Record Snow pack, floods next?

[glockman]

Found this site interesting. According to the university of Nebraska, Utah is largely out of the drought.

| U.S. Drought Monitor

droughtmonitor.unl.edu

 

[johngottfredson]

I've seen data sets on this, I'll find them again. But unit for unit, sure. A two bedroom condo uses less water than a five bedroom single family home. But when you have six condos on the same footprint as the single family home, you're using more resources with the condos.

Water use in the structure goes up, but overall water use goes down. Those lawns use way more water than condos, it’s not even close

 

[TRD270]

Water use in the structure goes up, but overall water use goes down. Those lawns use way more water than condos, it’s not even close

Some cases perhaps, but I water my lawn twice a week not going for the hank hill lawn. Just my wife, the dog and me using water in the house. I'd venture to guess the amount of water being used in condos that would fit on the footprint of my property would be significantly higher than my house. Now if I had 5 kids using water it might even out a bit, but if every one of those condos has 2-3 people i'm certain it would still use more water than me with 2 water users and my lawn. Not to mention the hotter temps created by the concrete jungle vs the 20+ trees I have in my yard.

Long story short I don't think water use going down in high density housing can be used in a blanket statement just like saying single family homes using less can't be used as a blanket statement.

 

[xj_nate]

My yard is only going to have like 800 sq ft of lawn but I take really long showers to make up for it. #notdoingmypart

 

[Herzog]

It's ok guys, I was told the icebergs would melt and give us more water in the long run.

 

[Kevin B.]

It's ok guys, I was told the icebergs would melt and give us more water in the long run.

Florida is getting all that. All we're gonna get is their refugees.

 

[Tonkaman]

When I was out at the Facebook data center in Eagle Mtn, the excavator said they were adding 80 gallons of water to every yard of dirt! The old dry lakebed was so silty that’s how much water was needed to get it compacted correctly.

They had a retaining pond with 2 4” fire hoses filling it up full time around the clock for months. They would use water faster than those hoses could fill the pond. Crazy

 

[Herzog]

Northern valley of where I live (river runs North here) Super glad I live a little up higher on the bench!

 

[Greg]

The canyons here in CO are getting washed out regularly with mudslides and runoff like we've never had before. There's a mainline railroad track under all that mess...

 

[Houndoc]

Saturday I was out west of Brigham City (to the bird refugee). A lot of fields underwater but no major damage at this point (easy to say I guess when they are not my pastures.)

 

[Tonkaman]

Anyone know about this?

Maybe @Greg will be posting in the “work screw ups” thread 😆

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

 

[jeeper]

Looks like it was a couple years ago..

Train Derails In Rural Southwest Utah Amid Thunderstorms And High Floodwaters

A flash flood caused a freight train to derail in Iron County Thursday night. Southwest Utah has been pounded by thunderstorms in recent days as monsoon season gets underway.

www.kuer.org

 

[jackjoh]

In ‘83 they had a really late snowpack/cold spring, with a sudden change to 80* weather. ‘82 was also almost as big of a winter, so soil saturation was maxed out. It was the perfect combo, so the flooding was epic. You see the preparations happening with many reservoirs preemptively draining down so they have surge capacity, which I don’t believe was in place in ‘83.

That said, there could be some water in some houses really easy. The governor said pray for snow, he should have told folks to be more specific in their requests. I feel like this is on him.

Actually, it is on you and all Utah voters that voted for politicians that did not prepare for the future.

 

[ID Bronco]

Actually, it is on you and all Utah voters that voted for politicians that did not prepare for the future.

Welcome back Jack

 

[Greg]

 

[johngottfredson]

Actually, it is on you and all Utah voters that voted for politicians that did not prepare for the future.

I stand by blaming you and all Utah voters for not praying better.

 

[Kevin B.]

Don't blame me, I prayed for more drought.

 

[STAG]

I prayed to end a dry spell, but I guess the message got misinterpreted.

 

[glockman]

I prayed to end a dry spell, but I guess the message got misinterpreted.

It's better if you ask for "moisture". The big man understands that terminology. It has to go before the "do the good that we need" part though.

 

[Cody]

I stand by blaming you and all Utah voters for not praying better.

This is literally what I thought too ha ha. Like what does voting have to do with rain fall and politicians asking for prayers (although I agree, politicians asking for their constituents to pray should absolutely be removed from office).