Ghost lake reemerges in California | Prime
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- ABC News’ Kayna Whitworth reports from the Central Valley, where severe rainfall has made a long-dormant lake to reemerge and has flooded farms, homes and businesses.
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The catastrophe is not the flooding of the former Lake Tulare, but the catastrophe decades ago when it was drained. Drainage was actual man-made regional climate change.
well said indeed.
Bugger all. The environmentalists sucked the water out of the central valley and dumped it into the San Francisco bay because of the snail darter, dipsh+t!
Shush, you might offend the liberals. Climate change, or the return of those pesky NATURAL weather patterns, is always a THREAT. Money will be LOST. MONEY!!!! This is very BAD because it affects LIBERALS. Their pistachios will go up in price. Their wheat will go up. If this doesn't convince you, the conservative food prices will go up also. Time to ban fossil fuels. NOW, RIGHT NOW!!!!!
What did they expect to happen when building a town on a drained lake bed?
weather is always the karma
it may be you give the too much credit by accusing them of thinking.
Also,the ground level was probably different years back when that lake was last filled with water. I’m sure the depletion of groundwater in that area over the past decades may have contributed to its landscape surface to sink. I know the area that makes up the Central Valley of California is sinking water than any other area within the state.
Humans think too highly of themselves. Mother nature is always reminding us who's boss.
No Town is built on the lake. One town sits along its shores. Farmers unregulated ground water pumping caused 4-6ft subsidence in some areas. Farmers not wanting to flood their fields in the lake bed will push back till water levels are right at the top of the north shore line by the nearest city.
Droughts and floods have ALWAYS EXISTED. The problem is that when there is drought, people want to occupy land that should be RESERVED for WATER.
3/4 of Earth is covered by water. We need more land.
@@garycastronova7939 there's tons of land, we just can't keep living on the coast cause the coast is coming for us.
@@garycastronova7939 America has abundant land. People just need to avoid living in places like this.
@@garycastronova7939 What you aren’t mentioning is that most of that water is saltwater. Bodies of freshwater are more valuable than land.
@@garycastronova7939 No we don't. We need fewer people.
What's shocking to me is that people are surprised that after building ON A LAKE the water is coming back! I remember seeing on the news about 20-25 years ago that a developer in the western US had built multiple houses down in a dry river bed. It was a river bed that only had water flowing every 50 years or so. The new occupied houses down in the actual river bed were washed away during one of those 50 year spring snow melt events. On the news you could see the distinct edge of the river bed as there was a 10-15 foot ledge on either side of the river bed. Again, they were surprised that hiysesIN A RIVER BED were washed away in the water!
I feel for the devastation that many families are facing, but I can't help rooting for the lake.
except that it's going to be hyper polluted when u consider all the human stuff which is underwater now. think of all the chemicals and other pollutants which are submerged now, and might be for decades.
too bad they couldn't divert this water to the salton sea, which really needs it in order to avoid another environmental catastrophe there.
@@teklife Why the Salton sea? Any water that goes there can't be used for anything.
Right?!!!
Me too.
@@justsomeguy6474 then you don't know much about the salton sea. it was once one of the world's most productive saltwater fisheries, but the main thing i'm thinking as the benefit is that it will mitigate the toxic dust storms which are a thing now that it's drying up and leaving vast dry flats which create dust storms with all sorts of heavy metals, ddt, and other chemicals and insecticides used by generations of agriculture in the surrounding area.
It is a lake that was artificially pumped dry. Nature bats last.
And swings for the fences!!! ❤
Long period of low water is over for now.
Climate change. Permanent drought. Why plan reservoirs. Not going to be any more snow. Thing of the past. Well, this is what Newsom said up until last winter. Been quiet about that lately.
Yeah they just need to pump out all that water and conserve it for the drought time just like they did last time it had water..
I find it ironic that people complain about having too much water after being in drought... need to get creative with the water..
and use it for plants mainly hopefully thought it's not contaminated with all the other stuff they put In the area when the lake dried out originally
@@jesalf9604 Yeah and 60 years of pesticides are in the soil. You drink it.
It's hard. I grew up on a farm and it's hard. BUT... we need to start working with nature rather than trying to break it.
Facts
that's common sense, not sure who you are directing that towards
@@beanzburriton4263 obviously it’s not common sense because not everyone thinks that way
Don’t worry Mother Nature will pay us back😏
Amen
I remember swimming in this lake when I was a small child, 70 years ago. This will help the land in so many ways.
Right on man !
@@Floppytotsma'am*
@@avenuempire dude and man
It will be gone by the end of the year. Left coast morons cannot manage anything.
