Please stop praying for Moisture.... seriously!

I know that we have all grown up in this wonderful state called "Utah" and have learned from a very young age that we live in a desert with very little precip, but I would like to turn everyone's attention to the year 1983.  1983 may not seem like a "real" year to many of us... I mean... I wouldn't be born for another 5 years, however 1983 is a very important water year for Utah.  During that year we turned downtown State street into a temporary river, the town of Thistle Flooded, and the BOR was trying to get rid of so much water out of Lake Powell that the water was literally blowing pieces of reinforced concrete out of its spillway.  It was a record water year.

Recently at work I've received the yearly water outlook report from a man that everyone should know.  Randy Julander.  Randy works for NRCS as the head in the snow survey department.  He also teaches snow hydrology at the University of Utah.  In his report he showed that current snowpack levels are ABOVE the record levels of 1983.

Now call me a crazy morbid engineer... but a part of me is seriously excited to see what happens.  What are we going to do with all that water?!  Stream banks are already flowing at or above bankfull levels all over the state, most the reservoirs are more than 70% full already, and it is predicted that bear lake is going to reach capacity.

I am so ready to pitch in my helping hand to sandbag state street once again!

Here is a link to ksl news report on this same topic.  Featuring Mr. Randy Julander.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=15302726

And to remind all you "old folks" out there... a couple pictures of 1983