Lake Elsinore hits record-breaking water levels after Southern California storms

[@toymaster5464]

While there could be some complaints about the lake, when we lived there for 4 years (2015-2019) that lake saved alot of homes that might of been burnt to the ground. I still remember all the water dropping helicopters flying over, picking up water and then heading to the local hills. It's definitely a diamond in the rough!

[@1964corvan]

You can see the burnt hills from a few years ago on google maps history.

[@SaveAmerica69]

I remember that lake back in the 60s and 70s. You were not even born yet, it was nice now it's turned into a dump.

[@toymaster5464]

I'm old

[@cptbuiltk7944]

​@@SaveAmerica69bitter dinosaur

[@okolona1]

The lake is ancient, going back to the last ice age.

[@XtraLongD]

Awesome reporting by Shelby Nelson she even walked in the water for us! The amount of rain we have received was much needed 🙏🏽

[@raulporras6239]

Thank you 🙏🏻 dear Lord for this much desperately needed rain 🌧️

[@leos3003]

Can you ask for some sensible leaders while you're at it?

[@SaveAmerica69]

And most of it is run off

[@alanbiancardi2531]

. Fairy tale believer I see

[@soniasias6226]

Test it for Silver Iodide. Google it. Riverside County is spraying it.

[@Lacheyenona72]

But unfortunately to these corrupt Demorat politicians we’re still in a drought and charge you more for water!!

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

This is crazy.... Lake Elsinore as long as I can remember has been a green algae pool! We used to ride dirt bikes out there. Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA

[@YOOWINYOOWIN]

And your SS #, DOB, address, DL # and the passwords to your email, online banking, etc?

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

@@YOOWINYOOWIN talk to my busybody neighbors all around...they use children in Oroville California to do their dirty work and then they praise them for it.....they got my passwords COUPLE Time swear to God....the vice squad here deserves to go to prison....

[@SaveAmerica69]

I go further back than you do to the 70s and 60s.

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

@@SaveAmerica69 We used to Dove and quail hunt around there in the 60s and 70s..... remember the Horned Toads ? They all but have disappeared now.... Riverside International Raceway....the roar of those engines in the desert...Sunnymead Burger 🍔

[@commanderbell1965]

Drought is over. I remember Lake Elsinore triple in size during early 80s. Beach front homes flooded, then came fishing bonanza.

[@mhughes1160]

Yelp and in the summer you could walk across it 👍

[@dmotta2811]

My neighbors will use it up in a year

[@jpet2126]

As far as I'm concerned, when city officials across the state vote to kill desalination plants up our coastline, our water issues must not be too dire. If we were ever in an actual water emergency, desalination plants are incredibly cost effective. There are already some in operation. I think every coastal city should have at least 1.

[@commanderbell1965]

@mhughes1160 I was in Perris High during the 80s. My Teacher told us when Lake Elsinore shrink to a pond.

[@ocskywatch1]

Lake Elsinore, so many memories

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

Yup! We used to ride out there....I remember when Elsinore was a few streetlight town! Back in the day ... Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA

[@kendallevans4079]

Lawlessness! Sheriffs are constantly busy out there.

[@carloscruz8057]

@@kendallevans4079I can tell you just regurgitate what you’ve been told 20 years ago. It’s changed a lot.

[@karenbrown2135]

When I was younger back in the 70’s we would go camping there. It was real nice back then.

[@YA-qj8fx]

Yes, back in the 70s my uncle took us camping there. Fun memories.

[@SaveAmerica69]

Correct it was nice back then but now it's a dump.

[@Eevcee]

@@SaveAmerica69 uh why? Because houses and businesses have been built around the lake? It’s not bad at all besides the fact that there’s more people, obviously

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

It's also half the size of what it was. I remember it flooding the airport during big rains in the 70's. Driving Temescal Canyon before the freeway was built was fun.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

My family used to trailer camp and water ski at Elsinore in the mid 1960s. It was just a sleepy little wide spot on the 395 where the one grocery store was closed by 7pm. But in the summer, that place was crazy with college kids, dance parties and boat races. Good Times.

[@karinjudd1442]

We did too. It was fantastic.

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

I forgot about the boat races out there

[@johannedillworth7413]

Wasn’t it real low a few years back? Sounds like a good thing as long as it doesn’t get higher

[@Mrbfgray]

We need the water it's ALL good.