Oh yea do u remember who this land really belongs tooo ur granfather is a thief
"Once a flood plain, always a flood plain. If you don't want to get wet, don't live in a flood plain." Mr. Manley, 9th grade science teacher.
I think it’s beautiful that the lake wants to come back. How could we have let the biggest fresh water lake disappear?? I’m sorry to all the folks affected. Heart breaking all around
How exactly does a lake, which is inanimate, want anything?
A body of water, whether lake, river, or ocean is a living thing. A functional part of the ecosystem. Far from inanimate. It was drained and diverted over the years, but nature's intentions do not reflect mankind's agenda. No massive dam was ever built to stop the flow of water to those acres. Are there houses under the returning lake? Because they're toast, and no real timetable for the lake to recede. The farmers have my sympathy, but this is an example of man's arrogant delusions that we can control nature, rather than working with the great resources that nature has provided us. We got greedy, and this is our reckoning!
@@solascripturamjc9681 because
@@theOGabcduong You're right, we don't have control over nature. But it sounds like you have nature confused with God.
@@solascripturamjc9681 god and nature are one and the same. We wouldn’t be here without either. The ego is keeping blinders on you and the roll you play in this universe.
Hey, don't drain a giant fresh water lake in the middle of a decades long drought. Turn it into a reservoir and reimburse the residents with subsidiaries from the water rights or hydro-power.
That is what I was thinking.
Your plan is not approved.
Blame climate change, scare the public to justify raising taxes to combat climate change and pocket the money... win/win.
That can’t happen if you knew anything about the lake…. It was a shallow lake when it was still around to begin less the 20 feet deep so it wouldn’t have been enough for hydro power…. It was the digest lake in the sense of acres covered not in depth
How did the “residents” come to own natural lake bed? This land should never have been for sale. Whomever sold it stole it from nature, who was temporarily not filling it. Nature doesn’t recognize your flimsy land rights.
Tulare lake returns!
My mom (born 1929, died 2014) told stories from grandpa Whittle (born 1906 died 1973) about draining the valleys and putting in canals so they had more farmland, truly amazing how large the Central Valley of California is.
We experienced the tulie fog a few times- she said they thought the tulie fog was because of the lakes and swampy areas of the valley, they drained it all but the fog was still there.
Amazing how foolish mankind can be thinking he can change nature and reclaim land…
Sorry to hear that your grandfather died so young. Mine was a boxer and died in 1990, 1904 - 1990 RIP: while I was in Desert shield my grandmother soon afterward. During daytrip drives - i did visit Bakersfield and also Fresno, very Hot and the fireplace/burn ban was inplace
@unknownidaho - Awww, my mom was born the same year as your mom and she just passed away ❤
The fog comes from the San Francisco Bay and the wet estuaries near Sacramento. There is no mountain or hill area blocking the fog from coming through those areas and they get very high winds.
Also, the Dutch have a large area of their country because they reclaimed it from the North Sea. One doesn't try to change nature, only use nature in ways to direct it into something people want.
@@SS-yj2le
Never been there, so don't know. That makes sense, thank you.
As it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end
Since its draining in 1920, these 100-year flooding events have happened in, 1938, 1969, 1983, and now 2023. 4 reformations in 103 years. For the local environment, this lake needs to exist to fill aquifers, increase local humidity, and manage long-term water use. This would be a perfect opportunity to find a balancing point of establishing a permanent lake to environmentally stabilize the region allowing for more productive farmland around the lake.
Historically this was the southern part of a huge lake that filled the valleys of both the Sacremento and San Joaquin area.
The smaller lakes that eventually were left from normal non human climate change (post ice age ) made the land
remaining very fruitfull for agriculture within the last 300 years. As weather patterns change this lake reemergence will
occur more often and nothing can change that especially if yearly winter snow melt volume gradually increases due to
weather changes.
You can only mess with mother nature so long until she reclaims what is hers.
The Earth is correcting itself, without our help. We just need to let it do so and adapt as needed.
So to be clear, a lake in California was drained to provide for agriculture. When the lake bed was dry they then 'repurposed' it for more agriculture and housing without making any changes in the geology. Nobody had any desire to build any type of infrastructure to deal with the fact that under certain conditions the lake could fill up again. What they have done is basically built communities and industries on a known flood plain.
You are 💯 on the money. Soon Florida will be the Atlantic Ocean, not that I would be upset with nature.
@@7_of_9 all those rats are gonna go somewhere
Well they have to keep going with the climate change thing so it will eventually lead to the government enacting imminent domain to save civilization when it's the big banks wanting to land grab. Jamie Dimon said the government needs to do it soon that should tell you everything
But why didn't their defense of homosexual special rights prevent this disaster ?
