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Stranger Things in California: Water Falls From Sky, Gets Stuff Wet, “Atmospheric River” Moving in Now

Hotlines were flooded with callers panicky about stuff peppering them from the sky that made them wet. Strange stuff, it wasn’t the usual soot and ash. The scientific consensus is something called “rain”. Weird sh*t. Good thing they have their COVID masks on outside*.

UDDATE: Oct 25: in 30 hours, we received 172mm ~= 6.8 inches of rain at my house.

Over the past 3 or 4 days I measured 3/4" of rain, most of that last night. As can be seen it barely penetrates the soil in places, and much of it will evaporate (and has, as can be felt in the humidity). It will start seeds sprouting, but another inch of rain will be needed to get even 1-2 inches down, so hopefully the predicted flash-flood-grade rains on Sunday will deliver that, and more. But I would not want to be at the bottom of a fire-ravaged hillside for this coming storm.

* In a horrifying manifestation of the psychological damage of years of COVID fear-mongering, virtually everyone in Palo Alto in the most vaccinated county in the country (San Mateo) were all wearing their masks outside, in defiance of reason and science. I guess that’s “following the science”, as in trailing distantly behind it.

Continues...

Bone-dry clay soil after 3/4" rain over 4 days
f1.8 @ 1/470 sec, ISO 20; 2021-10-22 10:06:30
iPhone 7 Plus + iPhone 7 Plus 4.0 mm f/1.8 @ 28mm equiv (4mm) ENV: altitude 498 ft / 152 m

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Rain predicted for Oct 24

Last year, I found areas of soil bone-dry about 8 inches down in March, and the soil never got saturated anywhere. The clay soil we have in our yard can soak up a ton of water (closing the 2-inch cracks by XMAS in a good year). I'd guess it takes a foot of rain within a 2-week period to get the soil good and wet down deep.

Recall the record snows of just 5 years ago—long since forgotten. BTW, climate change or not, the world needs cheap abundant energy for quality of life and to reduce human misery. Generation 4 nuclear power is the end game for both, and it is achievable within 20 years with proper leadership, without the horrific human toll stemming from the irrational decarbonization insanity which has become its own religion. As a bonus, Gen4 nuclear solves water supply problems too (desalination). From what I see, environmental destruction from “green” energy is accumulating a massive debt of non-recyclable/non-sustainable toxic waste (solar panels, windmill blades), while obliterating fields of flowers of many square miles in areas once pristine that I visit. That’s not progress. See also: Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic

Planting green manure

Meanwhile, I moved 24 yards of compost onto my garden and watered it in a “green manure” of utilizing hairy vetch (vicia villosa) and Daikon radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) I am waiting for more rain for the small red clover seeds.

Outsidepride Daikon Radish Cover Crop Seed @AMAZON
Hairy Vetch Legume Seed by Eretz @AMAZON
Red Clover Seed by Eretz @AMAZON

Elsewhere, crows 30-in-a-flock had a feast on my Daikon radish seeds in areas where I had seeded on bare ground. The same ones that shit all over my figs and ruin 80% of them. I like birds, but crows are too damaging and dozens at a time are a destructive nuisance. Tigger doesn’t catch them unfortunately—they’re too fast and too smart and too big. But the big rain dump coming tomorrow should take care of things.


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