Video update on the Kern River flood. Footage on the right is about ten min old. #kernriver #kernville #cawx

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Water professionals who lived through it say it's not easy to forget the 1983 water year when a snowpack on the Kern River watershed conspired with a warm spring to fill Isabella Lake beyond its limits and send a roaring river to Bakersfield and beyond. bakersfield.com/news/forty-yea…

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With a snowpack at 429 percent of normal, this is going to be a season for the history books.

The Kern River is rising. This may be our first taste, locally, in Bakersfield. bakersfield.com/news/as-kern-r…

Lots of Kern River news in the past week. Links in the last tweet. 1) Steven Mayer Steven E. Mayer reports on the 6,500 CFS projected to flow through the Lower Kern and what it means for river safety. #kernriver

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For your space jargon handbook: Today's Space X launch attempt experienced "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

My editor admitted I made her cry when she read my story. I’ll take that as a win. ✍️🗞📰 bakersfield.com/news/honor-fli…

Another record was set at Lake Isabella. This morning they made the largest flow adjustment in its history when they took it from 6,200 CFS down to just about zero in a period of six hours as they investigated a vibration. It's coming back up now. #lakeisabella #kernriver

I took this video on Saturday. When the water is high we adjust where trips start and end to keep them in safer water. Even the “modified” trips are a lot of fun, as you can see/hear in the video. #kernriver #kernville #whitewater

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BREAKING: A Kern High School District employee has been indicted in connection to using Instagram to sell explosives and explosive material, and working with a Bakersfield High School student to fulfill these transactions. I will be posted more info on this soon.

Authorities seized about 500 pounds of explosives and explosive material from the home of Angelo Jackson Mendiver, 26, and about 500 pounds of explosives from the BHS student's home, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of CA

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Cal State Bakersfield President Lynnette Zelezny firmly believes she started her long career in the California State University system as a young, incoming freshman in the mid-1970s. bakersfield.com/news/a-chat-wi…

Heartbreaking.

New from me: Prosecutors declined to file charges against an off-duty police officer accused of driving a city-owned vehicle while intoxicated, the Kern County District Attorney's Office said Monday.  bakersfield.com/news/prosecuto…

Go team America. Current year-to-date stock market gains, on my screen.