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Lake Mead Water Level Mysteriously Plunges After Nevada Quake
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake (originally reported 5.4) shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas Friday morning causing roads and bridges to be closed. The quake went little-reported outside of local news (since there was at first glance minimum damage caused) but, since the quake's occurrence, something considerably more worrisome has occurred.
In the 36 hours since the quake's occurrence, water levels at Lake Mead have plunged precipitously. While we know correlation is not causation, the 'coincidence' of an extreme loss in water levels occurring in the aftermath of one of the largest quakes in recent Vegas history does raise a suspicious eyebrow - especially when there has been no official word on the precipitous decline.
The earthquake hit mid-morning on Friday:
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas Friday morning, forcing loose a rubber casing on a bridge and leading state officials to close Spaghetti Bowl interchanges for several hours.
After the Nevada Department of Transportation inspected bridges for possible structural damage, they deemed the roads safe for travel and reopened them just before 5 p.m. Traffic had backed up for miles during the closures, which came at the start of the Memorial Day weekend.
The quake, which hit at 11:47 a.m., was centered about 23 miles south-southwest of Caliente, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The magnitude was originally reported as 5.4, but the official number was lowered twice Friday.
The ramp from southbound U.S. Highway 95 to southbound Interstate 15 was closed about 12:20 p.m. Friday, officials said.
“The joint damage was pre-existing. The tremblor simply dislodged the protective rubber encasing the bridge seam making it look much worse than it was in reality” and prompting an immediate shutdown of the ramps, NDOT engineer Mary Martini said in a news release about 3:45 p.m.
Since then, official water level data shows an incredible 8 foot plunge in water levels since the earthquake.
considering the (average drop in the last 10 years is 1 inch, this is a troubling outlier.
Source: Lake Mead Water Database, h/t Professor Doom and Quasar
There is , of course, a possibility that the drop is the result of broken sensors and we will be following up during the week to see if levels normalize.
This is crucial since, as we noted previously,
If the water level drops below 1,075 feet elevation by January 1, 2016, it will trigger a federal water emergency. And water rationing.
Las Vegas Review Journal reported that forecasters expect the level to drop to 1073 feet by June, before Lake Powell would begin to release more water. Assuming “average or better snow accumulations in the mountains that feed the Colorado River – something that’s happened only three times in the past 15 years,” the water level on January 1 is expected to be barely above the federal shortage level.
Even with these somewhat rosy assumptions of “average or better than average snow accumulations,” the water level would begin set new lows next April. But if the next winter is anything like the last few, all bets are off.
If the level drops below 1050 feet, one of the two intake pipes for the Las Vegas Valley, which gets 90% of its water that way, will run dry.
As Roman Catholic Imperialist notes, this is quite unprecedented... For a sense of just how bad things are gettiing, the following images will help...
Update: moments ago the Lake Mead National Recreation Area officially denied that the online reading was accurate blaming the water level collapse on inaccurate water levels as of this morning.
Lake Mead's elevation has NOT dropped to 1,068 feet. Some inaccurate data was posted online. We are at 1,077 feet. http://t.co/a0YUo9iD0P
— Lake Mead (@LakeMeadNRA) May 24, 2015
@jeffreyneillong This information is not accurate. The website had incorrect data this morning. It has been updated http://t.co/0ls3f4yoC5
— Lake Mead (@LakeMeadNRA) May 24, 2015
Dare we say it: double seasonally-adjusted water levels?
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Oh noes. Must be Global Warming.
Maybe if they're lucky...
It will pop back out somewhere in Kalifornica.
Oh shit.
That's it for Vegas.
CA real estate prices implode in 3...2...1...
Blaming Putin in 3… 2… 1… ;-)
Looney
I can see it now..
"Oklahoma or Bust!"
Funny how history has a way of turning around on itself.
No problem just slap one of those new and improved seasonal Fed adjustments on that puppy and it'll be Okey
Okay, so if we take away 1", then 2", then 3", then 4" ... will we eventually add 1/12" to the water level?
We are living in the end times.
Don't suppose anybody checked to see if the water-level sensor might have changed position. Hmm?
I'm sorry.....what ?
I was reading about the terrible Texas/Oklahoma FLOODS !
I think the southwest will soon be migrating north & east...
Time to move the border fences.
or you can buy my boat, location is lake Mead. On the plus side you can drive right over to it and pick it up with your trailer. Going cheap with the price reflecting the fact it is now hot property as a live-in, stationary caravan.
Hey if you are that way persuaded, it's a good investment for a future Noa's ark project...
