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California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead

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Perhaps it is because the world has grown habituated to its unique set of "liquidity" problems, but California's record, and ongoing, drought has not been receiving much media coverage in recent weeks. Perhaps it should be, because according to a report by CBS Sacramento, the mystery that recently surrounded the water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, has spilled over to a water reservoir in Northern California.

 

As CBS reports, the Mountain Meadows reservoir also known as Walker Lake, a popular fishing hole just west of Susanville, ran dry literally overnight, killing thousands of fish and leaving residents looking for answers.

 

The unprecedented emptying of the lake has stunned locals: residents say people were fishing on the lake last Saturday, but it drained like a bathtub overnight.

The reservoir before:

 

and after:



"Everywhere that you see that’s wet, there was water," said resident Eddie Bauer. Bauer has lived near this lake his entire life. This is the first time he’s ever seen it run dry. He and other residents want answers.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company owns the rights to the water and uses it for hydroelectric power.

According to the Sac Bee, the reservoir is the upper-most storage facility in PG&E’s Feather River hydroelectric system, and has been operating at below the minimum requirements since August, said Ron Lunder, chairman of the Mountain Meadows Conservancy, a Westwood-based nonprofit organization.

What little water remained on the morning of Sept. 13 is gone. Along with leaving large-mouth bass and other non-native fish belly up, a swift drawdown dumped silt and rotting fish into Hamilton Branch, a stream that connects Mountain Meadows reservoir with Lake Almanor.

“Something went haywire,” said Aaron Seandel, chairman of a water quality committee that has been monitoring the water levels in Lake Almanor for 25 years.

Bauer blames the local electric company: he says there should’ve been at least two weeks of water left and that would’ve given PG&E enough time to relocate the fish. "This makes me feel like they didn’t want to do a fish rescue and that it was easier to open that sucker up Saturday night," Bauer said.

However, PG&E denies responsibility and says nobody opened the dam up: instead the "water simply ran out."

PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno said an outlet valve at the dam has been continuously clogged, requiring maintenance as often as twice a day to release water downstream through Hamilton Branch to Lake Almanor. Company officials consulted with “the relevant agencies” and decided not to stop further flows out of the dam, he said.

"It’s a very flat, very shallow reservoir. At some point it was going to go dry," he said. And so it did. Overnight.

No matter who’s to blame, residents here worry, this could happen in other areas of the state.  “The reservoirs are all continuing to be far below normal,” said Doug Carlson with the Department of Water Resources. He says there’s no question water concerns are still a serious issue across the state.

“We are reliant upon rainfall to fill those lakes of course and until we get more rain we’re not likely to see any appreciable increase in the reservoir levels,” he said.

As for the fate of all the water at the Mountain Meadows reservoir, it remains a mystery.

 

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Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:37 | 6594823 Mostly Harmless
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I wonder how Lake Mead is doing?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594846 Divine Wind
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This incident is a timely corollary to socialism.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:56 | 6594911 gmrpeabody
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All your fish are belong to us...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:57 | 6594915 847328_3527
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"The Onion" ?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:03 | 6594939 quintago
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Hey, they should be happy that PG&E didn't blow up their city

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:05 | 6594945 Son of Loki
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<< Pacific Gas & Electric Company owns the rights to the water and uses it for hydroelectric power.>>

 

Wanna buy some water rights right now, real cheap?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:51 | 6595088 NidStyles
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"water simply ran out."

 

How in the hell is that an answer?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:55 | 6595096 indygo55
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Its a combination of the climate engineering and HAARP. Thie drought is man made. They stop the rainfall over the oceans before the rain clouds can get to land. It is man made. The people who are near the conspiracy are terrified of something and refuse to talk about it. 

Read up folks. Its all here for everyone to see.

