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Offline rangerrebew

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Pictures of California Flooding
« on: January 12, 2023, 08:50:26 pm »
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Re: Pictures of California Flooding
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2023, 03:47:05 am »
Gee, Wally. You'd think they'd build dams or something so they didn't flood, and they could make electricity, and even have water when it didn't rain...

They did Beav, but they decided that was bad for the fish, so they tore them out.

Uh. I don't get it. How can water be bad for fish?
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Re: Pictures of California Flooding
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2023, 04:23:27 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 13, 2023, 03:47:05 am
Gee, Wally. You'd think they'd build dams or something so they didn't flood, and they could make electricity, and even have water when it didn't rain...

They did Beav, but they decided that was bad for the fish, so they tore them out.

Uh. I don't get it. How can water be bad for fish?
So gee Wally, do we blame the flooding that happens in other states on the lack of damns too? Or just make funnies about California residents being flooded out?
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Re: Pictures of California Flooding
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2023, 06:27:36 am »
Much of this flooding isn't from major rivers. Dams would make little difference as far as flooding goes. It is mostly small creeks that are normally dry in the summer that can't handle all the water that rarely comes relative to where people have developed the land. The coastal land typically has a ridge of mountains not far from the coast that can produce heavy flows quickly towards the coast.

Many of the hills have pretty deep topsoil before you get to bedrock so when there's enough water saturation it can suddenly liquify causing large landslides.

It is the nature of the much of the land there.
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