Good morning friends.
It has been raining on and off all week, and this has been our biggest rains of the winter. There's been some minor localized flooding, but that's because this is the Flatlands and some places don't have great drainage.
Folks on the Licking River would laugh at what we call flooding.
I have been busy with contractors, trying to keep everything dry in the boatyard (?!?) and doing woodwork.
No, I haven't measured anything in cubit's.
We have stayed well above freezing here, except for just a few hours this winter, so the Citrus crop should be okay. But this rain is knocking blossoms off the almond crops. I live on the Blossom Trail so that is sad news for everyone.
Okay it's not like the Smoky Mountains, folks. This is California.
At the last repaving, The Blossom "Trail" is 2 lanes wide asphalt most places, 4 lanes at the beginning, near where I live.
& usually 50~55 mph . . .
I see the East Coast is getting pummeled again.
Several folks dead and millions lost power. Maybe there is something to that global warming stuff after all. It's just not quite global.
If anything, our climate seems to have been more temperate, locally, since the famous Gore pronouncement.
Unfortunately that's not true of shivering folks on the New England side.
Stay warm and dry friends, and hang on to your hats.