My friends up on the Oregon coast are preparing to get slammed. Also:
"Models continue to show very small run-to-run variation and bring precipitable water values over 1.60" to much of our area. If that verifies, it will potentially break the monthly precipitable water record (currently 1.61" in Oakland)."
The ground is dry, so we can probably take all of this precip no prob, the fun is when the soils are saturated. We had a lot of trees come down this past season, making up for the two prior years when we got zip and the old trees didn't get knocked down. Please note, 90% of our tree fall are non native crap trees that shouldn't be here to begin with…I'm looking forward to taking out the non-natives in my yard and replacing them with live oaks and redwoods, you know, the ones that stick around a long long time?
Xylophiles among us consider the eucalyptus an invasive species (from Australia, thus a heavy drinker) with ugly, peeling bark and no real shape to the crown.
yeah, I have an Aussie friend who says "god, these things get out of control when they actually get some water"
Those are one part of my youth I actually miss. I loved the smell of them, and watching the sun rise and set on different groves of them, looked like butter melting on broccoli…
Even non-native trees are better than no trees, that's for sure. When they're groomed the eucalyptus can look very nice.
They were pretty much all we had back in the valley, closer to the coast we had Monterey pines. The valley I grew up in was actually below sea level, the only thing holding back the ocean was the old Ocean Shore Railroad levee. Salt marshes don't grow stuff so good, other than artichokes.
I live near the top of the ridge that defines Oakland's west boundary, and I can still see the few beautiful acres of what Oakland looked like before the white man fucked this place up.
Well that's ignorance of the press, as far as I'm concerned- we'd done dozens of forecasts like this before, it's just that this time, there was a bishop involved…
I went to a community meeting on Tuesday night where they discussed water projections. At the rate we're going our reservoir will be empty in three years, but broader area agencies' plans to link our community to the state water project (so that we re-stock our reservoir with Colorado River water and water from up north) aren't on a schedule to address that. In fact the connection, which would require laying about five miles of extra pipe, isn't planned for at least five years out. The community leaders were really haranguing the guy who was presenting this information, because the planning disconnect is indeed pretty stupid.
He also mentioned that Santa Barbara, if it hadn't spent the money 20 years ago and connected to the state water system, would now be in "water death." He said that Montecito is close to that, because the reservoir that it depends on for potable water is almost silted up. I believe Montecito will be hooking into Santa Barbara's system soon, which also includes desal.
All of that is to say that this weather system isn't coming anywhere near us.
Couldn't Montecito afford to build their own water plant, to like extract water from cow farts or something? I mean, they are filthy rich, is what I'm saying.
As far as I understand they're going to hook into Santa Barbara's system, which hooks into the state system.
For now they've been relying on extremely strict enforcement. A lot of those wealthy people with the vast lawns haven't been taking things seriously, and so I think there's been a huge crackdown on that. That's about all I know about it in that town.
My friends up on the Oregon coast are preparing to get slammed. Also:
"Models continue to show very small run-to-run variation and bring precipitable water values over 1.60" to much of our area. If that verifies, it will potentially break the monthly precipitable water record (currently 1.61" in Oakland)."
Crikey, hope everyone stays safe and no one's home gets flooded out.
Looks like northern and central California sill get some precip out of this, which should be a good thing, no?
The ground is dry, so we can probably take all of this precip no prob, the fun is when the soils are saturated. We had a lot of trees come down this past season, making up for the two prior years when we got zip and the old trees didn't get knocked down. Please note, 90% of our tree fall are non native crap trees that shouldn't be here to begin with…I'm looking forward to taking out the non-natives in my yard and replacing them with live oaks and redwoods, you know, the ones that stick around a long long time?
I'm looking at you, eucalyptus!
Do you have those big weeds up there in the Bay area? They were the developer's instant-neighborhood fave down here.
I'm afraid I don't know WHAT you're talking about. Those 70 foot weeds? A big one came down this past spring (offspring for scale)
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Xylophiles among us consider the eucalyptus an invasive species (from Australia, thus a heavy drinker) with ugly, peeling bark and no real shape to the crown.
yeah, I have an Aussie friend who says "god, these things get out of control when they actually get some water"
Those are one part of my youth I actually miss. I loved the smell of them, and watching the sun rise and set on different groves of them, looked like butter melting on broccoli…
Even non-native trees are better than no trees, that's for sure. When they're groomed the eucalyptus can look very nice.
They were pretty much all we had back in the valley, closer to the coast we had Monterey pines. The valley I grew up in was actually below sea level, the only thing holding back the ocean was the old Ocean Shore Railroad levee. Salt marshes don't grow stuff so good, other than artichokes.
I live near the top of the ridge that defines Oakland's west boundary, and I can still see the few beautiful acres of what Oakland looked like before the white man fucked this place up.
Also Too: YOU BASTARD
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Nothing here. As per usual. Also gone is my ability to wrap a damned url http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?loc…
Well that's ignorance of the press, as far as I'm concerned- we'd done dozens of forecasts like this before, it's just that this time, there was a bishop involved…
I went to a community meeting on Tuesday night where they discussed water projections. At the rate we're going our reservoir will be empty in three years, but broader area agencies' plans to link our community to the state water project (so that we re-stock our reservoir with Colorado River water and water from up north) aren't on a schedule to address that. In fact the connection, which would require laying about five miles of extra pipe, isn't planned for at least five years out. The community leaders were really haranguing the guy who was presenting this information, because the planning disconnect is indeed pretty stupid.
He also mentioned that Santa Barbara, if it hadn't spent the money 20 years ago and connected to the state water system, would now be in "water death." He said that Montecito is close to that, because the reservoir that it depends on for potable water is almost silted up. I believe Montecito will be hooking into Santa Barbara's system soon, which also includes desal.
All of that is to say that this weather system isn't coming anywhere near us.
Couldn't Montecito afford to build their own water plant, to like extract water from cow farts or something? I mean, they are filthy rich, is what I'm saying.
As far as I understand they're going to hook into Santa Barbara's system, which hooks into the state system.
For now they've been relying on extremely strict enforcement. A lot of those wealthy people with the vast lawns haven't been taking things seriously, and so I think there's been a huge crackdown on that. That's about all I know about it in that town.
Must say I was surprised not to hear from you on the Dylan thread. Not an adherent?
I haven't seen it. Have been in and out. I'll take a look.
OK so that he's getting the Nobel? That's pretty cool. An outside-the-box choice. But the Swedes seem to mix it up with their Nobel choices.
I'm in a webinar so I'm not really paying attention.
For literature! Pissing off what's left of the literary establishment!
Well, what used to be the literary establishment. Now that's Amazon.com.
OK, I'm going out to clean the gutters so there will be room for plenty more stuff that the storm brings in.
Whoa. Yeah, it seems the storm has already knocked my entire comment history and p-ness out of my ID account!
Whoa, Fistalnacht deux!
Hail Columbus, dead white male!