Lake Elsinore poppy fields: Visitors overwhelm California town

[@mario2montano]

I live in Lake Elsinore and its making traffic really bad. People are being idiots and are parking on the side of the freeway

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

Mario Montano you could have stopped with” people are being idiots”, because that covers everything !

[@cvogelagent]

Yeah, cause we’ve never seen flowers before.

[@thiccloliii8791]

Mario Montano bro Fr, I see it a lot too.

[@thiccloliii8791]

Councilman Les Wynan I-

[@thiccloliii8791]

Cindy Vogel LOL

[@staceylynn6811]

FYI... the poppies don't look like this every year. Literally only on the years when it rains a lot in California.. which is rare. Also, as soon as you pick the poppies they die... so please don't. & Please don't crush them by sitting on them & laying in them.

[@kaitourobin3206]

@Íbero Gallego they are state flowers as while as considered endangered. It is a federal crime to pick them. Which led to high fines and jail time. They don't grow anywhere else in the world and is being destroyed by urbanization or other flowers like lavender and mustard seeds. If notice you can see purple mix in. Which is not a good sign. By the way if you building your civilization on it naturally habitat dont complain that is growing where it is belong. It was there first not the road.

[@subscribetomefornoreason2511]

Stacey Lynn too late for that they died

[@larvitardratini5965]

Trust me it looks cooler in person it's actually really sick. All these idiots with their phones are gonna ruin it tho

[@thiccloliii8791]

Larvitar Dratini Fr

[@Roger-ob2ft]

They are gonna ruin. It with their phones? Lol , that doesn't make sense.

[@user-bi9tp8zb9k]

@@Roger-ob2ft they step on the flowers to take pictures and put their stuff on top of them and they die.

[@scrumthebum2451]

Lots of great places that few new about are now ruined because of social media 👎

[@mybackhurts7020]

Yeah we never had flowers before and people never went to look at the Poppyfields there isn’t designated Poppyfields for that or anything. News is trying to spin a bad thing on anything even people looking at flowers

[@jools2363]

Scrum Thebum2 Shut up

[@Yennjgnav]

And littering too

[@jasonhendrickson2289]

Because you've never learned of something cool on social media and gone there, doing exactly what you're complaining about?

[@dafttool]

Scrum Thebum2 *Yes!!!* I’m a lifelong resident of Florida, & I refuse to share the name of my favorite beach. It still looks like it did when the Spanish arrived, with sand dunes & sea oats, excellent waves, & not a building or tourist in sight. Locals know about it. Some even go nude there. But most transplants & tourists are oblivious. I would like to keep it that way. Their ignorance is my bliss.

[@zenmasterwannabe]

It's an *APOPPYLYPSE!*

[@Bearwoman11]

It is beautiful and breathtaking! Please stay on the trails and stay off the flowers!

[@TJ-sl7cz]

Bearwoman11 they won’t. People will pick them, walk all over them, no one has an respect they just wanna get that selfie. Not to mention how hard is it to throw trash away? I hate it when people come into a strangers town and litters. Sorry I’m goin on a rant lol.

[@marjanstokelj410]

Beautiful. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@lindathelighthouse6518]

The Beautiful Mountains 💜

[@JohnKrill]

Part of the problem is the traffic flow in this city sucks. Even on a normal weekday you can be stuck in heavy traffic. There is only one main road and it circumnavigates the lake. That is it. Getting off the freeway and trying to get to the other side of the lake can take forever. So if you get there from the freeway or over the mountains to the west once in the city it will be non-stop traffic.

[@ClubMayview]

As if California isn't already a nightmare to navigate in.

[@jjl4578]

Thanks a lot from lake Elsinore more traffic

[@LeonardoDeVinci1452]

Leave it to humans to trample a good thing .

[@TerryTunes]

You can get California Poppy Apocalypse 2019 t-shirts on Amazon - www.amazon.com/dp/B07NVRJ1T5?ref_=pe_2196150_146773810&customId=B0752XJYNL&th=1

[@SR-oc7fc]

Ooooh, they're going there because they're pretty. Not what I was expecting.

[@kevinmeyer1583]

If you've never been to the state Poppy Reserve up near Lancaster, it's very pretty for about 2 weeks a year. Unfortunately, they're somewhat random weeks so it's hard to plan a trip.

[@quintonprice3157]

Susan Rose my thoughts as well

[@HuntaDaKilla]

Hey Fairfield, CA has fields of yellow mustard flowers if anyone is interested. lol Actually I find the yellow more appealing. Napa, CA has great sites to for these flowers.

[@TheActiveAssault]

Daniel Cabral Camp Pendleton is bright yellow.