[@THE_WOAT]

So why in the hell is my water bill so freaking expensive?

[@cody7807]

High usage?

[@Danzilla1991]

Because California will keep charging as much as possible 😄

[@KOVIDGOON]

GAVIN NEWSOME DEMOCRATS

[@Mrbfgray]

Graft.

[@leos3003]

it's not the water, Newsom gets all the money.

[@GIUL7301]

Thats great for a lake with no routlet. Built many homes around the lake since 1974. My dad used to race dirt motorcycles there in the 60s. It was dry 3 years ago. How close is the water to the buildings on the south side? Happy to see this, even though I left Cali 14 years ago. So glad I did.

[@billlong8385]

The lake does have an outlet into Temescal Wash, then SA River but water currently not high enouch.

[@mackattack8627]

It's been a long time in seeing our lakes watersheds and rivers to fresh filled capacity throughout the entire California I'm loving this I'm 55 now but as a kid growing up in California watching our ecosystems this how our water levels was after any amount of rain but most importantly our underground aquifers so desperately needed refill are being replenished

[@revolutionaryhamburger]

The news from California is either severe and never ending drought or floods and never ending rain. Widespread panic is the norm for that state of mind.

[@44-SWAGNUM-MAGA-X]

Not really . Just don't watch the news ...

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

Newsom needs a state of constant panic and confusion so people don't pay attention to him twirling his waxed mustache, throwing children into orphanages after murdering the parents, and repossessing land from helpless old widows.

[@ripemm5737]

If it rains it becomes a fire threat because of the weeds growing,if it doesn’t rain it’s a fire threat because of the weeds drying out

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

@@ripemm5737 Either way residents lose and tyrants maintain the upper hand. Maybe this new recall will spank the current POS governor.

[@ripemm5737]

@@IMCcanTWEESTED I think the time it takes to get enough signatures will determine if the recall has a chance,if they get them in a short time maybe that’s a tell that the people are ready for change.Vote for Steve Garvey

[@robertgallagher7734]

My grandparents used to live near there. Water has been that high or higher at least twice that I can remember. Also remember it being so low it was waist deep in the middle.

[@kaichen7907]

lol, never seen it that full before...I wonder how the salton sea looks?

[@willyautomotive1465]

We prayed for water. God is good.

[@Brucev7]

All The Time

[@11MV]

After causing the drought?

[@greggreg2263]

There’s so much water, everybody can take a little bit home with them😅

[@cjjonez]

its good to see that some of the lost water being replaced. looking at the weather from the satellite its been a busy season i hope our spring be tempered. not mild but a fair flow of rain and healthy dry periods.

[@swordofallah1129]

They have a nice little casino

[@kiddadd]

So have you guys been seeding the clouds then? Or maybe it is really just the effects of el nino.

[@entropybentwhistle]

Nice to see the weather cooperating so there’s stories of too much water rather than not enough.

[@luisholguin8076]

8 and 10 pound what?! Bass?

[@htvlogs80]

Most likely carp, the lake is filled with big carps. It’s easy to catch a few 5-6lb carp. 8-10lb carp is believable.

[@kevincooper3727]

Definitely carp

[@htvlogs80]

What the city needs to do is fill up the lake with more wipers, large mouth bass, and bluegills.

[@kendallevans4079]

Rumor is those fish gladly jump into boats to get out of that foul water!

[@LeafEater607]

Did it fix the awful smell of the lake? I doubt it.

[@kiddadd]

😄

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

​@@kiddaddit's true....that lake has smelled bad for decades....it's a shallow lake in the desert....gets piss warm during the summer...I never went swimming in it... nope

[@nyla298]

Looks like it smells

[@kevincooper3727]

I remember back when they drained it and bulldozed all the dead carp off the lake bed. You could smell it from the look out on 74

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

@@kevincooper3727 ugh! .... Elsinore is just filled by rain isn't it? I mean there are no tributaries feeding it.... right?

[@BradThePitts]

In the early 2000s climatologists told the California state lawmakers and policymakers that due to climate change, there would not be enough of rain in the future to justify building more reservoirs. They were obviously wrong, so now we need to question everything else.

[@leos3003]

I wouldn't question anything. Our leaders know exactly what they're doing. Just look how well the country is doing. We've got people coming in droves to visit and may be stay after all. Heck we don't even have places to put them any more.

