If the snow level drops, then it's staying up there in the mountains and not coming down in the rivers and melting the snow that's already there. |
It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us. |
It's looking really good right now. All the reservoirs are pretty much full. ... It's too bad we don't have more storage. |
Right now we're at a lull between storms, and the rivers are receding. Overall, the flood system is in pretty good shape right now. |
Right now we're in a flood fight. We're just racing around putting our fires. They almost lost Twitchell Island yesterday, the water was so high and the winds were so strong. |
Thank God we got a little break in the storms. |
The storm that's coming could bring heavy rain for about 12 hours, and that could impact the whole Delta. All that puts a lot of pressure on the levees, and that's what we're keeping an eye on. |
We don't open that thing very often. It's the only manually operated gate in the system. Sometimes it's hard to get it closed again. |
We're getting an early start on the rain-and-snow season, which is good as long as we don't get flooding. |
We're talking about a snow pack that's 150 percent of average, and it's mostly still up there. Usually by this time, a lot of the snow is gone -- but we're still adding to it. |
We're trying to show him that this kind of program can work. |