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Post by richardw on Feb 10, 2017 12:17:20 GMT -5
Very very boring weather here, haven't had rain for ages but at least the winds are gone.
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Post by jondear on Feb 13, 2017 10:31:33 GMT -5
We're having a blizzard. 18" on the ground, and supposed to snow into tonight.
It's a good day to stay home and eat turkey soup and dumplings.
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Post by mskrieger on Feb 13, 2017 11:17:10 GMT -5
jondear, I feel you. We had barely had winter at all until last week when the temperature dropped, 15" of snow fell, and it's been either sleeting, freezing rain, snowing or windy and colder than a witches teat ever since. I love February.
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Post by prairiegardens on Feb 13, 2017 15:43:38 GMT -5
Anyone heard from Steev? Read an article that some dam in northern California is in danger of having the emergency spillway collapse...they are evacuating the area. My impression is that he is much further south, and the last I heard the spillway was holding and the water level was dropping but it would be good to know he is out of harm's way.
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Post by steev on Feb 13, 2017 17:17:29 GMT -5
BLUB!
Kidding; not to say I'm out of harm's way, just not that harm.
It's really starting to look like we'd better invest in our infrastructure, instead of foreign adventures.
Still, if that dam, the highest in the USA, were to fail, could be the surfing/kayaking ride of a lifetime. Kowabunga, dudes!
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Post by philagardener on Feb 13, 2017 18:04:38 GMT -5
Seems to be no shortage of dam problems in the world these days! Good of you, steev, to always have such a positive attitude!  |
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Post by steev on Feb 13, 2017 20:17:23 GMT -5
I'm the most optimistic pessimist ever, but really, don't we need to take care of basic infrastructure? I mean, it's great to go after oil (and Trump's business interests), but we need to pay attention to real life; if we don't pay attention to real life, we're fucked; period.
Foreign war won't drag us out of stagnation; the profits of arms manufacture won't trickle down to the people; you got arms stocks? Right; not fucking likely; those are for the 1%, who don't give a husky fuck about you.
Yes, I do have a sour opinion and a "bad" attitude.
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Post by jondear on Feb 13, 2017 22:32:14 GMT -5
jondear, I feel you. We had barely had winter at all until last week when the temperature dropped, 15" of snow fell, and it's been either sleeting, freezing rain, snowing or windy and colder than a witches teat ever since. I love February. We got our fair share of sleet and freezing rain during January here as well. This storm dumped about 30 inches on us 😞 with more to come Wednesday. |
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Post by mskrieger on Feb 14, 2017 11:29:24 GMT -5
I'm the most optimistic pessimist ever, but really, don't we need to take care of basic infrastructure? I mean, it's great to go after oil (and Trump's business interests), but we need to pay attention to real life; if we don't pay attention to real life, we're fucked; period. The repair+rebuild infrastructure pitch of this particular chief executive gave me hope. (Despite all the everything else going on.) We'll see how it pans out. In the meantime, steev, we trust you'll keep your kayak close.  |
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Post by richardw on Feb 14, 2017 12:33:08 GMT -5
Not looking good for the Lake Oroville dam with a lot more rain due over the next week
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Post by steev on Feb 18, 2017 1:44:16 GMT -5
I'm keeping my kayak strapped to my back, but it's a PITA when trying to drive.
"They" seem to be optimistic about that dam; one hopes they'll take the hint and fund the upgrades.
I have serious doubts about the current administration's infrastructure-repair promises, given its proposed top-tier tax reductions; of course, the repairs could be covered by reductions of social services, but I hope that would lead to the general populace waking up to how badly they're being screwed by the establishment (both parties) and utterly rebelling against the corporatist incumbents who've been covering their asses at the expense of their constituents.
However, it continued to rain steadily ~6 hours from this afternoon; had cleared a couple days this week, so I got some work done, but this is really hammering me; can't work enough to stay in shape; can't stay in shape to work when possible; feh. Oh well, it will all work out as it will. Inshallah!
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Post by reed on Feb 18, 2017 4:46:27 GMT -5
We are in a warm dry spell here. I only get the big tiller out once or twice a year and am thinking of going ahead and doing so this spring.
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Post by steev on Feb 19, 2017 18:16:49 GMT -5
This week we got a Pineapple Express that hammered both SoCal and NorCal; driving to the farm, I came into a 20-mile north-bound traffic jam, apparently caused by flooding/accidents; we were inching along occasionally, which some drivers found intolerable, so they'd try to U-turn over the median (illegal), which was a grassy swamp; not all got across, so they had to wait while the CHP came to write them up.
After an hour of that, I decided to get off the freeway at the next exit, thinking to make better time on county roads, flying by the seat of my pants, which turned out to not be very aerodynamic; between flooded road closures and maplessness, I was soon utterly lost. It's remarkable how much of Cali is farm-land and very sparsely populated; eventually I broke the prime rule of guy-ness: I asked directions.
When I got to Maxwell, where I normally get off the freeway, I could see south-bound traffic jammed like the north-bound had been; there was a road-block on the route through town due to flooding, but the deputy said I could get through, so I got to the farm. The normal drive is 2 1/2 hours, but it took me 6 1/2.
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Post by richardw on Feb 19, 2017 23:46:51 GMT -5
Your flooding even made it to our 'fake news' network, though i know it true because we heard it here,thanks steev.
The worlds weather is all fucked up, South Eastern USA and Peru have had flooding when the planet is currently El Niño - La Niña close to neutral, where it takes a strong La Niña to bring such weather. Then we have had a summer of long periods of intense westerly quarterly winds which are feature of strong El Niño. Australia has had an amazing amount of rain through out a large area of there internal desert, again there seems no reason why such extremes should be happening when the worlds weather appears in so called neutral balance.
Oh yer, weather in deep down under has been warm today, high temp of 30.2deg which should do wonders in fulling out the pumpkins
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Post by reed on Feb 21, 2017 11:07:04 GMT -5
Still warm and dry here. Concerning things that are recommended to plant "as soon as the ground can be worked", I always did plant, as soon as the ground could be worked except that didn't happen til April. So at least for those things that I have an abundant supply of I am going ahead and planting. I might have to start over in April but if not I'll be way ahead. I might even plant some corn just to see what happens.
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