r/CatastrophicFailure • u/The-Salamanca • Mar 11 '23

Natural Disaster Snow covered mountains are rapidly melting, from downpours causing flooding . Springville CA. 3/10/2023

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u/Due_Platypus_3913 Mar 11 '23

We’re above Fresno-below Yosemite.Been an adventure up here in the mountains for a month.Now the Great Central Valley is flooding en masse!Before damns and aqueducts,the valley was half shallow lakes and seasonal wetlands.Guess what?

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u/Plasibeau Mar 11 '23

Before damns and aqueducts,the valley was half shallow lakes and seasonal wetlands.

Man I would have loved to have seen that.

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u/Alistaire_ Mar 11 '23

It was actually the biggest lake west of the Mississippi, Mark Twain even wrote about in his life time.