Water level drop did not happen according to this.
http://www.news3lv.com/mostpopular/story/Lake-Mead-says-reading-showing-...
Sounds to me like the quake damaged an automatic sensor. Sure as the update implies it could be a cover-up, but a drop of 8' would be tough to cover up.
Don't give conspiracy theories a bad name.
See now, all we need is one of the (no doubt many) in-between-jobbers, local, ex-surfer's who used to work the lake to tell us if the puddle has got smaller since the earth wobble. Eye's on the ground must know?
Perhaps Hoover Dam also changed position since it is that which creates the lake...or....er...cracked.
But I know that I should believe our Goobercunt Officiales...
They'd NEVER LIE.
We need to mass immigrate the Dutch. It is going to take one helluva lot of fingers to plug them holes.
Surely someone here boats on Lake Mead and has a depth sounder....
LAKE MEAD AT HOOVER DAM, ELEVATION (FEET)
1935-present
http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/mead-elv.html
Not sure who this we is unless you live in California or Vegas.
Holy Shit!
That looks like my ski boat, the one with all my gold in it.
Well played and excellent boobies.
Aren't those Pladizow's old titsZ?
Who said recycling is lame?
Pladizow had a sideways shot I believe.
Still spectacular nonetheless.
Salvage laws is salvage laws.
First come, first served.
That looks like a sweet boat. Very 70's. Might go get her and give her a clean up.
Someone take a camera down to the lake. An eight foot drop would be hard to hide. Until I see a current photo or they bar people from the lake so no one can see the drop it's just flawed data. I don't believe any of .GOVs other numbers so I don't believe this 'drop'
'Zactly. Pictures or it didn't happen. And why would the gubamint make any official announcement? Just like the Radiation die-off in the Pacific......don't want to alarm the sheople.
maybe Alciada
flew some planes into the lake...
Time to go metric. That will confuse everybody
1077 feet above sealevel now 1077 * .304 Metres/foot = 327.408 MSL
Interesting how the chart shows 2 reads on the way down. If the sensors had failed they should have hit zero and stayed there. There would not have been 2 reads on the line down. This rapid decay of the measurement is mysterious.
Oklahoma is suffering it's own present-day dust bowl. There's no place to run to.
Way to ruin a decent joke!
There is always Portland, Oregon. Plenty of water, pot and a great rave and techno scene.
I live in Portland. It's really awful here and I'm sure you wouldn't like it. Boise is much nicer.
no.....no, stay far away from Boise - you will gravitate to one of the statist shitholes like New York City or Detroit where you can do no further damage nor harm any innocent people with your socialist bullshit.
All ZHers are STILL welcome in Canada, esp. southwestern BC.
Come to Chicago you fools, Dep-Dish Pizza, all the Zebra-Mussel-Infested water you could want, target practice on any side street and a real sense of living by your primal instincts...
Chicago!....America's City!
Yah, & don't 4get all their progressive liberal democraps with all their stupid ideas & just plain assinine policies .... look what they did for Detroit & Baltimore. More of that on coming to a neighborhood near you...
it depends on who's Bust
Hah! TBA: Federal Hole Filling Financing Bank
Someone probably already suggested.
We can start Fracking for Water as long as we have ZIRP.
Americans pay more for Water than milk, so at least $1 a gallon, $55 per 55 Gallon Drum.
Unless... Wait maybe there are no water sands. Maybe just drilling for mud.
The fountain at the Bellagio will never be low!
Even if they have to get it from the toilets!
"Even if they have to get it from the toilets!"
Why, where did you think they got it from?
While I doubt an epic socioeconomic collapse will happen in my lifetime, I do hope I get to see the absurdity that is Las Vegas crumble to the ground and vanish in the desert winds before I die. That alone would make this life experience worth all the hassles. I've got -- best case scenario -- till 2050 or 2060... what's your prediction for mid-21st century Vegas?
"While I doubt an epic socioeconomic collapse will happen in my lifetime..."
Either you are diagnosed terminal or one hell of an optimist. This shitshow is already collapsing.
Did someone say there is a huge cistern or water supply under the lake that is for the elites that is much bigger than Lake Mead? I am not joking.
It's true. I was the one that posted that on an earlier Mead post.
Brought to the .001% by Bechtel and a pile of your tax dollars. Spoke to a man that was in the crew that applied the liner for it. Although, if an earthquake triggered this event, I'm thinking this particular elite subterranean wonderland is now slightly more "moist" than intended.
You smart folks have no idea what lies below you...and there's a reason for that.
None of us are invited.
he might be in his 80s or 90s?
