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#tularelake

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Joseph Elfelt

Interactive map shows data from the VIIRS satellites indicating the flooded area (red/blue/yellow) at #Tulare Lake basin. The map has other #GIS overlay layers you can turn on that show dikes and related features. For help, read the “Map tips” link in upper left corner.

If you open the map and zoom out then you will see an orange line that shows the area that drains into the basin. #TulareLake #Geospatial

Open #GISsurfer map:
mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfe

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Geewhizpat

2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now. The prisons are located on idle farmland sold to the state by J.G. Boswell in 1985, particularly because the area was prone to flooding. Evidently, the risk of floods at this site is older than the prisons themselves, but no evacuation plan exists for the people locked up in them. #corcoran truthout.org/articles/2-califo #tularelake #caflooding

Truthout2 California Prisons Face Imminent Flooding. They Must Be Evacuated Now.California prison authorities have a history of failing to evacuate incarcerated people for weather-related emergencies.
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cynthia rose is undesirable

Imagine #TulareLake, four times larger than Lake Tahoe, by far the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi…. imagine seeing that magnificence and thinking that draining the lake to create a dust bowl for farming would be a good idea. You might as well drain a lake of lava to get at the fertile soil underneath while ignoring that the active volcano next door is just gonna spew more lava at you…. like the idiots who drained Tulare Lake actually thought they could control Sierra snowmelt in perpetuity? Jfc the more I learn of the suppressed history of #California the angrier I become. It didn’t have to be this way!

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CelloMom On Cars

As a Dutch person, I look at #TulareLake with amazement.

The Dutch also drained land that was under water. But they saw very clearly that the problem was much bigger than anyone could take on on their own.

This is why there is now a Rijkswaterstaat, basically the ministry for dry feet. That ministry, the munipalities, and the farmers etc all coordinate together to stay dry.

Not together, no dry feet - it's that simple.
Together is the way to tackle #ClimateChange.
Together.

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CelloMom On Cars

In the rubric of #ClimateChangeIsTheLastStraw

#TulareLake was the largest lake west of the Mississippi.
You would think a #water reservoir in an arid state is something to protect.
But no.
People drained it, to grow thirsty crops like #almonds, plus #dairy cattle.

This winter, #California got hit by more than one #AtmosphericRiver; the #snow pack is deep. That's now melting.
The meltwater is refilling the lake. And the warm season hasn't even started yet.

fresnobee.com/news/weather-new

Map of part of California showing Tulare Lake (it's huge) and how the Sierras drain into it.
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Geewhizpat

“This will impact the world…” Sheriff Robinson said at a news conference. “We’re going to have a million acre-foot of water covering up an area that feeds the world.” For the first time in decades,#TulareLake has returned.

Once the biggest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi, Tulare Lake was four times the size of Lake Tahoe, home Yokut Indians and millions of birds and other wildlife, but it was sucked dry by farmers before fully disappearing by the mid-20th century. #tularelake

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