Oroville Dam update By Patrick Ruckert February 14, 2017 californiadroughtupdate.org On Face Book: California Drought Report While engineers and their equipment frantically work to shore up the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, before the arrival of another series of storms about to hit the region, delivering perhaps another six to…
Oroville Dam Emergency– They knew there was a problem By Patrick Ruckert February 13, 2017 As of this morning, about 200,000 people are continuing to be evacuated south of the Oroville Dam, which is still threatening to unleash a three story wall of water if the emergency spillway collapses. Over…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170209-California-Drought-Update.pdf This week marks a turning point in the California drought. For the first time in years less than half of the state remains in any of the drought categories. Forty-seven percent to be precise. And the rain and snow do not appear to be easing off, so we shall…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170202-California-Drought-Update.pdf Though there are about 100 million fewer living trees in California now than there were before the drought, too many, both in this state and in the nation, are still having a problem seeing the forest. The jumping up and down by some and cheering by others of every…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170126-California-Drought-Update.pdf Obama is history, a dark chapter of it. The new President, Donald Trump, will be what we make him to be. As he said in his inaugural address, he is just the agent of the American people. That is the challenge for you– you must not sit back and…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170119-California-Drought-Update.pdf This is the last day of Obama, finally bringing to a close not just an eight-year nightmare, but a 16-year nightmare of regime change wars and bank bailouts, just to name the most damaging of crimes by Bush and Obama. What has it produced? Ninety-five million Americans not in…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170112-California-Drought-Update.pdf And the skies opened up; rain and snow poured down upon the Earth; the people rejoiced. At least that appears what the past week has been like. Yes, as reported, the drought has ended in the northern part of the state, or at least the reservoirs are full. Officially,…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170105-California-Drought-Update.pdf Two more weeks and “the one” will be gone. The new President, Donald Trump, like President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, has stated that his first “100 Days” shall define a new direction for the nation. Following the U.S. Drought Monitor and the Reservoir Conditions graph, and coming from,…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20161229-California-Drought-Update.pdf Three months into the new water year, and half-way through the rainy season, this sixth year of drought has become an enigma for some. “Are we still in a drought?,” some are asking. Others are less unclear, recognizing that the water deficit will absolutely not be made up this…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20161222-California-Drought-Update.pdf “In this state, this section of the United States, of course, the key is water. And unless we organize every drop to be of service to mankind, this state is going to stand still…” President John F. Kennedy, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 27, 1963 The state and…
