California Drought

RobertN · Jan 25, 2014

Lived here(grew up in Orangevale) my whole 50 years. Driven past a lot of time, but never stopped.

troutsqueezer said:
We have been eating there for close to thirty years, the Hindquarter. It has gone through several owners and the quality has been up and down, mostly up. It's not cheap but what steakhouse is? Haven't been there in maybe two years. The bar is next to the restaurant so there's drinkin', cussin' and smokin' right close to your table. Down home kinda place. Try at your own risk. There must be a reason it has been in business so long in a town that has a population of -10.

Jelf · Jan 25, 2014

Of course the drought results in high fire risk. The link below starts Gmap4 and displays a map showing the wild fire threat level for California. Red is "very high" and the darker color is "extreme". There is sure a lot of red! It might take a few seconds for all the data to appear on the map.

This map can also display current fires that are being tracked by the inter-agency GeoMAC team and some other GIS (Geographic Information System) data layers related to wild fires that you usually do not see all on the same map.

Each time you view the map you are seeing the latest data from the state and federal servers. To learn more about the map please visit the two links in the upper left corner of the map. The "About" link will show you how to turn the GIS overlays on/off, change the order in how the overlays stack on top of each other, make your own custom link for this map and more.

http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gma...upport.com/p/fires/california_fire_threat.txt

Joseph, the Gmap4 guy
Redmond, WA

Pilot · Jan 27, 2014

Oregon had 12 fires going as of Friday night. Not huge like California fires so often are, but very unusual for January when you can expect rain almost every day. These fires are on the west, wet, heavily timbered side of the Cascade mountains. It is usually the east, desert side that burns. If they forecast a chance of rain, figure it will rain. If they forecast no rain, figure it probably will rain.

downsizingnow48 · Feb 5, 2014

NASA image. California snow pack estimated at 4% - 22% of normal.

troutsqueezer · Feb 5, 2014

Some storms are moving this way, yay! Although the news people are always quick to remind us that just because there is rain coming, it doesn't mean we're out of the drought, like we're too stupid to know that.

deezler · Feb 5, 2014

At least they are getting some measurable rain/snow now. Not quite a sigh of relief yet, but, a lot less scary all of a sudden.

deerseeker001 · Feb 5, 2014

I am happy that you have finally got some descent rain,hopefully more to come.

charlz · Feb 5, 2014

deezler said:
At least they are getting some measurable rain/snow now. Not quite a sigh of relief yet, but, a lot less scary all of a sudden.

I dunno, one article I saw had a quote that they needed it to rain every day for about 3 months before they would be out of drought status... a storm here or there isn't going to cut it.

troutsqueezer · Feb 5, 2014

charlz said:
I dunno, one article I saw had a quote that they needed it to rain every day for about 3 months before they would be out of drought status... a storm here or there isn't going to cut it.

It will help immensely with the nectar flow this year. I have some beehives and some amount of rain will be good. Filling the reservoirs is one thing and does take some time but if you are not depending on that then anything is much better than nothing.