Just a few hours ago, the lands of southern coastal paradise were promised a week of rain. A series of storms. A real storm alert.

Ooops, it seems those storms evaporated hours before arrival and now we will be lucky to get wet by the end of the week.

If we just could shoot the weather people who get it wrong,

Moi :shot191: Weather forecasters who get it, wrong.

Okay, I'll settle for incinerating

weather forecasters who get it wrong Moi

We would be left with a population of competent weather forecasters.

I mean, if people claim to be professional, shouldn't they be motivated to be responsible?

Moi

The TV weather news is still hyping the coming storm.

Doom and gloom to the fire ravaged hill sides and the homes below.

Maybe they should have helicopter seeded those hills with grass seed as they did in the '50's. In the 21st century, they put up mud barriers. The grass seed worked better as did the ole days of controlled burns. I miss the '50's. Things were done, smarter.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:25 am The TV weather news is still hyping the coming storm... I miss the '50's. Things were done, smarter.

So, you miss the 50's eh? "Smarter" things were back in those days?

Well if you really, seriously, really want it to rain, I know just how to make it rain. So far, this method has never failed to make rain come within one week or less.

Step one... scrape together every last cent of pocket money you have, raid your piggy bank, get everything you can in cash.

Step two... go to Home Depot, or some other place that sells portland cement, and redi-mix concrete. Spend all of your life's savings, and then some, buy buy buy concrete and redi-mix.

Step three... set your fortune's worth of concrete redi-mix out behind your house, but under a water proof cover like a tarp or something.

Finally, wait for the storm, and I guarantee it will be a "doozy" of a storm. First the winds will come and rip your tarp off the concrete redi-mix, and in short order the rain will have all of it completely soaked through.

You might think I am joking, but seriously, I think the rain clouds can see those costly bags of redi-mix out there and they just can't resist soaking any bags they can get to. So far, I think I have lost 50 or more bags that were to be used in various projects here.

Deacon, Have you noticed that in order to save money and make the bags even easier to get wet they've deleted the plastic inner layer between the paper when the bags are manufactured!

And Moi, I'd send you some water in a heartbeat! We're now almost 20" above average, the ground is wet down 12'!!!! Oh, and yesterday the rain was white....and piled up on the ground...one of those strange miracles of science!

Come and live in Sunny California, so millions did, they moved from the east, midwest, people from this part of the country moved from Wisconsin to Sunny Southern California where the weather is wonderful so good in fact it never rains there, OH, and now these people who moved there are bitching because California doesn't have 10,000 lakes and 50 or more rivers in there state. OH MY, so it has not rained, well lets do the math, Southern California is a desert. SUPRISE, there is the upper desert, lower desert, Palm Springs is a desert, yet this place that gets little rain and has limited water has grown so many golf courses that it has changed the climate.

So you want rain? Move.

We get rain, we had rain this week it was cold and white, there are over 20,000 lakes in this area. We have water and YOU cant have any of it.

Oh the price to live in paradise.

River

All I know about Southern California is that there are all these smog alerts and nasty bitch -er beach alerts too. Now I spend a lot of my time outdoors here where I'm at but then when I do go out there when you'd think it'd be a nice beautiful day I'm advised to stay inside and not to go anywhere day or night. So much for the great weather out there. By the way the mountain goats up here are also begging for some rain and snow too and meanwhile back at the slopes all the snow maker machinery are draining the rivers and cranking out all the the snow they can around the clock now that it has finally gotten cold enough. It turned from warm to record breaking cold all of a sudden but not much snow yet still. Seems like California has decided to not let any moisture cross its way lately. So the song goes, "It never rains in southern California but girl don't they warn you when it pours, man it pours".

Gee, looks like what I said three months or so ago is coming true.

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthr ... ight=fires

Find my post there about the fire zones and the coming rains in December. I wrote it in early September and this is what I said about it at the time:

"...Just wait, after this is all over and about the first part of next year you'll start hearing about how peoples houses are being leveled by mudslides in the same place. The firefighters may be saving the houses now to only have them get demolished when the winter rains come.

Be prepared to hear about this story again, 4-6 months from now."

Looks like I was right. Don't want your house demolished by a mudslide after a fire? Don't build or live on the edge of the fire zone. And if you do, support paying taxes to clear out the underbrush. I'm doing that right now at my folks place in the country. I'm clearig out 100 years (yes 100) of undergrowth to prevent the house burning down.

We've gotten too good at fighting fires in the past 100 years instead of letting them burn. The native Americans burned this stuff off every two or three years for hundreds of years and didn't have these problems.

Most of the problems with houses going up in flames is caused by folks building wooden houses out in the woods. To a fire wood is wood. Yum. Yum. Then there's also that one problem with people who feed bears getting eaten by bears too. I really don't think that a house that is precariously set on a hill prone to mudlsides should ever be insurable though.

Califo-nia should stop telling me to, conserve water,

until "they" are ready to stop allowing new taps on the

limited infrastructure.

This summer, with the economic slow down, we had no

electricity alerts.

And the reason we have more smog alerts and beach alerts is

because other areas of the country do not monitor their

environment as well. For you, wetter places, your smog is called - acid rain.

Oxides of nitrogen and sulfer combine with water to make

sulfuric acid and nitric acid. It took a bark beetle to kill our trees and it was those dead trees that burned so well plus general, dry stuff. Reintroducing herbivores or running goat herds are a cheap solution.

Milwaukee is the only other area of the country I felt as comfortable as Califo-nia. But, the second winter got to my hands - red, swollen joints.

Oh, yes and Milwaukee did have, smog as I remember. '75-'77.

We are told to be ready for wind and rain tonight .

Truth to follow.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:41 pm Califo-nia should stop telling me to, conserve water,

until "they" are ready to stop allowing new taps on the

limited infrastructure.

This summer, with the economic slow down, we had no

electricity alerts.

And the reason we have more smog alerts and beach alerts is

because other areas of the country do not monitor their

environment as well. For you, wetter places, your smog is called - acid rain.

Oxides of nitrogen and sulfer combine with water to make

sulfuric acid and nitric acid. It took a bark beetle to kill our trees and it was those dead trees that burned so well plus general, dry stuff. Reintroducing herbivores or running goat herds are a cheap solution.

Milwaukee is the only other area of the country I felt as comfortable as Califo-nia. But, the second winter got to my hands - red, swollen joints.

Oh, yes and Milwaukee did have, smog as I remember. '75-'77.

We are told to be ready for wind and rain tonight .

Truth to follow.

Moi you do realize the weather moves west to east and it is the mountains that backs up the smog. Your mountains. Ernie