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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 - 18:43 | 6594850 are we there yet
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The image of a dried up lake with dead fish reminds me of Hillary Clinton with a fake smile.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:46 | 6594870 AlfredNeumann
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Zing.  Comment of the Day award

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:49 | 6594878 Motorhead
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Good heavens.  I'd fuck all of those dead fish before I'd even have the thought to fuck Hillary.  Can't blame Bill one single bit.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:52 | 6594890 AlfredNeumann
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one would need 2 bags . one for your head and one for hers

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:44 | 6594858 seek
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Usually this sort of event is correlated with a change in underground structure, like those that precede earthquakes.

It'll be very interesting to hear what actual geologist's take is on this.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:53 | 6594882 A Lunatic
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More like somebody got tired of dicking with the outlet valve twice a day every day and finally said fuck it, it was like that when I got here.......

 

Company officials consulted with “the relevant agencies” and decided not to stop further flows out of the dam, he said.

I'm not sure where the 'mystery' enters the picture here.......

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:45 | 6595066 ToSoft4Truth
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“looking for answers”  “stunned”  Baby talk - "Everywhere that you see that’s wet, there was water,"

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:54 | 6595268 Calmyourself
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Because the newbs here don't read and think actors are bad asses....

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:54 | 6595628 WTFMOFO
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Chuck Fucking Norris got Thirsty....bitchez.  

 

 

 

 

 

c

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:20 | 6595337 oddball
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This^

 

The lake is a 'Reservoir', so the owner probably said fuck it.

 

Wrong words.

 

"Pull it... Bitchez"

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:51 | 6594889 chunga
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I was just wondering if EPA was in the area doing some environmental protecting.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:06 | 6594947 Cruel Aid
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lol yea that would be a minor deal for them. Oops... no biggie

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:39 | 6595048 tarabel
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That was my first thought as well.

Speaking of wells, however, they should also be showing highly erratic behavior in the area, if this is true.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:47 | 6594873 AlfredNeumann
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They say collective karmic retribution comes in myriad forms.

Stop wars of aggression.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:49 | 6594879 netpounder
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China hacked the reservoir pump.  Oh, that can't be as president Xi is here.  Putin built a water pipe overnight and gave the water to the Syrian army fighting in the desert.  Mysterious tankers moved in and out overnight at Trump's golf course nearby.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:50 | 6594883 venturen
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some hedge fund bought the water and took it in the dead of night....might be that Martin AHole

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:53 | 6594895 Whoa Dammit
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OT: The world's luckiest person: Take a look at the little blue car after two 18 wheeler's go off an interstate bridge and land on either side of it on another freeway below.

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/188/img/photos/...

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/188/img/photos/...

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/tractor-trailer-crash-blocking-ga-4...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:53 | 6594899 ZombieHuntclub
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Mountain Meadows reminds me of where the Mormons slaughtered all those settlers going to California. Read Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer. 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 15:10 | 6597015 Boxed Merlot
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the Mormons slaughtered all those settlers...

 

Yup, Joe Smith and Bringum young had their own version of death angels.  Evidently, Joe didn't like the fact of those Arkansas folks runnin him out of town when his life style of marrying mother / daughter combos was even too much for them to take so he took out his frustrations on this group of settlers.  Smith was actually just an Islam wannabe and his followers will probaby look quite a bit like that religion in the centuries to come.

US history is pretty fascinating and unfortunately, many easterners aren't up to speed on the kinds of things that went on out here heading to the Barbary Coast.  Then again, when the reports don't fit in with official narratives, or presidential hopefuls supporting bases, facts get effectively lost.

I still love Twains accounts of the gold rush and his time spent out here and in the Nevada silver mines.  Good stuff.

