However, there really is an original oddity of L.A. It is the weather. Los Angeles is environmentally a desert. But thanks to the engineering miracle of water management, and the not so miraculous manipulation of water rights, the most populated county in the United States has sprung up around the once little pueblo with the overly long name.
Yes, Los Angeles is well known for its lack of normal rainfall. But have you ever witnessed HOW that happens? Today I am providing you an insight into that perhaps useless bit of knowledge.
Over the last few days we were warned of a high likelihood of a storm passing through today and tomorrow. And it has been overcast since late yesterday. So, wondering when it might hit, I went to the Weather Channel's Doppler radar map to see.
The storm is not passing through Los Angeles; it is passing over Los Angeles.
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The street outside my house is dry as a bone.
The rain is evidently falling, but it is evaporating before it hits the ground and rising again into the clouds. The desert is still desert. Yes, we will get our cloudbursts, the results of which could be catastrophic as they have before. But so far, God be merciful, it looks like today is not one of those days.
Imagine my surprise to find out the Los Angeles is also the 3rd largest oil-field in the United States:
ReplyDeleteThe Hidden Oil Wells Of Los Angeles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1QJPydH6s
Thanks Cond. The yoyos who built the Red Line subway (with our tax dollars) had intended to take it under Beverley Hills along 6th St all the way through Santa Monica to the Ocean.
ReplyDeleteAs your video suggests, the oil companies had so hidden the fact that there is an oil field there that the Libs on the transportation committee figured there could not be any problems.
Reality brought a stop to their pork barreling because -- surprise! (/s) -- near the La Brea Tar pits they kept hitting pockets of natural gas. A fireball of an awakening.
Idealism without Realism doth a liberal make.
ReplyDelete...and you'ld think that would make them harmless.