I'd settle for seeing Harry Reid crumble and vanish. It'd be even better if he took the full Senate, House, SCOTUS and Executive Branch along with him, but that's a bit greedy of me, isn't it?
Well, looks like somebody edited the spreadsheet. Not only is it back up, the earthquake actually raised the water level. Tecktonic shift, no doubt.
Hmmm...inaccurate data you say. Is the corrected data coming from the BLS?
I have a couple of questions:
1. the data is actually quite important as it affects many lives. So why post such a dramatic change without first verifying it. Smells of someone not caring about their job.
2.Is there any redundancy in the sensors to show possible faults.
They Might be better with a rock on the end of a knotted rope.
The reference is to the level of the sea or ocean. Has anyone checked to see if the ocean level has come up. Hmm? Well?
The ocean level in Nevada may have risen, but it's still the same in Florida.
Quick, mail Gore another check.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Obviously you did not read the entire post and you did not have your decoder ring.
What you think happened: Obviously they did make the payment and Mr. Gore restored the water to its rightful levels. Obama will take credit tomorrow after he blames Bush for the whole thing to begin with.
What really happened: Nothing happened but a mistake due to either a typo or a broken sensor. Mr. Gore or some other likeminded criminal made a buttload. Obama will take credit tomrrow after he blames Bush for the whole thing to begin with.
If I pay my carbon taxes to the Rothschilds right away, will it go back up again pretty please?
No try Zorin Industries.
They have a problem, not a situation.
Damn Chinese, always stealing our stuff.
That would explain the drilling noises coming from the center of the earth.
They.... they stole our water.
I todja the Annanuki were gonna be pissed about what happened to their gold.
The water had to disappear so that the Indians can go back to living under the earth.
The area is well known for a system of caves or caverns where the water flows.
"The water had to disappear so that the Indians can go back to living under the earth." --TV88s
Also Dude, "Indian" is not the preferred nomenclature. Injun-American, please.
How... do you do?
There was an old cartoon of an indian chief who meets the main character, holds up his hand, and says that line. Wish I could recall it.
Just American is fine thanks. You, on the other hand, if you live here on turtle island, can insert your region of ancestry or emmigration as a prefix. Euro-American is the most common.
Oh, and don't feel the need to scold people on using "Indian" to describe people of the First Nations, it clearly shows their ignorance so that others can be aware and steer clear. "Do I look like I'm from fucking India, moron?" is my internal dialogue though when I hear it, but then again, geography has never been the strong suit of the average U.S. citizen.
you never played cowboys and red-indians? in my games as a kid no one won bcos I'd get bored and move on to Lego...
Speaking of them, this video of a Michael Tellinger presentation at a conference was quite intriguing.
Ancient Breakthrough Energy Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-ge7Xm-CfTY
We dehydrated some folks.
Who needs water when we can have QE'S foreva!
Will just buy the fucking thing and list it on S&P no wait Nasdaq no DOW?
No problem. Bama get the TPP through and Vegas can import as much as they want. Yellen print it all up, make it possible.
I still say those frackers cracked the rock basin that holds the water and now all the water has leaked down to a lower level
That actually makes sense cause the oil previously trapped in rock layers now fractured prevented water from seeping lower
It will probably hit the hot mantle soon causing a massive tectonic explosion that flips the Earth's poles and all the continents to crash back into each other.
And Hillary will promise to put it all back to normal.
"It will probably hit the hot mantle soon causing a massive tectonic explosion that flips the Earth's poles and all the continents to crash back into each other"
Please don't give the global warming scammers and Gore any ideas.
"We will need to double taxes so we can seal off all the subterranean cracks to prevent the "Continental Crunch." Gore will then be, "coincidentally," a principal in all subterranean seal and fill companies.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
and Guam WILL tip over, lolololol
Yeah, fracking has made as much sense to me as turning over the money printing authority to a tribe of alien ashkenazi savages.
lmao
http://www.globalwaterintel.com/client_media/images/articles/chart_3.gif
The article and all others fail to mention that at 1,050 feet, Hoover Dam hydropower goes offline. So there's that.
No water and no power. It's only a matter of when.
Add to the list of third world destinations in the USA.
Collective Karmic retribution is a bitch
Another few feet and the generators at the dam will begin cavitation. Good bye Last Vegasas / Lost Angles...
Kind of like Sodom and Gomorrah, no big loss
+100
I'll do my part and adopt a show girl.
I love it... your a fucking opportunist....
They start cavitating and they will destroy themselves in short order.
Your right and I'm sure the engineers are aware of contingency plans..If any....
