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Nearly all of California has seen much above average rainfall totals over the past several weeks, with totals 400-600% above average values, this has resulted in nearly saturated soils and increasingly high river levels. – The National Weather Service	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The cumulative effect of successive heavy rainfall events will lead to additional instances of flooding. This includes rapid water rises, mudslides, and the potential for major river flooding. – National Weather Service	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a bellwether for what’s going on in the larger river basins, we need to lay out some very clear language about where we’re headed. – Benjamin Abbott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> MENDOCINO, Calif., Jan 5( Reuters) - Harbormaster Anna Neumann dashed from vessel to vessel, business to business at the port Harbormaster Anna Neumann manages near the mouth of northern Californias Noyo River, ensuring all was secure as storms bringing waves as high as a three-story building pummeled the state.You prep as much as you can, and then you just wait for whatever unknown issue that you did n’t prep for to happen, and then you respond. – Harbormaster Anna Neumann	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
It’s a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River.’ She wrote it. – Dionne Warwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And then she sent me another song, the one that we’re going to be doing as a duet, it’s a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River.’ She wrote it. – Dionne Warwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This one good year is not enough to alleviate the stress on the Colorado River, it’s going to take multiple of these consecutive above-average years to fill a lot of the major reservoirs, especially Lake Powell. – Paul Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to be very concerned about the future of the Colorado River. – Isla Simpson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 1 year ago
I'd swim in the river, have a feed out bush( eat outdoors). We knew industry was there, but we didn't see it... back then even the iron ore mines were out of sight. – Raelene Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's not been any justice in Flint River. There has been no rebuilding of trust with the government because they haven't done anything to do so. So the voices go unheard and people have serious PTSD when it comes to water. I don't know if there will ever be justice as far as Flint River and the damage that's been done to the people. – Audra Bell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Since the bill was signed into law, this money was going to be spent regardless. If there's federal money on the table she is, of course, going to do everything she can to make sure it is reinvested in Iowa. That's why she worked with a bipartisan group of her colleagues in asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize NESP construction along the Upper Mississippi River. – Read MoreA spokesperson for Hinson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now [ the Russians ] do not have the transport ability to pull up reserves from the left bank( of the river), they may continue to try to set up a ferry or pontoon crossing, but the whole area where it can be deployed is also under our fire control and will be hit. – Natalia Humeniuk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Frankly, I'm frustrated because the overwhelming sense I've gotten from the negotiations is there aren't enough people taking this seriously enough and understanding this is about adapting to less water in this river. – John Entsminger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough, so the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain The Colorado River. – Bill Hasencamp	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Desilting a river is not a solution to flooding, it's a temporary solution, it takes a lot of money. If all the budgets of the federal government and Jigawa State are combined to desilt River Hadejia, we can not achieve it. – Suleiman Adamu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The scale of this pollution is very big. So big that the Oder may take years to return to a fairly normal state, it is likely that enormous amounts of chemical waste have been dumped into the river. – Friday Morawiecki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If something happens with the power plant, some accident ... I can't think about that. Do you think something could help us? We are 7 kilometers from the nuclear power plant across the river! Nothing will save us, I'm sure, that's why I don't even entertain that thought. – Oksana Miraevska	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died. – Craig Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Virtually everything in the river died. – Craig Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Development along South Platte River.In could begin to diminish flows as they travel down the river toward the lower section of the river and ultimately Nebraska. – Kevin Rein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's currently a river... I have never seen this in the four years I've lived here. – Tony Nipert	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Just got baptized in the Jordan River. Hallelujah! i think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve just tried to build a more spiritual muscle in a business that is very unpredictable. – Dominic Lopez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground. – Perrin Anderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Nearly all of California has seen much above average rainfall totals over the past several weeks, with totals 400-600% above average values, this has resulted in nearly saturated soils and increasingly high river levels.

– The National Weather Service

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cumulative effect of successive heavy rainfall events will lead to additional instances of flooding. This includes rapid water rises, mudslides, and the potential for major river flooding.

– National Weather Service

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a bellwether for what’s going on in the larger river basins, we need to lay out some very clear language about where we’re headed.

– Benjamin Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> MENDOCINO, Calif., Jan 5( Reuters) - Harbormaster Anna Neumann dashed from vessel to vessel, business to business at the port Harbormaster Anna Neumann manages near the mouth of northern Californias Noyo River, ensuring all was secure as storms bringing waves as high as a three-story building pummeled the state.You prep as much as you can, and then you just wait for whatever unknown issue that you did n’t prep for to happen, and then you respond.

– Harbormaster Anna Neumann

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

It’s a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River.’ She wrote it.

– Dionne Warwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And then she sent me another song, the one that we’re going to be doing as a duet, it’s a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River.’ She wrote it.

– Dionne Warwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This one good year is not enough to alleviate the stress on the Colorado River, it’s going to take multiple of these consecutive above-average years to fill a lot of the major reservoirs, especially Lake Powell.

– Paul Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to be very concerned about the future of the Colorado River.

– Isla Simpson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

I'd swim in the river, have a feed out bush( eat outdoors). We knew industry was there, but we didn't see it... back then even the iron ore mines were out of sight.

– Raelene Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's not been any justice in Flint River. There has been no rebuilding of trust with the government because they haven't done anything to do so. So the voices go unheard and people have serious PTSD when it comes to water. I don't know if there will ever be justice as far as Flint River and the damage that's been done to the people.

– Audra Bell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since the bill was signed into law, this money was going to be spent regardless. If there's federal money on the table she is, of course, going to do everything she can to make sure it is reinvested in Iowa. That's why she worked with a bipartisan group of her colleagues in asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize NESP construction along the Upper Mississippi River.

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now [ the Russians ] do not have the transport ability to pull up reserves from the left bank( of the river), they may continue to try to set up a ferry or pontoon crossing, but the whole area where it can be deployed is also under our fire control and will be hit.

– Natalia Humeniuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Frankly, I'm frustrated because the overwhelming sense I've gotten from the negotiations is there aren't enough people taking this seriously enough and understanding this is about adapting to less water in this river.

– John Entsminger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough, so the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain The Colorado River.

– Bill Hasencamp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Desilting a river is not a solution to flooding, it's a temporary solution, it takes a lot of money. If all the budgets of the federal government and Jigawa State are combined to desilt River Hadejia, we can not achieve it.

– Suleiman Adamu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The scale of this pollution is very big. So big that the Oder may take years to return to a fairly normal state, it is likely that enormous amounts of chemical waste have been dumped into the river.

– Friday Morawiecki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If something happens with the power plant, some accident ... I can't think about that. Do you think something could help us? We are 7 kilometers from the nuclear power plant across the river! Nothing will save us, I'm sure, that's why I don't even entertain that thought.

– Oksana Miraevska

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died.

– Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Virtually everything in the river died.

– Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Development along South Platte River.In could begin to diminish flows as they travel down the river toward the lower section of the river and ultimately Nebraska.

– Kevin Rein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's currently a river... I have never seen this in the four years I've lived here.

– Tony Nipert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just got baptized in the Jordan River. Hallelujah! i think as I’ve gotten older, I’ve just tried to build a more spiritual muscle in a business that is very unpredictable.

– Dominic Lopez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground.

– Perrin Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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