California only has about one year’s supply of water left

[DontSayBanana]

Red Lobster's Air Force. Those are Cheddar Biscuits.

Yet another time I wish Languish had a "like/upvote" system.  I lol'ed.

[Siege]

This is the only Red Lobster I know:

[Eddie Teach]

Sure, I know you've never had their endless shrimp...

[Siege]

Sure, I know you've never had their endless shrimp...

[Eddie Teach]

Shrimp is awesome. Not quite as awesome as pig though.

[MadImmortalMan]

Aaaaaaand now for something completely different.


Water levels are now excessive, we've had rain and/or snow non-stop all winter, flooding in all the Sierra rivers, and now the dam at Lake Oroville is failing.

Live stream.


http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html

[alfred russel]

I'll be dammed.

[garbon]

Aaaaaaand now for something completely different.


Water levels are now excessive, we've had rain and/or snow non-stop all winter, flooding in all the Sierra rivers, and now the dam at Lake Oroville is failing.

Live stream.

I read that though the drought is over, most places in Southern California will likely stick to rationing as the aquifers still need time to build themselves back up.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I read that though the drought is over, most places in Southern California will likely stick to rationing as the aquifers still need time to build themselves back up.

Yeah, makes sense.  They've adopted some year round restrictions regardless of the water level in the aquifer here too. 

[garbon]

Damn. Now a major storm pummelling Southern California with rain.

[MadImmortalMan]

I haven't returned to Grant Lake or anything, so no pics from me. But it's been horribly wet and even my many trips to Utah were mostly green instead of the nice clean brown of the usual great basin.

[Razgovory]

So much for only one year of water left.

[jimmy olsen]

It was true at the time.

[Razgovory]

It's difficult to see how a statement predicated on incorrect predictions could be true.

[Jacob]

It's difficult to see how a statement predicated on incorrect predictions could be true.

California only has about one year's supply of water left in its reservoirs, said Jay Famiglietti.

The senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, wrote that the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, in commentary published in the Los Angeles Times Thursday.

Citing NASA data, Famiglietti said that water storage has been declining steadily since 2002, the year that NASA began monitoring the state's water supply with satellites. He noted that groundwater supplies have been shrinking since the 20th century.

About half of the state's land area is experiencing "exceptional drought" conditions, according to the U.S. drought monitor, as a vicious drought enters its third year.

No predictions, just a statement of facts as they were at the time of writing - namely:

1) The reservoirs - at that time - held only enough water for one year's supply.
2) Water storage had been declining steadily since 2002, with groundwater supplies shrinking since the 20th century.
3) Half the state's land area was - at that time - experiencing "exceptional drought" conditions for a third year running.

None of those were predictions, nor were they predicated on "incorrect predictions". They were statements of fact that were true at the time, just as Timmy says.

That doesn't seem too difficult to me.