Today was absolutely gorgeous, 75 deg sunny with light clouds and sprinkles once in a while. Looking at the temps around the country, 9 in Minneapolis I am so glad I don't live there anymore.

River

It's 65F here today. No idea why. I'm going out to enjoy it.

Paolo wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:15 pm It's 65F here today. No idea why. I'm going out to enjoy it.

Don't worry, you'll get our sub-freezing temps tomorrow, just in time to go back to work

Just a little sprinkle that mostly danced around my n'hood

delivering little more than a wetting to my gauge.

Yet on the far side of the Los Angeles County line at Ventura County,

PCH was closed by a slide.

Stay tuned for the "big one" coming on Tuesday.

I :hearthrob rain.

Moi

Today for the first time sense I have been here it was COLD, OMG it must have been hovering around 70 it was either that or I was cold thinking about Minneapolis with a temp of 9. It is cold enough tonight that I had to shut the window, first time that's happened sense I moved here. Of course I am still in shorts and t-shirt but hey that's better then long pants and a hoody.

This is rainy season and we have had our share of rain, not that I mind, its just that everything outside grows twice as fast when it rains all the time and with the rain you cant get out and weed the garden. But tomorrow rain or shine I will be finishing trimming the palms and pulling up cane grass, its real nasty stuff and this is my third pass, I think this time I will finally have the last of it and should never see it in the yard again.

Cane Grass grows in a clump deep rooted and will grow to about 15 feet high or so, its real nasty stuff, little nettle like burs on the stocks so ware thick leather gloves when handling it.

River

It rains.

Fresh water from the sky.

Currently 0.5 inches / hour and steady, they say.

I say I have only a half inch total in my gauge.

I Knew

as sure as I knew last year this time

the drought is gonna break.

And it did.

This year.

The Coast Redwood is very, very happy.

Oh how I wish I knew someone who enjoyed storm walks as I do.

Please Santa

Moi

The News ?

It rained.

There are mud slides, car accidents and it isn't hardly raining hard.

Just a constant light rain. My total. About half an inch over 24 hours.

Meanwhile,

Is there joy ?

Not hardly. :-\

Oy :shakemitk the drought is still in effect

Oy :shakemitk the ocean run off is going to pollute the shore areas

Oy, oy, oy. It rained and there is no joy in our rain. None. Nada.

<sigh>

Well, I'm happy it rained. And it is the slow, good kind. Not the gully washers some claim in poorly drained areas.

And if they had spinkled Rye Grass as they did in the fifties, these hills would not have slide ! & !

Moi

Moi, I will never ever feel sorry for some rich guy who builds his home on the side of a cliff. If a person was to read the history of California mud slides up and down the coast they would know better, but they ignore it because they want that ocean view.

I have an ocean view and it rains here all the time, not hard just enough to water the yard and keep the tank full. I love this place.

River

There is a new typhoon aiming at Manilla and Tacloban in the Philippines - Hagaput

If the forecast holds (which is really an "if" because Hagaput is erratic) then the typhoon will follow the same path as Haiyan.

If you recall, Haiyan brought the Polar Vortex over the USA when it travelled north.

So I would pay attention to this storm and see where it goes.

Like Pele, never be unprepared for Mother Nature's surprises.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:23 am Moi, I will never ever feel sorry for some rich guy who builds his home on the side of a cliff. If a person was to read the history of California mud slides up and down the coast they would know better, but they ignore it because they want that ocean view.

I have an ocean view and it rains here all the time, not hard just enough to water the yard and keep the tank full. I love this place.

River

Oh some flatlanders some 100 miles from the ocean got flooded too.

Check out Hemet.

Moi is on a bluff about a mile as the crow flies from the ocean and 100 feet elevation. 3, big 4" pipes drain my lot down a hill to the street. When it really rains, pipe number 1 cannot handle all the water and the level rises to #2 and #3 a few inches away. This storm did not approach that type of downpour. Although I guess it did in Hemet.

Y'might wanna check on Wolfie, aka Mac the Wolf, MacWolf.

I would guess I got a total of 2" over these several days

Moi