Climate Change? Nahhh ...

We’ve been getting some much needed rain since Tuesday. Should get more this afternoon. Won’t clear up until middle of next week. We’ll need more of this as the winter goes on, but the Sierra snowpack went from abysmal to just about normal in two days. Not complaining, but wish we got this more constantly.

 

Wearing shorts and getting ready to meet the in-laws at Waffle House for a late lunch.
Merry Southern Christmas, y'all.

 

In some parts of metro Atlanta, you have to ask "the one on the northeast, northwest, southeast or southwest corner of Peachtree?"

 

If there's one thing about California winters, it's their lack of consistency.

The boom-bust winters of California have intrigued me ever since I came home sopping wet every afternoon from high school the first two years and then nearly froze every morning the second two. It's obviously done this forever, but now that the Bay Area is 10 times as populated as it was 75 years ago, the drought cycles are so much more damaging, both in lack of drinking water AND increasing fire danger. If weather patterns are getting more severe, this is only going to yo-yo even worse in the future.

 

You have to start with "Which Peachtree?". IIRC there are 17 or so variants, and you gotta figure some have an Awful Waffle nearby.

 

My holiday go-to is the local Asian buffet. (Well, not local local, it's a 15-minute drive.)

Nothing wrong with Waffle House in itself. It's normally the clientele.

 

Why else would you go?

 

The morning after the 2016 election, my wife and I ate at a Waffle House on I-75 to slather our angst from that whole month— and it had been a month from hell— in gravy.

Our server came up to the table, apropos of nothing, and asked, “What do you think of Trump?”

There was the longest, awkward pause, as we tried to figure out what was going on here.

“We’re not fans.”

“Me neither.”

We then knew our food would not be spit in.

 

You won’t be getting closer than 15 minutes from Tahoe anytime soon:

I-80 to Tahoe closed indefinitely, 89 blocked by avalanche

 

Something in the neighborhood of 16-plus feet at Donner, where people ate people. (And yeah, not that kind of feet.) I think someone was quoted as saying that's 230 percent of average for a winter season. And there are three days left in 2021.