Look outside: The weather seems great, but one or two warm storms out of the tropics melting the snowpack (which is at 200%) and we have 1997 again; or one earthquake on one of the faults in the East Bay knocking out those 150 year-old levees and disaster hits; not just for Northern California but Southern California, and the Central Valley, (the pics are illustrative) which means - much less water for swimming pools, golf courses and most importantly several crops go dry and whither away.

If those 150 year-old levees go, it could set off a chain reaction which will bring in MILLIONS of gallons of sea-water into the delta from the bay - which means BILLIONS of gallons of water will be contaminated. (look at this pic closely, look how close the water is to over-topping the levee)

Katrina wiped out oil and gas, but a disaster in the delta levees means the price of food skyrockets ... Everywhere. And, where are all the undocumented farmworkers going to go? Not back home.

"Record rains and leaky levees have Northern California bracing for a Katrina-like disaster

By Angie C. Marek
4/24/06

Tracy, Calif. -- In California, they call their push to shore up levees during the wet season a 'flood fight,' but today it's looking like war. In San Joachin County, where the river is within inches of flood level, almost 500 government workers last week combed the earthen levees for signs of trouble. 'They're finding dirty sand boils,' said county spokeswoman Elena Reyes, referring to pockmarks that indicate water seepage ...

It's an all-out effort -- and for good reason. California is enduring its fifth-wettest season on record, and looks like a world gone haywire. Cold rains have pummeled the northern part of the state almost continuously since early March; in some sections of the Sierra Nevada range, the snowpack is nearly twice its normal size and will melt into already swollen rivers -- the only question is how fast ... read more