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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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khanom, sounds like you need a bigger pond? If I guess your approximate location right, 1.7" in 12-hrs is around a 1-year recurrence storm... meaning you can probably expect your pond to overflow every year. If it all came down in 6 hours, you can probably expect your pond to overflow every 5 years.
http://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/pfds_map_cont.html?bkmrk=ca
If you are thinking of resizing it let me know. I'm willing to work for carrots these days.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Sounds like you've got it covered, especially if you know how big "far bigger" is. Is there a channel feeding the pond (i.e. significant contributing area above the pond), or is it unchannelized overland flow?
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dirtbag
climber
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Mar 14, 2014 - 12:35am PT
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Oh sh#t...^^^
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John M
climber
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Mar 18, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
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Badger Pass closed today.. for the season Feb 8th to March 18th.. not much of a season.. season pass holders can apply half of what you paid for this years pass towards next years pass. next years passes are on sale for 149 dollars until the end of march.
http://www.yosemitepark.com/BadgerPass.aspx
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 18, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
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I'm hoping that the wishes of 38.04 million Californians don't come true and that the drought lasts thru April...I'll be in YV for the month. Hmmm....that sounds selfish, oh well.
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John M
climber
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Mar 18, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
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Hey Jim.. I hope you have a great time climbing in Yosemite, but I also hope for some wet. Howard Sheckter over in Mammoth does some weather forecasting, His long range forecast on Friday March 14 says that there is a possibility that the end of March and the month of April could be wet.
Thus we are likely to experience a transition to a wetter pattern later in the month and especially into the month of April. April may end up quite the surprise………..precip wise!
http://mammothweather.com
Next Storm possibly the middle of next week. I like Howard because he tries to explain things, though he uses a lot of terms I am not familiar with.
I'm hoping for short period storms with plenty of moisture, snow line above 6500 feet interspersed with lots of sunshine.
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John M
climber
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Mar 26, 2014 - 11:46pm PT
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What worries me is the prediction for an inch next Saturday -- we nearly always get double the forecasted amount.
2 inches would be bad for you?
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Mar 27, 2014 - 05:02am PT
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remember my page 1 post> "it is good for gold mining"?
3/27/14
"COLFAX, Calif. (AP) — There's gold in them dry hills!
Or gold seekers anyway. And they see a historic opportunity in California's historic drought.
Low water levels have led to a mini gold rush in the same Sierra Nevada foothills that drew legions of fortune seekers from around the world in the mid-1800s, as amateur prospectors dig for riverbed riches in spots that have been out of reach for decades..."
ok then, send my royalty checks to dr sprock, kntv oakland,
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 27, 2014 - 06:19am PT
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Need I say it? Nope, but I will, it's pissing down here in Ireland.
I just hope that my former neighbor, brother Mac's best man, and a very good friend, Jay, is watering the last remaining redwood I planted on my late mother's land in Saranap (unincorporated between Lafayette and Walnut Creek).
I planted 27 redwood saplings (that was a task, going four feet down for each tree, redwoods have shallow roots, so I wanted to make sure they had a good start) in 1994, only the one remains on the border with Jay's land. He has been keeping it alive. It's about 30+ feet tall now, coolaboola.
Just as a personal note, Saranap was a great place to grow up. From a platform/hay loft we built on top of our largest chicken coop (about 14'x14') at the top of our hill, we'd sit there looking across the whole Diablo Valley, getting high and looking at Mt Diablo. I built a sort of climbing 'wall' on that coop/platform, with a four-foot overhang, holds and all. It kept me in good shape, shame I can't say the same now.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Mar 27, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
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Chuff is right... we got 1/4" of precip over the last two days... this drought thing was all just a big hoax... nothing to worry about any more. Also, keep in mind that 1982-83 was a wet year.
Over half of CA voters now support the $11 billion water bond measures. Looks like Chuff's team loses to data and reason AGAIN.
Khanom, is it true saturation overland flow (i.e. the water table is at the surface) or is infiltration excess? Not a whole lot you can do about SOF, but you can engineer some infiltration structures to get that water underground if it is infiltration excess.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Mar 27, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
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This is how all San Diego water basins are all getting inter-connected. Not shown is the huge desalinazation plant being built in Carlsbad.
March 24, 2014
Barrett 160.90 ft 116.92 ft 34,805.5 10,570.9 30.4 0
El Capitan 197.00 ft 135.60 ft 112,806.9 40,632.8 36.0 0
Hodges 115.00 ft 92.74 ft 30,251.0 11,866.7 39.2 0
Miramar 114.00 ft 106.80 ft 6,682.4 5,577.3 83.5 0
Morena 157.00 ft 85.20 ft 50,694.0 1,991.0 3.9 0
Murray 95.00 ft 91.30 ft 4,684.20 4,090.5 87.3 0
Lower Otay 137.42 ft 123.94 ft 49,848.9 34,308.6 68.8 0
San Vicente 190.00 ft 150.15 ft 89,312.2 51,129.6 57.2 0
Sutherland 145.00 ft 67.39 ft 29,508.1 3,026.6 10.3 0
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 27, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
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hey there say, the chief... thanks for the map...
and zbrown... thanks for sharing your map...
had never seen this type before on water...
also, patrick, thanks for sharing about your redwood trees, etc and the area... was very interesting...
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Mar 29, 2014 - 09:12pm PT
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Pississippi up in heya!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2014 - 09:23am PT
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I love you people. Irreverence, joking, day to day living.
Fremont? Andrzej, I thought you were in Poland. Fremont, I know it.
I had some neighbors in Darty, Dublin 6, when I lived there. Now I am in the Sunny Southeast of Wexford, yeah, except where is the sun?
Wochijreh and Agatha (I can't remember their young daughter's name). From near Gdansk (there are a lot of Poles in Ireland. Most of the supermarkets have a Polish food section). (I went out a couple of times with Magda, a very cute young blonde from Krakow. But she was 23 and I was, too old, 49).
Agatha: "Patrick it is cold."
"Agatha, you come from Poland, where there are sub-zero temperatures."
"Yes, but the Irish weather is a cold weather."
True. Cold weather like in Poland is a dry cold. Irish cold is wet, and goes straight to the bones.
EDIT
I would love to climb in the High Tatras.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Winter has finally arrived on..April 1st...beautiful..
post 400.....(-;
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Doesn't matter. 1982-83 was a wet year.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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yep, Chief....your words were marked, as you requested.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Here in LA, our reservoirs are nearly 100% full, thank you.
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fairweather
Mountain climber
Roseville, CA
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How about scrapping high speed rail and building a few more reservoirs, like the Auburn Dam or raising Shasta's Dam? Isn't having enough water a little bit more important than some pork belly railroad project that's going to be too expensive for people to ride without government subsidies,and take too long even if it was cheap enough?
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