B.C. flooding

One of the stranger sights I have seen is irrigation pumps spraying orchards within a few hundred yards of flooded homes in Osoyoos, British Columbia.

The lake is at one of the highest levels in living memory and there are indications that more water is coming from a fast snow melt in temperatures in the mid-30s, moving the melt ever higher into the mountains where there is about double the normal snowpack.

The irrigation is a constant necessity here at the northern tip of the Sonora dessert which stretches from Mexico.


















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