So why are the wankers insisting that all this RECORD SNOWPACK - and the rains are JUST BEGINNING - won't do a thing for the drought in the west? Why do they keep some reservoirs filled to overflowing and keep others nearly empty for the media? I've personally seen full reservoirs drained to nothing in a matter of weeks.
Why is the hottest futures investment commodities angle to be touted for the upcoming IPO trots all related to CONTROL OF WATER?
why is no one talking about these facts?
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FROM MARCH 2011 - Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter
The Daily Messenger: Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter: The truth is and has been, that the drought in the western US has been over since 2005. Since that time, we've had record snow and rain ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Winter...
Winter by the book, is now here. But we all here agree it came much earlier this year – maybe early November. Every year for four years now, the winter starts earlier, is colder, and lasts longer.
Son Nathan just finished his school term with straight As (4.3 GPA) for his fifth year in a row and counting! He spends all his time studying physics, chemistry, and higher mathematics, when other boys at 16 are chasing girls and playing video games. And he does it under pretty abysmal living conditions. He shares a room with two brothers who aren't very tidy – and he is. So, he finds little nooks here and there in our home, spreads out his papers and text books, and gets busy with formulas and equations. Just for giggles, he takes any spare money to be had and buys second-hand MIT and CalTech physics books and proves out theorems and formulas. Which he does! In minutes! It's quite a sight to see. He's our real life Good Will Hunting, solving the problems of life with higher mathematics. We have tons of his papers that he churns out every day and then throws away; amazing solutions to math problems most folks never even know exist, save maybe those who live in that way...the higher mind. A mind that sees, connects, and understands the inner fabric of our connected existence. I believe one day, he will prove out the theorem of love/math, and open a door that needs to be opened and right now, on earth. Just saying...
Thanks to the endless kindness of a dear friend(s), we've somehow managed to get here; another year clicked on by. When so many are struggling in their own lives to make sense of this new and improved Greater Depression (like the old one, but with the illusion of prosperity no one believes in for a second, except on TV), many have come to this family with love and help. Sometimes that's what made for food that week. Son Matthew and I had hit upon the scheme of going on fasts whenever we ran out of food, so Nick and Nathan could have enough to eat. It worked! Last month, I fasted for 3 weeks out of four, and so did Matt. We then had enough to feed the others with good organic home cooking.
Yes, it's very true. You can go on long fasts and survive. If you do it right. And that's what counts. Drinks lots of juices, that's the main thing.
Food prices in Southern California are outrageous and mostly the food is dead, dead, dead. No life or nutrition in it. You have to scrounge around this or that place, hither and yon, to get decent living food that hasn't been irradiated or processed. Living food equals healthy body. Dead food, dead body – or at least very sick and heading towards cancerous conditions.
And what with Fukushima still gassing the planet with death particles...
A kind neighbor finally gave us a refrigerator last weekend that was going to some corporate charity. We haven't had a working fridge for two years now and it's nice to have food not spoil inside of two days again. Thanks Dave!
The closer you get to the sun, the more the world hates you for the love in your heart. It's the big battle of earth. Money is the main weapon of choice against anyone choosing to follow the path of love, no matter where it leads them and how hard life makes it for you to be on that path. This is definitely something I know about. I struggle with it daily.
It is worth it.
It is worth it do meet people daily and feel only a warmth in your heart toward them, even as they glare and beam hatred back at you. In that instant, you realize how far you've come and wish they could just let go of that hate and be free. People hang onto their hatred like its some kind of personal defiance and birthright. “This is who I am!” they roar as their hatred blooms to full. Closing all doors, shutting out the light and life, they ball up inside attacking anything that resembles a warm fire to melt their ice covered heart. Then the games start, their minds kicking in – animated with their hatred of life, goodness, truth, and love – and they seek out ways to destroy the light. And whoa to the man or woman that has that loving light in their eyes and energy field.
Oh well. Love and Learn.