[@alanbiancardi2531]

@@leos3003 Our current leaders are useless. Of course they are dumbocrats

[@meep2253]

Can’t wait for the traffic in the spring because of the lake and the upcoming wildflower bloom

[@Galileo_III]

I hope not. I hope they keep the area closed off again.

[@meep2253]

@@Galileo_III honestly me too. Unfortunately people don’t behave and we can’t have nice things.

[@B44tk47]

I love Shelby❤

[@LucidStew]

Record-breaking water levels! What record did it break? None! The water level is just relatively high. This is why people are starting to question news about everything.

[@JarrydTIme]

Cloud seeding...

[@handsome526]

They have had cases of the brain eating amoebas in that lake

[@jonmacdonald5345]

Explains the people voting democrat there

[@JohnLocke1776]

Really, when?

[@guslevy3506]

The vast majority of people won’t be affected then..

[@handsome526]

@@JohnLocke1776 august 6 2008 was one case

[@user-xh8ii2hj6r]

I always considered the whole lake a luke piss warm amoeba...a green amoeba... never got in past my knees....that was back in the late 70s.... lmao 🤣

[@vn10tv9]

Newsom says we still got drought

[@kchididdy]

In the near-term, we are not in a drought. Longer-term, we are definitely using more water than what is replenished by nature. Much water comes from the ground so out of sight out of mind. It's basically a desert after all.

[@conradnelson5283]

Nice report

[@user-zu3md5qz8y]

LAKE FULSINORE

[@jeffkeenan1539]

0:31 the lake level has been higher in the last 25 years three times to the yellow signs on the beach 3x in the last 23 years

[@MikeWise-et8to]

Send Mead some of that extra water here in Vegas !

[@maisgrill7892]

To little water we complain, to much water we complain

[@rocketdog2723]

The only one complaining is you,

[@LuckyBelafonte]

Beautiful

[@88clit]

I wanna see the lake monster or is that somewhere else!

[@kendallevans4079]

Nessy Burgers off the I-15 is the closest the I.E has to Loch Ness.....

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

I'm just so glad to see that California's water crisis seems to be over for now! Don't worry about the center of the country? I live in Oklahoma and all this hot weather gets me nervous! In 2022 it hit 109 degrees in my backyard! The pool was too hot to swim in! #GoElectric #GoGreen

[@maybe3100]

Cesspool, you fish in that thing ? Go fishing and catch some snicker bars!💩💩💩💩

[@kendallevans4079]

Lot's of brown trout in Elsinore! Already filet!

[@mediumrick7667]

Long live Lake Smellsomemore.

[@user-zu3md5qz8y]

LAKE LEVEL RISE

[@stenbak88]

Let every lake fill up as high as possible

[@vuaeco]

When we had a drought, they kept raising our water bill because they said we did NOT have enough water. Now we have way too much water we don't even know what to do with it, but the dog-gone water bill stays the same!

[@harrisonc985]

so when california says its in a drought this summer, it can be chalked up entirely to incompetence right?

[@lisalastnamesmith]

The water levels used to be higher.

[@b_uppy]

Hopefully they are harvesting the water to the soil. The ground has been dry, impermeable and lifeless wherever it is bare. Water takes time to infiltrate sun-baked soil. Shunting it off to the sea is a mistake, they need frequently placed, biologically active swales and raingardens to appropriately absorb water to the topsoil.

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

Weren't we just talking five months ago about the entire place drying up and blowing away??!!!

[@arcticredpanda4598]

Now that the drought is over can we repeal the drought tax Measure W?

[@sonnydacuse7622]

Lake Smelsinore is contaminated 😮

[@isaachernandez3212]

I go fishing there everyday. I use bear bait to catch giant stingray's.

[@FriesExtraSalt]

Yeah the kangaroos are rampant there early March late February

[@justinng6207]

My water bill rate break record every year

[@111jimi]

we should let the water out into the ocean so we can get back to drought conditions.........

[@melvinjohnson2074]

We told locals not to panic when the levels dropped as the reservoir was doing what it was designed to do.

[@lrvogt1257]

Drought and deluge don’t balance out to just right.

[@doughenderson4345]

How long ya think before they waste it all ??

