{"id":54459,"date":"2023-03-22T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54459"},"modified":"2023-03-22T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:39:39","slug":"climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54459","title":{"rendered":"Nature gets in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>VISALIA, Calif<\/strong>. \u2013 You\u2019ve heard it said that <em>\u201cIt\u2019s not nice to fool Mother Nature.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, my westward journey delivered that truism to me squarely as I drove into what the weathermen and women around the nation keep referring to as the \u201catmospheric river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I haven\u2019t slowed or changed my route to the latest stop on Toby the Puppy\u2019s and my trek. However, I had intended while in this central California community to visit one of nature\u2019s grand exhibits, the sentinels that tower above the forest floor in Sequoia National Park.<\/p>\n<p>No \u2026 can \u2026 do!<\/p>\n<p>The torrents of rain that have fallen on California for the past several weeks have closed Sequoia and nearby Kings Canyon national parks. I called the Sequoia park office today and learned that Kings Canyon would be closed for the remainder of this month and Sequoia will close until mid-April \u2026 but that it remain closed long after that.<\/p>\n<p>Dang it!<\/p>\n<p>We were able to visit the Grand Canyon the other day. That was a wonderful period of exploration for Toby the Puppy and me. And after we visit with family in Sacramento and then Santa Cruz, we\u2019ll venture north toward Eureka, Calif., to see more family.<\/p>\n<p>And along the way we hope to see towering redwood timber, providing of course that Mother Nature will enable us to gaze at those trees.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the adventure continues. More to see and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:Johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">Johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISALIA, Calif. \u2013 You\u2019ve heard it said that \u201cIt\u2019s not nice to fool Mother Nature.\u201d Well, my westward journey delivered that truism to me squarely as I drove into what the weathermen and women around the nation keep referring to as the \u201catmospheric river.\u201d To be clear, I haven\u2019t slowed or changed my route to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature gets in the way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10145,7040,6016],"class_list":["post-54459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-atmospheric-river","tag-mother-nature","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54460,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54459\/revisions\/54460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}