It's freezing in the house right now, but my thoughts are with all the folks who come here to read today – as they are everyday. Are you doing okay out there? Is the furnace of love burning brightly in your heart? Are you learning from your mistakes and trying to do better, in spite of the opposition to you? Are you loving and being loved?
I hope so. Because in the end, it's all that matters and all that you can take with you.
When I am out and about, seeing tree spirits, and spirits of the air, water, and all life around us, I notice one thing over and over again. These elements don't pay very much attention to the humanity that mills about their existence, except for those with radiant hearts. It's true. Their eyes follow the bright heart wherever that heart moves, like an audience watching a tennis ball as it moves about in motion. They ignore everything else around them and focus solely on the brightest heart they see. Because for them, its a sun on earth, moving through their worlds – the worlds of air, water, plants, fire, you name it.
Think about it.
What does that say?
I guess its why they love children so very much. The hearts are clear and unencumbered with hate. But not all children. I've run into many “network” family children with dead black eyes, the souls coming into that body as dark as sin. Tree spirits and higher angelic forms actually shrink away from the black-eyed souls. Like a withering freeze come into their reality.
Lot of that around, especially where I live.
Son Nathan just finished his school term with straight As (4.3 GPA) for his fifth year in a row and counting! He spends all his time studying physics, chemistry, and higher mathematics, when other boys at 16 are chasing girls and playing video games. And he does it under pretty abysmal living conditions. He shares a room with two brothers who aren't very tidy – and he is. So, he finds little nooks here and there in our home, spreads out his papers and text books, and gets busy with formulas and equations. Just for giggles, he takes any spare money to be had and buys second-hand MIT and CalTech physics books and proves out theorems and formulas. Which he does! In minutes! It's quite a sight to see. He's our real life Good Will Hunting, solving the problems of life with higher mathematics. We have tons of his papers that he churns out every day and then throws away; amazing solutions to math problems most folks never even know exist, save maybe those who live in that way...the higher mind. A mind that sees, connects, and understands the inner fabric of our connected existence. I believe one day, he will prove out the theorem of love/math, and open a door that needs to be opened and right now, on earth. Just saying...
Thanks to the endless kindness of a dear friend(s), we've somehow managed to get here; another year clicked on by. When so many are struggling in their own lives to make sense of this new and improved Greater Depression (like the old one, but with the illusion of prosperity no one believes in for a second, except on TV), many have come to this family with love and help. Sometimes that's what made for food that week. Son Matthew and I had hit upon the scheme of going on fasts whenever we ran out of food, so Nick and Nathan could have enough to eat. It worked! Last month, I fasted for 3 weeks out of four, and so did Matt. We then had enough to feed the others with good organic home cooking.
Yes, it's very true. You can go on long fasts and survive. If you do it right. And that's what counts. Drinks lots of juices, that's the main thing.
Food prices in Southern California are outrageous and mostly the food is dead, dead, dead. No life or nutrition in it. You have to scrounge around this or that place, hither and yon, to get decent living food that hasn't been irradiated or processed. Living food equals healthy body. Dead food, dead body – or at least very sick and heading towards cancerous conditions.
And what with Fukushima still gassing the planet with death particles...
A kind neighbor finally gave us a refrigerator last weekend that was going to some corporate charity. We haven't had a working fridge for two years now and it's nice to have food not spoil inside of two days again. Thanks Dave!
The closer you get to the sun, the more the world hates you for the love in your heart. It's the big battle of earth. Money is the main weapon of choice against anyone choosing to follow the path of love, no matter where it leads them and how hard life makes it for you to be on that path. This is definitely something I know about. I struggle with it daily.
It is worth it.
