Keep your hands off it now, ya hear?

    If there is any water left the government will decide what your share of it will be, and then charge you for it, and then tax you for it, and then call you a racist for using it, and then put a warning label on it that says "warning rain contains water".
     
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    How do you measure drought? I thought is was long term trends in rain vs the norm...
     
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    Yeah I'm surprised the government doesn't claim all the rain and charge you for how much falls on your property.
     
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    Yeah...

    ... Granny got Uncle Ferd...
    :grandma:
    ... puttin' pontoons onna side o' the trailer...

    ... so's we gonna have a houseboat...

    ... fer when the waters flood.
    :wink:
     
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    The rain fronts coming from the West is not the BFD that the ones that come up from the Caribbean. The ones from the West lies a lot of moisture by the time they get here.
     
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    Most of that water won't make it over the Sierras. Its an atmospheric river that flows in from Hawaii and has to dump its water load to get over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. That system might be powerful, but it won't carry a river over 8500 foot mountains.
     
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    In Oregon they'll actually put you in jail for using rain that falls on your own land. :roflol:
     
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    Where do you get your information? I found this while checking your post as we have strange water laws here in CO also : https://www.oregon.gov/bcd/Documents/brochures/3660.pdf

    The state puts out a broucher on how to collect water for personal use in OR!
     
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    Oh it's and old funny story, years back about a guy named Gary Harrington who collected rain water and the government kept telling him to stop and he said "no f you its rain and its my land" and after repeated citations or whatever they actually put him in jail for a month or so.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/man-sentenced-30-days-catching-rain-water-own-property-enters-jail

    Its a little more involved than simply "he collected rain and went to jail" but never-the-less that is essentially what happened and so its become a marker for the mockery of Leftist style government oppression.
     
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    Good lord.

    Figures some liberals decided they own the rain.
     
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    Sharpie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That would be your water company metering your rain water. The city will fine you for watering on the wrong days.
     
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    Sharpie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well I hope it loses some anger before it gets into the midwest - they've had their share. But I'll check in with you in a few days...
     
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    Sharpie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Rivers are concentrated, narrow and contain more water. Storm fronts are just the edge of a broader change in the weather. The link to NOAA in #1 defines it better.
     
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    Sharpie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm past the summit and I can tell you, it made it! I'll be thankful if a big grandfather pine doesn't land on us tonight. Down in Reno the Truckee river breached its banks and the Washoe valley flooding has begun. Further north in California, the Feather River is flooding, and my guess is flood waters from the Sierra will affect Sacramento - although they have a pretty good levee and system of sloughs.
     
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    One day Noah is messing around in his back yard when a stentorian voice from above speaketh unto him: actually he was expecting it.

    "Noah?"
    "Yes, Lord?"
    "Mankind has displeased me so I intend to inflict upon him a Great Flood."
    "Okay, Lord."
    "I want you to build an ark."
    "Yes, Lord!"
    "It shall be three hundred cubits long."
    "Yes, Lord."
    "Fifty cubits beam to beam."
    "Yes Lord."
    "And it shall have thirty cubits of draft."
    "Yes, Lord."
    "When you have done this I want you to embark upon it two each of all my creatures - one a male and the other a female."
    "Right you are, Lord."
    "Then go forth and get cracking on it because the rains will soon be coming."
    "Right-ho, Lord!"

    Noah has a little think about all this and the Lord sees that he is filled with puzzlement.

    "Do you have any questions, Noah? You seem perplexed."
    "Yes Lord, I do! Lord?"
    "Yes, Noah?"
    "Lord . . . what's a cubit?"
     
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    But this is not a sign of climate change
     
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    Rivers have an east west orientation and fronts have a north-south orientation. They are essentially the same thing--sections of the atmosphere heavy in water.
     
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    My place is at 6100', we got 18" of snow Christmas weekend and another 5" on New Years weekend. This morning we are getting a heavy 40 degree rain. Ground was already saturated from melting snow and this warm rain is melting the snow quickly. The sun isn't up yet but I'm sure the streams and rivers are flowing good. To bad we have such a crappy retention system. It just flows freely into the pacific.
     
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    Does seem like some effort could be made to capture ground water. In Arabia they have built over 300 recharge dams.
     
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    Too many hippies for that. If backing up water behind a dam could drown a rat, the project is going to be held up in court.
     
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    cant in California..why?..because environmentalist haven't allowed a new dam in about 40 years now..we have the places to build them but can't...
     

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