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:03 | 6595116 Silver Sativa
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TPTB would not intentionally cause a drought -- it is counter to their interests of maintaining power and control. Of course they're terrified of something happening -- it already occured. Have you heard of "the polarity flip?" It is real interesting, that phenomenon. The most interesting thing that happens during a polarity flip is that the planet loses its ability to generate clouds. That is the reason why there is so much weather modification all over the world. Humanity is trying to replace the clouds the planet can't generate, anymore.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:09 | 6595133 bunnyswanson
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Sure they would.  They would cause mass migration by draining out the water and selling it at profit.  They have done this in Africa, I believe.  Never underestimate the depth of cruel intentions of those in charge of THE GOYIM who have been deemed too stupid to think for themselves.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:14 | 6595140 Escrava Isaura
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“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

Ernest Hemingway

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:29 | 6595192 MalteseFalcon
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"However, PG&E denies responsibility and says nobody opened the dam up: instead the "water simply ran out.""

LOL.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:56 | 6595264 Ness.
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Whenever the Cali drought makes news I have to pull out this video.  Sums up just how fucked up 'Merica is in 5 minutes.

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas.  We gots water to spare!

<video is the water show at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas>  Such a waste.  It's a fucking desert you idiots.  What did you think would happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x21kClCjkW0

 

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:05 | 6595295 Miffed Microbio...
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I was recently in the Mandalay and they had a large water break leaving the hotel without water for hours. Some women were having a handwringing over it so I told them someone said Lake Mead had finally gone dry. Maybe its the meds but it seems people just don't have a sense of humor anymore.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:24 | 6595352 remain calm
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Climate change dumb fucks. If we would of only taxed Carbon omissions 6 years ago this all could have been overted. More money in Barack Obama's and Nancy Pelosi hands would have prevented this catastrophe. Soon you will sleep like the fishies.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:51 | 6595439 willwork4food
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Seems people just don't have a sense of humor anymore

 

LOL miffed. A lot of people are losing their sense of humor, especially when they are broke, got a $300 speeding ticket for going 5mph over the legal limit, got robbed by the highwaymen for transporting over $5k in cash from their bank account or they just found out they still have to pay $$$$thousands when their spouse has to go to an Oncologist office for tests.

Or maybe they're just bumbed because they didn't win the lotto because the stocks were not working out.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:17 | 6595524 Handful of Dust
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Some of those restrictions must be pretty tight. My friend lives in Freemont area and says she goes to her club or gym to take showers.

 

wtf?!

 

She's full of BS or it's real messed up out there. Wait 'till they get Barry's alotment of 50,000 Moslim aliens from the MENA to house, feed, etc.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:07 | 6595612 Richard Chesler
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"It simply ran out"

That's one way to test the reaction of gov. parasites  once jew banksters finish stealing their pensions....

 

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:24 | 6595691 J S Bach
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It's a desert - and deserts always reclaim themselves no matter what man tries to do.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:58 | 6595736 DeadFred
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The water output is controlled by a computer and the Ruskies and their Chinese friends are giving yet another reminder that they 'own' the net. My opinion but I was telling this to a friend in charge of IT at a hospital and he said (after a long pause) that they have found a strong correlation between sanctions and other actions that piss off the Russians and unexplained web attacks. The only problem is he said most attacks happen on the Tuesday after sanctions. Yeah Brian, this is me. (He's also a ZH reader)

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:28 | 6595862 A Nanny Moose
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Better check the logs across the SCADA networks.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:38 | 6595865 TahoeBilly2012
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My  family has the oldest cabin on Almanor west shore, golden spot if the snows return soon,

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:15 | 6595969 Amish FinEng
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-->TahoeBilly2012<--

Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 08:31 | 6596103 Macchendra
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To every solution, there is a problem:  life springs eternal. (be it insect, parasite, virus, bacteria, human, etc.)

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 10:35 | 6596307 rccalhoun
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water temps are very high in san diego and la.  tuna and dorado have never been closer to shore and so far north per all my fishing buddies recollections.  el nino is here....for what its worth.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:15 | 6595880 Implied Violins
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You got it. This shit will continue to happen, the Chinese 'hackers' will be blamed, millions of Californians will be forced to move into FEMA camps or die, there will be war...