 

jmo.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:53 | 6594900 Bay Area Guy
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Perhaps Mt. Lassen is ready to rumble.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:54 | 6594905 Brokenarrow
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this is the shit that movies are made of. the us ison a treadmill of horror. my bet is there will be an environmental tradedgy of epi proportion in n ca soon

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:41 | 6595055 Sturm und Drang
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Too late - Pelosi. And Sacramento.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:58 | 6594919 The Indelicate ...
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Not to worry

California has been leading the way in transforming sewage into potable water through massive expenditures of energy.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:58 | 6594920 Brokenarrow
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warren buffet do this? that filty bailout bastard is capable of anything

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:58 | 6594923 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Boehner was dehydrated.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 18:59 | 6594924 blindman
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the water did not evaporate, did it?
so, it fell down due to gravity.
simple enough, no?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:03 | 6594929 two hoots
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The mechanic at the hydro plant said there was a small leak as they were making a repair and only 50-100 gallons were lost.  The EPA unit, that also studies diesel exhaust, completed their report and rushed back to their hotel seeking an upgrade. 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 16:25 | 6597175 Chris Dakota
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Jesuit Jerry Brown pulled the plug after he saw the fake Jesuit Pope sermon to congress.

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:02 | 6594934 besnook
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someone left the toilet running.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:03 | 6594938 Falling Down
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Any fault lines run through there?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:29 | 6595023 Bay Area Guy
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Probably, since it's volcano country.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 00:55 | 6595792 azusgm
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The Long Valley caldera is in that neck of the woods.

http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDfxMDT8MwRydLA1cj72BTJw8jAwjQL8h2VAQAzHJMsQ!!/?ss=110506&ttype=recarea&recid=20416&actid=64&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&position=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&navid=110000000000000&pnavid=null&cid=null&pname=Long+Valley+Caldera+-+Earthquake+Fault

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:06 | 6594948 gaoptimize
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Oblivion?

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/

 

Things go bad slowly and first, then all at once.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:08 | 6594953 22winmag
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Max Zorin trying to blow up Silicon Valley again?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:10 | 6594957 Dominus Ludificatio
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Time to migrate back to Oklahoma.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:12 | 6594968 PrimalScream
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BIGFOOT !!!

Knew He was comin'  !!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:13 | 6594976 I am a Man I am...
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pretty fucking shallow if you ask me

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:14 | 6594977 DIgnified
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Bad.  This is earthquake juju. Buckle up norcal assholes. 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:16 | 6594980 BadPenguin
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Hmm, those fish look at least a week old and the ground is still wet...

There is still a bit of water in that mud, evaporation and hydroelectric use could easily account for what would appear to be a quick level drop if the bottom is flat enough.

"Fish relocation" assumes there is somewhere to relocate them to.  I bet right now the fish housing crisis is pretty serious, lots of fish and not enough lake.  And how much good would it be if they were relocated to the next lake PGE drains dry.

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:17 | 6594988 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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It leaked into the frack cracks.

Thank goodness for abiotic/drought resistant GMO seed. Californians won't need to make a withdrawl at a Norwegian bank any time soon. Isn't there a Monsanto outlet in Syria?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:33 | 6595017 Ms No
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That fracking comment could open a whole can of worms.  You hear people talking about water pollution but not much about any potential for water loss.  Which you would think would be a hot topic when one considers all of the fracking and earthquakes in places like Oklahoma on the Ogalala's periphery and of course California.  It would be interesting to hear what private employed geologists that doesn't work for the oilies might think of all of this. 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:38 | 6595045 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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Agreed.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:21 | 6594995 Jack Burton
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News today that Investment Bankers have engineered new financial products tied to water. The interests in various private water companies and investors who are buying water resources are going to issue products to raise capital to buy more water. This will be like CDO's tied to mortgages, where many water resources and companies are bundled into products to be sold to investors hoping to cash in on dwindling water and price rises by the water companies.

It is logical that finanical engineering will set up more toll booths on water, where once the price of water was supply and demand, it will now be tied to Toll Booth Investors, demanding higher returns on their Water CDO's.

Where ever you look in America, a Toll Booth is going up. Air is the last one for financiers and market makers to turn into investor vehicles.

As to California. The Giant High Pressure caused by extra warm North Pacific waters in breaking down under assualt from storms whipped up by the greater heat of El Nino waters deep in the middle Pacific. As this giant high pressure breaks apart, the storm track will move south and likely break the California drought in the most spectacular fashion! Floods, and epic rains! Tied to a mega El Nino. We still need to see the High Pressure Ridge north of California out to sea DIE! But that SHOULD happen soon. SO, get you flood insurance in order Golden Staters!

