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A Stunning Look At California's Historic Drought - From The Air

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"Ugly brown rings where waves used to lap at the shore. Dry docks lying on desiccated silt. Barren boat ramps. Trickles of water." Those are just some of the disturbing images California's Department of Water Resources team saw in an aerial tour of Northern California's Folsom Lake, Lake Oroville and Shasta reservoirs released this week...

 

The dramatic aerial views timelapsed from just a year ago show the level of devastation already... and it's not about to get any better...

 

Click image below for interactive gallery...

 

Source: SFGate.com

 

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Fri, 07/24/2015 - 01:09 | 6348151 steveo77
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"You are living in a desert!"

 

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 09:59 | 6348846 Jersey_Mountaineer
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"THERE'S DESERTS IN AMERICA, WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM, ASS****S!!!"

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 10:56 | 6349040 Barley Burnside
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Sam!!! I sure miss him..www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 01:15 | 6348156 I-am-not-one-of-them
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"It is not entirely clear why the Ancestral Puebloans migrated from their established homes in the 12th and 13th centuries. Factors examined and discussed include global or regional climate change, prolonged periods of drought, cyclical periods of topsoil erosion, environmental degradation, de-forestation, hostility from new arrivals, religious or cultural change, and even influence from Mesoamerican cultures. Many of these possibilities are supported by archaeological evidence."

 

When it's unsustainable, you move, then get studied in some future time why.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 01:36 | 6348180 Monetas
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The real drought .... is in Gov. Moonbeam's bedroom .... old queers have dry holes .... all they can do is suck .... "liquid burritos" (young Mexican boys) !

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 09:21 | 6348729 Victor999
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Speaking for yourself?

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 03:07 | 6348268 litemine
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That amount of boats, even in that lake full of water....is just Sad.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 03:40 | 6348299 flight77
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Mike Davis:

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.

 

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 03:49 | 6348306 Panic Mode
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What's the worries. I went to San Fran and the whole place is full of euphoria. 

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 07:55 | 6348487 Infinite QE
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Euphoria. That's the new essence that the chemtrails planes are spraying.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 08:21 | 6348546 phoenixdark
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awesome. theres nottin worth saving here. 

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 08:26 | 6348561 d edwards
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not much water for people, but by gawd the delta smelt is thriving!

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 08:25 | 6348558 Benjamin123
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Humans are nomads. Sedentary humans only stay in a place until climate change or war displaces them.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 10:52 | 6349026 Barley Burnside
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"Gonads"

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 08:41 | 6348608 Bloodstock
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It's a simple journey to understanding the dilemma. Explore DutchSinse, HAARP, Weather Modification. Very interesting stuff.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 10:02 | 6348860 Jersey_Mountaineer
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Almost 40 million people live in a broke state with no water.  Think de-salination plants might be an option?  "Nah, we're gonna build a $100 billion train so people can live in LA and commute to San Francisco!"

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 11:15 | 6349097 Billy Sol Estes
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Another dumb fuck article about Government Created reservoirs going dry. Same shit in Texas. Lakes never existed there, lakes don't belong in a desert.

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 14:19 | 6349946 michelp
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Wonder how many water bottling Co. operate in CA?

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