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Prayers sent.
It's not something they want to hear, but we have the opposite problem. We're in our third year of drought. Our riverbeds are dry. People in Los Angeles are getting citations for excessive use of water (it's illegal to wash your car with a running hose -- you have to use a bucket -- not even a hose with a valve nozzle at the end is allowed -- has to be a bucket for car wash water).
The Los Angeles River is dry. North of L.A. through Santa Clarita is a "dry wash" which measures 30 feet deep and 400 feet across, and it's all dry. Normally there is a small stream running in it, about 300 gallons a minute, and 5 square feet of section area. But after 2 or 3 days of steady rain when there had been 5 inches of rain in the previous month, this dry wash of 12,000 sq.ft.* cross section is FULL of dangerously moving water, about 10 mph, and when the rain stops, the depth declines day by day over about 2 weeks. Anyone falling in when it's full, drowns most often. This wash has not been full like that for about 5 or 6 years now.
This is a desert climate. If not for artificially delivered water there would be no occupation of this land.
*12,000 sq.ft. x 10 mph = 10,560,000 cubic feet per minute, or 78 million gallons per minute, and it goes out to sea because it's considered unsafe to store. There are settling basins in some places but they are a miniscule fraction of the entire land area. Letting water stand in the open like that is not generally allowed because of the pest problem, like mosquitoes. All open waterways get sprayed with an oil deterrent that prevents mosquito larvae from breathing. The fish don't get much mosquito snacks this way.
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Topic: IMMINENT DANGER OF FLOODING! PLEASE PRAY! (Read 727 times)