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Amazing Flood Pix: CA Delta Feb. 11, 2017

February 11, 2017 By JD 24 Comments

We took JD-Force 1 up today to get a bird’s eye view of the flooding in California. There’s been a lot of talk about the spillway at Oroville Dam lately, but I also wanted to see how the lower end of the system was faring. What we saw was amazing!

Starting with Liberty Island in the North Delta. Look at the debris and the whitewater…

The Rio Vista Bridge looks like it doesn’t have much clearance right now. Lots of homes and businesses on the shore either flooded or getting very close…

Looking down Cache Slough towards Rio Vista. The current speed and amount of debris in the water is staggering…

Hidden Harbor where Steamboat and Cache Sloughs meet..

A closer look at the bottom end of the Liberty Island area, where Prospect and Cache slough meet…

The Wimpy’s and New Hope area of the Mokelumne River, where the houseboats broke loose on Friday. All the house trailers are gone…I hope everybody was able to get out in time…

Apparently, the Deep Water Channel is the only clear water in the state…

 Looking north towards the Causeway. The bypass looks like the Amazon…

Unfortunately, there are lots of homes and farms either flooded or getting very close…

Sadly, there will be lots more structures inundated I’m afraid by the time this is all over. Look at the rapids caused by the road…

More properly and structures underwater…

Willow Berm Marina on the Mokelumne River seems to be hanging in there…

A wide, bird’s eye view of Liberty Island. So much junk down there it’s insane…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: california, delta, flood, mokelumne river, sacramento river, san joaquin river

West Coast: Better Batten Down the Hatches!

November 27, 2012 By JD 8 Comments

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It looks like most of the West Coast is in for a good dumping this week. From Seattle on down through Los Angeles, things are going to be wet.

Most of the precipitation is forecasted for Central California on up and some major rain (and wind) appears to be on the horizon!

From Weather Underground, here’s the Nor Cal outlook:

” The heaviest precipitation is expected over Shasta County along with Butte and western Plumas counties, where a large area of rainfall amounts of 12 to 18 inches or more will be possible through the weekend…”

Click here to read more…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: flood, Rain, snow, west coast, winter storm

Nor Cal: Water & Snow everywhere!

March 24, 2011 By JD 4 Comments

The Howe Ave. parking lot on the American River underwater


Tthe calendar says “spring” but Northern California has been getting hammered by a series of huge winter storms all week which have delivered serious amounts of rain to the lower elevations and many feet of snow to the high country…the likes of which we haven’t seen since I was a kid.

Of course, all that weather isn’t without complications. Most NorCal rivers are raging and the reservoirs are full. The Sacramento River is currently running around 100,000 CFS and getting very close to flood stage. With all the snow in the high country, let’s keep our fingers crossed that there are no Pineapple Express-style warm storms heading this way! On a positive note, we should have plenty of water this year!Click here to read more…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: american river, flood, lake tahoe, sacramento river, snow

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