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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:04 PM
Rain across California again, and raining here today, as predicted.
I really like the rain. It's such a gentle way to wake up, and it's good for my sinuses.
I'm going to predict, tho, that this is THE LAST significant rainfall of the season. HA! Let's see if I get proven wrong... AGAIN.
This article is a good summary of what California's rainy season has been like so far. I edited it for bevity.
Quote:Yes, but... historically, the first white men to see CA's Central Valley described it as a (temporary) shimmering lake as far as the eye could see. That was before Europeans drained the land for farming, and ruined the aquifers. So, historically, it's been wetter!
Thousands were under evacuation orders Sunday in two small central California towns -- Alpaugh and Allensworth -- as officials worried roads could become impassable and isolate residents, according to the Tulare County Sheriff's Office. First responders from dozens of agencies, including the California National Guard, were out Sunday afternoon helping residents evacuate -- a sight that has become familiar in the flood-ravaged state this winter season.
"The devastation is indescribable," Tulare County farmer Brandon Mendonsa told CNN affiliate KFSN. "The water is still coming -- this is far from being done."
Quote:Good for Arizona! It gets bypassed so often!
The next atmospheric river, mainly taking aim at southern California, is expected to be colder than the last and arrive Tuesday with high winds, heavy rain, mountain snow and the threat of more floods. ... Though not forecast to be as potent as the atmospheric rivers of previous weeks, the system is expected to bring 1-3 inches of rain across the lower elevations and 2-4 inches across the foothills of Southern California through Thursday. Arizona could also see up to 3 inches of rainfall.
Quote:Twelve!!! Unheard-of!
This winter, California was hit with 11 different atmospheric rivers [not counting this one]
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Last week's atmospheric river alone shattered daily rainfall records in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria.
There's been so much rain that the Southern California water board called off emergency drought conservation measures for over 7 million people.
Severe drought in California was cut in half from the previous week, now covering only 8% of the state -- down from 80.6% just three months ago, according to the US Drought Monitor.
"Moderate to exceptional drought coverage across the U.S. is at its lowest since August 2020 and is likely to continue improving, or end entirely, across much of California and the Great Basin," NOAA forecasters said.
As the snowpack melts in the coming months, it's expected to further improve drought conditions across much of the western US, according to NOAA. But, that could also mean more floods.
"Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring," said Ed Clark, director of NOAA's National Water Center. "California's historic snowpack, coupled with spring rain, is heightening the potential for spring floods."
There is still a stubborn area of exceptional drought on the eastern (downwind, dry) side of Oregon's mountains, and that north-south band of drought from N Dakota thru S Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas is getting worse. But I expect that to imrpove with spring storms.
Hard to believe but just a few states away you're getting so much rain, SIX.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:22 PM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Now, I'm confused. Don't think I see a print menu and I have a printer but it is not hooked into this desktop.
There's a print menu in every program that has a print function, regardless of whether or not you have a printer set up. The computer I use to talk here doesn't have Word 2007 installed or a printer, but I can print to PDF from any program that has a print feature.
Do this (follow the numbered steps on the first image, then follow the numbered steps on the second image):
After following the 3 steps in the first image, it will bring up the Print menu for you.
If the images above are too small for you to read here, right click on them and open the image in a new tab for the full size.
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I'll have to do the second method you talked about.
It just occurred to me now to ask... Are you sending this to your friend to make edits, or just to see what they think? If you are intending for them to make edits, a PDF file won't work and you will have to use the 2nd/3rd method. I prefer always printing files to PDF before I send them so nobody can edit them after I've created them.
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I'll get it done.
Appreciate the help.
No problem.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:32 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hard to believe but just a few states away you're getting so much rain, SIX.
It's hardly the worst I've seen, at least so far...
Right now I'm not worried about the amount as long as my sump doesn't fail and the power stays on. I do have an unused backup sump pump that I can do an emergency install for the former, and the generator for latter, but I really don't want to have to do either of those solutions. Hopefully this spring isn't too and I can install the 2nd well and get a battery backup sump down there and start breathing easy for the first time in 12 years at the hint of rain.
One inch of rain and severe thunderstorms on Friday expected. Looks like maybe around another inch in total next week with thunderstorms expected in the middle of it on Wednesday.
This amount of rainfall is borderline stress free for me if it weren't for the thunderstorms. It's when we start getting back to back to back 3" downpours and then get a 36 hour period with 12" of rain that makes me feel like I'm on Noah's Ark instead of a house.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:37 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I really agree with backing up your book, The one thing you DON'T want is to have one copy and have it garbled somehow. If nothing else, save it under a couple of different names ... [booktitle_backupcopy1, _backupcopy2 etc] which will save you if your original is accidentally] deleted or the file gets corrupted.
If you don't have a backup, you don't have a book.
I couldn't tell you how many times it took for me to finally learn the lesson over the years.
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Better yet would be to save a copy on another storage device. If you have a removable drive or a second hard drive, store a copy on that. Or if you have a thumb drive ("USB stick") or flash drive, store it there. All you need for a USB stick is another USB port, like the one that (probably) connects your keyboard and PC and the stick itself. The software will figure out the rest for you. If you want to try that and run into trouble, just ask us.