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:38 | 6595218 pocomotion
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JB,

this has been my thoughts since mid-August;  The have their celebration for 'Pope of these United Nations', then they pass worldly laws pirating themselves above the surfs,,, and then they stop the climate control machines, AND it's raining all over the world.  Sounds like a rainy night in Georgia coming soon.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:20 | 6595342 Mediocritas
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Rent-seeking 101 my friend. All OECD governments have cleared the way for rentiers extractng their economic rents and those who oppose it are vilified in the MSM propaganda.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

Interestingly, the economy prior to the French Revolution was crippled by Rentiers. You couldn't scratch your arse, metaphorically speaking, without paying a toll. What caused it was the natural (de) evolution of a free market. What followed it was bloody revolution with beheadings of every rentier that could be found, and a pendulum swing of society to the other extreme.

Wonder if history suggests America's future? Gonna get ugly.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:21 | 6594996 Crocodile
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Fish rescue?? Really. try insurance scam among other evil intentions.  California will have a mass exodus in the next two years thanks to the HAARP weather modification with a high pressure sitting over the state for nearly 5 years; an impossibility apart from either divine intercession or HAARP (it is both).  The exodus will force the spread of the "Illegal Alien Disease" to spread wider and the elitists plan on using CaliPornia as there "fun place", but they need to get rid of the people first, then rebuild.

 

If you live another 20 years; you will be a witness.

 

The Pope is and always has been a fraud usurping the role of the Holy Spirit, the true representative of Christ throughout the "church age".  Only Satan has tried to usurp God and the Pope, an invention in rather recent history, is a usurper and an anti_Christ and Roman Catholics are among the most ignorant people on the face of this earth.  Never confuse Roman Catholicism with Christianity; Roman Catholicism has more in common with Islam and Jusiasm, both being anti-Christ and therefore Satanic....remember that.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:22 | 6594997 sezwhom
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There goes my weekend!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:22 | 6595167 ThrowAwayYourTV
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Down the drain....no pun intended.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:22 | 6594998 lasvegaspersona
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It's Chinatown....

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:22 | 6594999 Infinite QE
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Get a community organizer out there ASAP to sign those fish up for EBT benefits.

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:23 | 6595000 Hannibal
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OMG, someone flushed the US toilet.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:24 | 6595003 Son of Captain Nemo
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Karma's a bitch!

Well if they all lose the water the real estate in Northern California will no doubt finally be a bargain!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:57 | 6595014 Yen Cross
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 Land Pirates?

  Tanker truck with flags and four Syrians carrying pick-axes.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:27 | 6595015 PoasterToaster
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"Government" management.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:29 | 6595022 A Lunatic
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It always amazes me to see the complicated and fanciful constructs the human mind will conjure in order to explain things rather than accept the simple, boring truth that they just let the fucking water out and are refusing to accept responsibility for it, which is SOP for government agencies, especially in Kalifornistan.....

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:36 | 6595393 Mad Cow
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It's really amazing to behold.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:41 | 6595054 dvfco
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Additional Note: The Rapids and Waterfall Warning is hereby cancelled - effective immediately.  There is no need to fear any future water flow. 

* - Fish Fry Tonight - Bring extra ketchup and tartar sauce.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:46 | 6595071 dvfco
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By the way - that's a pretty big f'ing lake. I'm from Long Island, so we don't have many big lakes.  But, I checked this on Google Maps and it looks like it was about four miles long and almost a mile wide (and obviously - not very deep.)

That's fucked up!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:08 | 6595077 Teh Finn
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Apparently it was incredibly shallow anyways.  You can tell from the pictures that the top of the damn doesn't look to be more than a few feet above the "dry" lakebed.

The power company that operates the lake let the remaining water out.  There really isn't a "mystery" as the article title states...but whatever.  Clicks=$$$

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:49 | 6595619 hoist the bs flag
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 hell... I was waiting for ZH dipshits to explain the "mystery" with Blood Moons or Shmetah nonsense.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:40 | 6595051 Teh Finn
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Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 —Word spread quickly Sunday, Sept. 13, that Mountain Meadows Reservoir near Westwood was dry.

The sparse amount of water it contained — reported at 170 acre feet Thursday, Sept. 10 — had rushed out when an outlet valve clogged with debris was cleared. As a result, hundreds perhaps thousands of fish died, according to Andrew Jensen, senior environmental scientist for the Northern Region Inland Fisheries Program for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

An accurate estimate was impossible due to the condition of the water below Indian Ole Dam, which was muddy. There were also fish scattered throughout the reservoir in thick mud, explained Jensen.

