Thanks for the peek at irvine, left So Cal 26 years ago, fished there all the time in the 1980's always had a great time there and caught many, many fish year round!
Me too...in the 80s.. I seen some wild looking Rainbow Trout come out of there back then ...big males with hook jaws... just once...I was amazed! ✌️ I'm a So. Cal Native
@@kendallevans4079 Grew up in OC and worked there I remember going to Irvine lake in junior high for a field trip back then nothing was out there. So glad we moved out of the state 3 years ago should have done in sooner.
@@kendallevans4079 most of irvine was own by japanese immigrant from decades ago. his family made billions from development of area(not that surprising if you see irvine now)
@@j.p.4199 Yup. Every sq. foot of dirt is valuated for maximum dollar return. The stuff he can't build on gets turned into a PR project how he is "donating land for open preserve" What a bunch of BS
We must have been watching a different video. Let me explain. That camera is so old and bad that it's heavy. Takes a huge helicopter to put it in the air. Helicopters are LOUD. People sound like crap over the intercom. This is a relatively low 480p shot which is CLEARLY inferior to ANYTHING today. A $150 drone can do much better without a pilot screaming in the background. Nice smooth stabilized 4k video. I don't know why they have these huge helicopters anymore.
Used to fish here with my dad till as long as I could remember, still remember shedding a tear in 2016 knowing this was the last day to fish, the entire lake was almost dried up you could walk from one side to the other, seeing this video made me so happy I ran over to my dad showed him the video and we will be heading here again very soon
Spring is green (wild flowers on the hillsides); but by July it's all turning or turned brrrooowwnnn -- before the Santa Ana winds burn the hillsides in October and November... sighhhh.. Grew up in SoCal and for years lives just a few miles from Irvine Lake.
I fished that lake a lot in the 60s and once saw the lake full to the highest water mark. They lowered the lake in case of more rain and runoff 13 feet below the dam. There was a drought from then on and the lake was turned into a mud puddle for several years.
It will likely remain below full capacity until the aging outlet tower and spillway is replaced. Water in this lake is used to supply the Baker Water Treatment Plant in Lake Forest, CA.
Even more impressive is Irvine Regional Park -- a few miles away as the crow flies. I've been going for a decade and it is always dry except for an occasional trickle of water in the wash. Now, the park is impassable due to flooding of the lower regions and closed to all, except for the ducks and a few snowy egrets!
@@mixeddrinks8100 Thankfully, it doesn't affect the developed areas of zoo and playgrounds, but the open space connecting Irvine Regional and Santiago Oaks.
@@mls01981 that creek by the trailhead of Santiago Oaks must be flooded. Bit crazy with the rain last few weeks, doesn't even feel like it is pouring hard but just nonstop.
They used to say global warming. But had to change ot to climate change because we continue to get all kinds of weather within the current climate. Does climate change cause more rain or less rain? I heard someone say blizzards are also caused by climate change. So which is it? Maybe I should ask Greta.
You had to be online to post that, so use the internet and make an effort to learn the difference between climate and weather. You should be able to figure it out on your own, but if you need to ask a teenager for help, I'm sure they'll be able to dumb it down for you.
@@JeffRL1956 I guess you didn't read carefully. I said, "weather within the current CLIMATE." I know the difference between the two. But they are related. When there is a weather event, everyone mentions the climate that is causing that weather event. So I do know what the difference is. OK? Now my point is, like all leftist causes, it's a moving target. I am 62 and have heard all this since the early 70s. Ice age coming (even though we are still in an ice age), acid rain will destroy all the crops ans we will all die, ozone layer depletion will kill us all, over population (even though populations are beginning to crash in many countries), global warming (that term went out of vogue because it didn't match the narrative), now climate change. That's my point. Now go drink your kool-aid and crawl under your security blanket. Greta is waiting for you there.....
Global warming or climate change causes more extreme weather. Too much heat trapped in the atmosphere means, picks up the ocean water and dumps it on mainland.
For example, Lopez Lake in SLO is full now, but they are letting it drain to the ocean. There needs to be water storage, so they can stop complaining about a drought.
The Santa Ana River is so full of water but it's all running out to the ocean between Huntington and Newport Beach right next to life guard tower 17 , why can't it be stored in a underground holding storage facility?
Elixir of life / drinkable water -- something CA desperately needed. Makes me so happy. Definitely something to cherish. Even for those of you who had to deal with tons of snow, at least it's some decent exercise, right?
