Don't play dumb. You know La. has been hoarding rain for years.
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Don't play dumb. You know La. has been hoarding rain for years.
Yeah, you folks have certainly been hoarding the rain, of late. Not today, though, nor this weekend. It was snowing on my walk home from the gym. The grounds too warm for it to stick, but it's covering the cars.
Down in the valley, we won't get much. A fair amount of moisture, but we only average between 7 and 12 inches a year (depending on exactly where in the valley you measure...I live at the 7" end of that, while the 12" folks are those who live where the air starts to be forced upwards by the Boise mountains). Up in the mountains will be a different story. Some places are expected to get up to two feet our of this storm, and there are others already lining up.
Now, the big question is: Will it keep going, or will we dry right back out again?
Last year we did REALLY well up until new years, then got nothing at all for about three months.
Don't get me wrong, we have rain, but this year has been dryer than most.
Last year it rained almost every day from February to October; New Orleans hit their annual average rainfall in July.
This year we had weeks where it'd rain every day, but then we'd have weeks where it wouldn't rain at all.
It's been tough on my plants. I planted an Ein Shemer apple tree this Spring and thought for sure it was a goner, but it's picked back up since mid-September.
In fact, there's a little bud sprouting right now and I think that I saw another one coming.
If you guys want rain, we've got plenty.
We'd take all we could get, and in darn near any form. Rain, snow, blocks of ice, we'd take it all.
The Boise desert area is not in as desperate a drought as the US Southwest, but we need rain. We'd prefer snow in the mountains, but will settle for pretty nearly anything.
It is currently snowing quite nicely. It should turn to rain in the valleys in the next hour or two. After all, it's already above freezing, and should reach the mid-40s. That's fine. It's the snow in the mountains that matters.
I'm not saying that we planned well for this, but the valley has a pretty good reservoir system. Whether that was more about flood control or irrigation, I can't say, but the result is that, so long as we fill the reservoirs with the snowmelt in the spring, we'll make it through the fact that we likely won't see a cloud from June through September.
Well, clouds of smoke...those we do get to see, pretty much every year. Sometimes we get to see the fire that is causing the smoke, as well.
Lots of vloggers right now saying "I'm not giving financial advice" and then immediately proceed to do so. You don't have to wait long for them to expose their own base innumeracy, typically they don't understand interest rate percentages.
Nothing new aside from the increasing numbers of them.
I think the "I'm not giving financial advice" is a legal fig leaf. There are laws surrounding giving financial advice, so I think you have to preface financial advice with a disclaimer or face legal jeopardy.
I'm not entirely certain that is the case, but I've heard that disclaimer from non-vlog types of financial information. They make it sound like legalese, as if a lawyer told them what they had to say. I think I've also heard some say that they were required to mention that.
It makes sense. All the rules around insider trading, fiduciary responsibility, and so on. Fish are much easier. I can make a forecast for fish returns, and nobody will sue me over them.
It would be entertaining if somebody DID sue over fish forecasts. I could see it happening, as it does impact the financial livelihoods of some people, but it would get into some pretty interesting legal grounds.
That sounds fishy to me. They'd just be trolling for some easy clams. You should ignore them and tuna them out.
I thought it was weird to hear two such people in two days make basically the same claim: 10% interest on $50,000 in 1982 was a lower/easier rate than 5% interest on $250,000 in 2022. The intended implication being to that borrowers right now have it harder than those 40 years ago... who more often faced as much as 15% back then.
I suppose when you are trying to set hair on fire to somehow help you shill for "gold on paper" investing opportunities anything goes though.
Well, they might be right. After all, you can't just look at the interest rate, but also the cumulative inflation between now and then. People were making a lot less, so in purchasing power, perhaps they have a point.
Unless they explicitly stated that, though, then they didn't mean that or are pretty bad at explaining themselves. I don't think 50K in the 80s was comparable to 250K today.
Oh man, that LSU game was phenomenal. This was the first time I stormed the field. I was at the ‘97 Florida game and my parents stormed the field, but I was 6 and my brother was 4 so we stayed in the stands.
Congrats to LSU. Always happy to se Alabama loose.