The first chance for appreciable rain in the “Athens of California” is forecast for Halloween night. And our fall weather pattern has settled in, with the rays of dawn struggling to slip through the fog. Faced with the wet stuff and signs of winter on the horizon, it was time to make tracks.
Warmed [...]
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riding against the rain
what California water shortage?
Thanks to climbing flows, plans for the club fishing trip this Saturday to the Stanislaus River have been abandoned. Guess I’ll clean the nine months of accumlation from my desk instead.
We were to hit the Two Mile Bar section after flows hovered just above 200 cubic feet per second; eminently fishable. The flows climbed to [...]
catching up
Summer.
A time of day dreaming punctuated at irregular intervals of reaching for those dreams. Tends to keep me away from the keyboard.
The weather here in Northern California has alternated between the glorious “summer pattern” and hellish heat. Mix in a gloomy shroud of wildfire smoke and you’ve got some downright ugly stay-in-the-house days. That and [...]
whoosh and wham…
Just a quick note to say yes, we did feel the earthquake last night. It seemed to hit a corner of the house first, and could have been mistaken for the wind…then the jolt hit. Just another day in the Golden State.
I’ll be watching the fault lines…
can you say drought?
In a world where only extremes (and extremists) seem to make the news, the above photo is extremely frightening. California’s dry spring, preceded by a very low snowpack, have left Yosemite Falls high and dry. According to the Modesto Bee, drinking water is being packed into the Sunrise High Sierra Camp and showers — always [...]
