RedNeckGeek
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Good Morning!!!! 47F @ 5:30AM. Light rain early...then remaining cloudy with showers in the afternoon. High around 60F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 0.18" of additional accumulation.
Started raining last night at about 10, and so far we've picked up another 0.41" of rain. After today, there's no more rain in the 10-day.
I wouldn't want to see the rain stop this early in the year, Bruce, but I wouldn't want another series of atmospheric river events, either. Just the other day I was looking at where they are maintaining the reservoir level, and believe it or not, it's actually a few feet ABOVE where it was in 2017 when they blew out the spillway. That year several atmospheric river events raised the water level over 40' in only 5 days, setting in motion events that destroyed the spillway and caused the evacuation of the town of Oroville. How quickly they forget. Or maybe they want to stress test the new nearly billion dallar spillway?
Cool photo, Ron. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't know Ford was facing emissions issues with its Diesels, Scotty. Were they being sneaky like VW?
Got a ride into town yesterday first thing to pickup the truck I left at the Toyota dealer, then had to beat it right home to meet another aborist from PG&E (the infamous electric utility/firebug). But I did manage to drop by the car parts store and pick up a bottle of ceramic car wax, thereby saving myself thousands of dollars over what the dealer would have charged.
I was hoping I'd have time to snag a few groceries, too, but with a bit of construction on the way in it was getting a little too late for that. Then half way home I got a text from the arborist that he was running late
. So no bananas for me.
Had a nice conversation with him about all the brush under the powerlines over in the state park, and why the utility leaves standing trees that are tall enough to endanger the power lines. As always, no solutions. Turns out he lives on the other side of the canyon, a bit closer to the town of Paradise, and purchased his place a few years ago. He was fighting brush, too, and worried about the coming fire season. He saw the sprinkler system on my place, and is now thinking along the same lines for his.
After the arborist left I was checking the camera up at the gate and saw a fella hook a chain up to the trees that were across the old boat launch road and drag them out of the way. Then he and a friend started hacking away at them with a chainsaw. They were at it for most of an hour before they left. I sent a still to a neighbor and he knows who they are, so I have another difficult conversation in my future. We've had too many problems with vagrants trying to camp down there, and with fire season on the horizon, we don't need any more. Most of the locals don't understand that the road is on private property, and the state doesn't hold an easement for it, so the owners (me and my neighbor) can legally do what we will with it. Fortunately there are many downed trees nearby, and it didn't take long to block the road again with even larger trunks.
Fiddled a bit with the new car, coming up to speed with the infotainment features, setting the radio presets, checking torque on the wheels, oil level and tire pressure (they were off), and hooking up a lead for a trickle charger. I was hoping to wash and wax it, but the instructions on the bottle said to avoid getting it wet for 24 hours after application. So that'll have to wait until at least tomorrow. Just as well, as my butt was draggin' by then and it was almost dinner time anyway.
TGIF gang!
Started raining last night at about 10, and so far we've picked up another 0.41" of rain. After today, there's no more rain in the 10-day.
I wouldn't want to see the rain stop this early in the year, Bruce, but I wouldn't want another series of atmospheric river events, either. Just the other day I was looking at where they are maintaining the reservoir level, and believe it or not, it's actually a few feet ABOVE where it was in 2017 when they blew out the spillway. That year several atmospheric river events raised the water level over 40' in only 5 days, setting in motion events that destroyed the spillway and caused the evacuation of the town of Oroville. How quickly they forget. Or maybe they want to stress test the new nearly billion dallar spillway?
Cool photo, Ron. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't know Ford was facing emissions issues with its Diesels, Scotty. Were they being sneaky like VW?
Got a ride into town yesterday first thing to pickup the truck I left at the Toyota dealer, then had to beat it right home to meet another aborist from PG&E (the infamous electric utility/firebug). But I did manage to drop by the car parts store and pick up a bottle of ceramic car wax, thereby saving myself thousands of dollars over what the dealer would have charged.
I was hoping I'd have time to snag a few groceries, too, but with a bit of construction on the way in it was getting a little too late for that. Then half way home I got a text from the arborist that he was running late. So no bananas for me.Had a nice conversation with him about all the brush under the powerlines over in the state park, and why the utility leaves standing trees that are tall enough to endanger the power lines. As always, no solutions. Turns out he lives on the other side of the canyon, a bit closer to the town of Paradise, and purchased his place a few years ago. He was fighting brush, too, and worried about the coming fire season. He saw the sprinkler system on my place, and is now thinking along the same lines for his.
After the arborist left I was checking the camera up at the gate and saw a fella hook a chain up to the trees that were across the old boat launch road and drag them out of the way. Then he and a friend started hacking away at them with a chainsaw. They were at it for most of an hour before they left. I sent a still to a neighbor and he knows who they are, so I have another difficult conversation in my future. We've had too many problems with vagrants trying to camp down there, and with fire season on the horizon, we don't need any more. Most of the locals don't understand that the road is on private property, and the state doesn't hold an easement for it, so the owners (me and my neighbor) can legally do what we will with it. Fortunately there are many downed trees nearby, and it didn't take long to block the road again with even larger trunks.
Fiddled a bit with the new car, coming up to speed with the infotainment features, setting the radio presets, checking torque on the wheels, oil level and tire pressure (they were off), and hooking up a lead for a trickle charger. I was hoping to wash and wax it, but the instructions on the bottle said to avoid getting it wet for 24 hours after application. So that'll have to wait until at least tomorrow. Just as well, as my butt was draggin' by then and it was almost dinner time anyway.
TGIF gang!