[@bobsingh5521]

Daniel Cabral Go check out the Valley of the Moon right now

[@mayarosenfeld7278]

yeah our earth is beautiful, please don't ruin it!

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

Let everyone go and pick a flower, then bust ‘em for picking the state flower! We could be out of debt as a state in about 1 week! It’s a $1000 fine!

[@brzzzy]

i dont think they are in a state park though

[@TJ-sl7cz]

jlz doesn’t have to be in a state park. It’s the state flower. They can bust you for it anywhere if they wanted.

[@brzzzy]

@@TJ-sl7cz Honestly, you're probably correct, as I dont know what site their specifically mentioning in this video. But I guess my point was if it was on private property, you cant fine them. Source: www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Plants/California-Poppy

[@kaitourobin3206]

@@brzzzy if it for private property than you can fine them for trespassing.

[@kaitourobin3206]

@@TJ-sl7cz yeah, especially since it a endangered species that only grows in California. I hope they didn't do any permitted damage. They used to grow everywhere even up to northern California. But now with urbanization and invasion species like mustard seeds and lavender are destroying them. If you see purple or yellow mix in with the orange it not a good sign.

[@art68us]

I don’t get it. It’s just flowers. Why are people acting like they’ve never seen flowers before?

[@desirelabelle2199]

I thought poppies as in the drug one...oops lol

[@robbiegarber898]

They are the same, but you'd have to get quite a few, and need the tools to properly extract the opium. Not really worth it, I think.

[@robbiegarber898]

@Jason and Julie Smith Thank you for informing me.

[@user-rb1yf4he9q]

Desire La Belle you wish!😎

[@quintonprice3157]

Robbie Garber u and I both

[@emailercc3565]

its too late though. they would have had to do it when it was closed like a ball.

[@nermac1]

The only thing I disagree with Manos on, is his "residents aren't used to traffic" comment. That's the exact opposite, residents+commuters who utilize the 15 daily are more then used to traffic. We live in it. It just happens that the abnormal traffic on the weekend is just straining with the existing tolerance of traffic we have to put up with the rest of the week.

[@kaitourobin3206]

True, when my family used in lake elsinore my Dad commuted to Corona for work. The 20 minute drive could turn into a hour even 2 hours if it was bad enough. Now here in Kansas City they freak out if there a 10 minutes delay. Lol people who dont understand what true traffic is.

[@Amberk84]

If you dont belong in Elsinore go home. You are making traffic unbearable. Like it's not already

[@astriod7443]

I live in lake Elsinore.

[@SkyChaserCom]

This caused absolutely horiffic traffic on I-15! Although it was pretty but taking 3 hours to go 20 miles and missing an important engagement in Lake Elsinore without any alternate routes had my blood boiling redder than any flowers.

[@DTG_LOCKETT]

2:07 Amazing how many people selfishly appreciate beauty so the thought of it being best viewed from afar to preserve it for others is overwhelmed by the need to take a selfy

[@susie7336]

Priorities are entirely skewed.

[@andreboba1]

That flower make me so happy & peacefull

[@RandomPPerson]

To anyone that plans on visiting the beautiful california poppy, please do not go off the trails and step on them since it takes forever to grow back and the fragile plants are easy to destroy with out feet/shoes. Please, they actually won’t survive that long if you guys keep stepping/sitting on them.

[@rosscityofliverpool.983]

Now it will be destroyed by humans. You should have kept it to yourself and just showed pictures.

[@1.4142]

There are almost as many people blocking road to go see the super bloom as there are flowers.

[@evylulu7175]

apparently ppl rip the wires to get into the field, just for a single photo, and they are killing those flowers by laying on them

[@vinucini4341]

Wild flowers are more beautiful than cultivated flowers because they grow in the wild nurtured by nature

[@mountainbikerdave]

take a motorcycle. you can blast through all the traffic and there is always plenty of space for parking a bike.

[@zouzouhair4330]

do not collect, cut or damage poppies or any other flowers wherever your reason. please respect nature.

[@jordandontworryaboutit3229]

Zou zouhair thank you for supporting this ideology! I’ve been to these field three times this year, I live 8 minutes away, and have told countless people to not pick the flowers! People will rip them out of the ground by the roots in the hopes they can take them home.......sorry chief but they are very very seasonal and only grow on southwest facing slopes during very wet years for the most part, they will die in your garden and at the hands of someone who doesn’t understand what they are doing

[@SkyChaserCom]

The superbloom was cool to look at UNTIL I spent over 2 extra hours on jammed traffic on I 15 with no alternates ... Luckily I was headed to the skydive place there, ofcourse, not being able to jump at all! At least I wasn't headed to emergency or such. A drive that normally is 15 to 20 minutes (from Corona to Elsinore) was 2+ hours. Horrible.