Mountain Meadows Reservoir is part of the Upper Feather River Hydroelectric System operated by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. With operations oversight, the utility company was quickly blamed for the tragedy. Yet when discussing the incident with officials, all stated the devastation of this fishery is an indication of the severity of the drought that has gripped California for four years.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:48 | 6595614 Skiprrrdog
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Save the FUCKING FISHES!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:48 | 6595057 Yen Cross
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  Lots of shovel ready jobs for the illegals. Keep letting useless eaters in ZERO.

 The country can't even feed itself. What happened to the EPA poisoning the Colorado River System a few weeks ago?

 The old gold mine they did a toxic release from?

 Fucking Crickets since August 22nd

Updated Sept.25th 2015> EPA videos show moments after Gold King Mine spill begins | KRQE News 13

EPA Coming Clean but Gold King a Gold Mine for Contractors

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:50 | 6595085 Teh Finn
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Well, for one, the benefcient EPA told well owners that they were going to be responsible for testing their own well water to see if it was safe to use.

So there's that...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:55 | 6595095 Yen Cross
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  I wonder how many of those EPA, salamanders have ever been in the desert?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:07 | 6595122 Buster Cherry
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That would be fine if the government subsidence districts didn't want their cut of the free water you pay to pump out.

I'd pay the lab fee to have that....

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:43 | 6595061 ToSoft4Truth
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:48 | 6595074 me or you
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The wrath of God is unleashing over US one day at the time, slowly and painful.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:49 | 6595078 MaxThrust
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Never let a good crisis go to waist.

Dig up al the silt and sell it to vegitable farmers and home gardeners. This in turn makes the resevoir deeper for when the rains finally come back.

Max

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:17 | 6595669 Eddielaidler
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I'm on my way now with my metal detector. Lot's of 65 and earlier coins in there. Might need em.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:35 | 6595906 Axenolith
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Dimes and quarters from 65 are clad...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:43 | 6595724 Kprime
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sensible don't go round here, sensible just don't go round here law dog.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:33 | 6595905 Axenolith
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That's a GREAT idea for many reservoirs with one minor problem. It would take one about 5 years of NEPA/CEQA, EPA, Corps of Engineers, FW, Forest Service/BLM and local agency permitting bullshit to do it...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:49 | 6595080 foxmuldar
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Could it possibly have something to do with Sundays Supermoon? We know how the Moon can cause tides to rise. Perhaps the fact that the moon will be in Perigee to earth on Sunday night, it's already close enough to have caused the water to be sucked up into the athmosphere. Here's more info from NASA on Sundays Supermoon. http://foxmuldar-conservative-thinker.blogspot.com/2015/09/nasa-supermoo...

Other possibility is the Mother ship hovered over the lake and sucked the water up before moving on to the next planet. Whats so hard to believe. Remember in Star ship how Kirk was always being beamed up to the mother ship. Beam me up Scotty. lol

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:04 | 6595118 ToSoft4Truth
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Let’s go with Jesus instead.  Jesus is taking the water.  Better buy canned goods.  No water – no food.

“Ah, ah, ah!”

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:42 | 6595723 Kprime
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Jesus walked "on the water", he didn't walk off with the water.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:45 | 6595606 Skiprrrdog
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I know what it is; it is either the end of the world, or it is a fake end of the world, with anxiety levels cranked *way the fuck up* worldwide, as a result of all the fear porn. You read an article here on ZH, click a link to you tube, and SNAP, you are in *fear porn HELL!*

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:11 | 6595663 WTFMOFO
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It's fukin' CHARLIE man, he's right there in the bushes.

 

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 01:01 | 6595800 silverer
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Better ask the fish what they think.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:50 | 6595084 TalkToLind
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PULL IT!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:53 | 6595091 Omen IV
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There are no reasons anymore - the answer is always ......shit happens !