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave
Similar problems here in FL. Houses built in dry, old lake beds. Hurricane comes and bam water back. Everyone says we had no idea. Meanwhile developers laughing all the way to the bank. County Commission says huh.
Gonna be increasingly difficult to insure my home here in FL. Cost of home insurance has nearly tripled in the last few yrs here. At a certain point there is no financial advantage to live here in FL, I think we're at that point
@rubber band I feel that. I left CA years ago, because I couldn't afford to live where I'm from anymore.
Developers don't care about where they can build as long as they can suck the money..
Thank you!! People will never fully understand how much money developers spend to get flood plains deemed suitable for home, even with studies saying (usually Army Corp of Engineers) don't --that area needs to be protected. As a Texas resident this is the most infuriating aspect of public policy.
@@texasgirlmomx2342 Harvey was a perfect example. Houses built in drainfields for levees. Houses built in low spots that turned out to be recharge areas. Developers will say and do whatever it takes. County commission/water board/flood control people often veerryy flexible about the regulations. People get flooded. Insurance companies then say we won't pay and oh your premiums will go up anyway even if we won't pay. Regular people left holding the bag..
This event just reminded me again of how fascinating nature is, whether or not it’s positive or negative.
I’d like to see the flood maps for this area. How were they allowed to build in a flood zone?
Ikr? And who would ever, insure them? Something underhanded going on, as usual. Gen pop, being used as a tool again. It's disgusting.
This is what happens when you build on a dry lakebed.
No, really??!!
I was born in Modesto CA and both of my Grandad's farmed in Hughson CA and one had almond orchards and the other had a Dairy farm I swear I was always happy to go visit them; in 1966 my parents took us to live in Alaska for eight years, I was seven years old, and fifteen when we went back to live in the lower 48, to California we landed up in Sanger my uncle had a hog farm, I loved it there too.
I find it beautiful the earth is being replenished and going back to its natural habitat
The earth is not going back to its "natural habitat", but is going "from bad to worse", with "climate change" causing death and destruction. Earth's "natural habitat" for now goes from drought to floods, from no rain to massive rainfalls that also creates deadly tornadoes and mudslides, and whereby hurricane season at times brings devastation.
Who would not like to have the weather PERFECTLY controlled, so that rainfall comes at the right time, keeping grass green and forests lush, bringing delightful weather, enjoyable springs, cool summer breezes, colorful autumns and with pleasure of having winter arrive, with light snowfalls.
Well, that is exactly what is to happen when a heavenly government called God's Kingdom, takes full control of the earth from God's archenemy Satan in the near future. Jesus gave a preview of what God's Kingdom will do, such as with the weather, at Mark 4:35-39.
There, Jesus was asleep in the stern of a boat with Peter and some other of his apostles, when unexpectedly a severe storm came up on the Sea of Galilee, to the point that the boat was about to sink, and in which Peter frantically woke up Jesus saying that they were about "to perish".
What did Jesus do ? He calmly got up and said to the storm, "Hush ! Be quiet !", and instantly a great calm set in, showing what he will do as king of God's Kingdom during his upcoming Millennial reign (Rev 20:4-6), tame the weather, like a vicious beast into one that is docile. Jesus also gave further previews of what he will do at that time, healing the sick and resurrecting the dead.(Matt 9)
So, for now, as we reach deeper into "the final part of the days" (Dan 2:28), the weather and mankind will only go "from bad to worse", but things will change dramatically when "the great tribulation" arrives (Matt 24:21) and God's Kingdom takes over earth's affairs, permanently.
It will be then that the "meek" ones at Psalms 37:11, 29, can look forward to enjoying life forever in "the abundance of peace", as God, whose name is Jehovah (see Isa 12:2, KJV) originally intended when he created Adam and Eve, hoping that what he had created would remain as "very good" or perfect forever, but which instead a rebellion happened, "upsetting the apple cart", and along with it, the weather.(see Gen 1:28-31; 3:1-6)
Nature doesn't care and it's always doing its thing - the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami. the Boxing Day Tsunami. Also, we are nature too.
@@timhaley3459 😂
In nature there is no good or bad just is. The only reason why it’s bad is because we are affected by it. This is a way of nature reminding humans how at mercy we are to it.
@@bannaboy89
Yep
California needs more reservoirs… let the lake stay.
You realize that area has a portion of the largest food supplier on the planet right? If that lake stays, there is going to need to be some serious new projects for that area to redirect that water elsewhere.
