Not a good food day, I binged. Did not want to post, but I know I should. Oh well, on to tomorrow
Not today is all that matters.
You are right of course, wish I could say that today.
Record flooding doesn't sound good but I guess any aquifers in the area could use a bit of topping up and I assume that only happens in extreme years if you live in a desert.
Our aquifers and reservoirs need a lot more than a "
bit of topping up". Depending on who you listen to we are in the worst drought in between 500 and 1,200 years.
https://www.tribunewired.com/2023/02/15/colorado-river-drought-water-shortage-crisis-lake-powell-lake-mead/ One wet year won't hurt, but we need a bunch of them. I think the long term trend is continued drought.
The
Great Salt Lake is the remnant of the pleistocene
Lake Bonneville, its the bottom of the
Great Basin, half of Utah most of Nevada as well as a parts of California, Oregon, and Idaho drain into the Great Basin and the water just evaporates, no outlet to the ocean. The lake has been drying up and dropping for 15,000 years, so this is nothing new, its just us who are new. A continuation of the drought that began at the end of the last ice age.
If we did start getting more precipitation on a consistent basis Lake Bonneville would start to refill flooding Salt Lake City and probably 90% of the people who live here. Kind of a no win thing.
I live on what was until recently pretty close to the Great Salt Lake shoreline, now its dried and miles away. Five years ago I could still see it from here, but not now. The other half of Utah is mostly in the Colorado River drainage, Lake Powell is 90+% in Utah.