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good deal

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1 hour ago, BayAndroid said:

3.25 inches over night. I'm sitting on heavy clay at the base of a hill... Free irrigation!! 

Plants/palms respond much better to rainwater than tap water!  :) I collect roof runoff every time it rains for watering my palms.

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23 hours ago, Fusca said:

Plants/palms respond much better to rainwater than tap water!  :) I collect roof runoff every time it rains for watering my palms.

I wish that could work here in CA but it rains all winter then stops for six or seven months in the warm season when we need to irrigate. A couple of barrels of rainwater would be good for maybe one day’s worth of watering and then stay empty for half a year until the following winter. :(

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I always move my pot army into the open when I know it’s gonna rain. Hassle but in my mind, I think Mother Natures moisture is better than the city’s also. 
 

@BayAndroid, your Chambeyronia (looks like that’s what it is) is sopping up the standing water!! 🤣 👍

-dale 

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Oh hell yeah, the new year is off to a decent start.

My Rainbucket of Doom has 3” of water in it from the past few days, with more to come. It’s raining enough that I’ve had to bring kindling into the garage to keep it dry.

I’m at the top of a hill of clay, hooray hooray.

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So I'm not even kidding, in less than 24 hours my weather station recorded 5.84" of rain. In California, that is a lot! 

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My brother sent me this screenshot of the news last night. He lives on the Alameda island. Crazy, crazy numbers for CA. 
 

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4 hours ago, Billeb said:

My brother sent me this screenshot of the news last night. He lives on the Alameda island. Crazy, crazy numbers for CA. 
 

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It's a good soaking no doubt, but i can recall seeing 8-10+ inch totals, from a single storm in both Ben Lomond and Scott's Valley during big events in the 80s / 90s..  What's crazy is living close enough to the mountains when they're seeing totals like that, and less than an inch falls at the house.

I can't get the whole article to fit the photo capture, but here's part of an article on the Love Creek landslide, ( Ben Lomond area ) which occurred on Jan. 5th, 1982.. Note the "nearly 20" of rainfall in less  than 30 hours..

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Lots of other, more detailed articles on the event online..

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