@@SS-yj2le They need to reconsider other options given it's likely to happen again. Currently they can't grow anything for a few months after the water is drained according to their standards. Otherwise they could use the water and reconsider what crops they grow in that area. Keeping it would help california with the water shortage and there are other places where they can grow crops they just need to stop selling the land to developers. A lot of those cow farms use to be further south but they bought them out to build houses.
@@SS-yj2leCalifornia is huge and can grow in other places. As a Californian, we desperately need water
@@onelove7883agree… Many places in my county are building new homes left and right. Just hope they would stop and let more argiculture resume
@@SS-yj2le you do realize there are other places in the Central Valley they can use right? I’m guessing you’re not from California?
I really really like Kayna Whitworth's reporting style and voice. She is clear and concise and her voice is crystal clear and perfectly modulated. This is an incredibly important story and I am so glad that it was not interrupted by endless vocal fry and an overly high pitched voice. I will be looking for more of her reporting.
You are 100% correct - she does speak clearly and is well modulated. I too HATE vocal fry, and annoyingly high pitched voices - those people need to find another career which does not entail using their voice.
Sad for the people but awesome to see nature take back its area, even if it's only briefly
It seems like everywhere we have "reclaimed" a large wetland it has caused problems. It might be a better idea to restore Tulare lake to help climate-proof the San Joaquin valley. Renaturalizing the lake would go a long way to recharge the water table, and slow/stop the sinking of the land, in the area. The lake would moderate the local climate and increase precipitation in the southern Sierra Nevada. And when the climate roller coaster shifts into flood mode Tulare lake could be the keystone of the flood control system protecting the rest of the San Joaquin valley.
Because of the major draws from that aquifer, the land has subsided so much that the hard pan is only allowing a fraction of what you see sink in. This is the problem. This water will barely make it down. It’s been pumped so much that they messed up the ecology of the land below the surface. If El Niño come through next year, Tulare lake could very easily be there for another decade +. At least it will become a wetland and force the farms away from its bed. And a small amount will recharge the aquifer but not like what it could have been.
Came here to say exactly this and you NAILED it!! This needs to be up at the top!
"...everywhere we have "reclaimed" a large wetland it has caused problems."
Really? Like Holland?
But, I agree we have lost wetlands and we need to keep enough to work as water storage and for wild life. On the upside, the US Corp of Engineers started to reverse a lot of their 'improvements' to the Everglades from 100 years ago because they had learned how draining the land and straightening rivers had big downsides - land subsidence, salt water intrusion of ground water and increased drought. Not sure how far they've got but it involved putting rivers back in their old meandering river beds. Germany learned the same with the Rhine where building more flood barriers actually increased damaging floods downstream.
@@coolwiz7994 It took time to get to the state that the area is in now, it will take time to get to a better place.
@@stephenskinner3851 Even in the Netherlands there have been issues. Recently there has been a big effort in the Netherlands to restore wild spaces in a very strategic ways, making "room for the river" and building/restoring climate buffers. I believe there was a large marsh, the Onlanden (sp?), upstream of the city of Groningen that has been restored to protect the city from flooding.
California is invaluable, they never stop teaching the rest of the country what not to do.
All a bunch of jokers. Here in Winnipeg after the 1997 flood of the century people have to build all homes within the recorded blood basin a few feet higher than the maximum water height. You'll see all new home built up 20 feet in the air.
At least we learn from our mistakes unlike these chumps
My Dad said it was the "land of fruits and nuts" and I don't think he was talking about farm produce!
a couple years ago a big rainfall over filled the river in my city and flooded surrounding areas including a very large green brush area that that turned into a flood plain. 2 years later I saw they were building a new neighborhood right on the flood plain. people will never learn.
Whereby they will sell those new houses to the next suckers wanting a new house.
Tbh tho the most prosperous time for a country comes from rebuilding after a war or disaster. So maybe they’ve always known
Same in my city too had bad flood 10 yrs ago and started building houses that people have to live in and they know nothing about cause they are migrants or refugees living in them so they don’t know any better they see new and think it’s safe
Right same happened here in the East coast recently we had more rainfall then normal & the rivers tend to flood, and of course the properties that are mainly in the lower level of land near it... (after seeng people put a lot of their furniture outside their houses near the road I travel by that river it reminds me to not buy property near a lake/river or beachfront also especially if it's low ground.. I am glad that even though I am a few blocks from the river at least we are on the area that's on the higher hill side and I didn't see flooding on the hill side of the river.. it only affected the houses next to it where the ground was lower than the road next to the river..
Yup. That sounds like Texas...but it's happening everywhere.
