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HEAT AND AN ABSENCE OF RAIN
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HEAT AND AN ABSENCE OF RAIN HEAT AND AN ABSENCE OF RAIN Civilization is rapidly coming to this area..Darn it! But,please allow me to first write about the climate change that's been steadily progressing on the desert. When I first bought my cabin, there was much more yearly rain. The summers always ended on Labor Day, the winters had a few weeks of below freezing temperatures. Spring flowers popped up everywhere, and the desert actually bloomed, and was green.. That was in May,1976... At THAT time, during May, when I drove the 13 miles into the nearest town, I would need to stop the car at least once to move a tortoise off the trail that I was driving into town on. When I would take my long walks on the desert, I always came across many wild tortoises munching on various desert plants. In those days, I needed to teach my dogs to leave the gentle wild tortoises alone. Now, in May, 2014, there is NADA... No flowers; only desert Creosotes, and they're brown from lack of water...And.. I haven't seen a wild desert tortoise in years... and, yes, I still take long walks on the desert-- now-- with my small Border Collie-- Raggedy Ann. The last measurable rain here was August 22, 2012, when there was a downpour of about 4 inches in less than an hour.. Soooo it's not just civilization arriving here, Nature, too is changing this area. Young idiots on ATV's and other off-road vehicles, do their share to scar this area by driving their vehicles on what used to be pristine patches of desert. But-- Drought, and climate change-- happening faster than scientists ever predicted--at least in this Mojave Desert-- is killing what little life was able to survive here. The life that survived for thousands of years is now rapidly going extinct. It's very sad, but many things in life and nature are sad (even horrible), and make me want to rant against those people who like to proselytize their loving Gods.... The summers no longer end early in September on the desert. During the past decade, heat of over 100(F.), continues on through October and into November. During the first 15 or 20 years I lived here, the period from mid- July to the end of September would be days when almost every other day saw a brief shower that dropped 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch of rain, and caused the desert to turn green. The time I've lived on the Mojave, 37 years, is not really long enough to be able to definitely say the climage has drastically changed. Perhaps this is just a little "blip" or hiccup of nature. I personally don't believe that, but I'm not a scientist, and as you all know, if you've read my blog, not all that bright, either. I'm expecting this summer to break new records of heat throughout Southern California where more that twenty million people live... Los Angeles, and the whole Southern California area already broke many heat records of over 100 this past week, and this is only the beginning of May. Not a big deal, right? As long as the production of electricity is steady, and there aren't any power outages, we will all sail through the summer without many problems... I'm expecting the temp., probably during mid-July when our temperatures run 110 plus every day, to spike at 130, one of these yars. The hottest temp. I've recorded in my area--and yes, of course the reading is always taken in the shade, and with a mercury thermometer-- was 121 a few years ago. I've added, and built all sorts of additions on my cabin since I bought it. The biggest and most effective addition for keeping the place cool in the summer, is a double roof with 12 inches of empty air space between the bottom roof and the top one. The top roof is painted with a reflective white elastic paint that reflects the sun. My small cabin has grown over the years and is now about 3000 square feet, but it stays as cool as I want it to be, with 3 high efficiency AC's, and two evaporative water coolers. I much prefer window AC's to Central AC. When the power goes out during the summer, and last year it was out seven times for periods of one or two hours to spans of eight or nine hours.. When it DOES go out, I start up a small Honda generator that's able to run a window AC, our small freezer and a small refrigerator. by david stardust, Friday morning, May 16th, 2014...   |
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lol THANKS , red it is,, but its a nightgown set
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If some real disaster happened out here, we would just have to leave and go probably West 160 miles to the Pacific Ocean. Either that or go North where it would be cooler. The winters wouldn't be too much of a problem but July, August, and September would be too tough for us to take without electricity... Indians lived here years ago, but during the summer they went up to the top of the mountains around here. Hey, Silky love. You're looking so hot in that red dress Yum, Yum..love, david silky... 
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Hopefully you get lots of rain and soon. Loosing your power isn't fun either.. hugs V
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Hopefully you get lots of rain and soon. Loosing your power isn't fun either.. hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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David.......what would you do if you lost powers for days???. that honda thingy couldn't handle days upon days. what then.... could you drive out to town during the night to stay somewhere safe and cool?? Either that or go North where it would be cooler. The winters wouldn't be too much of a problem but July, August, and September would be too tough for us to take without electricity... Indians lived here years ago, but during the summer they went up to the top of the mountains around here. Hey, Silky love. You're looking so hot in that red dress Yum, Yum..love, david
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David.......what would you do if you lost powers for days???. that honda thingy couldn't handle days upon days. what then.... could you drive out to town during the night to stay somewhere safe and cool?? silky...
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sounds like you changed with the time some what 
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sounds like you changed with the time some what    ---------------------Dennis US ARMY (RETIRED) AND YOUR FRIEND I never mean to offend(blog or comment) anyone ,If I do contact me please. Please check out my blog Harley-Davidson Drive(19harley86)
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