[@Skyethur]

@1:37 very disrespectful

[@faithingod6639]

Oh yaaa I’m driving there now thank u guys

[@limelightmlbfanstaddictcra6087]

I dont understand whats bad?

[@mikethrice]

U can see all the new trails forming. Not cool

[@rubyking3948]

*Just an odd factoid. Lake Elsinore is English's bad spelling for Lake El Señor from Colonial Spaniards, but here you have it as God's gift: The Gentleman's Lake*

[@rubyking3948]

@Bill P We're not talking about Yale here I'm simply referring towards El señor.

[@rubyking3948]

@Bill P I know it hurts to be educated but prove me wrong tell me, do you know what El sinore means in Spanish?

[@kaitourobin3206]

@Bill P okay you both wrong and correct. The Spaniard (before mexcian move into the region) call it laguna Grande. But by the time Mexican ranchers move there new English speakers settlers started to call it el senor after the ranchers since they don't know Spanish well enough to call it Laguna Grande which just means big lake. Since the Mexican werent the orginal Spaniard who name it didn't care to correct them. Either way both name isn't very creative.

[@kaitourobin3206]

Interesting fact Elsinore have a sister city in Denmark call Elsinore. Which was the city in which Hamlet take place.

[@kaitourobin3206]

@Bill P i have when i went to Terra Cotta middle school library back in 2008. Where i went and read several books about it history. Also pg 71 books.google.com/books?id=N7gPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false and pg 118 books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q&f=false Plus another source www.lake-elsinore.org/visitors/history/city-timeline Plus from the wiki "It was named Elsinore after the Danish city in Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which is now its sister city (Helsingør). Another source maintains Elsinore is a corruption of "el señor", Spanish for "the gentleman", because the city site had been owned by a don." Basically they are not sure if they actual came up with the name Elsinore out of thin air or they get idea to used Elsinore from Hamlet because people were saying el senor very badly and it sounded like Elsinore. It a he said she said satiation. Reason why Historians check with multiple sources when studying history.

[@rickyledezma5008]

Yeah I get that it’s a rare and beautiful occasion, but when I can’t get to my house because they close off two freeway exits, then it’s gone too far. What should be a 5 minute commute from my house to the freeway becomes a one hour ordeal, and five versa, on the weekends. Thanks CBS for giving it more, unwanted attention.

[@ichigo2012hollowmask]

Does anyone know of a super bloom area with the least amount of tourists in Socal? And one that has poppies?

[@babymoon5282]

This is why I don't do California. There are private, quiet and natural places all across the country. I'll go visit those places. Also social media has cost us so much.

[@brandondavidson4085]

This is the kind of story we need right now....

[@vadaann1279]

They could call all those poppy fans “junkies”. Get it?

[@blessonmathew2927]

Praise the Lord for his beautiful creation!

[@sethwiersma1582]

This is nothing compared to what I see every year in Colorado. I go backpacking and went to a place called Ice Lakes and the lake is up at 13,000 feet with neon blue water, rock cliffs with snow, and vibrant flowers surrounding it. This is very bland scenery in my opinion lol.

[@jmsilva333]

That's what I said, till i went to see what all the fuss was about cause it was making my Starbucks run of 15 min into an hour. It is a wild scenery

[@herewego2788]

I bet the town doesn't complain about all the extra taxes they're collecting

[@thiccloliii8791]

here we go LMFAOO

[@anarchoaristocracy8368]

1:38 This Boomer is what is wrong with California.

[@biggums8811]

Yeah bitching about everything that happens

[@jeffjohnson2958]

Tarantula country in those hills outside Lake Elsinore. Bet there are a lot of burrows amongst those poppies if one looked close enough.

[@AShadeOfYou]

I think the people that own property in Lake Elsinore should be happy!!!! Very 😆

[@deadmoosemeat7952]

The Wizard of Oz

[@deadmoosemeat7952]

Ahh, NorCals not to bad, atleast they want to seperate..

[@denvergriffin5555]

Legalize milk of the poppy, now.

[@TJ-sl7cz]

Bill P game of thrones reference man

[@PokeYourEyez]

Is this the same stuff the British got us hooked on in exchange for tea?

[@CrystalMouse1]

“Poppies will put them to sleeeeeeeeep....”

[@jamesdicus5468]

I'm from a area that burned this summer, and you whine about parking. Go buy some agent orange and spray the place, or get over it. Crybabies

[@gooddealonly]

Charge an entry fee! $10.00/car!

[@TJ-sl7cz]

gooddealonly I agree. To pay for all the damage from people who don’t care about anything but themselves.