These globalists are EVIL fucks. They literally will stop at NOTHING to kill most of us and have their way. The question is: what do we do about it? And WHEN? Will it take emptying the Great Lakes before people 'get it?'

THIS is the face of WWIII. THIS is the kind of shit that will keep happening: destruction of food, water, homes, and the machinery necessary to keep them all going.

Why? Because, THIS time, the enemy is...US.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:17 | 6595972 Amish FinEng
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The Bush family owns huge water aquifers in SA. They bought them to save America when the time comes so don't worry.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 14:13 | 6596884 CheapBastard
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What's worse then going dry? Eating chicken topped with a sprinkling of metal bits: Half a million pounds of chicken recalled over metal shavings

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/half-a-million-pounds-of-chicken-...

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 16:10 | 6597144 californiagirl
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It is a beautiful area in the mountains, not a dessert. There are no desserts up in that area.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 00:14 | 6595753 Lore
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People in my area are cutting costs by discontinuing garbage collection and overstuffing public receptacles, and cutting water bill by using campus facilities..

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 11:20 | 6596407 Jumbotron
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Which means as much water is STILL being used.  Just the location of the water usage has changed.

Too many people, and too much agriculture in.....THE FUCKING DESERT  !!!!!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:18 | 6595531 Rubbish
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We mudded a few fish.

 

Gold Bitchez....I pick up pennies

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:51 | 6595622 Handful of Dust
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This whole story smells fishy.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:02 | 6595646 johngaltfla
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Oh snapper!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 07:14 | 6596013 Cloud9.5
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Ever been to Mesa Verde?  The climate changed and people moved.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:29 | 6595985 Amish FinEng
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Miffed.
Lasts years vacation had us heading to Vegas to observer the hedonism and pray for the sick people caught up in that slurry.

So we're driving our buggy down Route 66 and come across a hitchhiker heading our way. Mom said "stop and get him and we'll fill his head with our alternate philosophy".

Turns out our hitchhiker was a salesman going to Vegas to sell water recycling systems. He said hitchhiking helps him educate people. He mentioned that the big hotels in Vegas take the poop water that flushes down the toilets and filters it and sends it back to the rooms, kitchen, ice machines, and water fountains.

Just think, your spaghetti dinner was boiled in poop water excreted out by all those nice tourists that surround you.

Thank God for Amish outhouses.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:03 | 6596141 HulkHogan
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I live outside of Amish town, Indiana. Man can you guys build! I'm getting ready to move to Maine. In the future I wonder what Maine will look like when the rest of the country needs water. Will it, along with Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, be among the richest states in the country, or will it be a heavy-handed government which makes itself rich while impoverishing the people of the state (think Saudi Arabia). The last great wars will be over water. Time for Maine to secede.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:14 | 6596151 DeadFred
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Except for the small amount that constantly comes to us via the solar wind all water is recycled poo water. Statistcally speaking there is an excellent chance your body contains water that once passed through Jesus or Attila the Hun, probably not from any specific Maori chieftan since water rarely crosses the equator. 'Pure water' is a relative term.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 15:31 | 6597050 shovelhead
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Every drop of water on the planet is billions of years old.

There is no such thing as 'fresh' water.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 11:43 | 6596489 Caleb Abell
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"He mentioned that the big hotels in Vegas take the poop water that flushes down the toilets and filters it and sends it back to the rooms, kitchen, ice machines, and water fountains."

 

That's nothing new, Starbucks has been doing it for years.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:12 | 6595317 Tarshatha
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I love that, no excuses.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:07 | 6595656 Pool Shark
Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:44 | 6595725 813kml
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The fish obviously drank it all, greedy fuckers.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 00:47 | 6595781 joeyman9
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They like to buy things at pennies on the dollar.  What better way to aquire California Real Estate then to buy abandonned towns and cities that have no water and selling for a few cents on the dollar?  Once the deals are complete, the water comes back on and their fortunes are made. 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:08 | 6595885 uhland62
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There are several variables in that equation: Rain, number of users. They can't forever increase the number of users and beliieve the rainfall will increase in parallel. Hello?

