{"id":255739,"date":"2023-05-03T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255739"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:53:18","slug":"the-big-melt-crushed-houses-trapped-cars-and-the-threat-of-floods-inside-californias-buried-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255739","title":{"rendered":"The big melt: Crushed houses, trapped cars and the threat of floods \u2013 inside California\u2019s buried ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 1, 2023 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claims that climate scientists \u2018have never seen anything like it\u2019 don\u2019t tell us much as human lifetimes are short compared to Earth\u2019s climate variations. There\u2019s the story of the drained lake that reappeared \u2013 so clearly it was once there before any talk of \u2018climate change\u2019.<\/em>
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High in the California mountains, a ski resort sits buried under layers of snow and ice, says Sky News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents of Mammoth Lakes fear for their lives, and livelihoods, after a winter of record snowfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wooden houses are blanketed under white powder, cars are buried beneath cement-like drifts, and roads are lined by colossal snow banks stretching up to 50ft tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every so often a dagger-like slab of snow or ice will slide from a rooftop and shatter on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re used to a lot of snow in Mammoth Lakes. In fact, it\u2019s vital for the economic survival of the town but nobody could have expected what happened this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A series of so-called atmospheric rivers \u2013 narrow bands of moisture which carry precipitation from the Pacific Ocean over the west coast of the United States \u2013 hit California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These storms have been unusual in their frequency and intensity following a decade of drought, transforming the Golden State into the sodden state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mammoth, the snow fall was three times the historical average. When we visit, a month past the peak, the walls of snow are still as tall as two double decker buses in parts.
. . .
In California\u2019s central valley, the snow-capped mountains, far in the distance, are a spectre of doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The near-record rainfall in California is already transforming the landscape here and that is before the big melt begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corcoran is a town of 25,000 people and home to some of America\u2019s most productive farmland, with an agricultural industry worth $2bn (\u00a31.6bn). It is currently witnessing the remarkable rebirth of Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers before completely disappearing by the mid-part of last century. But it is reappearing with a vengeance, already covering 30 square miles, an area roughly the size of Coventry, it looks like a vast inland sea. Experts predict that over the next couple of months it could grow to 200 square miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flooding here happened too quickly for people to prepare and some workers have returned to the edge of the new lake with rowing boats to try and retrieve their drowned equipment.
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At the lake\u2019s shoreline, helicopters fly in sandbags and the army, in tractors, are helping shore up the levee to try to protect the city of Corcoran. This area has now been declared a disaster zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are there when the state\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom, pays a visit. Over the past year he has toured wildfires, drought sites and now numerous areas in California that are underwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a climate expert or a meteorologist that doesn\u2019t say the following: \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen this weather at this level of intensity and extreme\u201d. That\u2019s what is exacerbating the conditions that we\u2019re experiencing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claims that climate scientists \u2018have never seen anything like it\u2019 don\u2019t tell us much as human lifetimes are short compared to Earth\u2019s climate variations. 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