Unfortunate for those who’ve lost homes. However, it’s great that Tulare Lake is reclaiming it’s place in California. The largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi? The State needs as many natural bodies of water it can get. Pistachios? We can absolutely live without them.
Don't forget almonds. Also, why is there dairy farms out here? This is ridiculous! I live in New England and we had hundreds of small lovely dairy farms that survived on nature's bounty. But we lost most of them due to GREED! Only the very large dairy farms survive now and we can't compete with California. I am so happy that Tulare Lake came back! Mother Nature got her revenge.
If the Ghost Lake could somehow be funneled to Lake Mead by a canal system it would be clutch
As a building contractor, I walked away from starting a project in this area. The property owners didn’t want to get a permit…..Obviously they knew but went ahead with someone else…..As a guess, most, if not all those buildings in water are unpermited.
Good ethical work
Smart man. Too bad others let greed determine the outcome. When will we learn that f**king with nature is NEVER a good idea.
My family is from the Central Valley. I’m old and I remember when it was a lake. Putting new farms and homes and businesses on a dry lakebed was not a wise move.
Ikr? Whoever approved all the building there, was a nutcase!
Not only that, if they were going to build in it and wanted it to be permanent, they should have a system to pump out the water when it does rain/pour and a place to pump it to as well. Poor planning all around.
When it rains people complain, when its dry people complain.😂
Yup! I am Californian and so true
That's what I was thinking! The majority of humanity (especially here in the states) are spoiled, arrogant, “oh well”, “do what thou wilt” imbeciles. Recklessly walking around infected with the Veruca Salt Complex!
the drought situation down there has been terrible for years, also groundwater has been pumped out so severely that the ground has been sinking, they shouldnt be complaining at all about the surplus water!
You must learn to calibrate saving more water better and spendibg less. There are no quick fix. Well planed long term solutions are needed. Te new dam are a cheep quick fix only.
The second quick fix is desalting waater frm the sea. It works but according to the weather rapports for the future, that cant cover it at all. But a help will be much more and cheeoer electricity not only for watercinsumption but for replacing very expensive fossils for cars, homes and everything.
I live in Denmark by that Im not good in spelling but its about long term planning.
You can build more insolated houses which dont fly away. They keep hot out and warm in. You can use much less water inside by smart functions. Fx most of Your toilets are aquarium seize. Your showers mainly are insane. You has tó change for flexibel handhold models. You shower all over faster amnd save a lot of water.
Ypuir gardens has to be more as the climate. Irrigating gras as You live in Northern Europe is insane. Your climate often is varmer then Spain, Italy, Greece and North Africa. Go there on vacation. They have niice gardens too.
And farming. You should stop making products hardly none will buy. You should reduce Your use of meat fx 10 to 20%. You are biggest consumers of meat in the world. You also are the fattest nation in the whole world. Everytibng is added sugar as well.
By that You will have enough water to the good and also mre healthy food.
Its not difficult. You should stop americanizing food.
You also will live longer and better and save alot of money at Your sj´kyhigh hosptals systems as well as Your skyhigh prices for fx insulin.
You can find many comparing UA-cams made by amerucans and others. They should be in Your next election campaign instead of Trump in jail and Biden in a coffin.
A aa starr You might erase the senior system in Congres, Senat and Your highest Courts.
Being old is no qualification in itself. Too many old look back and do everything to live in thepast. They invented the mirrors in the cars. ❤❤
Not always quite the same phenomenon but the Aus/NZ/ California corollary seems to continue. Similar flooding when you guys flood, similar dry/fire seasons when you're dry. The NZ forestry slash problem created by rapacious monoculture of California indigenous Monterey pines that compounded our Cyclone Gabrielle flooding in our major fruit bowl of Hawkes Bay. 😔
Our previous major source of Native Forests the giant Kauri tree, largely chopped down in the 19th Century to make the houses of Sydney & San Francisco and the Kauri varnished floors of London.
May God bless everyone and conserve the lake for generations! Nature balance is important.
It's supposed to be a lake. That's why it's called Tulare lake and not Tulare Valley. Here's a thought, maybe we shouldn't farm there anymore. Maybe we should let nature restore itself which will help everyone in the long run. #letthelakelive
May end up being that way no matter what people think they can do.
Save Tulare lake! We can find the money to buy out the farmers. This huge ancient wetlands ecosystem should have never been drained and destroyed by a cotton farmer in the first place.
There is no such thing as a ghost lake, only a floodplain.👻🐟
Many Australians have built houses on flood planes with the local councils blessings, we have had massive flooding's recently
As a country we're ignorant about the earth replenishing itself. We've concreted our grasslands, diverted water, and built communities on flood plains and we're shocked that this is happening. It's not global warming either, it's weather.