Linguistics at work.Some days you get new words and the curmudgeons wail woefully about the degradation of the language. At the same time you lose old words or fix them into set phrases and the purists bemoan the loss of every abstruse syllable. It's just the circle of language, after all.
Down to twelve percent capacity, and they probably didn’t do anything but whine about no rain, instead of taking advantage of near dead pool to dredge and prepare. People just line those pockets with gold, when they need to empty them for prepping for the future.
Jeepers,in spite of what the experts told us for the past couple of months it seems as though the hundred year drought is over and ALL of the reservoirs are overflowing. The experts are disappointed.
To me CA has always been my home. I'm a lil biased, I think it's the most beautiful state. They don't do enough to preserve it, and coastal homes, are being lost to soil erosion.
I love it here. Born and raised. Can surf in the early am and snowboard in the pm (if you wanted to during winter). It has its problems like every other place but also has its perks.
I wanted to say something because you said no license required their animal extra license required I go to get peace and quiet and not to be disturbed by agents of the government wanting to see my license when they come up I tell him know it's protected by the Constitution they don't have the right to ask if your fishing license and if they want to push the fact and I probably will then sue the shit out of him later I do not wave my constitutional rights by buying a fishing license that I didn't wipe my constitutional rights like getting a driver's license I'm a law-abiding citizen I have both in my exercise both activities on a regular basis
Girl! Just be a civilized adult, and learn to follow simple, easy to abide laws. It's really not that hard. You must be one of those dopey "sovereign citizen" dopes. Right?
Fine for the moment. Come July will be back down to nothing and the hills turning yellow. September come October water level lower and the hills on fire. The cycle of Souther California. Only non thinkers or those that don’t know the history, habitat and climate of California don’t know this. Like the extremes of Death Valley. How California has always been.
I've lived in CA for 30 yrs now. In my childhood, we didn't have wildfires. Winter was rain season. I don't think there was a drought. Until recently, with the boom of increase in population, and coincidentally so many cars on the road. Also air travel exacerbated pollution.
@@environmentalnews6040 Born and raised here, 60 years. Normal occurrence. Used to know the guy that ran Irvine Lake. Same man that use to run Corona Lake. Do some research and reading on old 1600-1700s letters of what people reported SoCal to be like. Desert, dry, destitute of water and how travel by land in North wasn’t a viable thing. They took ships.
How does a lake close at 4pm, and why no dogs? Sounds like a perfectly over-regulated place, just the way California likes it to be. And I say this having lived in California for 11 years.
Perfect Introduction to to this story. Um that didn't make sense kinda like climate change. It's almost like a cycle. Oh and if you don't build farms in deserts you could save a lot of water
KCAL must hate those announcers for starting off with them getting screwed by a bad script or was it their fault - either way embarrassing way to start off a video for KCAL 😂
And in 2025 they will be screaming that it is getting low. Cali needs better/bigger water infrastructure for these huge wet/dry cycles it gets. How much of this water are they flushing to the ocean for fears of flooding, that they will beg for 2 years from now?
YEAH...we got lots of H2O going round! I'm thinking about opening a Marina at the new lake Tulare... have you seen that? In the central valley? All the snowmelt is making a lake out there...all that low farmland that's sits on the dry lake bed is filling up.... it's only going to get bigger and deeper when temperatures rise. I'm not a catasrophy lover I'm just saying.... Mother Nature is making a huge statement...I've never heard of that much snow on Big Bear...ever!
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 considering the central valley was an inland sea, its very Earth of Earth to do these types of things. It's never been a catastrophe, humans thinking Earth is supposed to be some static utopia is the ongoing catastrophe. Takes a pretty giant ego to forget the local star we are orbiting changes climates on all the planets, and an even bigger ego to fail to recognize the galaxy has an effect on that star. Humans aren't even on the scale of ant supercolony in that basic observational reality. Humans have brains, they migrate when environments change because climates change because the star nearby changes because the galaxy changes the star.
It's pretty sad that California doesn't save the water that flows down most of California River beds , most of the time this water shortage isn't from a drought its from poor water management and poor water storage planning! We have more then enough water even in little rain years ,it just not saved in a proficient manner or not at all , the Santa Ana River is flowing into the ocean between Huntington and Newport Beach right by life guard tower 17 !
I’m not from California but I’m happy for all of you!
Mother Nature came through triumphantly!
Thanks Power...another guy wished us an earthquake = good and evil always present but good wins (at least at the end).
