Hi Lloyd,
I was out walking this morning along our local canal in Wiltshire UK and had to send you these of tiny homes working as they should! 🤟
Unknown boaters keeping warm and cosy on a –3 degrees C (27 degrees F) day. Canal frozen solid as well.
Cheers, Dean Mawdsley, UK
Story of our flood adventure in yesterday’s Santa Cruz Sentinel:
From Kevin Kelly
Photo of Lake Shasta in 2019 (when the drought was much less severe than now in 2021) by Bruce Warrington
Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains.
Drought emergencies have been declared. Farmers and ranchers are suffering. States are facing water cutbacks. Large wildfires are burning earlier than usual. And there appears to be little relief in sight.…
www.nytimes.com/article/drought-california-western-united-states.html
By Lloyd and Lesley Kahn
Saturday morning October 14th
We went to bed last Sunday night with no inkling of what was happening. About 3 AM, a fierce wind started blowing and we smelled smoke. At daybreak we learned that it came from fires some 60 miles away, mostly in neighboring Sonoma county. It’s been a grim week.
Everyone seems to know people or have relatives that have lost their homes. My brother was luckier than most with his farm in the Napa Valley: he lost a barn, tractor, Toyota Tacoma, and an accessory building, but his house was OK. He has 2,000 olive trees and they were not burned, but he’s not sure if they’ll be ruined by the smoke. It was his biggest crop ever.
This is the most informative I’ve found, a text report by the National Weather Service:
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&