Neat, thanks 
Actually yesterday butā¦
Chargers 30
Seahawks 21
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Iām a day early, but I get to leave half-day tomorrow for a dental appointment. The icing on the cake is Iāll use the time to try out a sandwich place (more like a small grocery store that also makes sandwiches) near the house thatās supposedly really good.
Making chili and banana bread, and itās cold enough outside that it doesnāt overheat the house!
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Thatās some really weird sounding bread. Do you just substitute the chili for oil in the banana bread recipe? or do you just top it with chili?
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LMAO! Until I saw @woodmanās emoticon, I didnāt realize that @MSUAlexis was probably cooking two different things. My reaction was about the sameā¦ āMan, thatās some weird bread, eww.ā Now, Iām wondering if you eat the bread with the chili? That could still be an odd combination.
Even in posts on CoGā¦ location, location, location.
Itās raining! Itās raining! Now, if only we could get a nice, wet winter. I want a bath so bad! Five minute showers get you clean, but arenāt nearly as satisfying.
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I am glad I live in a state where the only real dangers are a super fault that hasnāt done anything in decades and random whirlwinds that attack mostly trailer parks.
Has there been a year where California hasnāt been under some drought condition or another? Seems like I heard about it every year of my childhood.
I was in Michigan the summer (1987, I believe) that a bunch of the northern towns banned smoking outdoors, because of drought conditions and fears of forest fires.
Sure, we have to watch out for water, since California isnāt a really wet state, but these last few years have been exceptionally dry. Dry enough that there are some towns that have actually run out of drinking water, and things like washing your car without a stop valve on your hose or doing things that cause water to run into the gutters are now punishable by $500 fines.
Itās happened a couple times, but here a drought is a month or two with little to no rain. and the reservoirs being down 10-15 feet or something. A couple years ago it was rough, but even then it rained normal all spring and fall, just dry in June-August, maybe September. Weāre not as close to the edge on water though.
One word: Desalination
One acronym thatās holding it back: NIMBY
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Ding ding ding!
Theyāve been trying to build a desalination plant in Carlsbad (about 40 min up the coast from here) for years and the residents are raising holy hell. Plus, being California, there are also a metric shit-ton of environmental impact studies.
@Woodman: I wish that was our definition of a drought. Also a fun thing they like to do is tell everyone to conserve water because there is a drought. Then when everyone does and revenue goes down, our water rates go up.
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Welcome to my part of the world. Weāve had low-level water restrictions for years. When our drought was really bad, there was talk of full-scale water restrictions for the entire state.
There were several country towns whose reservoirs were at less than 5% capacity, and the overall water storage capacity got down to about 25% at one point. Last time I checked it was up around 70% capacity.
Watering your garden with a hose? Verboten!
Washing your car with a hose? Verboten!
Automated sprinkler systems for your lawn? Verboten!
Weāre there. Basically, no use of a hose without a cutoff head on it. Automated sprinklers arenāt completely forbidden, but it is forbidden between 8 AM and 7 PM, and there must be no runoff.
I think Iād have a ānaturalā yard. Rocks, dirt and drought resistant plants. Or fake grass. Or what I have in August here most of the time, a dusty dead wasteland.
My unit was in Camp Atterbury back in ā¦83? 84? and they were in the midst of a five-month drought. EXTREME fire hazard - all pyrotechnics had to be banned after we started multiple brush fires just throwing smoke or artillery simulators.
Combine brush fires that with poisonous plantsā¦ we had 10% of the battalion in quarters with poison yuck severe on their bodies they were ordered into shorts.
I hate that place. Hell on earth, though the best A10 show for states around.
I got Poison Ivy so bad I was a total mess one year at our 2 week training. Shots of Benedryl, plus whatever they gave me for my Bronchitis I was on cloud nine point five. We had been opfor all day one day and they didnāt ask us to put our blouses on inside out until weād done the exercise about 10 times. Then we did it the rest of the day, and finally shut down at about 3 am, when we decided this nice open area was fine to fall down in and sleep, this nice open patch of poison ivy. So, after contaminating my arms from turning our shirts inside out I slept in the crap. Suck!
Indiana does get dry, but itās just weather most of the time, not climate.
What made me happy today? Itās Friday and Iām going away for the weekend. Yay!