Out on the water, a silence hangs in the air and the sun’s harsh glare reflects off the lake’s still surface. “I’ve driven up and down all these roads and dirt roads and levees, and to see this much water covering all this farmland, it’s … kind of like a biblical moment.” While the sheriff’s office has boats deputies use …
Just west of this normally dusty prison town, a civic nightmare is unfolding: Tulare Lake, a body of water that did not exist just two months ago, now stretches to the horizon — a vast, murky sea in which the tops of telephone poles can be seen stretching eerily into the distance. “My biggest fear,” Gatzka said, is that the …
Cars travel U.S. 395 along the east side of the Sierra Nevada near Lone Pine, Calif., on March 22. Though the accumulated snow still measures 249% of normal as of April 18, new satellite photos show that the white blankets enveloping mountains across the state have started to recede. Satellite images seen below from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and …
