“Under climate change,” Underhill says, “floods of this magnitude or higher will happen with increasing frequency.
If you swim in that lake you turn into a techbro and the only way to change back is to wait 130 years until the time the next time it appears
Nature is…… healing?
This has happened before, it’s tied to the fact that we’ve had a ton of rain this year.
hopefully it keeps happening to the point the lake is always present and agribusiness gets the fuck out
This happened in 2023… So a year ago now. This is what happens when California gets a wet year.
ARkStorm could potentially reflood the entire central valley. Look up the great flood of 1862. That’s sacramento in the picture. Before that another was recorded in 1605… (we’ll “eventually” have one just like the PNW will “eventually” experience the cascadia subduction zone)
When I was young there was a wetland where there is now a golf course. California has lost 90% of its wetlands since the 1800s.
May Allah reflood the state of KKKlanifornia with 1000 ARk storms.
a geographer made a theoretical satellite photo of 1850s california some time ago.
“[The Central Valley] used to have a big lake and lots of marshes from water runoff from the mountains. Dams and irrigation stopped all that many years ago. But I’ve always wondered what it looked like around here before that.”
it’s kind of fascinating to look at.
one can imagine being alive in those days and looking at what whites half-assedly named “central valley” as a heavenly place on earth.