 

In about 1959 the US had 200million inhabitants, today over 300. Has rainfall increased more than 50 %? Why is this so difficult to understand?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 16:29 | 6597185 californiagirl
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Rainfall is also about major weather patterns, like the PDO. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation has been in a  predominantly negative phase for the last 20 years, since right after the last Super El Nino in 97/98. It is showing signs of changing to the positive mode for the past 19 months, thus the warming eastern northern Pacific. The press refers to it as the "Blob" and acts like it never happened before. It is also why we are having more kayaker and surfer attacks by hammerhead sharks in California. They are moving further north with the warming water. More shark attacks, dead baby seals, purple sea slugs invasions, red crab invasions, etc, in California are all news pointing to a strong El Nino and warmer water, which means lots of rain for California. It has all happened before, during previous super El Ninos, and is not a sign of climate doom and gloom.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:21 | 6596158 Reporter
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Or read Jubilee Year: A Novel. That also contains a few pointers and postulations. 

http://www.amazon.com/Jubilee-Year-Novel-Erelong-Book-ebook/dp/B013ANZ508/

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:32 | 6596172 Everybodys All ...
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I saw this guy on the Alex Jones show just this week. http://www.infowars.com/geoengineering-hidden-in-plain-sight-for-decades/

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:07 | 6595125 kaiserhoff
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No mystery.  It's a sink hole.  Very common in Florida and parts of the south, but usually not as catastrophic due to the high water table.  The lake was perched over a bed of limestone that gradually eroded or sandstone which finally gave way, and did, in fact drain like a tub. 

Once the mud is dry, they can walk out there and find the hole.  It might be possible to plug it, but that rarely works. 

If there is any water left, look for a whirl pool, sure sign of where its going, but don't get too close;)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:10 | 6595135 general ambivalent
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Edgar Allan Poe can tell you which shaped object to hold onto in case you fall in.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:11 | 6595137 Teh Finn
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The power company that operates the hydroelectrics let the remaining water out.  There is no mystery.  There is no conspiracy.  The water had been drawn down over the past 4 year drought.  There simply wasn't much left in there.  The article said 170 acrefeet.  The reservoir requires a minimum of ~1200 acrefeet to operate the hydroelectric generators.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:09 | 6595506 Osmium
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I did it.  I took the water and you can bet yer ass I'll do it again!!!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:19 | 6595156 Miffed Microbio...
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Whoa, and I thought our rich here in Rancho Santa Fe, needed their swimming pools filled but your explanation seems much more reasonable. Too bad someone couldn't have videoed the whole thing. I'd love to see the impressive Coriolis Effect!

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:34 | 6595387 ZerOhead
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I would have loved to hear the giant sucking noise...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:25 | 6595695 NuckingFuts
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And I laughed at Ross Perot. I was just 18 though but still.....

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:51 | 6595938 RockySpears
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Might be the last thing you hear .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI

Bit more dramatic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FuMI5CzTo

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:25 | 6595181 cougar_w
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That place is not Florida and that was not a sink hole. It was PG&E, doing whatever the fuck they want to do as usual, and what they wanted was all that water some the fuck other place doing something else.

So away it went, no questions asked and no answers given.

As for the locals, fuck them. It was never their water it belonged to PG&E and the locals were allowed to "use it" until PG&E could profit from having the water somewhere else doing something else besides supporting a non-native fishery.

Simple as that.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:41 | 6595400 ZerOhead
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They may have sent the water downstream to save the delta smelt... that's what I'd be saying if I was their PR smokesperson...

(Pssst... PG&E call me)

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 01:53 | 6595836 californiagirl
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No. They let the water run down into Lake Almanor. Too bad they were too lazy and cheap to move the fish first. Lake Almanor has great Trout fishing. It also has a nice, gated country club area with a spit that reaches out into the lake, populated with 7 and 8 figure waterfront vacation "cabins". Perhaps some interested parties want to make sure there is enough water to keep the lake full so these people can continue boating from all their private docks.

