Billy wrote:
songbird wrote:
Billy wrote:
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The first one has Noam Chomsky, so you can hardly fail to learn
something new.

yep, should be fun.

arg! weather forecast has more rain coming.
looks like flood weather for some folks down
stream and in town. the water is already up
to the levees in several areas.

the wetlands have a few more feet of capacity,
but that won't do much good with the ground
already being saturated.

Until about a decade ago, we had one town that flooded nearly every
year. Only place I ever knew where flooding was normal. People started
putting their houses on 20' stilts. Then the Corp. of Engineers put in
flood control, and the river has been very sedate ever since. Not that I
wish flood victims harm, but we used to enjoy the floods. It would close
the main road, and the silence was golden. Additionally it was an
enforced vacation, where for a couple of days you just had to sit, and
watch the day slowly go bye. If we got very lucky the power would go off
for a day or so. Not enough to ruin what's in the freezer, just enough
to give a feeling of sanity to the neighborhood.

we camped quite a bit when i was young so
bouts of roughing it don't bother me either.
right now i'd welcome a few days of quiet time.


That said, a few years back it rained until June. Mud everywhere. No
fun, and the garden was late.

i'd not enjoy mud season in hilly country.


Is this normal weather for you?

not compared to the past few years, but
going back further this would have been a
more normal.

the good point of having more rain is
that the lakes need the boost. not much
snow the past few years and those hot and
dry summers...


We just had a 3 day wind storm, which is unusual for Northern California.

Hope everybody that wants to stay dry gets their wish.

Good luck.

holding out so far, more rains this morning
and tonight. there was a break that has let
some sink in. for us locally we're fine.
it is still the town down slope from us that
will be more of a risk because it has two rivers
flowing through it that have to push against
all the other water coming from both the north
and the south via other rivers and there's only
one outlet to Lake Huron for all those sources.
add to that how flat the area is and that makes
for some interesting times.

the last time it flooded the town was in the
mid-90s. i think that is when they put in the
levees (i wasn't around then). i'm not sure
we're going to top the levees this time with a
break in the rains coming over the weekend. we'll
see...


songbird