[@jjpmcc]

How about growing food?

[@michaelray9113]

Thank you social media

[@standardamerican8892]

Ridiculous..... Unbelievable making people sit for hours in traffic because of flowers. Nerds at it again. The people in the city can't get out to go about their day. The businesses in town I'm sure are suffering because nobody can get to them.

[@michaelh.8280]

Plot twist.. All the visitors automobile exhaust poisons and kills the poppies. Better luck next time.

[@vinucini4341]

God gave man always and only the best

[@SkyHeaven9]

Go see it... enjoy what's there..it belong to America. Not the city.

[@larvitardratini5965]

Ghost Ghost that's just stupid lol

[@dominiqueford489]

Sprawling opium poppy field found in Northern California ... www.foxnews.com/us/sprawling-opium-poppy-field-found-in... People tend to think of the heroin trail as originating in an opium poppy field in Southeast Asia or Mexico -- not in Northern California. In a statement on Monday, the Monterey County …

[@vram745]

See these from my house

[@coreyjwingate]

Prove it

[@jonalarcon8564]

I spent many years in elsinore it's no big deal to me whatever

[@FishOnIsMyHandle]

Genius.

[@tomservo5007]

with the abundance of poppies this year, will the price of heroin go down?

[@TeamAdrenalinePHX]

Tf!? I was gonna send my guys and trucks to take over!

[@douglascompton6016]

I GOT MY FLOWER I GOT MY POWER I GOT A WOMAN WHO KNOWS !!

[@tucker2197]

why do we ruin everything good

[@mgomez34]

Much like anything you do in Socal: burned. If the Mexican fruit man is out selling you already know it gonna be a cluster.

[@DanKetchum007]

Damn pollen

[@blancagarrido3087]

I was apart of the Popeye thing we saw people of news and I was in the tragic from 3/5 hours and one kind man gave us all water it was horrible

[@ellevanroamer487]

I got up at 5 am, waited in my car for sunrise and walked up the canyon. Me and a few others who knew better. It was heavenly to be there amongst the poppies and once I noticed it was starting to get busy, I took another lung full of fresh air and went home happy.

[@therealdeeves]

I did the same. I went there very early and enjoyed it.

[@mikebtrfld1705]

Careful, don't step in that pile of Rush Limbaugh.

[@denvergriffin5555]

Another tolerant, caring Democrat.

[@cristalrafaela7849]

Mother nature might get her revenge later on.

[@avail1.]

Genesis 1:1/James 1:17

[@mybackhurts7020]

Wow you even find a problem with people looking at flowers.

[@brzzzy]

social media ruins everythign

[@tatecraft1361]

You just emptied San Francisco’s skid row for the weekend.

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

Look at the herd of mouth-breathers, going out to graze!!

[@lightlore4434]

nibiru effect.

[@AlejandroLopez-ib2jx]

A trip west that ends before hitting California is a good trip

[@Cruz474]

Have Californian's never seen flowers before???

[@declaringpond2276]

Seeing as weve been a long drought, this is like seeing snow fall in California

[@georgesawtooth]

Too busy being snowflakes.

[@jmsilva333]

Millions of flowers we are talking about here. Come see it

[@NN-bv9lq]

How many meth addicts do you think will be there

[@15743_Hertz]

PoPpYs! POPPYS! POppYS! poppypoppypoppy! Follow the yellow brick road! followfollowfollowtheyellowbrickroad! To the field of poppies poppies poppies!

[@illiterate.ink.]

Papi

[@narrow_way12]

Who is mother nature? Jesus who is God created all things.

[@PeterGriffinANIMALCRACKERS]

A vegan white girl.

[@charlesmoore8958]

Plllllleeeeeaaaasssseeee stay in California!!!!!!

[@jerryserrato64]

Looks like grass ...

[@SuperGiantGeckosLLC]

Junkies dream?

[@VT-kh7uf]

There is nothing to see for me

[@madisonone8929]

Someone yell Fire 🔥🔥

[@CHENDOdeCOPANDARO]

nice petite M.I.L.F. Norah 😍😘

[@marioalmada9711]

Epidemics lol

[@JRWeez]

Lol all the tree hugging hipsters

[@t.webner2466]

Oh go cry on some poppies. So what they're layin in it. whaaaa.

[@jakal172]

lol people are such failures. I had to check if it was april fools day. Ohh a bunch of flowers that all bloom together omg it happens every year lol.

[@mrc5980]

Enjoy them now. In 12 years nothing will be there. Or the Earth for that matter. I mean California and wet shouldn't be in the same sentence!

[@bobsmith6818]

Build a Wall

[@gdizzzl]

CAlifornias just like to complain