   

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:01 | 6595846 jeff montanye
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yes.  that sounds right.  thank you for the detail californiagirl.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:44 | 6596197 darkpool2
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Why did I have to get this far down the comments section,  let alone the article itself,  before one rational explanation.  The other is seismic activity.  Has everyone taken the stupid pill today? 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 15:53 | 6597101 californiagirl
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Seismic possibility could be a an answer as they are near Mt. Lassen volcano and there was a good sized earthquake a couple of years ago. But I think PG&E drained it on purpose. They do whatever they want. The people who live up there are also trying to stop PG&E's weather modification program which is polluting the waters, air and soil. They have been trying to get the local and state governments to put a stop to it.

https://pressingrefresh.wordpress.com/category/weather-modification-2/

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:46 | 6596198 darkpool2
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Cell phone posting...... Oops

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:44 | 6596199 darkpool2
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Why did I have to get this far down the comments section,  let alone the article itself,  before one rational explanation.  The other is seismic activity.  Has everyone taken the stupid pill today? 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:00 | 6595640 Fukushima Fricassee
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Much better than some on the answer cocksucker Obama spits out.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:51 | 6595255 McCormick No. 9
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PG&E owns Non-consumptive rights. For fuck's sake people, please learn somethng about western water law.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:19 | 6594993 negative rates
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Hey knucklers, replace the faulty valve while you still can, it could rain over night and you would miss your opportunity, unless that's the plan, you know, keep all your options open.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:41 | 6595056 Calmyourself
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Obviously catastrophic globull warming

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:59 | 6595098 HardlyZero
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Lake Mead....I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE !! ..... unbelievable !!!

September 23, 2015

 

Las Vegas uncaps Lake Mead's "third straw" for water supply

 

People work on a barge used to remove a plug on a new water intake on Lake Mead, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, near Boulder City, Nev. The intake was unplugged Wednesday to finish flooding an $817 million tunnel and complete a complicated "Third Straw" project to draw drinking water for Las Vegas from a shrinking Lake Mead. 

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-uncaps-lake-meads-third-straw-for-...

 

Lake Mead (was one of the largest reserviors) drawdown should increase by much more now...wow.

How low can it go  ?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:32 | 6595199 Miffed Microbio...
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No, we are just watching beautiful Cali Central Planning. Now if they can just get everyone to believe your idea. Shouldn't be too hard.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:55 | 6595630 Handful of Dust
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Jerry Brown is too pre-occupied with his HyperRailway from the Mesican Border up to the LA Safe Zone.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 16:38 | 6597208 californiagirl
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Not really. He had a bit of a tantrum last week when his liberal congress somehow refused to pass SB350, which would have required Californians to reduce their gasoline usage by 50%. I wonder if he has his money invested in electric car companies? I know they do line his campaign coffers.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:08 | 6594954 Motasaurus
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Nestle bought it.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:16 | 6594981 OldPhart
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I was going to reference Nestle, too.  But I think the water was stolen.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:36 | 6595213 Motasaurus
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If it was stolen the government would be in a panic.

Nah. It was bought and paid for. The currency may have been orphaned children, knowing how high finance works, but still, it was bought. 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:52 | 6595613 TAALR Swift
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No fish for you!

And you, you frack ho, no liquidity for you!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 01:49 | 6595840 Down to Earth T...
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How in the fuck does PGE own the wqter and here in Oregon they put people in jail for capturing rain water on their property ? Do we live in a fucking matrix or what ? Kawleefornya lets Nestle take hundreds of millions millions of gallons of water to bottle for $534 a year ? and there is supposedly a drought ? Sounds like buisiness is open for the right people ? Kawleeforna is one fucked up place, wonder why.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 16:45 | 6596138 OceanX
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...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594851 Antifaschistische
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I heard the manmade lakefront properties in fresno and sacramento still had water in them...interesting priorities

