{"id":54513,"date":"2023-03-29T03:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54513"},"modified":"2023-03-29T03:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:11:17","slug":"climate-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54513","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;river&#8217; has arrived!"},"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>EUREKA, Calif.<\/strong> &#8212; I set out this morning headed northward from the San Francisco Bay Area, and with forecasters predicting a return visit of that Atmospheric River.<\/p>\n<p>My sister expressed some faint hope that they would get it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t. It arrived with a vengeance &#8230; again!<\/p>\n<p>I drove into the sucker from Oakland and it never dried out when I landed at my next stop just south of the Oregon border.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I totally get why our California countrymen and women are tired of the wind, rain, and &#8220;wintry mix&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t seem to let up. We&#8217;re now well into the spring season and it feels damn near like winter.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to spare the notion that the prolonged cold doesn&#8217;t mean our &#8220;climate is changing.&#8221; It damn sure is changing, so I won&#8217;t debate anyone here on the merits of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>I just had hoped to avoid that &#8220;atmospheric river&#8221; nonsense on this westward trek. Hey, it has taken my mind off the sad event of a month ago that prompted me to leave my house in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>So, the trek continues into Oregon, the state where I came into this world more than seven decades ago &#8230; and where it rains for three days before anyone even notices.<\/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>EUREKA, Calif. &#8212; I set out this morning headed northward from the San Francisco Bay Area, and with forecasters predicting a return visit of that Atmospheric River. My sister expressed some faint hope that they would get it wrong. They didn&#8217;t. It arrived with a vengeance &#8230; again! I drove into the sucker from Oakland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8216;river&#8217; has arrived!<\/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":[4],"tags":[10145,1027],"class_list":["post-54513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-atmospheric-river","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54513","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=54513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54513\/revisions\/54514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}