Tuesday, January 10, 2023

CA Flooding? Not So Much

More proof, if you needed it, that Ellen Degenerate is a featherbrained moron.

California, despite the hype, is not drowning.

It's raining hard. That's about it. Coming at the end of a multi-year drought, that's a good thing.

By the numbers:

Montecito, where Degenerate lives, is a seaside/hillside community of 8000 people too rich for Beverly Hills. You could look it up. The average household income is over a quarter of a million/year. It sits in low hills, at the base of the even taller Santa Ynez coastal range, which wrings moisture out of clouds before it gets to the Central Valley like a dish washer does with a sponge. It doesn't flood there. The water runs down the hills to the sea. As it has for tens of thousands of years before the hillsides there were infested with multi-million-dollar mansions on 40-acre plots. Hell, guest houses in that neighborhood go for mid 7-figure prices. Degenerate buys and sells Montecito estates for $20M profits like Donald Trump used to play Monopoly with actual Manhattan properties. I know Montecito, because I lived in SB for 2 years. Montecito is the old rich, and the brighter Hollywood types smart enough to GTF out of the Hollyweird Hills.

It rains there all the time, every winter. And creeks flash with flood waters, because every summer, there are huge brush fires in the surrounding hills, as there have been since lightning met trees. A creek that rages 4 days out of 365 isn't a dreaded unnatural catastrophe, even in the land of mansions and tennis courts.

Telling us that the hillside creek behind her mansion never runs heavy is just Ellen telling us she hasn't lived there long enough to see otherwise. Rain falls on mountains, and runs downhill. That's not us being bad to Nature, Ellen, you incredible blithering fool, that's called gravity. STFU, go back inside, and turn up the gas fireplace.

It also doesn't flood in Califrutopia. At least, not the way people in the Mississippi basin think of flooding. 

Actual Mississippi flooding. When it happens, it's biblical.








It rains here, when it rains, which hits the mountains, and gets jetted out to sea by flood control channels. Here today, gone tomorrow. People who build houses at the bottom of the mudslide, on hillsides, or other stupid places, find out what dumbasses they are every 5-10 years or so. But they like the view, and rebuild, and it repeats the next time we get a wet year. Other than stopping government subsidies for idiots like that, and letting them drown or get buried under mudslides, there's not much that needs to be done, other than getting the dozers out tomorrow, and plowing the mud off the roads everyone else uses.

People want to blame Gov. Gabbin Nuisance over this, but it isn't really his fault. If it were, I'd happily tag him for it. He inherited it. This is owned completely by Gov. Moonbeam, and four terms of anti-growth lunacy. Moonbeam's dad, despite running the state into the ground in so many ways, wasn't a total moron. He built dams, aqueducts, power plants, and freeways, that made life here what it is. And they were built on the reg, until his idiot son, Moonbeam, decided that the way to get people not to come here was to stop building more freeways, and power plants, and reservoirs. So they came here anyways (mostly the toothless banjo-playing liberal idiot kinfolk from the other 49 states, plus mega-fucktons of illegal immigrants). Without a single dam, reservoir, water project, power plant, or freeway built since Moonbeam's first term, and all the money going to useless eaters and shiftless layabouts, instead of people building things. Everything wrong with America, in microcosm.

And consequently, in dry years there isn't enough water, there isn't enough power any year, the freeways are pot-hole infested turd world parking lots most hours, seven days a week, and the money collected to build more of them has been squandered on welfare for the exact liberal idiot lunatic drunk drug addicted banjo-paying kinfolk, and millions of illegals and their illiterate gang-banger anchor babies. Diversity is our strength! Said no one ever.

Which anyone who's been here longer than Ellen and her idiot carpetbagger ilk knows in their bones, from firsthand observation.

Hereabouts, it's rained about 2" since yesterday morning, and 1" of that is since midnight. Wind gusts up to 30MPH. People in New England go sailing it that kind of weather, FFS. The last time I saw a storm this ferocious, was the last wet year here. Or any spring or summer afternoon in mid-Georgia, round about 2PM.

Farther north, it's been a harsher storm, and parts of the Central Valley, being flat as a pancake and bone dry, will take longer to dry out than the coastal regions do. But it's nothing that hasn't happened time and again in these parts, and won't happen again. Unless you got here yesterday, and leave tomorrow, like most of the career locusts here from Anyplace Else.

Supposedly, this storm and attendant flooding have killed 14 people. Darwinism in action, in most cases, with only 19,999,986 more to go to return this once-golden state back to what it was before the carpetbaggers, Okies, and hippies from everywhere-but-Here fucked it all up.