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 19:58 | 6595099 Pipetex
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Gunshots and a stack of these:

http://www.bernardfoods.com/foodservice/beverages/dehydatedwater.htm

 

Fixed for you...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:00 | 6595106 GRDguy
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Perhaps Tom Selleck backed up the truck and took what's left.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:02 | 6595112 Redart
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Lets call giorgio tsoukalos on that, he sure knows what has happened.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:35 | 6595392 dexter_morgan
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obviously, ALIENS!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:07 | 6595123 bunnyswanson
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Bottled water is being sold all over the world, India and China more specifically since their water source is polluted.  Where do you think these MILLIONS OF BOTTLES OF WATER come from?  It probably comes from California.  Selling natural recources from USA like there will never be another citizen living on the land is underway, and I am certain water is one of them.

I live here.  There are dry wells and people left without water in homes they have lived in for 40 years.  Nestle Water Company is the first placed I'd audit.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:11 | 6595138 bunnyswanson
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Who down voted me?  The owner of a water bottle company?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/bottled-water-california-...

"One reason is simply that California happens to be where some bottled water brands have set up shop."

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:49 | 6595251 bunnyswanson
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That's right.  They open the office in the morning, turn on the tap in the bathroom, and start filling the bottles with California water, pack them up and ship them to China.  I smell a Class Action Law Suit for the loss of value of homes when the water is finally gone.  Count me in.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:30 | 6595376 Infinite QE
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The USA was made a corporation owned by the owners of the Fed. Everything in it is owned by them. The "benefit" of having them print the money.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:00 | 6595473 bunnyswanson
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Taxation without representation MoFo.  :) 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:26 | 6595899 Axenolith
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10 days of what is currently passing through the Sacramento River at Delta is enough for every Chinese person to have a bottle of water. I'm thinking bottled water is probably NOT the big problem here...

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:13 | 6595967 Lucky Leprachaun
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How could it make economic sense to transport a cheap substance like water all that distance?  Surely much more cost effective to treat the polluted water locally?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:08 | 6595853 Albertarocks
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Smithsonian tries to tell us the earth rises when we suck water out of it.  A 4 year old child knows that's bullshit.

California land is sinking, not rising.  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/19/california-sinking-ground...

https://www.revealnews.org/article/california-is-sinking-and-its-getting...

http://www.livescience.com/51943-california-sinking-faster-than-thought....

... which pretty much shoots the Smithsonian's bullshit theory all to hell.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:17 | 6595152 blindman
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Paradise - John Prine 1980 (stereo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHR_tA7eg4

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:18 | 6595155 foxmuldar
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Governor Brown had the EPA go in the dark of night and drain the lake dry. He needs it dry to push his Global Climate change crap. Now he can say, see climate change is taking place much quicker then even Obama and the Pope expected.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:21 | 6595157 ThrowAwayYourTV
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I'm thinking they stole it to fight the forest fires.

On the other side of the coin, they should be happy that they no longer have to pay water front property taxes.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:21 | 6595162 holdbuysell
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Imagine Silicon Valley nerds physically fighting over water.

Shudder.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:18 | 6595190 ThrowAwayYourTV
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"I will give you one rolex watch on tuesday, for a glass of water today."

(WIMPY)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:37 | 6595586 Skiprrrdog
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I imagine pillow fights are exactly their speed...

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:35 | 6595208 fowlerja
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Where did the water go...why mother earth took it back..it was needed by the underground aquifers

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:44 | 6595237 henry chucho
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After 666 days of non-stop debauchery,bestiality,and fornication,the gateway to Hell just opened in Greenville,California..

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:47 | 6595244 DontFollowMyAdv...
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THIS WAS A HIT ON THE NON-NATIVE FISH BY THE SAME WHACKOS WHO KILLED LAKE DAVIS TO GET RID OF THE NORTHERN PIKE!

 

Seriously.  They wanted all the non-native fish out of the lake and this was the easiest way to get rid of them.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:04 | 6595486 A Dollar Short
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Maybe true American's need to take note..

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:45 | 6595994 Benjamin123
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Shut off the water and bring new settlers next year?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:49 | 6595253 roddy6667
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I'm so glad I read this article. I didn't know that lack of water was detrimental to fish. Live and learn.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:00 | 6595639 ZH FNG
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There's a QE lesson in here somewhere...

“A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives.

"I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl.

"Don't be scared," I tell those fishes.

"I am saving you from drowning."

Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late.

The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price.

With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes.” 


