AP: Floods bring rare relief to US Southwest reservoirs as Lake Powell rises 20 feet
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@ai6yr part of a large forest project i am adjacent with, the biodiversity of the forest is massive - finding new tree species even. And its location means they are naturally drought and fire tolerant and one of the hopes is to over the next 50 years develop a nursery to use the unique genetics to reforest areas like yours with the same species but ones that are tolerant to the new climate. Of course, climate needs to also stop changing; but know this is a thing in forestry rn.
Reservoirs are shaped like an upside down cone. There's a lot less volume in the lower 20ft than the upper 20ft.
Still good news for the Colorado River.
@IrrationalMethod Temporary good news
> The floodwaters and additional rain could raise the lake along the Arizona-Utah border further, for a total of over 1.2 million acre-feet — enough to support around 4 million average families for a year, Hoerling estimated.
1.2 million acre-feet is a pretty big volume though, by comparison, a little under 10% of the average annual flow in the Colorado, and more volume than all but a handful of dams in the US have as active capacity.
@ai6yr rare good news in our fields?
@bedirthan Yep! You have to be a strong realist to work in this field ie. "this is what is happening, document it and deal with it"), IMHO. I am surprised at how many people I run into who are "OMG that's so horrible, how can you deal with seeing <horrible thing happened>" and it's "Uh, this is what we do.... and figure out how to deal with <horrible thing that happened>". 🤔
@ai6yr to friends and family I explain that our information helps people stay alive, so in some says it's actually good news for them if not actually good news.
Plus I compartmentalize, a lot.
@bedirthan Yes... horrible thing happening doesn't mean you can't help, and (as long as it's not where you are) you are not generally personally at risk. i.e. it's horrible that many people killed by the Tibet floods, but we were able to explain where it happened and what towns were affected, thus helping to let people know where help most needed and/or issues might have occurred. Same with hurricanes, etc. etc. You can't prevent the hurricane/earthquake/whatever, but you can help people prepare for an event, know if they are in the path of it, and also help with any recovery. Which is IMHO a noble and worthy thing to do!
@ai6yr when it rains...