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Hot day ahead with 96⁰f (36⁰C) forecast. Humidity may drop below 10% ... where am I, the Mojave?

Sun is coming up and there is Corn Pops and Crispx in the bowl with lots of raspberries. Oolong has cooled enough to drink and then it's on to the herbal mix with Mojave ... uhm ... Mojito Mint in the mix for about the next 7 days. I already know that the "citrus undertone" will be muted by the orange zest . Use less zest, none? Suspect that the licorice root may be responsible for the if not the orange.

Let's try ... too Hot! Well, I already know it will be good. I hope you have Good for Your Morning, too.

Steve & the Stevia
edit: It Is Good !

Deep horror.....

digitS' said:

Hot day ahead with 96⁰f (36⁰C) forecast. Humidity may drop below 10% ... where am I, the Mojave?

Sun is coming up and there is Corn Pops and Crispx in the bowl with lots of raspberries. Oolong has cooled enough to drink and then it's on to the herbal mix with Mojave ... uhm ... Mojito Mint in the mix for about the next 7 days. I already know that the "citrus undertone" will be muted by the orange zest . Use less zest, none? Suspect that the licorice root may be responsible for the if not the orange.

Let's try ... too Hot! Well, I already know it will be good. I hope you have Good for Your Morning, too.

Steve & the Stevia
edit: It Is Good !

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Breakfast this morning is nettle tea with honey, toasted panini buns with homemade salal jam, sausage n eggs. Coffee down the hatch already!

Drinking coffee and had breakfast, which was really too heavy feeling. I had Malt-O-Meal with salt and butter and 2 boiled eggs. I went through the garden earlier and I think I over watered last night. I almost thought it had rained. I pulled breakfast for the rabbit of many different things that are green. lol She will get her ice jug the next trip out. Like digitS said, heat is coming today and DD asked me if I wanted to watch the twins while she took the other 3 to the waster splash park, but with the low humidity, I think they will burn easier, so I am warning her about that to not stay long.

it's rather sad to do a search on this forum and not find any mentions of Keyline Design.

the overall issue with many earthworks though and any larger system is that you should understand the limits so that you don't design something that will be subject catastrophic failures. i think many people would consider flash flooding a catastrophic failure...

to prevent flash flooding at a large scale you have to pretty much reshape the entire landscape to absorb as much moisture as possible (but not so much that the land slides) and have many layers so that for very large rainstorms you have the capacity to buffer the flows to give them time to soak in or be released more slowly.

it takes a lot of time and effort to get it set up but once in place it will help.

Coffee is ready, spike mine with bourbon. Took son to Tyler yesterday to catch 5 PM flight. Flight was delayed. Delayed. Delayed. Canceled. Rescheduled for today. Cancelled, no flights at all for today. I left at 8:30 to go get him. Got back 12:45 PM. He was looking up flights to Albuquerque, they were all over the place, like fly out of Dallas, to Atlanta, 9 hour layover, then to Albuquerque, or to Atlanta, then Denver, then Albuquerque. He finally found a flight from Hobby Airport direct to Albuquerque. Hobby is on the south side of Houston, only 40 miles from Galveston. There was a storm in Dallas, all flights in or out were grounded. So we’ll see how today goes. Oh, he’s supposed to be at work today. He says he’s not doing this again. He will DRIVE.

@baymule, it's 830 miles and 12-14 hours of driving between Trinity County and Albuquerque! That's what Google says and, honestly, I thought it was further than that but I imagined a route through El Paso ... I would need more than a day to recover!

Blueberries and banana in the cold cereal with cherries on the side.

It was 95⁰f (35⁰C) yesterday and only down to 70f (21C) this morning. I imagine that many folks would hope for such drops in overnight temperatures and they are good (results of low humidity and elevation). However, I have problems cooling the house since the closed off from AC utility room and south room were 80f when I went to bed. Good news is that it should not be so hot today. The actual bad news is that there are supposed to be winds over 30mph.

No Fires.

@Marie2020 , Prayers sent for your comfort.

If there is any blame to go around, I would suggest looking at the Real Estate agents who saw opportunity many years ago to build in a place that wasn't built FOR GOOD REASONS. We saw the same thing with houses washed away during Hurricane Sandy, building on properties that should be left vacant. A few years ago a whole town in Tennessee moved and rebuilt a few miles away on higher ground bc their town kept getting flooded out.
This catastrophe shouldn't have happened and there is Always a history about a place to prove it.
I do not blame ANY of the residents in Kerr County. They are the ones suffering.
I commend all of the people who have shown up to help and to work and to comfort in this terrible tragedy.
I also commend the Weather Service. I am a weather geek and I hear the warnings and watches from them every week. There are always stories about people who ignored the warnings AND places where people are beginning to ignore warnings bc a storm bypassed them and hit another place.
NOBODY could have predicted when this river was going to rise to a catastrophic height.
It should have been predicted that it Would happen.
Many locals are saying that they expected flooding and road closures only.
Normal height for this river is 3 ft deep and their desert soil saturates quickly with maximum runoff.
I am praying for comfort for the families.
My hurt from the death of my dog is NOTHING in comparison, just a tiny taste of their mourning.
Please CONTINUE to pray.

Gardening with Rabbits said:

I am so sorry. I lost my best friend 2 years ago and we had been friends for 50 years.

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It cuts deep. I'm sorry for your loss