California drought

I see you guys out there are going to get some precip. good deal.

yr2017 wrote:

Garry&Gayle wrote:
This is probably what he is talking about before the news media screwed it all up. Clicky

NYT like most American newspapers merely copy and print articles without fact checking. In this case, they weren't wrong as evidenced by the link above.

THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote:
Fishing and camping in much of California has been outlawed, to protect endangered salmon and guard against fires. Many people said they had already begun to cut back drastically on taking showers, washing their car and watering their lawns

California Fish and Wildlife has restricted fishing in certain streams/rivers and looks like mostly central California and most of California is open to fishing and there is no ban/outlawed camping anywhere in California.There has been NO legal requirement by the State of California declared and people are watering their lawns, taking showers all the normal thing people do.
You see NY Times has once again NOT checked their facts,but just ran with it like the dummies they are.

yr12017,
Nowhere in the article referenced by Garry&Gayle does it refer to closure of any camping in California yet you state it verifies the original article. The NY Times article is one of the most poorly researched and written article I have read in my entire lifetime. I appreciate your wanting to share useful information with the forum but the NYT article does not pass the litmus test for useful information. The second article is nothing but facts. The NYT article is a bunch of malarkey. If your intent is to throw mud at California there are tons of areas that beg to be addressed but this is not one.

Garry&Gayle wrote:
This is probably what he is talking about before the news media screwed it all up. Clicky

NYT like most American newspapers merely copy and print articles without fact checking. In this case, they weren't wrong as evidenced by the link above.

Garry&Gayle wrote:
This is probably what he is talking about before the news media screwed it all up. Clicky

Thanks for post that link, I'm not surprise that THE NEW YORK TIMES screwed it up again, it's what they do all the time. I've save that link you posted encase I come across a miss reported story.

This is probably what he is talking about before the news media screwed it all up. Clicky

If they can't talk about the polar vortex, they have to have something to talk about.

yr2017 wrote:
"Fishing and camping in much of California has been outlawed, to protect endangered salmon and guard against fires."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us/severe-drought-has-us-west-fearing-worst.html?_r=0

Like jefe4x4, I've seen droughts come and go in California. I'd read the linked story you posted and wondered WHERE in California is this ban on camping and fishing at?, I just checked Cal state park website and it's business as usual, no listing of closed parks, Death Valley is open for business no shut down there ,our local lake Perris is open for use.

REI reported that they have a up swing in camping gear due to the mild winter weather, people are going camping.

So the bottom line is WHERE the hell did THE NEW YORK TIMES get the idea that camping and fishing was outlawed in California or most of it?

A couple years ago after an incredible 17 feet of snow at 4000 feet here on the West Slope, I had to have, nay build a TC and tractor shed. This year it seems I could have waited and not been a slave to the extreme wet/snowy weather. Yes, it is dry. As dry as ever, I'm told. But as a man once said, "This too shall pass." He was asked to develop a phrase that would both comfort the afflicted and chasten the proud.
Close by several wells have failed, luckily not on our underground 'river'.
Remember: the most you can expect from the weather is change.
In 1976-77 in So. Cal. we had a terrible drought. All the weather pundants were wringing their hands and saying, "Oh, this is SO serious. We'll never recover." By 1978 it was all made up in a few months. In one day, a friend of mine was washed right out of his home in trail cyn. in the San Gabriels with an astonishing 26 inches of rain that day! And they were still seeding the clouds as his house went down Trail Creek. He climbed a huge oak tree with his priceless Stradavari Cello and rode out the night. The trash racks failed. The dams failed. Miles of road washed completely out. He found his yellow Jaguar, wheels up, only the rear axle showing, two years and 2 miles down stream later.
Yep, change is a-comin', one way or t'other.
jefe

We got the most rain last night we've had in over a year a half inch. We we're at the grocery store when it started people were all giggle you'd think their team won the super bowl! Now we only need about another 50!