It is worth it do meet people daily and feel only a warmth in your heart toward them, even as they glare and beam hatred back at you. In that instant, you realize how far you've come and wish they could just let go of that hate and be free. People hang onto their hatred like its some kind of personal defiance and birthright. “This is who I am!” they roar as their hatred blooms to full. Closing all doors, shutting out the light and life, they ball up inside attacking anything that resembles a warm fire to melt their ice covered heart. Then the games start, their minds kicking in – animated with their hatred of life, goodness, truth, and love – and they seek out ways to destroy the light. And whoa to the man or woman that has that loving light in their eyes and energy field.
Oh well. Love and Learn.
It's freezing in the house right now, but my thoughts are with all the folks who come here to read today – as they are everyday. Are you doing okay out there? Is the furnace of love burning brightly in your heart? Are you learning from your mistakes and trying to do better, in spite of the opposition to you? Are you loving and being loved?
I hope so. Because in the end, it's all that matters and all that you can take with you.
When I am out and about, seeing tree spirits, and spirits of the air, water, and all life around us, I notice one thing over and over again. These elements don't pay very much attention to the humanity that mills about their existence, except for those with radiant hearts. It's true. Their eyes follow the bright heart wherever that heart moves, like an audience watching a tennis ball as it moves about in motion. They ignore everything else around them and focus solely on the brightest heart they see. Because for them, its a sun on earth, moving through their worlds – the worlds of air, water, plants, fire, you name it.
Think about it.
What does that say?
I guess its why they love children so very much. The hearts are clear and unencumbered with hate. But not all children. I've run into many “network” family children with dead black eyes, the souls coming into that body as dark as sin. Tree spirits and higher angelic forms actually shrink away from the black-eyed souls. Like a withering freeze come into their reality.
Lot of that around, especially where I live.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Meh
Still have to use some other computer to get to this blog. Meh.
The stove is fixed!
It's getting colder each year, earlier in the season and with more precipitation. It rains and snows weekly where we live, something that is rare for this part of the country. Things are changing. Darker...colder...
Zetatalk is a Nancy Leder network shill site to mislead and misdirect those gullible enough to trust them. They've been predicting planet X for 15 years as being arouund the corner anytime now. The truth is in what they sell, the whole X (hex) generation thing. Xs are on cars, products, books, tattoos, you name it. It's code for HEX, a thing witches do on a magical level to control events, people, places, things. Some companies and their covens don't even hide it anymore - GM cars carry a big HeX on their vehicles. It's witchcraft coming from the shadows to the light of day. Zetatalk has always been a part of that dark side. It's why they are still around when they were totally discredited back in the 90s as a bunko site full of nonsense, spewing lies.
Meh.
The economy in America resembles the Great Depression, save for one thing. No one is talking about it in the MSM. Like Fukushima, it's a reality no one dare mention. But there it is, eating lives and homes, destroying families, and ALL BY DESIGN by the very network that is using the USA as the new evil empire which is despised the world over for its imperialist actions in other countries. Like the Great Depression, there is the forgotten poor and those being taken care of, because they are obedient little cogs in the machine. Even these cogs will be left holding the bag, when their usefulness is over.
When you are dirt poor, you don't make plans. You try to keep food on the table while you can. THat's your plan. There are no plans outside of that. Not career, not love, not things to do, not anything. It's all about survival that week. That's as far as you can see. When your employment efforts are blocked by the satanic network at every turn, life gets real simple, real fast. We laugh when people ask our family what are plans are for this and that, or for this day or that day. We don't have plans. We try to survive. Like the dead, the poor don't have lives or plans, they live one day at a time, for that is all that has been given them. And nothing else.
Meh.
The stove is fixed!
It's getting colder each year, earlier in the season and with more precipitation. It rains and snows weekly where we live, something that is rare for this part of the country. Things are changing. Darker...colder...
Zetatalk is a Nancy Leder network shill site to mislead and misdirect those gullible enough to trust them. They've been predicting planet X for 15 years as being arouund the corner anytime now. The truth is in what they sell, the whole X (hex) generation thing. Xs are on cars, products, books, tattoos, you name it. It's code for HEX, a thing witches do on a magical level to control events, people, places, things. Some companies and their covens don't even hide it anymore - GM cars carry a big HeX on their vehicles. It's witchcraft coming from the shadows to the light of day. Zetatalk has always been a part of that dark side. It's why they are still around when they were totally discredited back in the 90s as a bunko site full of nonsense, spewing lies.
