Shasta Lake Relics Uncovered

[Jamo]

California's biggest reservoir is even in bigger trouble. Yes, that's right...Shasta is not the biggest and is merely a puddle compared to this one...

...the Sierra Nevada snowpack (or lack of one). Just got back from Tahoe on 88 last weekend, and I can see the the highest portion of the Sierras from my house. Nuthin...not a damn thing up there. WWII plane crashes are being discovered as glaciers melt, and the "white" we see on the highest peaks is granite, not snow. Even if we get a wet winter, if it's warm, the water will all flow to the Delta and the Bay within a couple of months...makes for great waterfalls in Yosemite during the spring, with barely a trickle the rest of the year. Mutha Nature's system...letting snow slowly melt like a big time release pill to provide water throughout the summer...is totally screwed with the weather patterns.

I'm not claiming global warming is the cause yet...El Nino or just a "few bad years" happen just like the brown stuff. What makes it worse are environmentalists fighting dam building (to help Mutha Nature out a bit), and urging more water releases to protect snail darters in the Delta instead of using the water to grow food for humans (go figure).

Getting a bit worked up...I may just go out and pull the next hippie out of the next Greenpeace bumper-stickered Volvo I see and beat the sh!t out of him.