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Rivers carve their paths with the gentle persistence of time. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 6 months ago
She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
Minneapolis had their third-snowiest winter on record, so a lot of it was sitting around waiting to melt, we didn’t really add a ton of heavy rain on top of the snowpack while that snow was melting, so that kind of allowed it to progress fairly orderly, but we’re going to have some minor flooding in a lot of rivers. – Eric Ahasic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge. – Brett Whitin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see. – Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The uncertainty lies in how much rainfall will be absorbed by the snowpack before there is significant release of that water into the rivers, it’s likely some of the( precipitation) will simply be absorbed into the many feet of snow at the highest elevations, but lower elevations, generally below 5,000 ft, appear most likely to not have the snowpack necessary to absorb the multiple inches of rainfall expected. – Weather Prediction Center	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event. – James Renwick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We indigenous peoples are badly treated, as are our rivers, the animals – but it’s not just indigenous peoples who are dying, the city people are suffering as well, these two worlds really need to come together in a big embrace and not let our world be ruined. – Edmar Barros/AP Davi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is clear that the future of Arctic sea ice hinges to a significant degree on the strength and frequency of occurrence of [atmospheric rivers]. – Marty Ralph	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was just … people talking trash when somebody shoots on the side, same stuff they do on their side. I don’t know if it was something that [Rivers] has been dealing with or something, but he got extremely mad, and that’s what he chose to do to retaliate. – Markelle Fultz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you have a significant rainfall event like this, rivers can rise quickly, and roads can literally fall away or become covered and can cut off communities. – Luis Fernandes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees. – Al Gore	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The analysis focused on EPA wild-caught fish in rivers, streams and throughout the Great Lakes from 2013 to 2015 as that was the latest data available. – David Andrews	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them. – Peter Gleick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Atmospheric rivers typically form during the winter months and can occur during El Niños or La Niñas. – Marybeth Arcodia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We embarked across the Darién with a total 339 people, about 230 reached Panama. Many died. We saw bodies... on the side of rivers. A friend traveling with his young son said he could not stop thinking of a dead child he saw. – Wilber Salvatierra	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe. – Liz Bentley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The thing about rivers and groundwater resources is they don't lie, someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use. – Mike Young	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The numbers are comparable to( the rainfall in) March. What is different in this event is that the rain was stacked up over several days, and that increases risk of how rivers respond. – Jane Golding	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We want to put the rivers in the limelight, the motorways of the day, the voyages will take us past many of the great early settlements discovered by archaeologists in the last few decades. – Martin Carver	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rivers are the arteries of our planet, they transport cool clean water from the mountains down across landscapes and give us this critical resource that we rely on so heavily for drinking, for farming, for industry. – South Africa	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The question is whether or not atmospheric rivers will happen more often as the climate changes. – Julienne Stroeve	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're in the rainy season, so people who live or have activities on the banks of rivers mustn't be near these tributaries. Risk management is an issue of co-responsibility of all Colombians, and it depends on all of us to do what we can to protect life. – Jaime Gomez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
i’ve been reading poems by notable poets about cows * sheep * pigeons * fish * deer & the like & honestly it makes me ill. i write about what i know: big cities, street gangs, the homeless, food stamps, death & suicide & i wonder who reads this boring crap, who gets inspired? I want it hard edged, baby, poems on razorblades cutting through skin, tendons, even bones, poems that make the blood flow & run deep in real rivers of life. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago

Rivers carve their paths with the gentle persistence of time.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
6 months ago

She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

Minneapolis had their third-snowiest winter on record, so a lot of it was sitting around waiting to melt, we didn’t really add a ton of heavy rain on top of the snowpack while that snow was melting, so that kind of allowed it to progress fairly orderly, but we’re going to have some minor flooding in a lot of rivers.

– Eric Ahasic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge.

– Brett Whitin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see.

– Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The uncertainty lies in how much rainfall will be absorbed by the snowpack before there is significant release of that water into the rivers, it’s likely some of the( precipitation) will simply be absorbed into the many feet of snow at the highest elevations, but lower elevations, generally below 5,000 ft, appear most likely to not have the snowpack necessary to absorb the multiple inches of rainfall expected.

– Weather Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New Zealand is very good at building communities on floodplains – there’s a large fraction of the population that live close to rivers that tend to flood, there tends to be the attitude that we can build stop banks and that will protect the community, and it does most of the time, until you get a really big event.

– James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We indigenous peoples are badly treated, as are our rivers, the animals – but it’s not just indigenous peoples who are dying, the city people are suffering as well, these two worlds really need to come together in a big embrace and not let our world be ruined.

– Edmar Barros/AP Davi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear that the future of Arctic sea ice hinges to a significant degree on the strength and frequency of occurrence of [atmospheric rivers].

– Marty Ralph

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just … people talking trash when somebody shoots on the side, same stuff they do on their side. I don’t know if it was something that [Rivers] has been dealing with or something, but he got extremely mad, and that’s what he chose to do to retaliate.

– Markelle Fultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have a significant rainfall event like this, rivers can rise quickly, and roads can literally fall away or become covered and can cut off communities.

– Luis Fernandes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.

– Al Gore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The analysis focused on EPA wild-caught fish in rivers, streams and throughout the Great Lakes from 2013 to 2015 as that was the latest data available.

– David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them.

– Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Atmospheric rivers typically form during the winter months and can occur during El Niños or La Niñas.

– Marybeth Arcodia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We embarked across the Darién with a total 339 people, about 230 reached Panama. Many died. We saw bodies... on the side of rivers. A friend traveling with his young son said he could not stop thinking of a dead child he saw.

– Wilber Salvatierra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe.

– Liz Bentley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The thing about rivers and groundwater resources is they don't lie, someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use.

– Mike Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The numbers are comparable to( the rainfall in) March. What is different in this event is that the rain was stacked up over several days, and that increases risk of how rivers respond.

– Jane Golding

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want to put the rivers in the limelight, the motorways of the day, the voyages will take us past many of the great early settlements discovered by archaeologists in the last few decades.

– Martin Carver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rivers are the arteries of our planet, they transport cool clean water from the mountains down across landscapes and give us this critical resource that we rely on so heavily for drinking, for farming, for industry.

– South Africa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The question is whether or not atmospheric rivers will happen more often as the climate changes.

– Julienne Stroeve

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're in the rainy season, so people who live or have activities on the banks of rivers mustn't be near these tributaries. Risk management is an issue of co-responsibility of all Colombians, and it depends on all of us to do what we can to protect life.

– Jaime Gomez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

i’ve been reading poems by notable poets about cows * sheep * pigeons * fish * deer & the like & honestly it makes me ill. i write about what i know: big cities, street gangs, the homeless, food stamps, death & suicide & i wonder who reads this boring crap, who gets inspired? I want it hard edged, baby, poems on razorblades cutting through skin, tendons, even bones, poems that make the blood flow & run deep in real rivers of life.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

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