Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:23 pm http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2015/0

3/10/blizzard-warning-for-mauna-kea-mauna-loa/

Just so you guys all understand YES we get snow in Hawai'i.

Its been in the low 60's all week and raining. Today should be the final of the bad winter weather and tomorrow it will start warming back up and by saturday it should be back in the 80's or there about.

visibility is not good today nor has it been for the last several days but tomorrow I should be able to take pictures of Mauna Kea from the porch. I can't wait.

River

HOT ! 90F HOT

Dry Air, Hot Sunlight.

This is NOT my desert by the sea.

The garden is happy.

The sweet shelling peas have never grown so vigorously.

The combination Pear Tree ($25) bare root at Home Depot has life on all 4 grafts.

The Plum trees, even the combination plum tree, sleep.

Moi

WeatherWatcher

HOT ! 90F HOT

Warm, but not unbearable. You're down by the ocean with sea breezes and the COOL in the evening. I spent the day in Santa Ana - a bit inland from you and quite a bit warmer. It was not really all that uncomfortable at a DRY 95F.

I had 59F. Take what I can get. Still long underwear weather.

According to NASA. California has one year left of drinking water.

I have a personal plan to help my buddy, moi, thru this difficult time. I hereby pledge to flush twice.

Moi does not have a water shortage problem, he uses all the water he wants and then some. After all he can afford it so use it. Where Moi will run into the problem is when the local water district puts a meter on his property and says you can use X amount then its shuts off and you won't get any more until the next month. When that happens Moi will have a problem, because he will be out by the 7th or 8th of the month.

What amazes me about California is that they have known for years, when I say years this was a problem when I was a kid and I am now 68, California has a shortage of water, its nothing new, when people started moving there after WWII they (California) should have been thinking build several plants to convert sea water to drinking water, but alas why would you want to do that?

A. God will provide

B. it costs to much we can't afford it.

C. Its the Republicans fault

D. Its the Democrats fault

E. all of the above

River

Dave (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:28 pm According to NASA. California has one year left of drinking water.

I avoid political rants but this time I gotta do it.

To quote my sister who has lived in SoCal since the mid 70s, "We've been fed that line of bullshit since we moved here". She's right.

IMO, typical guvmit tactic. Create a crisis, propose an expensive solution and promise your contributors a piece of the action, get a bill passed with funding that "comes back to my district" (guess where those $$$ come from), gain control of a little more of our lives, run for re-election bullshitting the low information sheep into believing how much good you did, get re-elected and start the cycle all over again. I don't give a shit what side of the aisle they sit on, it's how our guvmit works.

Like Al Gore and his "global warming" sky-is-falling scheme. (What ever happened to him anyway?) The last few winters around here we froze our collective asses off so people stopped drinking that Kool Aid. Now they've re-badged it as "climate change". That way we can still create our crisis and lobby for our taxpayer funding no matter what the weather does.

Having lived in California (born and raised there finally left 20 years ago) for the last 20 years I lived there we were in a no water to spare condition, reservoirs were empty, they still are. Take a look at lake Mead if you doubt the gov or me, take a good look because its about empty, use google earth it gives current pictures, don't take the governments word on this, or mine, go look for yourself.

Here is another truth about California, water has always been given to southern Calif, those of us in the norther part of the state know this, now finally the southern part of the state is out too.

Never confuse weather with climate change. one is local and today the other is global and takes years. If you doubt climate change look at the North Poll, 75 years ago the only way to get there was dog sled, today you can take a cruse ship because the ice is gone in the summer time. Or look at Greenland which is melting, or the south pole which is doing the same.

River

I won't say you're wrong but that doesn't mean it's not just another natural occurrence. Not one that requires another bloated bureaucracy with volumes of more regulations costing us more tax $$$$$$$$$ and telling me how to live.