[AT] Farm flooding update California - new info

Dave rotigel at me.com
Sat Feb 4 20:20:07 PST 2017


If I cover the bottom of the first set of pictures, Steve, that’s the beauty of upstate NY that I remember as a kid. The American flag in an early shot of the 2nd one makes me think that there is hope for our country!
	Dave

> On Feb 4, 2017, at 10:45 PM, Steve W. <swilliams268 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> Dave wrote:
>> I don’t doubt it happens, Steve. Just wondered why you jumped to that
>> conclusion in your earlier post. 
> 
> Dave PS, Sorry you live in NY!
> (Beautiful part where you live, but governed by NYC!)
> 
> Most of us in upstate would gladly give the city away.... I've tried to 
> give it back to the Indian tribes but even they don't want it... I keep 
> hoping that the movie Escape From New York will become a historical fact....
> 
> Couple short slide shows showing some of the damage. Couldn't take 
> pictures myself, Was out for 6 days straight with the fire department. 
> Didn't even know if my place was still there until the third day.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K00ReRjHZPw
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzTsKoNM-Y
> 
> The main issue was that all the trees and debris would snag, water would 
> build until the blockage gave way. Wiped out a few houses, 1 fatality. 
> The Feds came in and started asking the locals questions and they went 
> after the State wanting to know why the state placed all of us below 
> some damned stocked trout....   The kicker is that now that everything 
> is re-routed and large sections of the creeks bed were scoured to 
> bedrock, There are no plans to re-stock the fish.
> 
> -- 
> Steve W.
> 
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