Well teh entire state of CA is now officially out of drought! All the rains we have been getting for about a month have pushed us past the mark for the entire year. Time to go and wash my car :D
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Well teh entire state of CA is now officially out of drought! All the rains we have been getting for about a month have pushed us past the mark for the entire year. Time to go and wash my car :D
Yeah, we are getting totally slammed. That's good, because we started off below average, so it took a good long time to dig out of that hole...but boy have we!! Two feet of snow in two days, and we were already slightly above average for the year by then.
Nothing left in the valley, though. A good snowpack is good for everybody.
Well Northern Ca is still being hit (next three days) and it's heading toward Idaho. Luckily I'm on the Southern edge and it hasn't been bad so far.
We’ve had a lot of rain, but thankfully not to flooding levels.
If we get a lot of rain, at the moment, we'll be in BIG trouble. Nothing like a rain on snow event to create a massive flood. Probably won't happen, though.
We have another big storm coming late Friday night and will last through Monday morning!!!
Just saw an article on our local dam. Its old and not up to todays codes and safety standards. Its been moved up to #1 priority on the national dam retrofitting/upgrading schedule. If it fails the city next to it will get 12-20 feet of flooding. Our house (next city over) is somewhat up in the hills (we get to deal with all the coyotes and freaking squirrels) so its safe but my rental house (same city and rented by my daughter) is projected to have 4 feet of flooding.
Your daughter might soon have water views!
The house is on a pier and beam foundation so its maybe 1.5 - 2 feet off the ground but my Shelby is stored in the garage at ground level :(
Your squirrels are freaking, too?? Give them some weed. It's legal there, right?
I think we won't be getting your next storm. I hear that one will be pushed south of Idaho by a high pressure ridge. It's been raining this morning, but should wind up tomorrow. It's all snow on the mountains, though.
Yea it is but Im not giving them sheet! They keep eating our tangerines off our tree and getting all up in our engine bays of our cars leaving their lunch left overs and suchQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Sounds like they've already got enough weed. Maybe you should cut them off?
I should put poison in teh tangerines so when they steal them they will die but with my luck I will forget and eat one and die a slow painful death lol
I've lived in my condo for over 21yrs and never had a pest problem but last year a rat showed up. It ate all kinds of vacuum hoses, water hoses and electrical wires in the engine bay of my van. Damn thing even ate the water hose on my washing machine and flooded my garage. Cost me a lot of money. Finally caught it on a glue trap and took a hammer to it. Left it there for week as a warning to any friends he might have. So far so good.
You probably need to be a brit and the right age for that one:cool:
I'm not sure that "leaving it there for a week" hurts anybody but you...and your neighbors. I'm not sure that rats learn by observation....for that matter, I'm not so sure that humans do, either.
This is my thinking too. Send a message to all his squirrel buddies not to mess with my stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Our dogs got a hold of one recently while it was eating our tangerines and before I could get to them he was on his last breath.
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Meanwhile, the population doubled.
Squirrels are not in short supply. I would guess that they're one of the creatures that has highly benefited from humanity. We have beggar squirrels on the greenbelt that aggressively approach people looking for handouts. The only reason they aren't more bold is that most people aren't actually carrying food. If they could count on that, I expect we'd have cases of them running up peoples legs.
They just trying to get a nut lol