[@ridethelightning7239]

thanks obamna

[@HoosierHugh317]

"Buried bench", English for the win.

[@gregbennett4254]

It's called nature

[@guslevy3506]

Drought over…time to take 1 hour showers again!

[@JohnDoe-xu2vx]

Think the PUC will mandate the expensive tiered billing on your water bills be stopped now that we are not in a drought?.....Heck no

[@teresawalker5101]

I remember back in the 1980s that it rai ed so hard that it got totally flooded

[@SaveAmerica69]

Yes it flooded really bad especially on Schrier drive

[@khaleb36]

Don’t complain anymore about we don’t have water

[@Sureyoudo]

Okay California you now have some water don't f it up like everything else in your state!

[@JohnDoe-wy1yd]

"Rain is a good thing." - Luke Bryan -

[@1964corvan]

Who remembers the mid 2000's Extra gum commercials that was filmed at...above the lake? 😆

[@kc6nfv746]

1980 the lake level 1265

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Cool

[@TWOCOWS1]

So sky is not falling?

[@alanamarias2950]

It was higher in 2005 ive lived here since 2003

[@lesliehatun2044]

The best course of action is to store the water. Anything else is poor management.

[@saynotop2w]

Well, the thing's called a lake. This is the norm before we collectively messed it up.

[@PREDATOR07]

So the water bill is going down 🎉🎉🎉🎉 yeh.

[@mrjonesyyy]

More water is a good problem to have

[@mr.ortega1636]

That's a good thing.. better then a drought

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

Too bad they aren't ever smart enough to build more reservoirs to keep extra water....

[@thedoctoroa7515]

These mfs better not complain about to much water…

[@mhughes1160]

Natural water lake ? They keep it filled with treated wastewater from Temecula . LoL 😂

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

T7rn the sprinklers back on, everything's great!

[@davidbelanger2681]

tastes like hell senior

[@victorboucher675]

Time for a tax increase ...

[@bob-o5206]

That's water in there? Lots of septic systems in that area.

[@kendallevans4079]

Exactly! My contractor Dad built a house pretty near the lake in the 80's You have to do a "perk" test to make sure the septic outflow will perk back into the ground, if it does, then flush away!

[@Ryousure]

They will just send that water back to the ocean ..

[@Alvan81]

It's either Chicken, or _just feathers!_ 😂

[@bdkw1]

Lake Smellsomemore.

[@YoungDolphh]

It's like a toilet that won't flush..

[@robertbrown4152]

She must have some high-top boots on in that lake.

[@scottp7587]

hey fisherman anybody go crappies fishing if so how is it? and where?

[@zoomcenter]

I live in Lake Elsinore long time ago it is gross

[@Fiftee1Fiftee_Boutique]

the land we live in is alive. summer isnt going to be pretty and fun. blisters and painful sunburns is to be expected. wild fires. and drought. this rain is onky preparing the land for the heat wave that is coming in july/june. humans need to follow the patterns of the wild animals. and migrate with them so we can survive all the storm this land and MEN create with their machines and polution.

[@BallerP]

“Lake Elsitucky”

[@aaronnava2985]

First of all why is this new we had no water for a min. Wonder why now its raining wonder why we have landslides maybe 🤔 southern Cali takes all the water for their pool. Maybe all the golf courses. Maybe all the farmers who steal water from underground wells.

[@Keepthinking568]

Will smith - summertime

[@Thailegion]

I used to live here 😂 wow

[@oscarsanchez8601]

Just lat year we we’re at record lows And poof! We’re at record highs 😜Crazy man! 🤪

[@upsdoug]

Lake Smellsomore

[@paulkoenings5934]

Great to 👀 so many NEWER structures built BELOW Lake Shore Dr. 1980-81 water was lapping ONTO the pavement & DESTROYED most wooden, 1 cinder block 🏠 on lake side withstood the crashing waves of water. I believe level rose to 1169'. Overflow exited THROUGH town of Lake Elsinore. State Park was TOTALLY under water. KTLA will be coming back this time next year displaying the subsequent destruction.

[@changosstrikefirst6921]

Dood don’t fish there that lake is nasty

[@wayneyd2]

Don't worry, it will be all gone is a few months.

[@olivrrrr]

Its a good thing they changed global warming to climate change instead! 😂😂😂😂😂