Meh.
The economy in America resembles the Great Depression, save for one thing. No one is talking about it in the MSM. Like Fukushima, it's a reality no one dare mention. But there it is, eating lives and homes, destroying families, and ALL BY DESIGN by the very network that is using the USA as the new evil empire which is despised the world over for its imperialist actions in other countries. Like the Great Depression, there is the forgotten poor and those being taken care of, because they are obedient little cogs in the machine. Even these cogs will be left holding the bag, when their usefulness is over.
When you are dirt poor, you don't make plans. You try to keep food on the table while you can. THat's your plan. There are no plans outside of that. Not career, not love, not things to do, not anything. It's all about survival that week. That's as far as you can see. When your employment efforts are blocked by the satanic network at every turn, life gets real simple, real fast. We laugh when people ask our family what are plans are for this and that, or for this day or that day. We don't have plans. We try to survive. Like the dead, the poor don't have lives or plans, they live one day at a time, for that is all that has been given them. And nothing else.
Meh.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter
The truth is and has been, that the drought in the western US has been over since 2005. Since that time, we've had record snow and rain falls leaving all aquifers, reservoirs, and lakes full to over-flowing. Remember that when the water utilities swing the drought banner for higher rates as they do each and every single summer.
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Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter
By DON THOMPSON
A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts open until the Fourth of July.
More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada high country so far this season, second only to 1950-51, when 65 feet fell, according to records kept by the California Department of Transportation. And more snow is possible in April, raising the prospect of an all-time record.
When it melts, the snow will bring relief to hundreds of communities and many farms that provide fruits and vegetables to the nation.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday repealed a statewide drought declaration made in 2008 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who called for a state of emergency in February 2009 after three years of low water levels.
Brown acted after state officials reported the water content in the Sierra snowpack at 165 percent of normal for this time of year. That is one of the wettest winters since 1970, according to the state Department of Water Resources.
It trails only 1983, when the water content in the snowpack was 227 percent of normal, and 1995, which was 182 percent of the average for the end of March.
The wet winter means state and federal water agencies will be able to provide more water to urban and agricultural areas as the snowmelt fills reservoirs this summer.
The Sierra snowpack is crucial for California's water supply. As it melts, it feeds a vast system of lakes and aqueducts that move water from the north through the agriculturally rich Central Valley and eventually to Southern California, where most of the state's residents live.
Dry winters the past three years meant water managers could deliver only between 35 percent and 50 percent of the amount requested by cities and farms. That, combined with federally mandated pumping restrictions to protect a threatened fish, forced growers to leave thousands of acres unplanted and to lay off thousands of farmworkers.
Some cities imposed conservation measures that included restrictions on watering lawns.
Now the snow has piled as high as the power lines in some places and has been so deep throughout most of the 400-mile mountain range that it caused roofs to collapse. Some ski resorts had to close temporarily when they received more snow than they could handle.
Chris Rivest's father sent him from San Francisco to the family vacation cabin near the Sierra Nevada crest with a seemingly simple chore - clear it and the driveway of snow.
When Rivest arrived earlier this week at the A-frame near Soda Springs, about 90 miles northeast of Sacramento, the snow was at least 10 feet high on the deck.
"My dad wants me to clear the deck," the ponytailed 21-year-old said Monday, as he labored to clean up the driveway with a snow blower. "How do I even begin to do that? Where would I put the snow? This is absurd."
Seasonal snow accumulation records already have been set at some ski resorts, including Squaw Valley USA near the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Mountain Resort on the lake's south side and Mammoth Mountain, the sprawling Eastern Sierra resort that attracts Southern California skiers and snowboarders.
