Well, tonight is the first real rain here in so cal in a long time and it comes at the start of our rainy season which is good news. For this I am thankful. The forecast is for quite a bit I've been told. After taking a road trip up north recently and having seen the reservoirs just so depleted of resources, it needs to rain hard and snow deeply this year and for many years to come. The picture shows where the water line should be (near trees) and where it is.. this is what all of them look like in CA. And for those of us who live in this cement jungle of suburbia where water is in short supply for the demand we have created in the sprawl of overdevelopment. Water is a valuable resource we could be out of quickly. I cringe EVERY day as my elderly neighbor wakes up early and hoses down the entire length of her patio and driveway which is perhaps 100 ft long and it just pours out into the street and goes nowhere. Now I like a cleaned off driveway after a dust or ash storm, but have come to appreciate that less often is more and I'm not going to be eating off of it. Apparantly my neighbor is prepared for just such an occurence of feasting at the shrine of her cement drive.
Unfortunately for those who just recently had fires raging, it is going to be a tough go to keep the mud at bay. But steps are being taken by individuals, communities and state forestry fast and furiously to add ground cover sprayed over the landscape, those big hay bale looking snakes and diversions to keep the flow from overtaking residents.... but in some regards, it's a cycle that can't be avoided with the urban sprawl where "people" have desired to creep into the hillsides, wilderness and build into its landscape. You can't win when mother nature is your adversary.
So certainly we need to pray for rain in moderate amounts at a time so that it doesn't run off, and for those who are in for a fight to keep the mud from invading there living space we pray for them as well.
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