And I loved, loved, loved it since I knew what a freak and rare occurrence this was and will likely not happen again for a long while.
I looked at my electric bill and it compared last year's usage with a bar graph. Aug., Sept., and Oct. were very hot then in one month it dropped by 35%. Unfortunately, the rains have brought about a sense of "we don't need to conserve anymore". Humans have such short term memories.

are in much better shape. The groundwater situation (which remains the main supply for a great deal of ag and homes) is barely improved at all.

What happened was certainly good fortune and exceedingly welcome - but the great fear attached to that is that the 'take away' on too many parts will be, "Okay .. problem solved." When in fact, that is not the case at all - and real conservation measures are still absolutely essential going forward.

Just above Fresno, we got brutal winds and two feet of snow, breaking countless trees. I am still filing claims for property damage to windows, roof and driveway. Making progress.

For me personally, the most beautiful Manzanita tree, some 20 feet tall, was leveled. Only fortunate part is that I got great photos of it "prior".



Yeah, too damn hot. I'm putting a tagine on the back stairs to make Morrocan stew.

No it's a harbinger of doom.

The real kind.

This is really bad news.

Examine the tree lines.

The eco systems therein are all dead for centuries when this type of thing happens.

We are getting way too close to killing the planet.

Maybe I'm just a fool.

I hope I am.

California needs the rain. I hope you’re wrong, but either way, humans ARE over-stressing the planet.

ZPG (Zero Population Growth) needs to be the rule - across the globe.

I would have chosen temporary respite.

That helps solve the problem?

where climate and weather are concerned, is inappropriate. Yes, there's beyond-enormous change, most destructive of what we've known, but the change is extremely complex, not all one direction to the "end."

Scientists are busily studying every event for clues in what's happening to what can be done. I tried to nudge my 3 grandsons toward one of the many fields growing up to save the planet, but no takers so far. They have their own dreams, happily good ones too.

The new climate doomers, just as inevitable as deniers have been, need to keep their heads on straight and not be carried away in what's likely to become floods of doom-based opposition to the work others commit to.

Most of the serious doomsaying will be faith, not science, based, of course -- secular or religious based faith, or just general woo-woo, all the same, and it will grow into resistant, oppositional "things." Passions tied to other passions those involved are the last to admit or understand. Nothing anyone here would want to be part of, except for those who find transcendent wisdom in it of course.

Happy Monday.