Truth
Actually, look up Lake George near Goulburn in Australia. It disappears & reappears at seemingly random intervals.
That was a lake. Not a flood plain.
The Lake is coming back and man can't stop it.
I love how the little fish already set up base!😂🐠🐠🐟🐟
The Lake was there well before the Farm Land and Homes. When you build in a Possible Flood Zone that use to be a Lake knowing all the Rivers flow to that Area. What did you think would happen eventually over time? Nature has a way. The Water may have dried up but the Lake Bed will always still be there. Not a Ghost Lake. Flood Plain will always be there.
They should never have built on the lake bed. What's going to have to happen now is they'll need to build a series of levees to reclaim as much as they can, and the smart thing to do would be to set aside a sizable portion of the basin to be a wildlife preserve. Sure there might be seven more years of drought, but what are they going to do if they get a repeat of this winter several years in a row?
They won't be allowed to build any levees or reclaim any land. Environmentalists will lock it up in court.
@@ethanmurray2203 I hope so. It's a waste of money. Move your farms out of the lake, that's a long term investment. Levees are a bandaid, and when we have another wet season next year, they will have to raise he levees again.
like in some of the lands where the sea has dried up... people don't think water could return there and once they start to build things there either out of ignorance or to make money eventually it will catch up to them... if however they built it to give it to someone else.. so they don't have to deal with the issue in the future then that also is a sad thing to do..
Which could happen. Levees will not hold back tons of water indefinitely, so reclamation is a pipe dream. Leave the area alone.
This is nature, but i am still sorry for so many that lost so much.
Waht this People have no Respekt for the Nature and that is then the Result.
The People have bekom waht the People will have.😉👍
@@Baba-fy1jc do you live in woods with no home?
Most of them probably have flood insurance. They'll be ok.
@@thecalmbeforethemaelstrom Doubtful
Didn't these folks realize that it was all built in a dry lakebed? How on earth, did they ever get insurance? I don't get this, at all. 😢
I remember Tulare Lake as a child in the late 50s and 60s. Family would go boating and fishing there!
I was born in Tulare December 28, 1950 left when I was 2, grew up in Oklahoma,Arizona, Idaho.
Makes my heart swell with joy as nature takes back hers!
Yesssss @AMills! Nature will ALWAYS win
@@cabezitadealgodon humans are natural you dumb son of a bltch, meaning everything we do is natural, quit trying to separate us, based on science we all came from the "big bang", its just we got lucky and we're blessed to somehow have a consciousness and an ego, which you've clearly weaponized against nature as you think yourself as a human is above nature, you're a hypocrite
We have an accord!
That area was always meant to be a lake, it's not like it just mysteriously spawned overnight. People acting shocked that the water is finally back where it should have been all along.
I wish them well, at the same time this is Mother Nature reclaiming and taking back what's hers!
No it's mismanagement blaming non existent climate change. And you fell for it.
Actually God gave us dominion over the earth and animals
@@ryanehlis426 However, there are many peoples and cultures that refer to nature as mother.. I am not asking you to believe this. I'm just asking you to accept that others do believe in it. It's called tolerance for other peoples belief systems.
@@maevelogan6069 I don’t tolerate false beliefs, there are mentally ill people today who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman. Tolerance is stupid and dangerous.
@@ryanehlis426 God created the world and Eden before Adam and Eve. Therefore Nature has seniority x'D
I always say to people "I'm not so arrogant to think that our civilization is any greater than the civilizations of the past. No matter what, the earth knows how to reclaim herself"
Not sure how much it would help but, I'm noticing a distinct lack of trees anywhere throughout the areas shown...
It's crazy how just 2 yrs ago I passed through that same road on my way to sequoia forest. Many farms were up for sale due to severe drought and saw many signs up on the side of the road asking God for rain. It's ironic to say to be careful what you wish for. I feel bad for the farmers that decided not to sell and stick it out. Also prepare for fresh food to be expensive for several years to come.
Most of it is exported outside the US. Maybe other then avocado's that the only difference you will see in us food prices.
Grow and raise your own. Keeping food sources local means fresher food, lower cost. Can't get fresher than picking it in your own yard.
Now they are in the south hunting for nature resources. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be a war because they were not taking any more of our indigenous ancestors'land.
Most likely, but we know that river's and lakes will always go back to their causes and farming has always been a risk.
