March 24, 2017 - Clif High
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| Um video here about the rain. | |
| It's raining now. | |
| It's um near the end of March, almost first part of April. | |
| Very cold, very wet. | |
| We are still having winter style storms here in the Northwest. | |
| I worry about California. | |
| Uh given what we're experiencing. | |
| They're probably getting something close. | |
| This is all part of what they call Pineapple Express. | |
| And it's this line of storms that comes sweeping on up from Hawaii and crawls up the coast of the um of the west coast. | |
| And uh so uh we're we should be very concerned about the um uh damn dam situation in California. | |
| Uh this is because our data sets here for a number of years have had well for a long time, I mean way long-term data sets. | |
| We had stuff where we were discussing in like 2003, four, or five, somewhere in there. | |
| Uh fish swimming on the Capitol Steps, swimming over the Capitol steps, and we thought it was probably Sacramento. | |
| And uh now Sacramento Valley may get flooded out. | |
| This is very serious indeed. | |
| Our data sets show uh long-term damage, it shows uh water at 8-20 feet depths, it shows uh boats for months over what used to be farmland, uh houses being washed out, uh subdivisions being moved by not by the uh flooding initially, | |
| but by the um uh shifting of all of the land, not because of seismic activity, but rather because of um uh water activity within the within the land as it gets used to having water again, so to speak, at the same time that we have the major flooding going on. | |
| Uh it shows the loss of the uh productive farmland, like loss, not recoverable, loss. | |
| And it shows the um uh diaspora excuse me, the um the relocation of millions of people because of the loss of the infrastructure for electricity, for roads, uh for food, for um delivery of water to drink, um you know, heat in the coming winter, etc. | |
| So it's and it doesn't happen, you know, uh at once with everybody just running away as in like a um hurricane kind of a situation. | |
| It's just people trickling out as they just realize that their infrastructure is not coming back anytime soon, and it's gonna take months to occur. | |
| This realization, I mean. | |
| And so the uh situation is not particularly good uh along the uh west coast of the US. | |
| This is gonna affect the entire west coast too, because it's gonna destroy power lines, cause backlash into hydroelectric plants relative to the uh electric snapback, so to speak. | |
| Uh the and it's gonna be ugly and it's gonna be quite damaging, and perhaps uh at uh at the point that it occurs, it may well qualify as economically the largest natural disaster ever on the planet. | |
| And it's coming. | |
| So, you know, I mean I don't want to laugh about it or anything, but you can't cry. | |
| Uh there's nothing that can be done. | |
| Uh it's kind of too late. | |
| The one thing they might have maybe done was to have quickly tried to adopt the um uh some kind of a uh Schoenberger uh walking water to reduce the amount of force coming down. | |
| It never is never a good idea to have water coming straight down. | |
| You know, you don't want water to run straight ever. | |
| It builds up speed, it gets angry, it gets pissed, and it causes problems, as we're seeing. | |
| Um anyway though, so the um the current uh rain in our data sets goes well into June. | |
| May in our area up here, insofar as California is concerned. | |
| In our area up here, we may be looking at something where this kind of weather persists well into July. | |
| On a personal note, that's kind of a pain in the butt for me because now I'm contemplating uh I don't have asphalt driveway or anything. | |
| I've got uh something that drains, which is rock, but it's also a lot of um uh mud when it gets this wet. | |
| Now I've got to try and figure out some way to put uh new rolling gear on the back of this and new transmission in there, and I'm probably gonna end up having to tarp it and build plywood floors and all that sort of stuff. | |
| Something I was hoping to avoid. | |
| Anyway though, um so uh not a good situation for any of us. | |
| The uh seismic activities start in August, so we're gonna have a little brief period, maybe the end of June through July, and uh and perhaps the late part of August uh before things get really nasty again. | |
| Uh and then as the seismic stuff shows up, so does the bad weather again. | |
| So uh not necessarily a good period of time to be a Californian uh unless you're you know the more rugged hardy type that knows where to keep the wet weather gear and where their rope is because you may need it. |
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