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[wendolk]

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes! This is a truly fantastic group of people, and it is my honor to know you! Alas, my beloved Cowboys lost yesterday to the Washington Commanders -but other than that, I had a great day, and your well wishes are just the icing on the cake!

[pommystuart]

Happy Birthday Michael.

[Michael]

If you don't mind, I'll take a pass on the vegemite!

[pommystuart]

Why do you think its on there, I want to get rid of it.

[Caro]

Vegemite is OK. Marmite is not. Unbiased opinion.

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[jil]

Happy Birthday Michael!

[arboggs]

Happy Birthday, Michael!!!

[Michael]

Thank you Caro and jil. As for vegemite or marmite, in the interests of diplomacy, I will skip both. I did ask Dr. Google about them, and he said this:

Like so much of Australian culture, Vegemite was basically a rip-off of the British original.

[Randi]

Sorry I'm late! I had it all set up last night then posted it in the wrong place this morning. I didn't notice till now

Happy Birthday
Michael

[Michael]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! And there I thought you didn't care!!!

I've posted many things in the wrong spot, myself, so I know the feeling.

[Caro]

[Michael]

I do, trust me. I do.

[Morgan]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL.
May you have Smooth sailing, fair breezes, and just the right amount of rain in the years to come!
Morgan

[Michael]

Thank you, Morgan. I hope you are staying dry!

[Randi]

How are you doing, Morgan?



NYT: "California has a history of floods: In 1862, the governor-elect took a rowboat to his own inauguration because Sacramento was so deep in floodwaters."

Many years ago, when I was living in Sacramento and we had had heavy rain, I passed an apartment parking lot that was a foot or two below the street level. I don't know how the adults felt (I think most of them had moved their cars earlier), but the kids were having a wonderful time wading and even paddling a little inflatable raft!

[Morgan]

Thanks for yours concerns. We are fine here in Long Beach. Particularly located here to avoid forest fires, north of the fault and liquifaction zone, too far from the coast for a tsunami, or sea level rise but close enough to get a bit of cool summer ocean influence. Not about to fall off a cliff into the ocean and not in a canyon or foothills that flood. ...Boring... We've had 5 inches since Christmas, and expect more tonight. That's more than either of the past 2 years all totaled. My pond- which I only add water to when it is dire - is filling up. Wish I had a cistern. I am planning a trip in a few weeks to see wildflowers which should be GREAT this year. Weeds are growing crazy!

[Michael]

NYT: "California has a history of floods: In 1862, the governor-elect took a rowboat to his own inauguration because Sacramento was so deep in floodwaters."

Gee, massive floods in the winter of 1861/62. Someone on the science team should ask us to dig out any ship weather data for that winter to see if it can shed any light onto this phenomenon.

Oh, right. They did and I'm doing...

[Morgan]

10- or 15 years ago I participated in a study on mega-hazards, including Atmospheric River flooding risk. It was lead through US Geological Survey at Cal Tech and Dr Lucy Jones, our earth quake specialist. It is one thing that drew me to Old Weather. Someone went through all the old newspapers to develop as much of a picture of that 1860's event as possible. From that, they built a model for current land use. My part was to help evaluate the flood's impact on the Los Angeles' water System and how long it would take to get back up and running. Land weather records in those days were not as reliable as ships'. Particularly in Central California. The risk, besides immediate danger was that if we could not get things up and going fast enough, people would leave and permanently relocate to other areas. One of the issues they had in Hurricane Katrina. Interesting history meets science meets technology impact on society project.

[Michael]

As for ship's records, here's USS St. Mary's in San Francisco Harbor...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 16-067.JPG

[pommystuart]

For our UK transcribers.
Seems like it is a bit chilly over there. This link may help pay something off your heating bills.
For those who don't like ads then here is the direct payment link without the story.
https://coldweatherpayments.dwp.gov.uk/search.php

For the full story with ads see.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/18/cold-wea ... 5-18122166

(Sorry I cannot un-link the article from the ads.)