Semi-arid Great Plains
The “official” description of the lands East of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Not this May. In the four years I’ve lived in this location, this 12’ deep retaining pond has never held more than a foot of water.
The good news is the rain has been steady which should help fill reservoirs and perhaps aid failing aquifers.
Potential bad news is a rare repeat of those years the monsoons arrive early with the mountain snow pack not yet melted.
My work takes me on many unpaved county roads. There is a reason I run aggressive Mud+Snow tires year around.
As this is posted it is still raining. Banner, a lab mix, hates water.
Just because there is a disaster doesn’t mean someone doesn’t prosper
8/12/2015 an EPA orchestrated disaster released millions of mining waste into a branch of the Rio Grande River.
Who prospered? Excerpt from the article.
Butler estimated that cleanup costs in the area could total $300 million, though he acknowledged much of the money goes towards attorney fees and documenting the damage rather than physical cleanup.
At the time the EPA had on staff 1,000 lawyers but not a single mining engineer.
Even less blogging and comments
An eight day road trip coming up. The older laptop will accompany me but no certainty of connections along the way.
Hinting Firearm Confiscation Required?
Instead, build more prisons and put violent offenders away, IMO.
Thank you for your service
Pitchpull's blog has an entry about military service and Vietnam.
That stirred a memory. Steve Earl’s song, Copper Head Road, has a line, “Round here they draft the white trash first”.
My senior class had 42 graduates. The “upper crust males” went to college and ROTC. What were the odds, without some string pulling, that every one of them went to Germany instead of Vietnam? They graduated college in 1965/66.
Colorado Politics
This year’s legislative session is over, thankfully.
Our buffoon senior senator. Probably hasn’t a clue where the Republican River is located.
Blip?
My mortgage assignments are, for the moment, about pre COVID level. Hopefully I won’t come back from the road trip and find two pages of assignments.
Middle son contributes
4 comments:
Got another 1/2" of rain here last night. Up to 2-1/2" since this storm started, and supposed to be more tonight, and through the week. Definitely soggy here. Most of the retaining ponds / drainage areas in town are getting full. I'll have to go out tomorrow and see what things look like.
Have a safe trip, give the young lady lots of hugs, and we'll be here when you get back.
I can't remember having rain for this many days in a row. Feels like living in Seattle.
We're getting rain the day after y'all do. Travel safe and enjoy the grands!!!
Old NFO
Looking at the forecasts Tuesday may be interesting but the rest of the week looks better. Than there is the return. Crossing tornado alley is always a time for heads up.
Weld County where I live is the #2 county in the country for tornadoes. Rarely are ours more than F-2 and 1/4 mile wide.
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