God bless the local farmers and their family's
I always say, "Please rain, but only 1 inch!" It is getting worse every year, there is a long time between rains but when it rains, it rains for days and we get 5-6-7 inches. Then, it doesn't rain for another month. This is in northern MN where it used to rain 1/2-1 inch at a time with a few widely separated 2-3 inch rain storms.
Mother nature always takes what's hers back
And NOBODY could have ever anticipated this??
Who is this mother nature?
@@solascripturamjc9681 your momma
@@dkpqzm hahaha 🤣
Farmers: (Builds farms in dry lake bed)
Also farmers: Shocked when lake fills back up.
They should save the water now. Last time they were complaining about the drought. You pray for water, you have to prepare for the flood too.
Climate change got nothing to do with the reemerging of the lake - already in the late 1800s, geologists knew that the lake can disappear for several decades to then reappear. Weather patterns are mostly cyclic but we have a tendency to forget that - especially when the patterns periodicity exceeds more than a generation.
Seems it never rains in California , but when it does man it pours ⛈🌨⛈🌨
Nature taking back what was their's.
That's deep!! One thing about ( Nature ). She or He is sum you don't play with!!!
Road minnow, " I am the captain now"
Get out of the LAKE BED use it as a reservoir to strengthen capacity when times get dry.
That water is contaminated from years of pesticide application.
In New York we have our own farms that can supply our daily needs for food, but not for the special items that California grows. Maybe NOW California will start to correct their water management plans so that they collect, store, & distribute their water supplies more EFFICENTLY, and improve their flood management. Part of that improvement is also forest management & fire prevention policies to help control runoff from storms & winter snowfall.
When California didn't have rain and was threatened with water shortage, we in our church in texas prayed for rain in California. And it rained. Now it seems to be overflowing with water.
Only in U.S. I have seen people dry lakes out and build in it's area or create fake lakes that along the years dry down into stinky sassy pools... Nature always takes back it's own space, this is a lesson to be learnt!
Oh no, we drained a lake; then allowed deep wells to remove so much water that the town of Corcoran has sunk nearly 12 feet in 15 years. And now it might go underwater because that's where the town used to be before the ground sunk and before the lake was dried up/diverted.
As someone that has traveled most of the US on roadtrips there are seas of land everywhere else in the country and they chose a "dead lake" to cultivate a big percentage of those foods? Genius
They chose it because it's hugely productive/profitable. Lots of sun and cheap subsidized (courtesy of taxpayers) water. They ran off the indigineous Indians (burned them out by setting fire to the tules), and wiped them out by introduced western diseases.
It was very fertile land. Rich soil. Grew many of the countries' crops for generations. When the Widwest and East is cold and frigid. The west is producing food year round. It's just nature taking it back. Was a good run though.
Wikipedia: "Although usually dry, the lake occasionally reappears during floods following unusually high levels of rainfall or snow melt, as it did in 1969, 1983, 1997 and 2023. For this reason, it has been called a "phantom lake," or "the lake that will not die". In 1983, the lake took 2 years to dry out". Yet, the people seem *shocked* that the place is now flooded, as if it had never happened before...
Monterey City (Monterey Bay) has been cut off from land more than once in my lifetime because of rivers flooding. Fortunately, because it's on the ocean, you could get to it by boat in addition to the airport. During this time, the Salinas Valley also flooded and it's one of the smaller major farming valleys. Recently the area had a major fire. I'm expecting more issues in the next few years. Larger earthquakes also seemed to follow. 1988 Flood. 1989 Loma Prieta 'Quake. So keep an eye out for more geologic issues in California.
I hope the farm animals are safe.
right, the plants won't care about having too much water, but the animals will.. just like people will but at least people can move away.. the animals need dry land near the lake which unfortunately has been taken by people
There have been great floods in the central valley in the past. One year, in Sacramento, the governor elect had to take a boat to get to his inauguration. There's really no reason it can't happen again.
i am happy the lake is back. i hope it stays. its back to how it use to be. the region will be better off for it.
It’s why we need family farms back. Not big corporate corporations
it's ridiculous to feel bad in any way for those rich generational dairy farmers...
I don't know how it's a crisis, a lake filling back up should be a good thigh
So now we have too much water and it’s a problem, but not too long ago we were in a drought and that’s was a huge problem.
Let's make up our minds peOple😂😂
It's totally awesome to see the water back. Everyone doesn't have to eat pistachios and almonds. They suck up water that doesn't exist in California anymore
Not the only things grown here. A lot of fruits like oranges, strawberries, grapes, tangerines, peaches ect. One of the biggest milk producers is or was in that exact area called Land O Lakes. Because of the favorable weather of this state, so much of the country's crops are grown here year round. My family is from this area for 4 generations.
