Discussion for article #230749
Jeebus. Talk about raining on a parade!
“Ooooh, dirty beaches!” “Ooooh, mudslides in places where building should never happen!” “Ooooh, small floods and garbage washing off burnt-over hills!”
Next come the complaints about vegetation growing back that provide fuel for wildfires in the next drought!
Sorry folks, nature is messy. Rain and storms are inconvenient (and don’t get me started on blizzards and ice storms) but if we are going to have drinking water and something flowing in our rivers, we need them.
I’m just ecstatic that this likely means the persistent weather pattern of warm area circulating up the West Coast into Alaska and then dropping back down through the Central Plains as extreme cold my finally be ending. Last winter, and this November were already brutal in Wisconsin and other midwest states.
It isn’t all about California…