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A look back at Tulare Lake: Archive footage shows drastic changes over decades

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Flying an airplane over Tulare Lake 2023: What happened??

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Floods are increasing WAY faster than we expected

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What is the RISKIEST Region in the US as the Climate Changes?

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What Vermont's Historic Floods Tell Us About Climate Change

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Tulare Lake used to be a huge lake, the largest in the Western United States, but certain causes caused the lake to dry up. The first cause was irrigation, people were making rivers out of the lake to irrigate their crops, but these rivers caused the lake to dry up. Then during WW2, massive levees were built to keep the lake dry, so cotton and other crops could be grown. A lot of farmland was made because of this, and even after WW2 they tried to keep Tulare Lake dry, so the farmland wouldn't be flooded. They did this by diverting any flooding the Tulare Lake had into San Joaquin River. Eventually, the San Joaquin River got to flooded and politicians decided to start refilling Tulare Lake.

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The Unbelievable Story of Earth's Most Epic Flood(s)

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The Unbelievable Story of Earth's Most Epic Flood(s)

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River Valley in Missoula, Montana.

Under 300 feet of water.

Came from Glacial Lake Missoula.

Fallout from the most recent Ice Age.

Massive wall of ice, dam.

The lake covered 8000 km2.

One day, the wall just exploded.

Torrent of water escaping broken dam equivalent to 10 times the flow of all rivers on the planet.

Particular sudden glacial outburst is called a Jökulhlaup.

Flowed more than 120 miles per hour.

Cataclysmically reshaped the landscape in days.

Coulee and other scars are still present.

At the time of the flood, created the biggest waterfall of all time, 5 times the width of Niagara Falls, and was more than 30 meters deep.

Floods carried giant granite boulders and dropped them far from the mountains they came from.

Called Erratics.

From Montana to Eastern Washington. Remnants of rock are still found in the Pacific.

This Ice dam has melted up to 25 times.

Strandlines show that Lake Missoula has been emptied and filled several times.

Striped deposits called Rhythmites show layers of sand and sediment laid down, flood after flood.

Humans were already in North America by the time of the floods.

Humans likely experienced the flood(s).

The idea in 1920 that the flood happened was rejected because geologists did not think cataclysmic events like this could occur.

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Riskiest Places to Live as the Climate Changes

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Riskiest Places to Live as the Climate Changes

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Though people are moving away from their homes to avoid the effects of climate change in their area, many people are not looking into the regions they are moving to. Overwhelmingly, people are moving from one area of climate risk to another. The top ten riskiest places to live with climate change were also some of the fastest-growing cities in the country. The reason behind these moves is often economic, with these cities having the best financial opportunities despite disasters in the regions. Climate resilient regions either have a housing affordability crisis (like on the coasts) or lack of economic opportunity (much of the midwest). Because so many people are moving to these cities, it is projected that by the end of the century, climate-related deaths will be a major leader in mortality in these regions.

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Tulare lake existed for thousands of years and served as a vital ecological hotspot for the otherwise desolate Central California Valley. In the mid-1800s, as a response to the gold rush, people began to settle the area. They drained the lake for access to the nutrient rich land beneath, and the Central California Valley became one of the largest and most productive agricultural regions in the nation, with much of California's food being grown there. However, in 2022, record precipitation in the Sierra Madre mountains caused massive flooding in the area - melt water flowed down the mountains and deposited in the valley basin. Much of the arable land is now underwater or unable to be farmed which is causing issues in regard to food access. The lake is now roughly the size of Lake Tahoe and is 25 feet deep at maximum. The massive size of the lake is due to human intervention, though unintentional. Due to previous extreme drought, people began to rely on ground water pumped out of the valley - the mass amount of missing ground water caused the ground to sink via a process known as subsidence. This left a depression that the water filled, and because it is a depression and not a “traditional” lake it has no outlet - so the water is stuck. There is concern that the lake will continue to grow, as last years El Nino cycle brought even more precipitation to the area.

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In this video they talk a lot about how most of Vermont land scape and where their town were built. Almost all of there towns are along rivers, from this the flood plains have be taken up and blocked off by roads and buildings. This leaving these no place for the water to hold during these times of flooding. So many times the water follows the roads through town often times causing mass damage. The people of Vermont are concerned because the last time this “100” year storm has happened was only twelve years ago. They are trying to take action and realize what changes they can possibly make to protect the people and towns in Vermont. One thing that stuck out was how they talked about how changing the natural wind and bends of the river was also a leading cause for this. People of the area want to restore natural flood plains by moving mobile home parks out of low grounds as well as the houses that are in flood plains. The destruction this flooding has caused is shocking. These people know climate change is likely not getting better, as a community they are trying to take action and protect the area that they know and enjoy.

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The key idea from this video is increased flooding risk. It starts by explaining the more frequent floods in various locations throughout the US, many of which are in areas that are seeing decreased precipitation overall, but are more likely to see a major rainfall event (10+ inches) than in the past. It discusses the inaccuracies you are starting to see in prediction models, which are typically forecasted using past weather information from NOAA. As the atmosphere heats up, its ability to hold moisture is increasing, allowing higher amounts of water to be stored and later dropped during prolonged rainfall events. The video then goes into what can be done to mitigate these events by looking into two separate neighborhoods within New York City. A traditional neighborhood in Queens was hit extremely hard when the remnants of Hurricane Ida dropped over 30 inches of rain on the region in less than a week, and several residential streets flooded. Many of those neighborhoods had no flood insurance since they were not in a FEMA risk area for it, and even if they had flooding insurance, it often didn't cover flood risk as a result of rainfall. Across the river in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, they are addressing the increased flood risk by building "sponges" across their city, which take the form of green spaces. There are retention ponds in these cities that can hold up to 1 million gallons of water, and it helps mitigate flood risk by delaying the time it takes for the floodwaters to start entering the storm sewer system. At the end of the video, uncomfortable open-ended questions are raised as to how various areas of the United States will adapt to these increased risks. An example is the prospect that certain neighborhoods within cities will need to be removed entirely due to the risk being too great, and using that area to mitigate the risk in other areas.

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In this video they talk a lot about how most of Vermont land scape and where their town were built. Almost all of there towns are along rivers, from this the flood plains have be taken up and blocked off by roads and buildings. This leaving these no place for the water to hold during these times of flooding. So many times the water follows the roads through town often times causing mass damage. The people of Vermont are concerned because the last time this “100” year storm has happened was only twelve years ago. They are trying to take action and realize what changes they can possibly make to protect the people and towns in Vermont. One thing that stuck out was how they talked about how changing the natural wind and bends of the river was also a leading cause for this. People of the area want to restore natural flood plains by moving mobile home parks out of low grounds as well as the houses that are in flood plains. The destruction this flooding has caused is shocking. These people know climate change is likely not getting better, as a community they are trying to take action and protect the area that they know and enjoy.