@@ro4eva she absolutely rocked it this year!
Thanks 😊
Thank you! We are so relieved
So exciting to see this! I went fishing there as a kid and loved it. Absolutely amazing to see everything back to the way it should be🎉
Thanks for the peek at irvine, left So Cal 26 years ago, fished there all the time in the 1980's always had a great time there and caught many, many fish year round!
Me too...in the 80s.. I seen some wild looking Rainbow Trout come out of there back then ...big males with hook jaws... just once...I was amazed! ✌️ I'm a So. Cal Native
You wouldn't recognize it today. Wall to wall houses, No SFR under 1 million, 405 traffic terrible
@@kendallevans4079 Grew up in OC and worked there I remember going to Irvine lake in junior high for a field trip back then nothing was out there. So glad we moved out of the state 3 years ago should have done in sooner.
@@kendallevans4079 most of irvine was own by japanese immigrant from decades ago. his family made billions from development of area(not that surprising if you see irvine now)
@@j.p.4199 Yup. Every sq. foot of dirt is valuated for maximum dollar return. The stuff he can't build on gets turned into a PR project how he is "donating land for open preserve" What a bunch of BS
Camera guy is an absolute BEAST. Flawless and numerous zooms in such a short segment. 13/10
YEP!
Having to Scan the horizon means lots of area of water to cover!
Calm down 😂
We must have been watching a different video. Let me explain. That camera is so old and bad that it's heavy. Takes a huge helicopter to put it in the air. Helicopters are LOUD. People sound like crap over the intercom. This is a relatively low 480p shot which is CLEARLY inferior to ANYTHING today. A $150 drone can do much better without a pilot screaming in the background. Nice smooth stabilized 4k video. I don't know why they have these huge helicopters anymore.
@@D1NKERR that camera is mounted on either the bottom or just under the nose of the helicopter and is controlled by a dial lmao.
Used to fish here with my dad till as long as I could remember, still remember shedding a tear in 2016 knowing this was the last day to fish, the entire lake was almost dried up you could walk from one side to the other, seeing this video made me so happy I ran over to my dad showed him the video and we will be heading here again very soon
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Good to see you guys get the water.
We used to go opening day... what a zoo...
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA ✌️
It's like gold is falling from the sky. Finally. Wednesday morning and it's raining again!
Couldn't agree more. For me, drinkable water is like gold. Elixir of life, baby!
It’s cool to see all the surrounding hills so green.
Everything around it looks so green and velvety, compared to the usual look of SoCal.
It's the way season, you are thinking of the dry season
Spring is green (wild flowers on the hillsides); but by July it's all turning or turned brrrooowwnnn -- before the Santa Ana winds burn the hillsides in October and November... sighhhh.. Grew up in SoCal and for years lives just a few miles from Irvine Lake.
The color green is said to reduce stress levels. I love seeing it too, Gung Ho.
Thank you for these "LOOK AT THIS!' segments.
Irvine lake is an OC hidden gem. Used to go there to fish often with family...great to see it at capacity ~
I fished that lake a lot in the 60s and once saw the lake full to the highest water mark. They lowered the lake in case of more rain and runoff 13 feet below the dam. There was a drought from then on and the lake was turned into a mud puddle for several years.
Actually that so called drought was actually a water shortage issue brought on by poor water management and policy!
❤ Irvine Lake!
Looks beautiful
Thank your Heavenly Father Californians.
Well... my damn avocados better get cheaper now
Is it at full capacity?
Doesn't look like it, the level is still way below the overflow and spillway at present.
It will likely remain below full capacity until the aging outlet tower and spillway is replaced. Water in this lake is used to supply the Baker Water Treatment Plant in Lake Forest, CA.
Even tho there might be more rain in the future, the state should take every possible opportunity to harvest the water
Fishing license not required?! Don't let the fat cats in Sac know that!
They are the ones who approved it.
Good to see!
The fact that you have to scan the horizon means the water area is huuuge
Tremendous news and more rain coming this week.
I use to work at the ski school that use to be on Irvine lake back in 03
Even more impressive is Irvine Regional Park -- a few miles away as the crow flies. I've been going for a decade and it is always dry except for an occasional trickle of water in the wash. Now, the park is impassable due to flooding of the lower regions and closed to all, except for the ducks and a few snowy egrets!
really?! Haven't been back there since the Halloween, wonder if it affects the zoo
I ran there the other day and its basically turned into wetlands lol
@@mixeddrinks8100 Thankfully, it doesn't affect the developed areas of zoo and playgrounds, but the open space connecting Irvine Regional and Santiago Oaks.
