Spring Flooding.... It Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better... Especially Where Snow Keeps Falling & Rain Keeps Raining...

Just one of many mentions recently I made on potential for flooding.
If you have been reading you know I've mentioned my concerns.
Spring Flooding was a done deal to happen this year.

But I hadn't heard much about it until today in the media.

They had to actually evacuate the NWS office in Nebraska!

Earlier in the week I ranted on my concerns about Spring Flooding and even before that few weeks ago. Everyone is watching the forecast models for when NY and Boston actually get snow and how far South the Snowline will get and few people are aware of what the real dangers are and that is and has been River Flooding in the Heartland and the South. You can add in California and parts of the West Coast where Winter has not stopped delivering El Nino inspired heavy rainfall.

An excellent map of the rivers and flooding problems.

The sad part about flooding is few people talk about it until after the creek rises and the cars begin to float away. Then, after the fact, the reporters flock in for live shots and dramatic images but there has been a kind of hush by those weather powers that be on the potential for Spring Flooding while they chase after the Z named Winter Storm and excite people with the possibility of flakes falling in Brooklyn... which by the way is not really news in the Winter as call it by any name you want it's Winter and winter weather happens somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere every day.

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Severe weather happens suddenly, it's hyped for days and sometimes it does what the models showed it would do and sometimes it outperforms. Spring is prime time for severe weather but it's also prime time for Spring Flooding. And nothing is more dramatic to stare at speechlessly is ongoing flooding imagery but the quieter images of flooded countryside is humbling and horrific.

Heavy rain this winter in the South has swollen the rivers higher than normal, then snow melting up to the North flowing down into those already swollen rivers exacerbates the potential for historic flooding or just regular, plain ole horrible flooding destroying people's homes and farms. I mention farms because rivers are a life source for farmers and yet when they overflow too much of a good thing is well not a good thing.

It's been a kind of horrific day with images from New Zealand broadcast around the world and the sad reality of hate focused on any group anywhere especially while people are going about their lives praying at their chosen house of worship. After the Church killings in Charleston someone on television made a comment that resonated with me deeply or possibly after the Tree of Life murders in Pittsburgh and that is that people busy praying are a soft target as their backs are usually towards the door and they are lost in prayer. It's very, very sad. And somewhere between the parade of candidates presenting themselves for consideration and worrying on planes needing to be grounded temporarily at least we have spent most of this week wondering what next will happen. Now we know. New Zealand, a quiet, beautiful, pastoral paradise to many has been turned into a killing ground. Sincere prayers go out to the families of those wounded and killed while praying ... just tired and kind of speechless. To be honest I've been a bit speechless all week as I try to mentally navigate myself though March and wonder where I'll be in April.

I've been baking for Purim and making packages that have to be mailed out early as my children live in various different cities far from here and I want them to arrive on time. Now I'll focus on making Purim packages for friends in Raleigh but where will I be for Passover? Not sure... don't know. Though pretty sure I may be in New York for Lag B'Omer. Time and the calendar is a moving target and I'm flushed out and exhausted with memories of different places I've lived and times I was happier. I don't mean to go negative but life is what it is... wonderful and beautiful but too much of a good thing is like when rain falls in too much abundance and it washes everything away in it's path. Can't be everywhere at once so I guess I miss Long Beach California when everyone was where I could find them easily, my two best friends were nearby and really fun, smart, great friends and we used to party on Purim so much I can't quite remember it all :)  I worked for Chabad in the 1980s in California and it was good times, I gotta tell you. Mass School Shootings were not yet a thing, but El Nino did go on the rampage when I lived in LA and there are those memories too. Snow on the mountains and blue skies and beaches nearby. Speaking of beaches I miss Miami Beach but no one lives there anymore from my family and my friends all moved away (well my best friends moved, I still have friends there) and so I'm kind of a moving target these days and maybe target was a bad choice of words :(

And not to forget Hurricanes there was one on the other side of the world recently... Idai made landfall over Mozambique...  massive flooding, keep those people in your thoughts and prayers indeed.

As for me I'm going to start cooking. Listening to the wind as I have the windows open here and hoping to see some mild severe weather or enough to not be your typical boring sort of Raleigh rain. Not complaining about Raleigh really because as the weather warms there is much to do and the flowers are coming up and we haven't yet got to that time when the pollen starts falling.

Maybe go to my best friend for Passover... her husband and my husband are good friends and maybe... time will tell.

Stay tuned........... Stay safe and if you live anywhere near a river that is prone to flooding in the Spring time know you may not hear much about it until after it begins to flood as sadly flooding before it happens is not covered as much as severe weather, snow possibilities and hurricanes. But as I said earlier .... snow melt  + heavy rain and swollen rivers = Spring Flooding in the same way mudslides happen in LA after the fires burn the hillside and El Nino sends more rain... it's a cycle as old as time.

Besos BobbiStorm

Ps... Yes there was smog in the LA basin centuries ago from the fires used to cook food by the Chumash Indians and/or fires started by lightning and accidents by above mentioned fires and then even back then when it poured the mountain slides washed away everything .... some things are part of the way of the world and weather and have been happening since time began. In the Everglades in South Florida lightning would start fires centuries ago and that was considered good in an odd way as it burned off the bigger brush stopping it from taking over the marshlands...  not as bad as water from heavy rains that would allow animals on high ground to be stranded and unable to get back to their food source or families. Mother Nature has always been a force to be reckoned with before we decided to pollute the earth with Styrofoam and plastic and build big cities on sandbars that used to be partially covered with mangroves not meant for subdivisions but oh what beautiful subdivisions.