Water is not a very fungible asset. In short, what happens in Sanpete, stays in Sanpete. Unless we start building the most aggressive aqueduct and pipeline system the world has ever seen, where the water is is where it is. Horseshoe has an active trade on their collective reserve for shares because of the agricultural use. Unfortunately their access to that reserve could be compromised if they don’t get their shares fully allocated due to the State’s “Use of Lose” policy. Those who purchase shares have to show “beneficial use” meaning the water was used for some benefit. The truth is the interpretation of the definition is so loose that some will use their shares to fill large watering hole tubs usually used for livestock to make water available to the local wildlife. I have more than a few friends who own cabins who do this.
Mother Nature has blown the roof off this winter, with more to come.
Man, I hope all that snow melts slowly for you guys.
I think I’m going to get a tattoo where my l5-s1 disc is saying “I Survived the Winter of 22-23”
This has been the winter of atmospheric rivers.
Fascinating stuff: When rivers reach the sky | NOAA Climate.gov
2.5 times the water content of the Amazon, coming right atcha!
We recieved another foot of snow last night. That’s easily over 5 feet of snow we’ve recieved in the last 10 days. My dogs needed to engage 4 paw drive to find places in the backyard they could manuever a little.
There’s going to be some catastrophic flooding.
I sure hope not. My mom sent me a picture of her yard, a little west of the mouth of Little Cottonwood. They easily have over a foot in the yard.
I’m very glad all y’all are getting the water, but I pray that it melts slowly.
Tragically lots of wildlife are dying of starvation 
We’re in southern Idaho at my old 1890s farmhouse, checking on the house and conditions. I had to pay a contractor with a backhoe to clear a path to get in, and found 5 feet of snow in the yard. Everything with the house is OK, but if it warms up quickly here (which it’s pretty likely to do), it will be a giant mess. I’m not complaining; we need the water (everything here drains into Bear Lake).
Photo of my old outhouse and clothesline surrounded by 5 feet of snow:
We got about 8 to 10 inches over the past two days in bottom of the valley Taylorsville. I noticed on my weather app that there’s a change of thundershowers this afternoon between 4pm and 6pm. Yikes. That’s going to get messy in a hurry. Combine it with highs in the low 70s by Sunday, I’m wondering if the Jordan River Trail will be underwater and screw up my bike training.
The average mountain yearly snow-water equivalent we get is 15.8 inches of water.
As of this morning we have 30 SWE inches of water in the mountains…and it just keeps coming.
No amount of sandbagging is going to keep these creeks in their stream beds. It’s too bad the Governor can’t just declare the State of Emergency now.
At least we have don’t have a lakebed we decided to drain and develop like they did in California. #TulareLake
While there likely will be some flooding, the amount of work that has gone into preventing another 1983 can’t be overlooked.
Haven’t seen this posted here, but it links you to an interactive map showing flood planes. Just put in your address and, “Wa La!” You can also drag it around, expand, etc.
We’ve got a 100 year plane about 300 ft from our house. Two homes across the street could be at fairly high risk from the Jordan River. Every golf course in SL County near the river is also at risk, along with a bunch of sections of homes near it and along creeks. I also noted that a lot of the Legacy Highway extension and nearby homes in Davis County could have issues.
Monday all the snow had thawed from our yard in Sugarhouse. Went out this morning and had 14" fresh in my back yard…where it’s melted now on my driveway I have about an inch of standing water. I don’t remember this much wet snow for so long before. Or the melt off leaving standing water like this. I think the floods won’t be as bad as 83 (I remember going to a movie downtown and walking over a bridge on state street), but I think we’re going to get the worst city flooding we’ve seen in 39 years.
You are correct. However, you really didn’t need to be an ■■■ about it.
It is customary to only capitalize the first letter of the first word in a sentence. Bo knows punctuation.
Frankly @Kosh, you are being overly pedantic, and for no reason.
I knew exactly what he was talking about…and I never attended the University.
That is definitely a “Flood Plane.” 