Shaker Swarms Throughout The Land
May 4, 2015Fracturing the ground again this early evening — a little threesome-swarm of earthquakes. . One of those was a 4.3 on the Richter scale, though, measured to be buried 6.2 miles down and about 170…
Category Archives: Environment
Too-Low ‘High Bar’
May 4, 2015Clear and sunshine this afternoon on a small stretch of California’s north coast, a breezy wind keeps the clouds away. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown set forth a self-proclaimed “very high bar” on climate change with…
Crude Recovery
May 3, 2015Overcast still going on into the late afternoon here on California’s north coast, with some added patchy ground fog, only sunshine so far a hazy, faded-yellow glare shifting the gray every so often — a…
Deepwater ‘Dead Zones’
May 3, 2015Overcast, gray and gloomy this early Sunday on California’s north coast — supposedly, sunshine maybe before mid-day, but if yesterday’s any kind of an example as we received only a little peek-a-boo sun late in…
‘Relatively Simple Plumbing’ — for a Volcano!
May 2, 2015Fog-bound and chilly this early Saturday on California’s north coast, now in the depths of the weekend. As posted here before, I’ve come to prefer week days since retirement — Saturday and Sunday seems to…
Mayday, Mayday!
May 1, 2015Thin, hazy sunshine this early Friday, the first day of May and 2015 keeps whistling on down the tracks. And rain’s gone, too. We’re not showing anything but fog, clouds and sun (in that order,…
Time Survival
April 28, 2015Hazy sunshine this afternoon along California’s north coast with fog apparently just waiting to cover the sky — nice with a cool, brisk breeze right now, but the light is fading on us. Odd how…
Quaker-Shaker
April 23, 2015As speaking this morning how I constantly check the USGS earthquake map — about an hour ago, a 5.5 shaker, about 180 miles west of where I’m sitting on my ass, but didn’t feel a thing.…
Gas Melt
April 23, 2015Overcast, gray and a bit on the chilly side this afternoon on California’s north coast. Sunshine aplenty this morning, all gone now. News item I spied earlier today, another one of those unpredictable side-effects of…
Drill-n-Shake
April 23, 2015A bit of sunshine this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, with some nice breaks in the lately-accustomed fog/cloud routine. Just returned from a walking trip to Safeway, and maybe the bright is here for…