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RAIN!! The Inundation of the West Coast This Nov/Dec
Yet again we have water cascading down in buckets from the sky. Torrential downpours, usually the hallmark of other areas of the country during spring or summer storms, have become common along the west coast this fall. Sheets of rain is not what you expect when you live here, and yet that is what we get 2 out of 3 days on average for weeks on end. The slight breaks help to allow creeks and streams to empty into rivers and rivers into oceans, but make no mistake, we are super-saturated over here!
The Portland area got some 7 inches of rain in a single weekend a couple of weeks ago, for instance. We're well above average and pretty much breaking records in most places. I have to admit, its quite alarming on some levels. Again, I am one of those who was expecting global climate change since my childhood, and yet even I find myself astonished at how quickly things seem to be changing.
California, who often battles periods of drought, is being deluged. Northern California (home of the giant sequoias and redwoods) is especially hard hit. They have massive flooding all over the place, and it just keeps going on and on and on. A few days' respite only brings another round of biblical inundation. And the West Coast doesn't flood as easily as the Midwest or East Coast because of all the mountains, valleys, and rivers that act as conduits, taking the water right off the land again. Yet even so, every bit of flat or pocketed land is just getting hammered.
Meanwhile, record high temperatures in the Midwest and East again this year it looks like… 70 degree F in December? Really? You think this bodes well for anyone? Remember last year and the misery that followed the oddly warm winters? Yeah, this bodes ill.
2012-12-04 23:42:26
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