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SFBadger96

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12670 on: December 22, 2025, 11:24:34 AM »
Up in NorCal we're getting the rain, but it's a warm rain (in the 50s), which means the snow elevation is still really, really high (like 8000+ feet, or some such). The rain is good, but to turn it into snowpack, which is a big part of our water supply for the year, we really need colder weather. Sigh.

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« Reply #12671 on: December 22, 2025, 12:29:58 PM »
Up in NorCal we're getting the rain, but it's a warm rain (in the 50s), which means the snow elevation is still really, really high (like 8000+ feet, or some such). The rain is good, but to turn it into snowpack, which is a big part of our water supply for the year, we really need colder weather. Sigh.
You guys don't really have any reservoirs at elevation that benefit from the snowpack, right? From living/being up there, I don't really recall anything around the Bay Area higher than maybe 3000 ft... So hopefully the clouds will carry some snow eastward all the way to the Sierras...

Down here we don't have much of anything in Orange County (highest peak is something like 4400 ft), but north of LA and San Bernardino counties we've got a lot of stuff from 5000-9000 ft or so. I believe some of those drain into lakes which feed our water supply. Hoping it'll be cold enough here that when it dumps on that area, it's snow. 

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« Reply #12672 on: December 22, 2025, 12:42:11 PM »
The rain is getting to Tahoe / the Sierra in NorCal, but it's too warm to create snow for most of it. We do have some reservoirs that benefit from the rain, but snowpack would be much better.

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« Reply #12673 on: December 22, 2025, 06:55:07 PM »
Gonna be fun to have 11 people inside our tiny house on Thursday, 18 people inside BIL's tiny house on Friday, and then 23 people inside our tine house again on Saturday... Especially since the Christmas tree replaces seating in the living room.


Wait, you celebrate Christmas, but not Easter? 

Make up your mind. :111:

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« Reply #12674 on: December 22, 2025, 07:20:37 PM »
Wait, you celebrate Christmas, but not Easter?

Make up your mind. :111:
It's more jolly fat man than baby in a manger at this point...

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« Reply #12675 on: December 22, 2025, 07:28:15 PM »
It's more jolly fat man than baby in a manger at this point...

The Easter Bunny isn't exactly Biblical either. Nor the Easter eggs. 

Both have secular versions of the holiday, where the religious aspects can be excluded. 

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« Reply #12676 on: December 22, 2025, 09:16:35 PM »
Easter screws with kids' minds. 

Jesus came back to life!  Go look for some eggs.  I guess a bunny hid them.  Dress nicely.  We won't be back to church until Christmas.

None of this makes sense.
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« Reply #12677 on: December 22, 2025, 11:22:43 PM »
The rain is getting to Tahoe / the Sierra in NorCal, but it's too warm to create snow for most of it. We do have some reservoirs that benefit from the rain, but snowpack would be much better.
isn't moisture, moisture?
liquid or frozen, it eventually makes it to a reservoir
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« Reply #12678 on: Today at 10:18:15 AM »
The Easter Bunny isn't exactly Biblical either. Nor the Easter eggs.

Both have secular versions of the holiday, where the religious aspects can be excluded.
Well, the early Christians coopted a number of pagan holidays. I wouldn't call the Easter Bunny a non-religious aspect... It's just from another [earlier] religion. And Christmas coopted the pagan holiday of Yule, which celebrated the birth of the Sun God Invictus, and conveniently ended in a celebration where gifts were exchanged on--you guessed it--December 25th. 

https://www.parkervillas.com/pagan-holidays-adopted-by-christianity/

Not that I'm a Pagan either, of course...

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« Reply #12679 on: Today at 10:22:26 AM »
Yes, one was a solstice celebration, the other a fertility holiday. Both can be celebrated by the modern "non-believer" without any mention of Christianity, Santa for Christmas, and the Easter Bunny for Easter. Yet you celebrate one, and not the other. Just curious how that came to be. Coin flip? 

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« Reply #12680 on: Today at 10:34:30 AM »
Yes, one was a solstice celebration, the other a fertility holiday. Both can be celebrated by the modern "non-believer" without any mention of Christianity, Santa for Christmas, and the Easter Bunny for Easter. Yet you celebrate one, and not the other. Just curious how that came to be. Coin flip?
Christmas is simply a much bigger holiday in American culture. So even though I've thrown off the trappings of belief (BTW I was raised in a Christian house, so it's not like all this is new to me), for cultural reasons as well as for the kids, to not celebrate Christmas would just seem weird and Scrooge-y. 

Easter is a very important holiday for Christianity, but it's also just one day, it's not the same day every year, there are rarely "Easter decorations" and "Easter cookie exchanges" and it's not considered part of the "holiday season". It just doesn't seem important enough to make any sort of a big deal over. So we don't.

(FWIW, on years we have the kids on Easter, we usually do a little something. Which is just making them an Easter basket with some candy and then going a little more extravagant on our dinner plans. But based on custody schedule, it seems we've gotten lucky and avoided Easter over the last several years so we didn't bother.)

And then there's the real answer... My [non-religious] wife likes celebrating Christmas, and doesn't care either way about Easter. So we do what she wants. Happy wife, happy life. 

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« Reply #12681 on: Today at 10:53:49 AM »
Alright, well that's a somewhat logical explanation to the inconsistency in your approach. Thanks. 

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« Reply #12682 on: Today at 11:15:43 AM »
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

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« Reply #12683 on: Today at 11:25:12 AM »
back home in NW Iowa - great Christmas weather



here in DFW area, Texas - better Christmas weather
BTW, don't move here - recently surpassed population of 8 million in the metro

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