Oh the humanity....Rain, Rain, Rain

I've only lived here for 16 years. It's raining for the fourth day in a row. Will it ever end? This is unprecedented. I give the folks in the Pacific Northwest a lot of credit for gloom, gloom, rain, rain and more gloom and rain.

I'm happy with a day of rain. We usually run outside to see it. But now it's just dribbling on and on. I need a dose of sunshine! Arrrggg!
It appears we are in for 1-2 more days of it.

Oh the humanity.....

 

LMAO! Yeah....it never rains in southern California, TB. I DID love the weather when I lived out there. Can't argue that. And now....you are spoiled. We have beautiful seasons here in WI but the winters have WAY too many grey days. Depressing. AND....at least your rain isn't freezing! Like they are predicting here.
The thing I remember about unprecedented rainfalls in LA was the houses sliding down the hillsides. Never could figure out why some people built houses where they did.

 

Were I live it's quite flat. No house sliding here. And yes I'm quite spoiled. We average 350 sunny days a year. We are not getting heavy rain like the LA area but we've had over an inch this week. January's normal for the month is 0.89". It's just a steady light rain. Our annual norm is 4.42".

 

Over an INCH, you say...........my, my......imagine that.

 

Where the Rev lives, they used to consider a Snowfall, as an Act Of God, and insurance companies use that to not pay for damages or slipped discs, etc. So my uncle took the position that he wouldn't shovel until it was over 6", anything less could wait for God to take it away.

Wash the cars. It must be warm enough. Can you imagine a bunch of bikini-clad gals offering that service? Warm rain, bikini carwashers, oh.. the imagination... until the SWMBO peaks out. Then whack!

 

We have had rain for 4 or 5 days straight, it is cold and rainy.....I am in Ohio....I am not a happy camper right now!

 

Well.......stop camping and go home where it's dry & warm!:banana:

 

The worst part is my wagon is getting lonely in the garage. I usually don't take it out in the rain.

 

That's only 15 days of the year! By Saturday, you'll be half-way through your rainy season!

 

You should try it, TB......let it rain on it and wash it at the same time. You may find that it's a differnet color under that blue!

 

Funny, very funny...Today is a very steady moderate rain. We could get a full inch or so today. The desert is looking mighty muddy right now. Even the coyotes have taken cover. We usually see them everyday here at work.

 

I'll have to look up Ridgecrest on a map. Ridgecrest and desert seem counter intuitive. How big is that town? I didn't know you worked there. I had visions of you being a hermit in the middle of the desert.

 

We have about 27,000 here. The Navy base is the biggest employer.

About 140 north of LA. 90 east of Bakersfield. 2nd largest city in Kern county.

I'm not quite a hermit.

 

I don't understand why California wastes so much water. The LA river is about full. Only about 1 foot from topping the sides.

For those who don't know way back before Mr. Mulhollond designed to take water from everywhere else in the state and send it south via aqueducts LA was marsh. LA is now considered a desert.

He turned the LA river in to a concrete river diverting all the run off to the ocean, run off from the moutains. All the water they didn't need was diverted to the LA river. All they need is a couple of great big holes to dump it in then it can actually be used. He diverted all the water out of Owens Lake north of us all the way to LA. Over 170 miles. So now several million gallons of water per minute gets dumped in to the ocean. There's a great series of reservoirs in the mountains around LA but nothing down in the low areas to capture all the run off from the moutains that cannot be captured for use.

Now that's forward thinking.

 

He sounds like an Ex-Governor or Bureaucrat. The difference is minor. Two clues and they're dangerous. Dopes without borders.