Cavitation? Not likely, those generators are driven by the water, they are not driving the water.
Absolutely.
The loss of weight might cause the Dam to "lean back" though. In theory it could pull away from the Canyon Walls.
Those Houseboats are hugely expensive btw...some upwards of a million plus. There was one up at Glen Canyon that had its own helicopter.
Water this low won't make fishing very easy.
I wouldn't be too worried about electricity issues.
I don't worry about anything in the exceptional world of Amerika,,,,Electricity for all forever not to worry...And water in Kalifornia they have plenty.....I don't worry about water issues....MUHAHAHAHAHA
those generators are driven by the water
When the water stops driving the blades the RPM diminishes and whats left of the water boils and back flushes..In any event no electricity....GOOD LUCK ALL!!
In any event no electricity
Well, you got that part right.
In any hydro electric system such as the Hoover Dam they open and shut gate valves to start and stop the generators to meet demand or do maintenance. The lake running low will cause them to shut the generators down. Nothing out of the ordinary except the finality if it gets to that.
In any hydro electric system such as the Hoover Dam they open and shut gate vales to start and stop the generators to meet demand or do maintenance
Under normal conditions the manipulations of spillways and valves are a function of the dam and I simply state that these are not normal conditions we face,,,fuck it nothing is normal in the empire...We are all going to check out soon..The further south you go the better your chances of prolonging your existence.
Good luck to you and yours
Bollixed
Thank you. Good luck to you and yours, as well.
One wild ride coming up...
You bet my friend...
Take all the piss from California and dump it back in the lake.
going back to williambanzai7's hillary number two graphic it would seem to me that just one of those could do the trick.
Built in Prozac. Perfect.
Just rehypothocate the water that is there now ten times over, just like gold. Now there is plenty of water...problem solved!
That is akin to putting the Central Banker Cabal in charge of the California water supply. However, they are already placing bets on the outcome as they have made the illusion of water scarcity a reality. All the water that the earth was created with still exists.
Neslie's filled there suppy reservoirs ? A GDP pump.........water............. $5.75 a gallon.
Then, the great diaspora to the east coast.
This reminds me of Madonna's Superbowl show: https://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/madonna-halftime-pose-hoover-...
Time to start desalinization. oh wait. Pacific waters are radiated from Fukushima.
Its said when karma hits there is no way you can avoid it.
Still waiting 4 karma justice to hit the fudgepacker
Flush twice. L.A. needs the water.
I use tu have a lil bitch, she was a squirter I tell you, a bed wetter, 7.0 on the Chiwowwow scale.
Roo roo rooo!
I knew a couple of them in Germany, Big time squirters when getting fisted.
Reminds me of the photo.
Make me say: Roo rooroo!
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar, about which I tell you in advance-as I told you before-that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.- Galatians 5 (keep on the current path and you have nothing to look forward to at your deaths) For God is righteous and that is a problem for the unrighteous.And people wonder why Americans hate Eurofags. Lol!
Poor little Dutch boy.
hahaha, sez the American closet fag
God bless her mom and dad!
There is something great to be said about being able to witness the holy grail of the female ejaculation.
The order is going out to seed the clouds with SARIN
I noticed a couple of days ago that the level had dropped from 1077 to 1075 in one day. Later that same day the level was back up to 1077. I wrote it off as to some kind of error. For any one that wants to watch the level, you can see it here:
http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/hourly.html
Mother nature isa bitch, and I love her.
For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
.....and it's fleece was white as snow. Oh wait....wrong fairy tale?
Well here high in the Mexican Sierra Madres there is no shortage of water. In fact the rains seem to have started a couple weeks early this year. I don't buy into this global warming event - not a natural event anyway.
Yes, but Mexico isn't guilty of wars of aggression so they will be okay.
When I was a kid growing up in Jersey they always said the the Russian missiles were really aimed at Jersey City. Now more than ever - with the stock market data moving out of the City - that seems to make some sense.
And as to your comment - that is one of the reasons we love living here. Ok - I'll admit there are people pushing drugs into the US - but we don't know any of them - and they really have no effect on our lives.
but we don't know any of them - and they really have no effect on our lives.
...because it is all about you?
Wouldn't that be the grand-irony; people fleeing the US for Mexico, but for a good drink of water...it is possible, then Mexico will be in ruins...well more ruined.
Please don't come - we don't need you.
