Coupled with the fact that 2009 was a very dry year we may have a serious problem on our hands. If the ground is to dry and compacted it can't absorb enough of the rain and when you live at the bottom of the biggest water shed for miles in any direction that can cause serious problems. We're talking millions and millions of dollars in property damage and crops lost. Not good in a struggling economy.
Still though there is a very dark and evil part of my psyche that would like to be forced to stay home for days on end through no fault of my own. Ha! no I take that back immediately, now if it floods I'll feel guilty and any exercises in blameless sloth would be ruined.
I need to learn to keep my big mouth shut, but seriously one of the problems of living in a veritable paradise is that our local infrastructure is not prepared for any sort of inclimate weather. Case in point: about two months ago we had a stiff breeze and lost power in a good portion of Napa. We may have 355 days of perfect weather but for the other ten we are completely fucked; the river overflows, power lines fall over, trees crash into houses and across major roads and our local government is completely helpless to do anything about it.
I lament the state of the roads or sidewalks at the best of times but in the rain they're a downright liability.
It's the wages of sin I suppose, but I can't help but feel like a place with so much money flowing through it would be a little better equipped to deal with the normal cycles of nature. Don't give me any crap about this being do to with El Nino either, even if it is, that body of warm water IS part of the normal system of nature, it's a regular as fucking clockwork and we're always unprepared to deal with it? Bullshit.
- T
p.s. I don't really want it to flood, I wouldn't want to get my XBOX wet.
p.p.s Sorry for the lame post about the weather, but DoJ is taking his sweet time with those stories and I couldn't think of anything else to rant about.
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