Community Chat

[Noel7]

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@MaggieMack wrote:

To all who lived in Northern California in the late 1970s, do you remember the drought and water rationing then? I worked in an office in Danville, where I also lived, and remember not flushing the toilet during the day if it was only No. 1, and showers were few and far between. Is it that bad now?

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@MaggieMack

I do remember, Maggie it's so much worse now, we are in the fourth year of drought.  

This is the worst drought in CA in 1200 years. 

[shoekitty]

@MaggieMack

 Yes, I remember that awful drought, which was followed by the malathion aerial spraying.  It took the paint off cars, and we were told it wouldn't hurt us.  I still remember the smell coming in the windows at night.  Most of all I can still close my eyes and hear the helicopters flying low, spraying.  The sound rattles the houses.

The water rationing had a saying,  "If it's brown, flush it down.  If it's yellow, be mellow.".  LOL!  We also put a brick in the tank of toilet.

[Noel7]

And we bought water saving shower heads.

We didn't have the spraying, thank goodness.  You guys were told to bring all the backyard kid toys inside.

[Noel7]

@shoekitty and others in northern CA:

It's finally rained here.  No big storm in my area but at least it's wet.  The weather reporters last night said certain areas would get A LOT of rain through this weekend and that SF would get two to four inches of rain in total

I find that hard to believe. 

[shoekitty]

No rain at all yet.  Yesterday the clouds looked firce over the mountains (ocean)  it got a little winday.  This was 5 pm.  Then my 10 the sky was clear, I could see stars.  It was sunny this morning, but a few clouds are coming in.  Hoping something will happen, or we will need to water plants and lawn.  It has been 9 days since we watered.

[Moonchilde]

I wish I could be in a position to enjoy the rain, when I starts in earnest. Maybe Sunday ;-)

[Noel7]

BIG NEWS

@shoekitty

We got home just in time to catch the weather report.  Maybe the comment that SF would get 3 to 4 inches of rain was right on.

They are saying it's a level 3 storm, out of a ranking of 1 to 5.  It's expected to hit hard Saturday.

@Moonchilde it may not be an easy day of driving for you all.

[Moonchilde]

@Noel7  If we can leave by 11 am, I'll feel better. But it is what it is ;-(

[september]

Still no rain in my area.  My day was filled  with appointments, so I hoped it would rain.  Now they're saying it will rain Friday-Monday, with the heaviest rainfall being over the weekend.  

[shoekitty]

@Moonchilde

If you are coming by my town, and it's raining...stop in for some coffee and tea...Oh, and I have a new stash of McConnell's ice cream!

@Noel7 @september

It rained a bit a while ago.  I haven't removed the cushions from the patio.  We have a covered patio.  If it rains hard it blows in.  But I don't want to jinx myself, like september said, LOL!