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:53 | 6594898 Chupacabra-322
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What a shame, no water in which to drown Boxer & Pelosi.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:06 | 6595121 Jena
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Now how will we ever prove they are (or aren't, I suppose) witches?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:22 | 6595165 Miffed Microbio...
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I'm hoping someone here in Cali has a scale and a duck as an alternative method so all won't be lost.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:24 | 6595173 kaiserhoff
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By now I should know better, but please elaborate;)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:34 | 6595206 e_goldstein
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 Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:37 | 6595211 Jena
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The best answers with regard to witches are always Monty Python:

https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g Miffed ;) too quick for me, e_goldstein
Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:39 | 6595223 gtb
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Monty Python.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:17 | 6594986 OldPhart
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Those manmade lakefronts are the drainage and recycling of the adjacent golf courses.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:35 | 6595038 Freddie
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California is run by environmental criminals and facist libturds.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:33 | 6595201 kaiserhoff
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Yup, and soon, Mexican drug cartels.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:52 | 6595262 Future Jim
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Their government lost all its water?

Good enough for government work.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:40 | 6595866 A Nanny Moose
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Fact: Everything government touches, turns to shit.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:55 | 6595274 RaceToTheBottom
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Yes, PG&E emptied the reservoir to please the " environmental criminals and facist libturds"......

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:45 | 6594863 msmith9962
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"I drink your milkshake!"

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:51 | 6594888 xtop23
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I had the exact same thought.

Daniel Day-Lewis is a badass.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:49 | 6595065 Calmyourself
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HE is an actor.. He plays (pretends) at good characters but HE is an ACTOR.  In other news Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a barbarian prince...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:51 | 6595259 Calmyourself
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This is why Freddy makes so much sense...~

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:24 | 6595692 xtop23
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I would have thought such a thing was understood and as such, required no further explanation.

The fact he is an actor, does little to diminish the appropriate nature of the original post or my response to it.

Now please, with sugar on top, fuck off.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:51 | 6594886 TheRideNeverEnds
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Its doing great!  They have almost finished The Final Hole, a hole that will punch up through the center of the lower part in lake mead..   Took a few years to build and a billion dollars or whatever but we will soon have the ability to suck that sombitch down below the ground till there is not a single drop left.  

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:58 | 6594922 Mostly Harmless
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Good...that's what I want to hear!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 10:40 | 6596316 Max Cynical
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"New Lake Mead straw now delivering water to Las Vegas Valley"

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/new-lake-mead-straw-now-deli...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:51 | 6594887 Sudden Debt
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It's a dry aquafer that collapsed and a sinckhole dryd up the lake.

There's no reason why this won't happen at lake mead as it has the same dry underground.

The ground was drained to fast and people still need to see the worst.

Imagine what could happen witha unstable underground if it suddenly would start to rain this winter.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:04 | 6594940 Mostly Harmless
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Not arguing with you, but shouldn't there be an obvious depression in the mud?

Also, and I could be wrong, but wasn't there a vast aquifer that ran from under the great plains to California that has been sucked dry in the past 70/80 years?  That would mean there's a lot of potential bodies of water - not just in California - that are in danger of this sudden collapse?

Thank you for the reply, btw. 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:29 | 6595166 kaiserhoff
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Kinda, sorta.  The aquifers you refer to are usually very deep, thousands of feet, and not related to surface water because of all the layers of stone and sediment in between, but water tables are, and the drought could be a factor.

Helped build three ponds and drill a few water wells as a kid.  Anyone who says he really understands underground water would probably lie about other things too;)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:23 | 6595170 Jumbotron
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With no granite bed underneath, only limestone or packed sand....it can go REAL quick.

Google map Keystone Heights, Florida.  And then toggle back and forth between the road map and Earth view.  Even though they have updated some of their blue water graphics to show the decrease in areal coverage of the lakes....events on the ground are outpacing their updates.

Pay close attention to Lake Geneva just south of town on Hwy 100 and the lake between Hwy 21 and Hwy 100, just north of town.