At Squaw Valley, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics, ski patrol guides had to create tunnels just to reach their warming huts, and avalanches broke out windows at two lift stations, said Wes Schimmelpfenning, a 68-year-old patrolman who has worked there for 48 years.
Nearly 59 feet of snow has fallen there so far this winter, beating the old record by 29 inches.
Squaw is extending its season through Memorial Day, while Mammoth, with a peak elevation exceeding 11,000 feet, might remain open through Independence Day.
"I'm out plowing driveways, and we can't even find the houses," said Norm Sayler, who used to run Donner Ski Ranch along Interstate 80 and now operates a snow-plowing business near Donner Summit. "I've been up here since 1954, and personally this has been the toughest winter I've ever had here."
Authorities are warning mountain homeowners to beware of failing roofs and vents and flues that have become blocked by snow.
The snow caused roofs to partially collapse last weekend at a bowling alley, a logging business and a hardware store in the Sierra foothills town of Pollock Pines, about 60 miles east of Sacramento.
"I better not hear Sacramento talking about drought for a while," said Max Ramsey, 38, who on Monday was chipping snow and ice off the roof of a building that houses the Soda Springs General Store, post office and a vacation rental property business. "You get 60 feet of snow, it does a lot of damage."
Building owner Tony Paduano said his wife heard "a large cracking noise" on Sunday as one of the roof's support beams gave way.
The California winter started off intense late in 2010, dried out in January, then came roaring back with a series of heavy storms in February and March.
The storms dumped so much snow at the University of California Central Sierra Snow Lab near Soda Springs that the 15-foot-tall measuring stake was buried.
Researcher Randall Osterhuber had to extend the stake another 6 feet to keep up with the more than 18 feet of snow on the ground, the fourth-deepest total since record-keeping began there in 1946. More than 47 feet of snow has fallen there this season.
Old railroad records dating to 1879 put the deepest accumulation near Donner Summit at 66 feet in 1938. The most snow on the ground at any one time was 31 feet, in both 1880 and 1890.
Residents near Soda Springs said they had been without electricity or phone service intermittently over the past 10 days after storms toppled power and phone lines.
The snow rose above the third-story windows at the house 18-year-old Luis Rico is sharing with five other employees of the nearby Royal Gorge cross-country skiing resort, which closed all last week because of the storms.
The friends occupied their time by building a 15-foot-tall igloo with blocks of snow they cut with a chain saw. One morning, they woke up to find the doorway completely buried and had to tunnel their way out.
"We pretty much had to swim to get out of there," he said.
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/03/30/v-lite/1605041/near-record-sierra-snow-good-news.html#ixzz1ICdJyG8f
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/03/30/v-lite/1605041/near-record-sierra-snow-good-news.html
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Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter
By DON THOMPSON
A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts open until the Fourth of July.
More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada high country so far this season, second only to 1950-51, when 65 feet fell, according to records kept by the California Department of Transportation. And more snow is possible in April, raising the prospect of an all-time record.
When it melts, the snow will bring relief to hundreds of communities and many farms that provide fruits and vegetables to the nation.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday repealed a statewide drought declaration made in 2008 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who called for a state of emergency in February 2009 after three years of low water levels.
Brown acted after state officials reported the water content in the Sierra snowpack at 165 percent of normal for this time of year. That is one of the wettest winters since 1970, according to the state Department of Water Resources.
It trails only 1983, when the water content in the snowpack was 227 percent of normal, and 1995, which was 182 percent of the average for the end of March.
The wet winter means state and federal water agencies will be able to provide more water to urban and agricultural areas as the snowmelt fills reservoirs this summer.
The Sierra snowpack is crucial for California's water supply. As it melts, it feeds a vast system of lakes and aqueducts that move water from the north through the agriculturally rich Central Valley and eventually to Southern California, where most of the state's residents live.