Well, ask SIX.
I'm pretty sure we already covered this a long time ago and Brenda does have it backed up in several places. I just wanted to reiterate how important this step was and make sure she's backed up everything again now that the book is finished. Especially when I brought up "Option 3" above, which requires copying the book to a separate file and then actively deleting most of it to make the file to send to her friend.
There's no such thing as too many backups. Especially when we're talking about something as small as a Word Document.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 9:28 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I really agree with backing up your book, The one thing you DON'T want is to have one copy and have it garbled somehow. If nothing else, save it under a couple of different names ... [booktitle_backupcopy1, _backupcopy2 etc] which will save you if your original is accidentally] deleted or the file gets corrupted.
Better yet would be to save a copy on another storage device. If you have a removable drive or a second hard drive, store a copy on that. Or if you have a thumb drive ("USB stick") or flash drive, store it there. All you need for a USB stick is another USB port, like the one that (probably) connects your keyboard and PC and the stick itself. The software will figure out the rest for you. If you want to try that and run into trouble, just ask us.
Well, ask SIX.
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That is a good idea and I have one copy that I printed out ages ago when I had another printer and a different desk top.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 9:30 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Now, I'm confused. Don't think I see a print menu and I have a printer but it is not hooked into this desktop.
There's a print menu in every program that has a print function, regardless of whether or not you have a printer set up. The computer I use to talk here doesn't have Word 2007 installed or a printer, but I can print to PDF from any program that has a print feature.
Do this (follow the numbered steps on the first image, then follow the numbered steps on the second image):
After following the 3 steps in the first image, it will bring up the Print menu for you.
If the images above are too small for you to read here, right click on them and open the image in a new tab for the full size.Quote:
I'll have to do the second method you talked about.
It just occurred to me now to ask... Are you sending this to your friend to make edits, or just to see what they think? If you are intending for them to make edits, a PDF file won't work and you will have to use the 2nd/3rd method. I prefer always printing files to PDF before I send them so nobody can edit them after I've created them.Quote:
I'll get it done.
Appreciate the help.
No problem.
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Seeing this diagram, now I follow what you are saying.
She could be making edits. It depends on what she thinks when she reads my draft submission.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 9:32 AM
I got back from my pick up game around 6pm, then it was dishes and supper.
Regular game tomorrow and I hope I have better luck than today.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:18 AM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Seeing this diagram, now I follow what you are saying.
Good. It's what I should have done in the first place, but because I never bothered installing word on this PC since I'd never use it here, I couldn't make screen grab images to show you. So I finally did some Google image searches and found the pictures I needed to make those images for you.
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She could be making edits. It depends on what she thinks when she reads my draft submission.
Okay... well if that's the case we probably don't want to do the print to PDF file anyhow.
After you've made several backups of your book on the other computer and a thumb drive, do option 2 or option 3 and send her just a second word document that only has the 25 or so pages you want in it so she can make edits.
You REALLY want to have as many backups as possible of that thing as you can because it would be a travesty to lose all that work you've done. (Ask me how I know!) And every time you edit it here on out keep making those backups.
Actually. As soon as you read this you should send it to yourself in an email. Open up Gmail and put your own email address as the recipient, then drag and drop your Word Document into the email and hit send.
That way, even if an EMP went off in your area and ruined everybody's hard drives, you'd still be able to go somewhere that you can access your email and download it to a new thumb drive.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 11:22 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Seeing this diagram, now I follow what you are saying.
Good. It's what I should have done in the first place, but because I never bothered installing word on this PC since I'd never use it here, I couldn't make screen grab images to show you. So I finally did some Google image searches and found the pictures I needed to make those images for you.Quote:
She could be making edits. It depends on what she thinks when she reads my draft submission.
Okay... well if that's the case we probably don't want to do the print to PDF file anyhow.
After you've made several backups of your book on the other computer and a thumb drive, do option 2 or option 3 and send her just a second word document that only has the 25 or so pages you want in it so she can make edits.
You REALLY want to have as many backups as possible of that thing as you can because it would be a travesty to lose all that work you've done. (Ask me how I know!) And every time you edit it here on out keep making those backups.
Actually. As soon as you read this you should send it to yourself in an email. Open up Gmail and put your own email address as the recipient, then drag and drop your Word Document into the email and hit send.
That way, even if an EMP went off in your area and ruined everybody's hard drives, you'd still be able to go somewhere that you can access your email and download it to a new thumb drive.
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No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.
It is something to think about for sure.
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Thursday, March 30, 2023 7:43 PM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.
It is something to think about for sure.
If I ever come off as being impatient or insulting about it, please don't take offense. I'm not directing that at you, Brenda. My frustration is with myself for not being able to direct you properly.
Did you email the book to yourself? You really should do that first so you always have a copy in your email to re-download if something goes wrong.
Then you should make a few backup copies on a thumb drive and your other computer.
Please send yourself the email and do the backups first before we move on to making the 25 page doc to send to your friend.
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