Gallery: Man & FaunaPosted February 2, 2014339 views5 comments
Shasta Lake, 2013
California is in the midst of the worst drought in recorded history.
Small towns are running out of water. Crops are already devastated, raising food prices throughout the US. There were hundreds of wildfires in CA just in January, when there were none last year. Bears are not hibernating. Flowers and fruit trees are blooming in mid-January, but the blooms will not set fruit with no water. The implications are devastating and unfathomable.
The great irony today is that it is raining lightly for the first time in many months - but this will make absolutely NO difference.
Comment posted by John Neukirch on February 3, 2014 at 1:11 PM
It's really sad and scary. Have you read "The Ripple Effect" by Alex Prud'Homme? A real eye opener.
Registered on July 9, 2012, 207 Posts, 1476 Comments
Comment posted by gary phillips on February 4, 2014 at 10:28 PM
Great way to show how dire this situation is becoming. To think that some civilizations were driven form their ancestral home lands by 20 year droughts. That's along time to go without significant rainfall. Really makes you think.
Registered on October 24, 2013, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
Comment posted by Carl Battreall on February 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM
Looks hot! Surprised to see boats, the reservoir that my parents used to keep their sailboat in is almost dry, the end of the ramp is far from the water. Instead of a gas pipeline we should build a water pipeline from Alaska to California!
Registered on August 29, 2007, 24 Posts, 222 Comments
Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on February 7, 2014 at 9:39 PM
Thanks for getting and posting this shot of our "extreme" weather. While the east is freezing under much more snow than usual, we dry as a bone, even with this recent storm. The future is an unknown, with dry places getting drier and hotter, wet places getting wetter, etc. This is the environmental story of the moment!
Registered on November 11, 2011, 404 Posts, 1639 Comments
Comment posted by Richard Teller on February 10, 2014 at 5:55 PM
A fine documentary image. I remember when we moved to Bismark, ND. They were in the last year of a seven year drought. Lake Oahe, which stretches from Pierre, SD to just south of Bismark, ND a distance of 231 miles. It was down 23 feet and over that distance that is a huge amount of water. The Corp of Engineers said it would take 20 years to get back to normal. It was full in three because when the drought broke there was way above normal rain fall. There is always hope.
Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments
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