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07/28/2007 06:41:21 PM · #1 |
Hi Guys,
I have totally forgotten the name of a town that got flooded in CA and is near a lake - The whole place is now deserted and I really want to find out what it's called?
Cheers
Jeff
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07/28/2007 06:57:32 PM · #2 |
Are you talking about Salton City?
R.
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07/28/2007 06:58:36 PM · #3 |
A flooded trailer park is about all I can find so far, heh.
There's also Whiskeytown which scared the crap out of me when I opened the link. It's still under water though.
Message edited by author 2007-07-28 18:59:55. |
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07/28/2007 07:02:28 PM · #4 |
Bear - You did it sir - Thats it!
Fantastic - Thanks so much.
Thanks Aliqui - The trailer park is Salton Sea also!
Cheers guys
Jeff
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07/28/2007 07:03:50 PM · #5 |
| The Salton sea is what i think you are talking about, but this town east of Bakeresfeild was slated to be a sportsman's paradise had the opposite problem of a flood, the inland sea it was build around dried up , leaving it with no reason to exist, so it ceased to. |
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07/28/2007 07:04:16 PM · #6 |
kewl. I shot a million pictures there :-)
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07/28/2007 07:06:43 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
kewl. I shot a million pictures there :-) |
Do you have them up anywhere? |
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07/28/2007 07:07:53 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
The Salton sea is what i think you are talking about, but this town east of Bakeresfeild was slated to be a sportsman's paradise had the opposite problem of a flood, the inland sea it was build around dried up , leaving it with no reason to exist, so it ceased to. |
Not quite right. The Salton Sea was an offshoot of an accident after they diverted the Colorado River to irrigate the Imperial Valley. For quite a while after the accident the Sea was promoted as a desert sportsman's paradise. Then as upstream diversions robbed the Sea of its influx, and eventually the Colorado reverted back to its former course, the Sea began to evaporate and become increasingly more Saline. Then, relatively recently, torrential rain seasons resulted in overflows into the Sea, and the shoreside communities were inundated and destroyed.
It's a very interesting story....
R.
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07/28/2007 07:08:32 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
kewl. I shot a million pictures there :-) |
Do you have them up anywhere? |
Nah, that was 30-40 years ago. I lost all that stuff in the basement flood :-(
R.
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07/28/2007 07:12:00 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
kewl. I shot a million pictures there :-) |
Do you have them up anywhere? |
Nah, that was 30-40 years ago. I lost all that stuff in the basement flood :-(
R. |
Boo. :( |
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07/28/2007 07:28:40 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
. The Salton Sea was an offshoot of an accident after they diverted the Colorado River to irrigate the Imperial Valley.
R. |
I belive it goes back a bit further than that, the sea has waxed and waned for millenia, it was pretty stable around 700 AD, the went away
and returned between 1500- and 1750. Since the Colorado is now so heavily drawn down it is unlikely that it will ever again have the chance to re fill the salton sea, but nature has filled this inland sea more often than man has. |
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07/28/2007 07:43:04 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
kewl. I shot a million pictures there :-) |
Do you have them up anywhere? |
Nah, that was 30-40 years ago. I lost all that stuff in the basement flood :-(
R. |
kind of ironic that pictures of a place that got flooded also ended up getting flooded lol
edited since I misread the OP
Message edited by author 2007-07-28 19:44:09. |
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07/28/2007 08:10:35 PM · #13 |
| The Salton Sea. Haven't been down that way in a long time. But have memories of great Date Palm Plantations, abandoned resorts with pavilions and piers, and small towns made up primarily of agricultural workers. Lots of little flies along the shore and maybe there was an aroma... I suppose it could be described as a bleak shoreline in places, but if so, it was bleakly beautiful. |
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07/31/2007 02:17:20 PM · #14 |
| Google "slab city salton sea" for an abandoned Navy base that only has slabs left with a bunch of long term RVs and Salvation Mountain there. It's a really strange place. |
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07/31/2007 02:41:49 PM · #15 |
| Hey Jeff, if you can work it in the schedule, Anza-Borrego is just west of the Salton Sea and has many nice desert photo ops. It has a couple hotels (more like a motel) if you need a place to stay too. We stayed at the PALM CANYON RESORT and were very happy with the place. Didn't get over to the Salton Sea, so I'm no help there. |
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07/31/2007 03:46:29 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
. The Salton Sea was an offshoot of an accident after they diverted the Colorado River to irrigate the Imperial Valley.
R. |
I belive it goes back a bit further than that, the sea has waxed and waned for millenia, it was pretty stable around 700 AD, the went away
and returned between 1500- and 1750. Since the Colorado is now so heavily drawn down it is unlikely that it will ever again have the chance to re fill the salton sea, but nature has filled this inland sea more often than man has. |
That may be, but in modern times the Salton Sea was born/reborn after the engineers diverted the Colorado River in order to provide irrigation water for the Imperial Valley. They took a desert and turned into one the most productive farmlands in the west. Unfortunately the river flooded, busted its levees, and created/recreated the Salton Sea, after which it was no longer properly channeled and reverted to its former course, more or less, leaving the sea without a source once more.
R.
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07/31/2007 04:12:42 PM · #17 |
I visited Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea in 2000. What an amazing, creepy & photogenic place to visit!
Looking forward to a return trip.
I have a lot of photos from there and remember several signs on the "houses" there saying something to the effect of "My Realtor told me I was buying lake front property...This is what I got." The houses those signs were hanging on were roting away. ;-) |
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