Rain? Storm? It is to laugh. Welcome to California. Now go home.












12 comments:

  1. Nastiest flash flood I ever saw was in Las Vegas…well, Henderson but less know that one. Not a drop fell on us but we watched it sweep along the ridge between us and Lake Mead. A few minutes later, here came the water, filling up the massive channels along our neighborhood. Kinda disturbing and a good demonstration of the desert flash flood danger. I always wondered about river-size ditches that had been dry the whole previous year +.

    If CA was well run, all this water would be filling recently built reservoirs to be used during the next drought. If.

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  2. Looks like a good place for a dyke to go swimming

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  3. Preach It!! I am so sick of hearing the folks from Bum-FXXk Egypt explain to me how "this unreal, due to climate/Gaiaa/BullShXX warming-cooling-lack of diversity. In the old days, when I was a youngster, a heavy rain was a cause for celebration. I never remember any parent telling kids to watch out for the dammed up LA River, Even in 1964-ancient history by God-there were still farm houses and hobby farms not 30 feet from an untamed LA River. Not one crazy bastard drowned, no cows were lost, horses grazed in the pouring rain, and the streets did NOT crumble and take cars. We had these things called drains that actually took excess water away. Homeowners in those days did not shoot video; they went out & cleaned the bastards out between storms. It was unreal! Property owners actually took care of their own property!! Enlightenment had yet to darken our doors, so rain was just that-a freaking rain storm!

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  4. Born and raised in SoCal. Remember the lyrics from the song..."It never rains in Southern California, but when it does, it pours." Or something like that.

    I think the annual rainfall for San Diego was somewhere around eleven inches a year. It always seemed like it came down in two days. I remember the underpass going under I-5 to, I think it was Gate 3 at MCRD, always flooded whenever we got a hard rain. There would always be a photo every year in the Tribune about some Yahoo who didn't think the water was very deep and try to drive under the bridge with predictable results. Hell there was a "flood stick" painted on the wall of the under pass that went as high as eleven feet.

    This was 50 years ago though so things have probably changed.

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  5. Dec 23rd 1964. Mostly Northern California and South Western Oregon.

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  6. @Mike G.,
    Just added a kicker to the post from Albert Hammond. ;)

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  7. People especally here in America think in terms of 5 to maybe 10 years. The climate does not. So when there are either normal 10 to 20 to 30 norms, sure those are the norms and averages, not what the weather actually is. So then every time there's a big event the weather channel etc suddenly trumpet another storm of the century. Aside from the climate change lies, we don't think in terms of decades or centuries. Sure was a lot of flooding in areas we never noticed before simply because it was not populated by morons that think it's not possible due to it not happening in the last generation. Turns out El Nino, La Nina and BOB in the sky there have a lot to do with the drought/flood cycles this marble in space experences. People need to stop buying in to the idea it can't happen to me as well as buying in to an idea of what they think the planet or weather should be due to some post card imagery.

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  8. Santa Barbara/Montecito is too far south to sap any weather which would affect San Joaquin, aka 'Central Valley'.

    For all his shitcanery, Moonbeam's dad did also put together a world renowned college system the features of which were low cost and high quality instruction. Moonbeam quickly set about to destroy all which had made CA great.
    I was working in AZ for over a year when CA elected that buffoon to his 2nd go at 2 terms guvnah. I couldn't believe it. Of course, enough time had passed that a generation of voters had no understanding of the true nature of that POS scoundrel whore. Failed state is what you get when you create or import enough voters who have no stake/allegiance.

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  9. False, regarding the weather.
    The Santa Ynez range runs roughly west to east, and this storm pattern is coming up from due south; straight into that range, and right at the Central Valley.
    The entire coastal range of CA is why the central Valley is moderated; the entire range squeezes a substantial amount of rain out before it gets there, and the Sierras do the same thing for any weather patterns from the North/northeast.
    Both ranges combined, all the way to Canada, bounded by the Rockies on the other side, is why the Great Basin is a desert from southern Ore/Ida to Mexico.

    Spot on, regarding Moonbeam's depredations.
    I've lived here long enough to vote against him four times.
    He's absolutely by far the worst thing to happen to California since it was liberated from Mexico.
    By comparison, plagues of smallpox and locusts would be a blessing.

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  10. After all the doom and gloom about the drought, the weather wizards are still forecasting a continuing drought. With the season not over, and more to come, reporters will have to really dig to find anything to compare to Biblical disasters, if the drought ends. They're probably hoping for an earthquake.

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  11. Ive lived in SB my whole life and you are spot on.

    Furthermore, the central (San Joaquin) valley used to be a swamp / marsh. Its headed back that way soon.

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