Exactly they're not natural to our country. They planted in desert lands that they made by draining the lake and then their way to solve their water problems are to have a tunnel built underneath the san Joaquin delta river and take all the water from is up north to have water for their desert crops which we have fought for over a decade. Even though we send millions of gallons of water thru the Delta-Mendota canal to them. I honestly think it's mother nature coming to reclaim what was hers
@@marit7189 And? The point of OP still stands.
@Maria Lindell Not really. The mid west and the east buys much of the the food grown here, so Food will cost that much more now because we won't be growing it. Frankly, I'm ok with the lake comming back. We should keep what we produce here. Might make it more affordable for me and less drought.
Those nuts don't contain much water. The water is wicked away from the trees into the dry air. Which ironically also happens on a large shallow lake bed. The problem is the tree population can't vary with rainfall variations, the lake bed can.
I'm so happy California is getting the water it needs!
For years I’ve lived in California. I’m tired of hearing people talk about we’re in a drought we’re in a drought. We finally got record-breaking rainfall. We have legs that are coming back and I were complaining we’re in a flood. We’re in a flood doesn’t make sense. let nature take its course.
It’s kind of poetic that the alfalfa farmers that are causing the drought now have too much water. They usually cause such a drought they don’t have to worry about flooding.
Nature is beautiful. You never know what you're going to get. A lake is a lake.
I love how this became a video on helping farmer in California than a video on water
You nailed it. Propaganda from corporate agribusiness to avoid being scrutinized for having drained the lakebed themselves.
I understand but this should be a national security issue because we need to find a new place to farm. Food prices will rise and there could be food shortages for the crops grown there. California produces massive amounts of food.
@@feliperivas3814 Yea bad farmers helping feed ungrateful people such as yourself. Where does your food come from? Us farmers get no respect when in reality we should have all your respect so you don't have to go out garaging for your next meal.
@@meep2253 it’s not that hard to grow your own tomatoes
@@wknogl2210 Very classist. Not everyone has a yard and a person living in an apartment can only grow so much food.
I guess the decision to create a town on a lake bed was pretty irresponsible.
1:04 Bird just casually dropping a dook.
Yes California has grown huge amounts of food....however California is not the only state that grows vast amounts of food
I live in Washington we grow a lot.
The quantity and especially quality of CA produce can't be understated. CA doesn't grow much grain for cattle.
@@xxxYYZxxx Midwest and east coast vegetables are equal to california...however...California grapes and pistachios can't be beat.
It was a lakebed long before they decided to move onto it and build it up. It was inevitable this would happen eventually.
Imagine the countless fish and animals that died because of human greed, drying the lake. They are treating this like a war against nature.
Momma is taking back what's hers !!!. The Water fowl are going to come back to their Natural Habitat !!!. Very glad to see it !!!.
This is Mother Earth at her finest
Good story, great reporting! Prayers for those communities and farmers.
I’m from the valley. It’s just nut that farmers grow there. When’s the last time u need an almond, walnut or pistachio to keep full. A huge corporation drained the lake and bought all the land super cheap, to use as farm land
Climate change? This was a natural lake that was drained to grow crops. It's return was enevitible
The geniuses that build in floodplains and cry about “flooding” need a medal.
Geniuses built a town in a lake, and are surprised when they get flooded. Pure California genius!
This is what happens when you try to tell mother nature where her lakes should be.
Man has been drying up lakes for over a century and now mother nature isn't having it.
Oshun ☀️
Honestly the giant farms in California were a big part of what killed the small, family farms that were scattered in communities across America. Now they tend to be much bigger. This is a rough thing, but there’s a positive to every negative, perhaps we can shift to further biodiversity and help use this as a vehicle for poverty elimination and sustainable lifestyle promotion.
Actually it has been always there until we drain it up , and now nature balance itself period
Don't fool with Mother Nature.
Mother is fixing everything humans effed up!
It's what she does and I'm blessed to watch her work.
1:02 "And with it, a dire flood danger"
Watch the bird on the left. lol
The earth comes back and does what it needs and wants. The lake should have never been disturbed.😊
Mother Nature knows best and always wins ❤
they need to select the sites of their farms and communities with greater prudence in future
Yes between the fires, floods, and earthquakes we might as well just abandon California entirely. Good thinking
You can't stop nature
I just hope everyone is safe 🙏
Why would you build homes and towns in a lake bed. Nature reclaims it’s original home. It’s happening all over the area. The southern locations, in CA, the southwestern areas. I can’t imagine living on a levy!!!
That's beautiful. God is taking care of this Earth. Making more water reserves for us.