"Because Mexico would not give up their WNDs, and was suspected of having Niger 'yellow-cake,' we were forced to invade. Yes, yes, our troops first arrived at the ministries of energy and water, but that was just a coincidence."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Global warming is a joke something to distract/confuse the sheeple with. Jade Helm is not an 'exercise', it is the government, who is fully aware that some sort of global catastrophe is headed this way (Planet X fly by maybe?) positioning themselves to 'restore order' when the dust settles. I am in the southwest and we have not had anything close to a triple digit day yet; instead it is cloudy, windy and actually cooler...usually by this time it is *hot*... plus we have had an unusual amount of rain. Not normal and NOT global warming!
Have they turned off the fountain at the O yet? Can you still take showers at hotels in the desert?
You may ration my water as long as the golf course stays green.
The drouht is not a problem just because there’s a shortage of water.
The problem is that the soil sincks because the water that kept the ground swollen is gone.
Now if the ground collapses, it can’t absorb the water anymore when water does return and the water that is renewed just flows away causing droughts even if rains return.
A second problem is pressure, because the water is gone, pressure on the plates goes down, just in a time when yellowstone is rising.
So it’s important to see how that also changes.
There were sixty plus registered earthquakes in Yellowstone in April 2015, according to the USGS, fifty some the month before. Yellowstone by most accounts is *way* past due for an eruption, which due to the sheer size of it, would be an extinction level event. Something wicked this way comes, strap yourselves in kiddies, I think the ride is about to get *really* bumpy...
The water has leaked into the earth's core. When the core cools, the spin rate will increase, which will in turn make the days go faster. Faster days will speed up the ZH timeline to our certain deaths.
With any luck the water flooded into one of the shadow government's underground bases and took a bunch of douchebags with it. Just making lemonade from lemons...
Hydrogeologic changes in rivers and water tables are interesting. In California there have been numerous earthquakes that have raised river levels. Makes one wonder where this water is coming from.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-096-03/
The Lord is ultimately in control of all things down to the smallest detail. Knowing this helps me and many others remain confident in the years ahead. For most it will be disastrous, but with Jesus it is always a win-win regardless of the circumstance.
Yes, but temporarily moving to higher ground should not be condemned as a lack of faith.
What a Maroon.
If you have read your Bible...and really applied it...then you would not be so arrogant.
You'd know that God is not a respecter of persons. You'd also know that it rains upon both the righteous and the wicked alike.
Now I can find those scriptures with a little effort. But they were written long ago and serve toward my ultimate conviction and sentence.
You had best repent of your arrogance, demonstrate humility, and ask for mercy, instead of judgment, for these people, and for yourself.
Otherwise you will find yourself in my shoes...condemned.
Because as for me...I am already Hellbound....damned for all time without any hope. I am just not deluded about it.
I don't care if it rains or freezes...
The good news is that Colorado has been getting so much rain that the runoff is expected to help Lake Mead's water levels:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/05/24/mandatory-evacuation-notice-issued...
The Front Range has had a ton of rain this spring. However, most of that flows to the east side of the Continental Divide. Not sure about rain on the Western Slopes this year.
As the link explains, the Dillon Reservoir is being drained for more runoff, and since the Front Range and Denver are already saturated, almost all of the water is heading West, and the forecast for the Western Slope is for more rain on Monday.
Western slope here. We're about to set records for most precipitation in May. Good thing is that we don't have to send all of our water to the fags on the front range.
Yet.
Has this drawdown rate been verified by Harvey Organ?
I bet the earthquake's opened up a pre-historic underground cavern lake and let loose vast numbers of hungry piranhas. as in the film Piranha:
Swimming Now Banned.
Are you sure it wasn't a Land of the Lost scenario?
Has anyone seen Holly recently?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSKIuJWRMaI
That also looks like a good film. But I was referring to Piranha
"Lake Victoria's annual Spring party by 50,000 young revelers is about to turn into a feeding frenzy with prehistoric hunger-pains. With knee-trembler's above the waves and tremors below, released from their dormant sleep, thousands upon thousands of flesh-eating nippers are released into the lake with whetted appetites and razor-sharp teeth. With a motley crew of strangers thrown together to defend these shores, it is now up to them to prevent the largest eat-out in human, and piranha, history."
President Obama has asked Congress to come up with a plan for everyone to share in the costs of California's water woes.
It is America's responsibility to offset the costs of Californians to obtain water. Maybe Congress can come up with a law where we can all contribute money for the collective good of Californians, ya know, like Obamacare.
You left out California common core as a nice contribution; a direct attack on children across the nation...ask any real teacher.
Obies amaFornicare
I'd take that deal.if it meant every person that was not.legally in the USA was rounded up and.positively deported, never to return.
Chip them suckers.
Id be a much more.supportive citiezen if my government would simply obey the law.