Amy TanSaving Fish from Drowning

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 14:39 | 6596952 Lincolns Mullet
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We dehydrated some folks

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 20:55 | 6595273 SmittyinLA
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Wow disabled java script, no more spam, fkin amazing, like duh.

Environmentalists are furious, they missed a huge looting opportunity, oh well maybe they can make it up in "fish litigation".

CA is run by the Mexican mafia literally, from the CBWD (Central Basin Water District). http://www.centralbasin.org/en/about-us/service-area/

The footprint of AKA John Noguez http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/28/local/la-me-assessor-20131029

If Noguez were ever prosecuted the Hispanic caucus and the CA legislature would be in prison.

Those people are taking the Mexican orgy of looting from the city of Bell CA national.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:43 | 6595598 Yen Cross
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 Smitty, you seem like a pretty intelligent individual.

 WTF? alimony

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:28 | 6595371 adr
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If it involves a power company it is all about solar panels.

All over the country power companies are shutting down plants. The war on coal is also about selling solar panels. Solar City stock and the other solar companies are worth billions to the Wall Street banks. 

Just a few years ago you couldn't get anyone to buy solar panels. There was a major supply glut and prices were plummeting.

The plundering fucks who run things figured out how to not only sell solar panels but cause prices to rise and send solar stocks soaring. JACK UP ELECTRIC RATES.

Electric rates have doubled in my town in less than a year. Now everyone is getting solar panels and signing 20 year leases. They get a rebate on electric rates and the electric companies are making out like bandits because the panels are generating the most power when people aren't home. People who don't have panels are paying $.35 a kWh for power generated by panels on other people's roofs.

I talked with one guy. He said his electric bill went from $150 a month to $300 so he put panels on his roof. He paid $1500 up front and signed a 20 year lease. The government covered the installation cost. He pays $50 a month for the panel lease and with rebates his electric bill is now $100.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. WITH PUTTING PANELS ON HIS ROOF AND GENERATING POWER FOR THE ELECTRIC COMPANY HIS TOTAL BILL IS THE SAME AS IT WAS LAST YEAR BEFORE THE BULLSHIT RATE INCREASE. But his bill isn't $300 a month anymore which is all he cares about.

Once again a fucking racket to support the Wall Street Ponzi.

Solar City gets to put 20 years of payments on their books now. The installers get paid by the government and are doing more business than ever. Of course the electric company gets to generate power for themselves and sell something they didn't create for double what they sold their own product for and the fucking Enviro Nutjobs get to claim people are embracing alternative energy.

GOD I WANT TO FUCKING SHOOT SOMETHING.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 00:32 | 6595776 northern vigor
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solar panels make  nice targets

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 02:58 | 6595863 GoinFawr
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Yeah that is bullshit, what a sucker that "one guy" you "talked with" was; his pathetic mangina love for 'sustainability' or frou-frous or whatever sure made him an easy target for the ravenous hordes of gov't solar panel swindlers sweeping the continent.<spits>

Great story dude, I like totally see why that "one guy" 's  bad choices would make you so angry and stuff. You two must be really close.Saint you.

'Course only a complete fool would believe that is how such conversions work out for everyone, everywhere, eternally........

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 08:33 | 6596105 messystateofaffairs
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You have to admit, it is an evil genius plan. How can simple sheeple beat guys like these? They took lemons and turned it into lemonade. Kudo's to you for figuring it out, and informing the rest of us.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 08:43 | 6596117 financialrealist
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I can give you my ex wife's address. Start there

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 10:08 | 6596257 fiatmasochist
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Financialization of photons, bullish .gov pensions.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 17:34 | 6597373 Clycntct
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Reading your rant and I'm hearing Hammer time palying in the backround.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:32 | 6595382 dexter_morgan
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Sounds like another swell EPA solution

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:48 | 6595428 JD59
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If you like your Obama water, you can keep your Obama water.

 

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 21:58 | 6595465 ShakaZulu
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On the other hand, the raccoons will eat good tonight.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:02 | 6595477 A Dollar Short
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We need to do the same thing to the Middle East - FLUSH IT FUCKING DRY!

Moslem's gone forever...!

