'Monster Storm'
As the hype from the Weather Channel continues for California, we are grateful for 1.72 inches measured this morning, Dry Creek subsiding from its nighttime high flows. Though a muddy and frothy brown, it’s great to see it running again. We experienced minimal runoff here downstream, so it had to have rained hard in the upper reaches of the watershed. With snow levels high, perhaps the larger part of the 5 inches promised with two more days remaining of the forecast storm. Cattle scattered on the south slopes, sun trying to break through the clouds, a bountiful morning all around.
January 6, 2008: Though the storm hasn’t behaved as forecast, we accumulated another three-tenths overnight with very little run-off, most all soaked in.
CREEK AFTER RAIN
If we truly knew
as much as we thought
we do,
we might
give-up thinking
altogether.
Comments
glad to see you got that stream running from your rains...but have to respond that your latest poem CREEK AFTER RAIN... would fit the current debates, news, primaries, politicians...i think, but i might give up thinking altogether!
Posted by: sarah sweetwater | January 15, 2008 5:42 PM
Thanks for chiming-in Sarah! The only sense I make of politics in this country is to distrust/ignore the rhetoric driven by egos and money – which is most of it. (See 4 cynical rants in the sidebar: “The Nature of Politics” or “Marionettes, 2006”.)
With no philosophical consistency to either party, thinking about the BS is truly futile. See you in a couple of weeks.
Posted by: John Dofflemyer | January 17, 2008 2:23 PM