@@mls01981 that creek by the trailhead of Santiago Oaks must be flooded. Bit crazy with the rain last few weeks, doesn't even feel like it is pouring hard but just nonstop.
They used to say global warming. But had to change ot to climate change because we continue to get all kinds of weather within the current climate. Does climate change cause more rain or less rain? I heard someone say blizzards are also caused by climate change. So which is it? Maybe I should ask Greta.
The "greenhouse effect" causes global warming, which causes regional climate changes with more severe locally-experienced weather patterns.
You had to be online to post that, so use the internet and make an effort to learn the difference between climate and weather. You should be able to figure it out on your own, but if you need to ask a teenager for help, I'm sure they'll be able to dumb it down for you.
@@JeffRL1956 I guess you didn't read carefully. I said, "weather within the current CLIMATE." I know the difference between the two. But they are related. When there is a weather event, everyone mentions the climate that is causing that weather event. So I do know what the difference is. OK? Now my point is, like all leftist causes, it's a moving target. I am 62 and have heard all this since the early 70s. Ice age coming (even though we are still in an ice age), acid rain will destroy all the crops ans we will all die, ozone layer depletion will kill us all, over population (even though populations are beginning to crash in many countries), global warming (that term went out of vogue because it didn't match the narrative), now climate change. That's my point. Now go drink your kool-aid and crawl under your security blanket. Greta is waiting for you there.....
Global warming or climate change causes more extreme weather. Too much heat trapped in the atmosphere means, picks up the ocean water and dumps it on mainland.
Are there plans to build more reservoirs in California?
For example, Lopez Lake in SLO is full now, but they are letting it drain to the ocean. There needs to be water storage, so they can stop complaining about a drought.
There also might be water from Santa Ana River being pumped into this lake.
Was at Irvine Park yesterday and the river is flowing.
time for CA to make more Lakes and hold water
The Santa Ana River is so full of water but it's all running out to the ocean between Huntington and Newport Beach right next to life guard tower 17 , why can't it be stored in a underground holding storage facility?
make boating great again
Ohhhh baby I’m coming
Elixir of life / drinkable water -- something CA desperately needed. Makes me so happy. Definitely something to cherish.
Even for those of you who had to deal with tons of snow, at least it's some decent exercise, right?
Free fish! Everyone move there!
Tons of dorado in summer
The rate of use has to plateau or reduce though
I always chuckle when I hear the verb “ recreate “….😂
to give new life or freshness to : refresh. appropriate, given recreation brings freshness to life.
@@jadesea562 it’s a spiritual word…
@@T410ce I know exactly what you mean, I feel the cosmic giggle myself.
Linguistics at work.Some days you get new words and the curmudgeons wail woefully about the degradation of the language. At the same time you lose old words or fix them into set phrases and the purists bemoan the loss of every abstruse syllable. It's just the circle of language, after all.
I concur
Save water it’s going to be a hot summer!!!!!
Bring the boats back!!!
Yay
No fishing license wow
Yes Gavin Newsom needed to make more storage
Should have shown a before picture.
PRAISE THE LORD N JESUS CHRIST... BROTHER N SISTER'S... FOR THE WONDERFUL RAIN... FOR MAN KIND.. AMEN.... HALLELUJAH...
religion had nothing to do with it
It'll nearly disappear again before you know it
It’s raining again
Not bad no fishing license
King Gavin still says we are in a drought.
Southern California and the people who live there will screw it up. In five years from now there won't be any waterr left in that lake.
Just keep the homeless camp fires out of there so it isn't used over the summer for fires. Thanks. An OC resident. :)
Down to twelve percent capacity, and they probably didn’t do anything but whine about no rain, instead of taking advantage of near dead pool to dredge and prepare. People just line those pockets with gold, when they need to empty them for prepping for the future.
Imported? Wow, the super rich have everything.
You forgot electricity/money generation which is where it's really going.
Jeepers,in spite of what the experts told us for the past couple of months it seems as though the hundred year drought is over and ALL of the reservoirs are overflowing. The experts are disappointed.
Lake closes....odd hours... no fishing license required...no dogs....
Sounds like a private lake or California is reallllly fing wierd.
I am going to go with weird.
usually the water is so low you really can't fish at all.
