{"id":12906,"date":"2023-08-05T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:43:48","slug":"tulare-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/05\/tulare-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulare Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Tulare Lake re-emerged after intense storms battered the state this winter, and will likely remain in the Central Valley for months \u2014 and maybe years \u2014 to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Shawn Hubler<\/a> \/ Photographs by\u00a0Mark Abramson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Officials say that the lake has reached its peak size and predict it will stay at its current level for the next one to two years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It sounds like the sea and approaches the size of Lake Tahoe. Its wind-driven waves are unexpectedly silky and warm. Tulare Lake seems to go on forever on the immense brown and green flat of California\u2019s Central Valley, shimmering like a great blue mirage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three months have passed since the lake, which dates to the Ice Age,\u00a0re-emerged in the basin<\/a>\u00a0that once held the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River. Dammed dry by humans, it has periodically attempted a comeback, though rarely with the force seen after this winter\u2019s storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First a trickle, then a flood, the water that coursed into the lake bed over a handful of months swallowed one of the nation\u2019s largest and most valuable stretches of cropland in about the time it takes to grow a tomato. Thirty square miles, then 50. Then 100. Then more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago Tulare Lake re-emerged after intense storms battered the state this winter, and will likely remain in the Central Valley for months \u2014 and maybe years \u2014 to come. By\u00a0Shawn Hubler \/ Photographs by\u00a0Mark Abramson It sounds like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}