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#PacificWatch: Lake tahoe and the Orville Dam are full. Hollywood is not full. @JCBliss

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PacificWatch: Lake tahoe and the Orville Dam are full. Hollywood is not full. @JCBliss

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/lake-tahoe-expected-to-fill-for-first-time-in-years/ar-BB1mgf18

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:02.0

Special Edition.

0:03.0

Jeff Bliss is Specific Watch.

0:05.0

And we begin with good news for the weekend of Mother's Day.

0:09.0

Water, water, water, water.

0:11.0

Jeff, a very good evening to you. A year, two years, I can't recall, we were

0:16.0

watching some very fancy boats hit bottom at the Orville Dam Reservoir. There was generally

0:22.2

understanding that the whole west was out of water.

0:24.9

The Colorado River, as I understand.

0:27.2

It was speculating on it run dry.

0:29.2

How's California doing now?

0:30.8

It's been raining.

0:31.5

Good evening to you, Jeff.

0:33.0

Good evening, John. Indeed, it has been raining. We've had two wet winters in a row, which has

0:39.0

been a godsend to the west, particularly to California. And we've seen we've seen the lakes and the reservoirs and the aquifers

0:48.4

fill up enough to the point where you have places like Lake Tahoe, which is just this immense freshwater body between Nevada and California,

0:58.0

we share it, is now filled to the brim.

1:00.6

It's, honestly, it's beyond the usual top of the brim. the to recognize this and I don't know why. Whether it's my youngest daughter who lives up in that

1:15.6

area, the Tahoe area or us when we fly over these lakes and reservoirs, they've been filled

1:20.8

for quite some time. It's interesting it's taking this long to it be reported,

1:25.0

but everybody's happy about it.

1:27.0

The farmers, the water districts, you name it.

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