We've started the new year with an ample baptism on the California central coast.
In Cambria and environs 8.5 inches in the last 10 days has washed 2022 away and changed the color scheme from drought brown.
Rain is forecast for 8 of the next ten days. We've been soaked for 8 of the last 10. We are being warned to expect 5 inches in the next two days.
Santa Rosa Creek is a water freeway gliding into the Pacific near Moonstone Beach. It's also a zoom-floom.
The storm surf is audible from miles away. Its roar and growl thunder the planet's voice. Its power is immense.
Some are not content to listen and watch.
Leaks, slides, road closures, lost power and communication, washouts, and localized flooding; California is good at getting things back in operation and Californians take it in stride, especially on the central coast. We've had a breather between the "atmospheric rivers," and we wait now for the next act.
This is a place of "human/nature interface;" mountains, forests, wildlife, the Pacific Ocean. We live here with the knowledge that nature rules. We are cool with that. Still, this rain season is unlike most.
