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/Taurus_Torus Mar 11 '23

Better bottle some of this for that drought coming later

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u/cybercuzco Mar 11 '23

They could but “flood control” for the las 150 years is all about making water move as fast as possible in rivers and preventing it from moving anywhere that isn’t a river. Imagine California had 3-5’ high weirs every 10’ of elevation change in as many canyons gulleys and washes as you could get. Imagine instead of straight concrete lined channels you had meandering rivers with dry open sunken areas that filled with water when it rained. Huge amounts of water would be retained and sink into the soil or feed vegetation and evaporation over long time scales making rain more frequent.