Dry winters the past three years meant water managers could deliver only between 35 percent and 50 percent of the amount requested by cities and farms. That, combined with federally mandated pumping restrictions to protect a threatened fish, forced growers to leave thousands of acres unplanted and to lay off thousands of farmworkers.
Some cities imposed conservation measures that included restrictions on watering lawns.
Now the snow has piled as high as the power lines in some places and has been so deep throughout most of the 400-mile mountain range that it caused roofs to collapse. Some ski resorts had to close temporarily when they received more snow than they could handle.
Chris Rivest's father sent him from San Francisco to the family vacation cabin near the Sierra Nevada crest with a seemingly simple chore - clear it and the driveway of snow.
When Rivest arrived earlier this week at the A-frame near Soda Springs, about 90 miles northeast of Sacramento, the snow was at least 10 feet high on the deck.
"My dad wants me to clear the deck," the ponytailed 21-year-old said Monday, as he labored to clean up the driveway with a snow blower. "How do I even begin to do that? Where would I put the snow? This is absurd."
Seasonal snow accumulation records already have been set at some ski resorts, including Squaw Valley USA near the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Mountain Resort on the lake's south side and Mammoth Mountain, the sprawling Eastern Sierra resort that attracts Southern California skiers and snowboarders.
At Squaw Valley, home of the 1960 Winter Olympics, ski patrol guides had to create tunnels just to reach their warming huts, and avalanches broke out windows at two lift stations, said Wes Schimmelpfenning, a 68-year-old patrolman who has worked there for 48 years.
Nearly 59 feet of snow has fallen there so far this winter, beating the old record by 29 inches.
Squaw is extending its season through Memorial Day, while Mammoth, with a peak elevation exceeding 11,000 feet, might remain open through Independence Day.
"I'm out plowing driveways, and we can't even find the houses," said Norm Sayler, who used to run Donner Ski Ranch along Interstate 80 and now operates a snow-plowing business near Donner Summit. "I've been up here since 1954, and personally this has been the toughest winter I've ever had here."
Authorities are warning mountain homeowners to beware of failing roofs and vents and flues that have become blocked by snow.
The snow caused roofs to partially collapse last weekend at a bowling alley, a logging business and a hardware store in the Sierra foothills town of Pollock Pines, about 60 miles east of Sacramento.
"I better not hear Sacramento talking about drought for a while," said Max Ramsey, 38, who on Monday was chipping snow and ice off the roof of a building that houses the Soda Springs General Store, post office and a vacation rental property business. "You get 60 feet of snow, it does a lot of damage."
Building owner Tony Paduano said his wife heard "a large cracking noise" on Sunday as one of the roof's support beams gave way.
The California winter started off intense late in 2010, dried out in January, then came roaring back with a series of heavy storms in February and March.
The storms dumped so much snow at the University of California Central Sierra Snow Lab near Soda Springs that the 15-foot-tall measuring stake was buried.
Researcher Randall Osterhuber had to extend the stake another 6 feet to keep up with the more than 18 feet of snow on the ground, the fourth-deepest total since record-keeping began there in 1946. More than 47 feet of snow has fallen there this season.
Old railroad records dating to 1879 put the deepest accumulation near Donner Summit at 66 feet in 1938. The most snow on the ground at any one time was 31 feet, in both 1880 and 1890.
Residents near Soda Springs said they had been without electricity or phone service intermittently over the past 10 days after storms toppled power and phone lines.
The snow rose above the third-story windows at the house 18-year-old Luis Rico is sharing with five other employees of the nearby Royal Gorge cross-country skiing resort, which closed all last week because of the storms.
The friends occupied their time by building a 15-foot-tall igloo with blocks of snow they cut with a chain saw. One morning, they woke up to find the doorway completely buried and had to tunnel their way out.
"We pretty much had to swim to get out of there," he said.
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/03/30/v-lite/1605041/near-record-sierra-snow-good-news.html#ixzz1ICdJyG8f
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/03/30/v-lite/1605041/near-record-sierra-snow-good-news.html
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