Rainstorms Drench Southern California, Causing Hazardous Road Conditions
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After years of severe drought, California is now dealing with a new problem: widespread flooding and environmental dangers caused by a winter of heavy snow and rain that has never been seen before. California’s ecosystems have been greatly affected by this heavy rain, and the effects are not always predicted. One amazing effect of this weather event is that a huge lake in the San Joaquin Valley that had dried up almost 100 years ago has come back to life. This valley, which is between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is famous for the nuts, pistachios, milk, and fruit that it grows. Today, the area around the farmland in the San Joaquin Valley is mostly desert. Back in the day, though, this area was a thriving and varied habitat, full of trees, wetlands, and a huge lake that made the ground perfect for farming. It was less than fifty years before this lake, which was about the same size as Utah’s Great Salt Lake, dried up. There are still a lot of questions about why such a large amount of water was drained so quickly. For thousands of years, Tulare Lake has been an important part of the San Joaquin Valley. It was once the biggest body of water west of the Mississippi River. But in the late 1800s, people started draining Tulare Lake, which ended with it being completely gone by the middle of the 1900s, in the video published on Dec 19, 2023, by Tech Life, as “What JUST HAPPENED in California SHOCKED The World!” below:
Torrential rain over the last 24 hours has created flash #flooding across the Santa Barbara area in #california. California’s first big #winter #storm of #2023 is creating problems in places like #SantaBarbara #Montecito #Ventura and #Oxnard. Neighborhoods flooded, cars stranded and businesses inundated, in the video published on Dec 21, 2023, by WXChasing, as “Santa Barbara California Flooding – Atmospheric River December 21, 2023“, below:
In this episode of Look At This!, Desmond Shaw takes us to the sprawling Los Angeles River, a popular recreation spot that runs from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach, in the video published on Dec 22, 2023, by KCAL News, as “Los Angeles River| Look At This!“, below:
A major rainstorm is sweeping California — causing flash floods and mudslides. Jeff Nguyen from CBS News Los Angeles has more from hard-hit Ventura County, in the video published on Dec 21, 2023, by CBS News, as “Severe California storm brings flooding, mudslides“, below:
Bands of heavy rain moved into Southern California on Wednesday as part of an atmospheric river “event” that will continue through Thursday and could produce flash flooding. “A potent cold front is finally making its way onshore along the Central Coast this afternoon with rain rates around one inch per hour,” the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles said. “This is a fairly slow-moving front and significant flooding is possible as it works its way east through the forecast area.” The Weather Service is still forecasting two to five inches of rainfall throughout the storm for coastal areas and inland valleys of Los Angeles County, and five to ten inches in the foothills and mountains. Communities are preparing for potential street flooding and debris flows near wildfire burn scars. KTLA’s Shelby Nelson and Jennifer McGraw report on Dec. 20, 2023,in the video published on Dec 20, 2023, by KTLA 5, as “Rainstorms drench Southern California, causing hazardous road conditions“, below:
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