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To: abigkahuna

46 years in CA. I arrived in drought in ‘73. Hiked to the top of bone dry Yosemite Falls on a full sunshine cloudless 70 degree January day.

I’ve seen four drought / flood cycles. They generally follow the eleven year sunspot cycle.

Every time there’s a drought, people get absolutely freaking insane and hysteria reigns. This has gotten much worse since the warmists took so much power with their incessant bleating and propaganda.

Read Steinbeck’s first novel “To a God Unknown.” It’s about a Vermont farming family that arrives south of Salinas about 1880 and has four or five years of plentiful rain and successful crops and cattle herds. Then the inevitable drought hits, crops fail, almost all the cattle die and the family falls apart.

The cycle is nothing new at all, but most people don’t the understand California climate.


10 posted on 03/14/2019 8:59:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

MY wife just said today that the weather is back to what we used to have in the winter.

Yes, cycles.


11 posted on 03/14/2019 9:07:37 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Exactly...that and the horrendous rains. I remember power outages and flooding rains in the Bay Area as a kid. Had one of those yellow slickers with the hood and boots. Of course use school boys had to see how far we could walk into the puddles until it overflowed into our boots and we had wet feet the rest of the day....ha! The tanbark used to float all around the school playground.

My first recognized drought was in the early 70’s. It was later followed by rain...Malibu would slide off into the ocean every several years.

What do not people understand? It is a boom or bust cycle of rain here in the State. That's why dams and reservoirs were built...duh!

16 posted on 03/14/2019 9:34:44 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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