[AF] El Nino is back...

[Glen Kippel]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jerry Mathis 
<<mailto:thebeaver32 at gmail.com>thebeaver32 at gmail.com> wrote:
It will, but at a price. The article mentions "damaging winter storms",
which I assume means heavy snowfall/blizzards, including avalanches, blocked
highways and mountain passes, and attendant damages. Also spring flooding
when the snowpack melts, and mudslides and rockfalls.

Frankly, I've never figured what makes California a good state to live in.
Avalanches, rockfalls, mudslides, earthquakes, brushfires, and the highest
cost of building anything of almost anywhere in the country. As far as I'm
concerned, you can have it.

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Yeah.  Blame the snowpack on "global warming."

Well, there are avalanches in Colorado.  Rockfalls, too, 
sometimes.  And the occasional wildfire.  Here in California we lack 
many of the conveniences the rest of you have:  Like, blizzards, icy 
roads, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and rain that puts water on the 
roads up to the doorhandles.  Sure, every few years there is an 
earthquake that wakes my wife up, she elbows me in the ribs and 
hollers "Earthquake!" and I just say, "Yeah, it's another 
earthquake.  Now go back to sleep."

Now the taxes and other restrictions on business that are driving 
them away to Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas -- that's another 
story.  But, where else can you go skiing and surfing on the same day?