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Ordinarily I wouldn't have the day off really, but I had the whole day marked out for a hearing and the court's closed.  And knowing I had the hearing scheduled I got everything else I might have needed to do done yesterday.

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Well I actually just had the afternoon cleared for the hearing itself (preliminary hearing), I had the morning for preparing for it (reviewing the security video evidence, police reports, talking with my client, etc).  The videos are the main thing, they're quite lengthy, and the prosecutor here likes to play the entire things.

 

*Edit* - And I actually did go in to work for a couple hours this morning, but left at about 10.  No one else was there, including the secretaries.

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Well I was going to guess the weather was "car accident", but based on Rev's comment I guess it's rain?

 

Why would rain cause so many wrecks?  I get that it makes the roads a little slicker, but it's not like it's ice or anything.

 

Here it's been raining almost continuously for about two weeks now, with at least another 10 days to go according to the forecast.  I'm ready for the dry season.

 

*Edit - By "almost continuously" I mean almost every day, not literally continuously.  This isn't Rock-a-Doodle.

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Last year's winter was forecast to be a really wet one due to El Nino. It didn't pan out... until this year. I haven't seen consistent rain (at least weekly) in 5-7 years and I'm currently in So Cal. Central and Northern California is getting hammered by ~weekly atmospheric river fed storms. So Cal just gets the edge of it.

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Is the drought only in the south or all of California? Is this enough rain to help or I guess it would need to be more long-term.

 

Speaking of weather*, we had what would charitably called snow on Christmas Day. The thing is I did really want it to be snow. I guess everyone thinks of snow as Christmassy because of Christmas cards and films etc. but I wonder if the UK is one of the few places that wishes for it. Most places won't have a chance and many others get a load of snow all winter so it's just the same as every other day around it. I think it's the rarity/uncertainty/hope that makes it a big deal here.

 

*though I wish this thread was still alive for chit chat rather than random thoughts, random things which I feel has a more specific purpose than that even though it's random

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As of the new year, it's predominately in Central to Southern California. All this rain helps refill reservoirs outside the Sierra (everywhere other than eastern most California) but as you can see in advisory, the snow level with the current storm is high and with a lot of rain. It can melt a lot of the Sierra's snow which stores all the water for the summer months for farming and other uses. Could mean bad business if next winter is dry or if all the storms dry up for the rest of this winter. As of right now, the government is concerned with major flooding. Doesn't help there's another atmospheric river (AR) system on the way...

 

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For reference, a normal storm is kind that comes with the kind of storm fronts you get in the UK, just out here in the western United States.

 

Fun fact: This sort of system has a bigger brother where multiple strong storms (like the current storm) stall out and dump rain for over a month. It's referred to an ARkStorm scenario. It would essentially turn the Central Valley into a big lake.

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Hey guys, want to see a modern dam failure in the US of A looks like?

Even if the dam holds till it's drawn down enough, we got another round of storms coming Thursday till about Sunday. The emergency spillway is on its knees right now and the coming storms might blow it out. The damaged spillway can be used since the core of the hill is rock but that too can erode when you have to blast water out at max. What cannot happen is that the main dam being over topped. Allowing that to happen would be... bad. You'd get the worse case scenario as outlined in the maps in the article. 100+ feet of water at deepest.

 

And the river it goes to connects to the Sacramento River and all of its levees. Heh.

STAY FRESH

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