2016-01-31

0.4" rain; 4.56" total

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31 Jan 0.40" 4.56" total Sunday early morning through midday rain brought 0.4" in my back yard.  A quick visit later in the...
2016-01-27

You keep a knocking but you can't come in.

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My brother was watching the house while I was away and caught these photos of a skunk or skunks trying to get back under the house after we ...
2016-01-21

0.12" rain; 4.16" total

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20 Jan 0.12"
2016-01-13

Surge tanks vs. rain barrels IV

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I'm sure I left you dangling in a previous installment with the question of how rainfall intensity affects the usability of surge tanks....

1.12" rain; 4.04" total

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7 Jan 1.0" 8 Jan 0.12" I think I had a data entry error on the 6th and entered 1.75" when I meant 0.75", so I've...
2016-01-06

0.75" rain; 2.92" total

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This is the first of several El Nino - driven storms that are in the queue 5 Jan 2015 0.75"  (This was previously reported as 1.75...
2015-12-22

0.39" rain; 2.17" total rainfall

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22 Dec 0.34" AM This was a gentle evening through early morning rain- the kind that soaks in nicely. 23 Dec 0.05" Just the remn...
2015-12-21

0.20" rain; 1.78" season total

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19 Dec 0.20" for total of 1.78" this season. The Santa Barbara outpost also reported 0.20". Usually they have more than us...
2015-12-14

0.20" rain; 1.58" season total

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It was cold and windy last night and we had 0.2" before I went to bed.  Clear skies this morning indicate we're all done with this ...
2015-12-11

Skunks and possums, still trying to cohabitate

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I re-stacked the bricks. Silly me. I thought that they had to be moved to allow ingress and egress.Time stamps are accurate in these photo...

0.02" rain; 1.38" total

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10 Dec 2015 0.02" It came down heavily for an short time and then just sort of fizzled.  I went out and watered the garden.  More rai...
2015-12-10

Surge tanks vs. rain barrels III - storm intensity

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In order to answer questions that I have about how large a surge tank is needed to accommodate a certain number of local storms, we need to ...
2015-12-09

Skunks and possums, living together!

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And under my house, too. The current plan is to wake up at 3AM (there's a + 1:12 error in the time stamp on the photos), block the ope...
2015-12-07

Surge tanks vs. rain barrels II

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In this post I'm trying to estimate the usefulness of a rain barrel operated as surge tank.  The valve is open all the time when a...