We had some rain, about a millionth of an inch about two months ago but nothing since late April here in the Sacramento valley. Well that hot dry streak ends today. In a few hours, about 3 to be more precise we will be getting about 3 inches of rain over the next 3 days. Most important is that part of our state will get rain and help to stifle flames wherever they still burn. There may be some flooding because traditional watersheds have been compromised but all in all we will take that trade off. I for one will be outside soaking up some sky water as a thank you to what is left for nature to provide given the greedy man made climate change denial of the past several decades. Those all fall on republicans who chose to ignore science and go with their greedy ass wallets!
So let it fall and happy the ground will be to get some moisture other than our current Autumn dew. I have nothing but dirt patches in my yard since we are on water restriction schedules here. Yet when I do water it is for my trees, bushes and plants that have survived the years of drought. A rain shower may not seem like a big deal to many others who live in other wetter states but we here in California, as has been highlighted during our devastating murderous fire season, are over joyed at even the slimmest glimpse of a rain cloud. Every region in our nation has some weather related downside and for now ours here in California is not enough rain.
When I was a child and young adult having been born and raised here in Sacramento, the rainfall per year was around 20 inches and we occasionally even got snow. But now we are lucky if we get half that and it has been hard on our water resource management to keep a close to fair schedule for who gets water when. It is probably why so many of us here in California know about the science and the common sense perception on the ground here that climate change is real and can be proven to be exacerbated by human activity. When president Obama tackled climate change it was with facts and science as the gidelines for reinventing our national economy and social understanding of why the dirty energy companies had to go. Not like with the pretender trump and his republican bootlickers who can only see dollar signs in their dirty energy outlook conveyed on the backs and to the death of our American dreams.
So let it fall and happy the ground will be to get some moisture other than our current Autumn dew. I have nothing but dirt patches in my yard since we are on water restriction schedules here. Yet when I do water it is for my trees, bushes and plants that have survived the years of drought. A rain shower may not seem like a big deal to many others who live in other wetter states but we here in California, as has been highlighted during our devastating murderous fire season, are over joyed at even the slimmest glimpse of a rain cloud. Every region in our nation has some weather related downside and for now ours here in California is not enough rain.
When I was a child and young adult having been born and raised here in Sacramento, the rainfall per year was around 20 inches and we occasionally even got snow. But now we are lucky if we get half that and it has been hard on our water resource management to keep a close to fair schedule for who gets water when. It is probably why so many of us here in California know about the science and the common sense perception on the ground here that climate change is real and can be proven to be exacerbated by human activity. When president Obama tackled climate change it was with facts and science as the gidelines for reinventing our national economy and social understanding of why the dirty energy companies had to go. Not like with the pretender trump and his republican bootlickers who can only see dollar signs in their dirty energy outlook conveyed on the backs and to the death of our American dreams.
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