After forest fires and drought, now rains torment Southern California
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Friday, November 7, 2025 15:07
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Hee, hee, hee...I just checked back to see if you'd responded before leaving to do "something mindless for a while" so as not to think about this shit anymore. Great minds obviously think alike!
Actually, I've been focusing on doing mindless and not-so-mindless things every day for a while now, rather than come here, because my reaction to the vast majority of what I read here lasts just long enough for me to hit "reply", then look at the blank post and think "why bother?". It just ain't worth it anymore, for the most part.
So thank you for giving me two posts which I found interesting enough and worthwhile enough to participate in for a bit. Now onward to something mindless...had a LOVELY run with the North Bay group this morning along creeks in Cotati which were joyously running brown and fierce, and it's sprinkling again outside. Think I'll go read a book in the Outback and enjoy the sound of rain on the tarp...
The pastures are GREEN again (the cows are tickled pink), the side gullies are splashing down and joining the main creeks, the mosses and ferns are standing up and doing the wave, so I want to spend just as much time out in it as I possibly can, 'cuz it won't last...
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Sounds a lot like our weather. Lots of extremes these days, much more frequently than in recorded history.
Thankfully for us the extreme heat has passed and we are officially into Autumn, cool nights, mixed days. Not a lot of rain.
I don't mind it, I like mild weather. Anything over 35C is unpleasant, and a series of days over 40C is unbearable in a number of ways.
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Hey Magons; I think about you guys Down Under and your weather a LOT (particularly because of you and because I've got a number of urban mushing friends with sulkies who I "talk" to on another site). I know there are other places in the world which suffer from the recent extremes, but I'm most aware of it where you're concerned, what with your heat and fires each year lately. You put us to shame, I admit, since even in So. Ca. we don't get the heat extremes you do at ALL!
I'm assuming you're talking only about heat...I hadn't heard anything about any other kinds of extremes down there...?
I can't resist: My friends Rhonda and Sam have sulkies from the same guy who built mine (Jim Walsh of Woronora, NSW, who built horse sulkies for 30+ years before getting a giant schnauzer and starting to build dog sulkies), and they've just "given birth" to the world's first dog sulky race, to be held in the You Yangs this coming June:
Here's the article: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/its-the-dishlickers-a
nd-trots-rolled-into-one/story-fnjuhovy-1226836626876
Dunno where Woronora or You Yang are in relation to you, but I wanted to share it with you, thought you might get a kick out of it.
Now like a good girl I'm going to do as I originally intended and as Kiki said she's doing, and get outta here...! G'daay! ;o)
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Hey Magons; I think about you guys Down Under and your weather a LOT (particularly because of you and because I've got a number of urban mushing friends with sulkies who I "talk" to on another site). I know there are other places in the world which suffer from the recent extremes, but I'm most aware of it where you're concerned, what with your heat and fires each year lately. You put us to shame, I admit, since even in So. Ca. we don't get the heat extremes you do at ALL!
I'm assuming you're talking only about heat...I hadn't heard anything about any other kinds of extremes down there...?
I can't resist: My friends Rhonda and Sam have sulkies from the same guy who built mine (Jim Walsh of Woronora, NSW, who built horse sulkies for 30+ years before getting a giant schnauzer and starting to build dog sulkies), and they've just "given birth" to the world's first dog sulky race, to be held in the You Yangs this coming June:
Here's the article: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/its-the-dishlickers-a
nd-trots-rolled-into-one/story-fnjuhovy-1226836626876
Dunno where Woronora or You Yang are in relation to you, but I wanted to share it with you, thought you might get a kick out of it.
Now like a good girl I'm going to do as I originally intended and as Kiki said she's doing, and get outta here...! G'daay! ;o)
It's Hooroo when you leave in 'Strayan. Old speak. My dad yould say it. G'Day is a greeting. As in 'Good Day to your sire' only not as polite. Only we've gone all Merican these days and more than likely to say 'yo homey'.
;)
You Yangs are a set of hills near Geelong, a couple of hours away. You can see them across the bay on a clear day.
We get flooding rains as well and wild storms. It's a pretty intense climate.
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We get flooding rains as well and wild storms. It's a pretty intense climate.
Oh, yeah...southern hemisphere...should have realized. Well, then, Hooroo...not that many Americans say "yo, homey", trust me. ;o)
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I've been very glad to see the rain. Downtown LA got 4 inches, the foothills got more.
Been watering my garden twice a week this whole winter, and even with THAT it would have been the equivalent of a very sparse winter. With the rain, plus irrigation, it just came up to average. Another storm is too much to hope for, but we DID have a "Miracle March" once, when a lot of rain came in very late in the season, so I suppose there's still a chance.
Oonjh! Do more rain-dancing, will you???
We put up a hummingbird feeder the previous weekend, and it was discovered by (what I think is a) female rufous. I'm so glad I did- she looked wet and miserable at the feeder, but at least she had something to eat! 
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Clear and sunny Monday morning. According to a weather forecast I heard, cloudy or showers thru Thursday.
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Clear and sunny Monday morning. According to a weather forecast I heard, cloudy or showers thru Thursday. ( oops! Either double post or Groundhog Day.)
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Well, Sig, we're forecast for showers off and on through Thursday up here, and I heard the other day that the weather has "swung south"--which this last storm system certainly DID! So I'll hold a good thought for you guys... :o)
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