# Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 723
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/723 "2025-09-08T15:58:52Z")
Today’s Lake Corcoran is long gone, and in its place is the fertile Central Valley of California. But Lake Corcoran does have its occasional remnants, however. When flooding, heavy rains, or heavy snowfall occurs then 3 usually dry lakes can re-form: Buena Vista Lake, Kern Lake and Tulare Lake. The winter of 2022-2023 brought heavy snowfalls to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the spring thaw in 2023 brought massive amounts of water into the Central Valley. Tulare Lake submerged over 94,000 acres of farmland and the water remains to this day. It will eventually evaporate. Added — in April 2023 I visited Tulare lake and posted my pictures. It was impressive to see! > [@The flooded disaster that is Tulare Lake in California’s Central Valley](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flooded-disaster-that-is-tulare-lake-in-california-s-central-valley/983363): > > [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/JVjEI5H.jpeg) Tulare Lake is normally a dry lake. It has been dry since the late 1800s and early 1900s when the rivers that fed it were diverted to irrigate Central Valley farm lands. But there has been so much rain lately that the rivers overflowed. Water has flooded the farm lands that were in the dry lake. [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/764tOIi.jpeg)[[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/dZ1sPwC.jpg) Driving back to San Francisco from Los Angeles last weekend I stopped … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952)._