There are actually lake beds that are now completely prairie land and have actually been renamed that.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:51 | 6595257 Mostly Harmless
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Good God, you weren't kidding!  Thanks for the info!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:08 | 6595658 Jumbotron
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Here's the scary part.   They've had a sht ton of rain.  The water level you see is actually BETTER than last year.

But between Jacksonville, Orange Park, and St. Johns County sucking on the aquifer, all of the sand plants and mines in the area including DuPont sucking on the water.....and even as far south as Ocala and Orlando......they're ALL drinking our milkshake.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:54 | 6594906 silver_stacker
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The western US is under an all out climate engineering assault, California most of all. The Weather Makers can shut the hydrological cycle off from the once “golden state” for as long as they wish. Satellite images and NOAA maps shown in this presentation are shocking and revealing to say the least. Whatever one wishes to consider as the agenda of those in power, one conclusion is certain, the drought in California is a direct result of the ongoing climate engineering insanity. Weather warfare is now being waged on the American population.
  http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-drought-catastrophe-target-california-live-presentation/     Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org
 
Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:17 | 6594985 Dominus Ludificatio
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Mankind does not even understand the complexities of climate change.They fuck it up without even knowing.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:50 | 6595082 XRAYD
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Mankind does not understand the complexity of "mankind"!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:30 | 6595025 SixIsNinE
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Wiggington was interviewed on infowars a couple days ago - very informative - youtube it or infowars.com

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:44 | 6595239 Chris Dakota
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Jesuit Jerry Brown was talking about climate change last time he was governor, in his other drought of the 70s.

back then he wanted to build a massive underground pipeline to So. Cal.

Well he is back with that idea again.

He was going to try to fine us for using water but he figured it illegal so he put the rationing on the local water districts who chickened out with the tiered pricing because it is also illegal.

But it didn't stop them from handing out new water hookups, oh no.

It's fake, it is so obvious, so was the Napa quake fake. Flashes of lights reported before the quake. I was 20 miles away and hardly felt it and I was awake and up, the damage severe in on like only one street, way too shallow.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 07:36 | 6596041 BidnessMan
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Build a covered aquaduct at ground level to get the right of way, and then put bullet train tracks on top - 2 birds with one stone.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:20 | 6595159 stocks up every...
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Put 40 million people in a desert, have them grow all the fruits and vegetables and then wonder why they run out of water.  It is a mystery we may never solve.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:23 | 6595980 azusgm
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Kinda sounds like Egypt for a few thousand years.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:48 | 6596209 UndroppedClanger
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Yeah, but the ancient Egyptians didn't have daily showers, flush toilets, hotel swimming pools, green lawns outside their homes, golf courses and fountain displays rockin' out to cheesey music at the top of every hour. They probably had much lower population density relative to the catchment area too.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 09:13 | 6596148 R-502
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I work up there. The thing to remember is that this is a man-made reservoir NOT a lake. The other lakes in the mountains around there are spring fed lakes. On that map they show a lake called Honey lake it has been dry for at least 8 years. Nobody freaked out about that because it does that all the time, yet if you look at that map it looks as if it's a normal water feature. If I lived in Westwood I'd start asking some questions of PG&E, because in the end it's their reservoir. :P

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 12:23 | 6596608 Boxed Merlot
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start asking some questions of PG&E...

 

Agree.  What an overblown story this is.  Westwood is a town time forgot that has survived on meth and dope on one hand and the Susanville prison on the other, and that for keeping both sides of the bars supplied with people and food.  Beautiful country but sparsely populated with lots of SoCal transplants along the Almanor / Grey Eagle paths to Tahoe / Reno.  The area was originally developed to supply wood for fruit boxes to be packed in the newly developed refrigerated boxcars heading east filled with Central Valley produce.

This body of water was designed to serve the bustling company town of Westwood back in the day and is little more than what most in Texas would call a tank in the back 40.

Non story.

 

jmo. 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 10:48 | 6596325 dizzyfingers
Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:38 | 6594824 A Lunatic
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Climate Change did it. There's the proof. Case closed. Executive order 4,687,659,655,798,3961/2: All of your waters are now belong to us.............