God it must suck to live in California 😂
California is hell on earth
Nope
Nerd…
To me CA has always been my home. I'm a lil biased, I think it's the most beautiful state. They don't do enough to preserve it, and coastal homes, are being lost to soil erosion.
I love it here. Born and raised. Can surf in the early am and snowboard in the pm (if you wanted to during winter). It has its problems like every other place but also has its perks.
from tonga eruption 2022
I wanted to say something because you said no license required their animal extra license required I go to get peace and quiet and not to be disturbed by agents of the government wanting to see my license when they come up I tell him know it's protected by the Constitution they don't have the right to ask if your fishing license and if they want to push the fact and I probably will then sue the shit out of him later I do not wave my constitutional rights by buying a fishing license that I didn't wipe my constitutional rights like getting a driver's license I'm a law-abiding citizen I have both in my exercise both activities on a regular basis
Girl! Just be a civilized adult, and learn to follow simple, easy to abide laws. It's really not that hard.
You must be one of those dopey "sovereign citizen" dopes. Right?
Fine for the moment. Come July will be back down to nothing and the hills turning yellow. September come October water level lower and the hills on fire. The cycle of Souther California.
Only non thinkers or those that don’t know the history, habitat and climate of California don’t know this.
Like the extremes of Death Valley. How California has always been.
I've lived in CA for 30 yrs now. In my childhood, we didn't have wildfires. Winter was rain season. I don't think there was a drought. Until recently, with the boom of increase in population, and coincidentally so many cars on the road. Also air travel exacerbated pollution.
@@environmentalnews6040 Born and raised here, 60 years. Normal occurrence.
Used to know the guy that ran Irvine Lake. Same man that use to run Corona Lake.
Do some research and reading on old 1600-1700s letters of what people reported SoCal to be like. Desert, dry, destitute of water and how travel by land in North wasn’t a viable thing. They took ships.
Imported water 😂
Perrier
Scum bags are allowed, dogs are not?
Amerika freedom means no dogs at leak....
Only open Friday until Sunday until 4:00 pm?
Man I'm glad I don't live in Cali, I live in a place where Freedom still exists.
This is what our state used to look like all the time before we f’d off the climate
YUCK lake water?? Only when water skiing 😂
How does a lake close at 4pm, and why no dogs? Sounds like a perfectly over-regulated place, just the way California likes it to be. And I say this having lived in California for 11 years.
No fishing license needed That because the fishing sucks at that lake for trout . Most of the lakes are hard to fish unless you have a boat.
Perfect Introduction to to this story. Um that didn't make sense kinda like climate change. It's almost like a cycle. Oh and if you don't build farms in deserts you could save a lot of water
fishy
You just know Californians are going to waste that water somehow.
Talking Heads
Women....
KCAL must hate those announcers for starting off with them getting screwed by a bad script or was it their fault - either way embarrassing way to start off a video for KCAL 😂
And in 2025 they will be screaming that it is getting low.
Cali needs better/bigger water infrastructure for these huge wet/dry cycles it gets.
How much of this water are they flushing to the ocean for fears of flooding, that they will beg for 2 years from now?
look at them hydrogens and oxygens, aint that pretty?
YEAH...we got lots of H2O going round!
I'm thinking about opening a Marina at the new lake Tulare... have you seen that? In the central valley? All the snowmelt is making a lake out there...all that low farmland that's sits on the dry lake bed is filling up.... it's only going to get bigger and deeper when temperatures rise. I'm not a catasrophy lover I'm just saying.... Mother Nature is making a huge statement...I've never heard of that much snow on Big Bear...ever!
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 considering the central valley was an inland sea, its very Earth of Earth to do these types of things. It's never been a catastrophe, humans thinking Earth is supposed to be some static utopia is the ongoing catastrophe. Takes a pretty giant ego to forget the local star we are orbiting changes climates on all the planets, and an even bigger ego to fail to recognize the galaxy has an effect on that star. Humans aren't even on the scale of ant supercolony in that basic observational reality. Humans have brains, they migrate when environments change because climates change because the star nearby changes because the galaxy changes the star.
@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 lake tulare is not new, it is returning
Two girls for ev-reee booooy. Or maybe buoy.
It's pretty sad that California doesn't save the water that flows down most of California River beds , most of the time this water shortage isn't from a drought its from poor water management and poor water storage planning! We have more then enough water even in little rain years ,it just not saved in a proficient manner or not at all , the Santa Ana River is flowing into the ocean between Huntington and Newport Beach right by life guard tower 17 !
Maybe you yanks should think about your water use?