 

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:03 | 6595484 dexter_morgan
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replace moslems with jews and nsa would be sending visitors to your place

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:27 | 6595901 Otrader
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Stop dancing on rooftops and get back to hebrew class Moshe. 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 06:43 | 6595991 Benjamin123
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The middle east is an area of the world where human life beyond the level of beduin tribes is impossible without civilization. You break a few key aqueducts and dams and 200 million people get thirsty and no amount of evian airdrops could save them.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:24 | 6595548 putbuyer
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The important question is: What do the Kardashian's think

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 08:24 | 6596094 messystateofaffairs
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I think Jewish aliens sucked up the water, they should have taken the fish as well for the deli's.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 22:40 | 6595595 FredFlintstone
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Tom Selleck stole it for his avacado ranch?

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:10 | 6595660 Zero-Hegemon
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In other news, aquifer levels rose slightly overnight

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:10 | 6595661 Eddielaidler
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I would ask Gov Moonbeam where he bailed it in.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:19 | 6595680 Kyddyl
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Get on the satellite view. The whole area has been logged over, frakked under and bulldozed on a massive scale, even if at different stages. The smaller spent or nonproducing frakking sites have been carefully bulldozed to look "natural". There are active sand and gravel operations near the very artificial lake. Zoomed further out there are large "cracks" in the earth of the area. What's to figure out? A near non existant water table goes down one of many holes, natural or man made. And it can happen anywhere, much less in shifting quake zones.  

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:07 | 6595883 Axenolith
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What the fuck would they be fracking up there? I'm dying to hear that one...

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 10:11 | 6596267 fiatmasochist
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Perhaps the biggest potential fracking site is under the lake?

 

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 12:58 | 6596691 Boxed Merlot
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Get on the satellite view. The whole area has been logged over...

 

Logging has been going on here for the better part of a century.  As soon as it was discovered that fresh produce could be shipped by rail to the eastern US, it went into high gear.  Westwood was developed by the Fruit Growers Association as a company town similar to the eastern pattern of coal mining communities and this small reservoir was simply water storage for it back in the day.  This town has not seen population growth in 50 years and if anything has declined despite the influx of SoCal folks flying up here to their weekend homes on Almanor / Greagle to the Tahoe / Reno area.

I suspect far more timber was destroyed back about 100 years when Lassen erupted and deposited it's fiery lava throughout the region than has ever been harvested since.  But please don't let that get in the way of our now instantaneous addiction to visual and exploitive "news" reporting.  If it keeps it quiet, quaint and enjoyable, don't let me destroy your fantasies.

This is a big non story.  But it is quite amusing to see how crazy some of the commenting that takes place here can get. 

jmo.

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:26 | 6595696 Lazane
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The water is in route to a very thirsty China

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:31 | 6595708 Kprime
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it's a fishy story that leaves me thirsting for the truth

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 23:35 | 6595713 Zero Point
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Bullish. Now they have to buy more water and boost the economy.

Signed: A nobel prize winner.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 00:54 | 6595790 robertocarlos
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The Moon is too close to the Earth and it sucked all the water out of the lake. I bet the ocean is down 5 feet too.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 01:02 | 6595803 silverer
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I guess the water just couldn't not do its job and find a way to leak down into the depleted aquafer they've been pumping out for years.  Either way, when the residents get their answer, the water is still gone.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 01:22 | 6595821 idontcare
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On the other hand, smart residents scooped up as many fish as possible, cleaned them, froze them, and saved a shitload of money on groceries for the next year.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 03:15 | 6595894 Batman11
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The US refugee crisis   ........  residents of California heading into the rest of the US when the water runs out.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:01 | 6595917 giggler321
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OK we got  fish  now all we need is some California red wine and every will be FED

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:24 | 6595922 AlfredNeumann
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Everyone in the region gets a fine for illegal fishing.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:27 | 6595923 AlfredNeumann
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Farfo says    N-E-S-T-L-E-S   Nestles makes the very best  ..............WAAAAAAAAATERRRRRR!!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:28 | 6595925 AlfredNeumann
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50 million Fruits and Nuts flee eastward to the USSA

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:38 | 6595934 Keyboard Kommando
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Them Yids will steal ANYTHING!

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 04:55 | 6595939 jskern
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Aaaand it's gone.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 05:29 | 6595952 Fireman
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Gaaaaaaawd's country!""

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 07:40 | 6596050 Raul44
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But I thought its a doG`s chosen country...

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