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:24 | 6595004 TuPhat
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The EPA needed the water for superfund cleanup somewhere else.  Actually it might have been aliens.  Everyone knows that water powers their spaceships.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:38 | 6594826 Bunga Bunga
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Dehydrated!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:40 | 6595227 zero_wedge
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We parched some folks.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:38 | 6594827 q99x2
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I was up in Susanville for the 1984 rainbow gathering. You wouldn't believe the strange things that happen up there.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:47 | 6594848 OC Sure
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But the Pope sayz that "God lives in our cities. The church lives in our cities!"

Quick, moove Lake Mead to a god blessed city!

 

POPES have always been frauds. All they are is the ursurpation of Plato's Forms and carved upon the Totem Pole of Authority.

Please, Pope, appeal to George Carlin and move Mead to a blessed city!

 

Let us pray to the [whored]

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:06 | 6595301 Chris Dakota
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UN Agenda 21

all your land belongs to us.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:48 | 6594876 FredFlintstone
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did you get any action?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:24 | 6595008 OC Sure
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Yabbadabbado!

 

Do you pray to the great Gazoo?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:31 | 6595027 20834A
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Welcome home, Brother, it's good to get out of Babylon. I used to go for years to the regional Rainbow Gathering in Ocala National Forest. Until they started having plainclothes with cameras and did car checks. Fuckety Fuckers

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:24 | 6595178 jimijon
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+1 for Rainbow Gatherings

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:48 | 6595603 WTFMOFO
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I was bow hunting once within 1/2 mile of a rainbow gathering.  To my surpirse and slightly after daylight I had 3 naked ladies walk by.  I got there attention, waved (from my treestand) and they apologized, waved back, laughed and told me that they heard there was a water hole that they could bath in down in the valley.  I pointed them in the rigth direction..with my finger that is.

Yep filed it as THE BEST FUCKING HUNTING TRIP EVA!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:14 | 6595666 Miffed Microbio...
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If I ever attend a rainbow gathering I will be sure to paint on an orange vest!

Miffed;-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:39 | 6594831 Ignatius
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I saw a Nestle' truck leaving the scene in a hurry.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594853 Divine Wind
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ROFL

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594854 willwork4food
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No, that was a 'Budweiser' truck that was giving out candy.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:45 | 6594862 Mostly Harmless
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You, Sir, win the internet for today! :-)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:39 | 6594833 Sudden Debt
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ALIENS!! ISIS!!! OR JUSTIN BIEBER DID IT!!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:20 | 6594994 Vylahkinnen
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It's internet porn, Sir. And this is god's punishment.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:40 | 6594836 Global Hunter
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if a few ZH readers live near, there is probably a shit load of gold sitting in that mud!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:40 | 6594837 RopeADope
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For a while there I read that headline as "Central bank liquidity runs dry" and saw people corpses in lieu of fish.

My bad...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:41 | 6594840 BlackMagician
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"Mysterious" my arse...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:02 | 6594933 847328_3527
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Faux News reported, "Two pristine Iranian passports were found on shore ....."

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:59 | 6595636 Handful of Dust
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Jez, those assholes are behind everything!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:42 | 6594843 Ms No
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I am not sure what is happening here but there has been a major increase of sinkholes all over the world that is going underreported by the media.  This is not entirely due to human caused water depletion as it is happening on large scale in diverse areas that have no human habitation.  I wonder if this phenomena could be affecting water tables and aquifers in some way.... just a thought.

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594847 buzzsaw99
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As the lake runs dry,

on a gray California morn,

another maggot billionaire is born

In the ghetto...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:48 | 6594875 cherry picker
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What should we call you?  The "King" buzzsaw99 or "Elvis" saw99?  :)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:52 | 6595090 RichardP
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Written by Mac Davis.

Rewritten by buzzsaw.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:43 | 6594849 kbohip
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Isn't it obvious? VW's to blame!

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