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truedelphi

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36. The levee system around the Sacramento area has been

Fri Dec 11, 2015, 08:58 PM

Dec 2015

In much need of shoring up.

I don't now if they have made sufficient headway in the repairs. But should any of the levees go, it will be Katrina all over again!

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Shit Is About to Get Real in California, El Niño Report Predicts [View all] fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 OP

The Blob eats you alive!! longship Dec 2015 #1

Past years our weather experts have basically been off the mark. Iliyah Dec 2015 #2

I don't know if it affects the weather in Ohio but we are haveing April doc03 Dec 2015 #3

Weird weather in New Orleans this fall also . . . fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #6

It is currently 63 here in Seaman, Ohio. SamKnause Dec 2015 #9

Near the great metropolis of St. Clairsville. doc03 Dec 2015 #14

Wow...that is warm for Ohio in December Hepburn Dec 2015 #18

They are predicting 68 tomarrow and 70 Sunday doc03 Dec 2015 #25

OMG... Hepburn Dec 2015 #44

Shout out with a Hi to a Long Beach person! truegrit44 Dec 2015 #34

I was in Long Beach yesterday doing some work in an attorney's office Hepburn Dec 2015 #43

Wow, that is very warm. TM99 Dec 2015 #26

Same in IL. People on our small lake are fishing. MeNMyVolt Dec 2015 #16

Unseasonably warm here, too MissDeeds Dec 2015 #21

I noticed some forsythia buds, here in Michigan Siwsan Dec 2015 #31

45F here in Minneapolis! NickB79 Dec 2015 #40

Additionally Texas and the Greater Southwest is expected to have a wetter and colder winter LanternWaste Dec 2015 #4

I sure hope we do. TM99 Dec 2015 #27

Thank goodness. Some of the bugs were mutating to multi-engine... Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #47

Rained today, but still waiting for Shit to get real. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #5

I debated whether or not to use that title . . . fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #8

Father of teenage boys and grils. Shit does not offend me. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #10

LOL! I wasn't so worried about the use of 'shit' fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #49

No, that did ot offend me at all. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #50

Yeah, I hear you fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #52

Nah, appreciate the information Iliyah Dec 2015 #11

I think it's an apt descriptor! MADem Dec 2015 #13

Bring it. Throd Dec 2015 #7

No kidding. It just rained for a few minutes here. Nailzberg Dec 2015 #12

Oh, hubby and his side of the family are from Hammond and New Orleans Iliyah Dec 2015 #15

Meanwhile, in Buffalo...... hedgehog Dec 2015 #17

It's coming. El Nino typically causes warm Decembers. B2G Dec 2015 #20

Doomed! El Supremo Dec 2015 #19

I hope it's not shit, dpatbrown Dec 2015 #22

Wait-Obama caused the 4 yr drought? He is so powerful! I wonder what other plagues he has up Person 2713 Dec 2015 #37

Frogs, flies, boils... Hekate Dec 2015 #41

Area golfers hit the links in mid-December...... a kennedy Dec 2015 #23

Planning on playing tomorrow in Iowa! bullwinkle428 Dec 2015 #38

Nuts ain't it?? a kennedy Dec 2015 #45

It's too warm in KC, too. leftyladyfrommo Dec 2015 #24

Snowed like mad for a few hours in the San Bernardino Mountains this morning/afternoon. cherokeeprogressive Dec 2015 #28

Good. I, for one, am tired of the fake shit jberryhill Dec 2015 #29

It has been in the mid 50's here in Boston and is supposed to hit smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #30

El nino=El greenio! ghostsinthemachine Dec 2015 #32

" One in five Californians lives in a flood zone." That's thinking ahead! L. Coyote Dec 2015 #33

The levee system around the Sacramento area has been truedelphi Dec 2015 #36

Upgrades are nearly continuous, so it really depends on which system you mean? LeftyMom Dec 2015 #51

All the major rivers of the Midwest are a gigantic flood zone, and my tax dollars have helped... Hekate Dec 2015 #42

Yep, we should up and leave the most fertile farmland on earth. Good thinking. LeftyMom Dec 2015 #48

We had 2.69" the other day. MissB Dec 2015 #35

We're getting early rains ahead of the El Nino, which will help with item 2 Gormy Cuss Dec 2015 #39

My brother-in-law is a team leader for L.A. Emergency Response LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2015 #46

I agree with your B-I-L. fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #54

Yes, but fossil fuel barons are getting richer and richer! Yay!!! That's all that matters valerief Dec 2015 #53