Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] drought in California, Folsom Lake at 15 %
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:29:03 +0000
References: <572F4A6E-1F23-4FA3-B54B-AE3A1F10752F@gmail.com> <37D6FFF9-3AED-4326-BFFB-9BC7380DF717@archiphoto.com>

Whereas in the UK it seems not to have stopped raining for weeks! Lots of 
floods...
Frank D

On 30 Jan, 2014, at 01:56, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote:

> That really looks terrible (not your pictures; they document the situation 
> well :-)).
> 
> Here in South West BC we have had hardly any rain since last spring, and 
> it's worrisome. Usually we have trouble finding a single dry, clear day in 
> any month from November through March. This year we've had one day of a 
> few cm of snow and hardly any rain; at the moment we are just breaking a 
> record of 16 days with no rainfall in January. The local mountain here on 
> Vancouver Island has just thrown in the towel on this year's ski season. 
> If we get a lot of snow on the mountain (rain and fairly cold down here) 
> they might open again, but the odds aren't good. Reservoirs are low, and 
> we depend on them being overflowing by March and April to get us through 
> the summer, which rarely has much rain.
> 
> Today was again sunny and about 10?, and it certainly won't freeze tonight.
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> 
> On 2014-01-28, at 2:00 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> It is rainy season with no rain, Mormon Island Cemetary has become 
>> visible again after many submerged years....a crisis is now playing out 
>> here.
>> 
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2014/nolake2.jpg.html
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2014/nolake4.jpg.html
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2014/nolake7.jpg.html
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2014/whatlake2.jpg.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Leica Monochrom with the Sumicron 28mm f2 lens
>> 
>> 
>> many thanks for looking and paying attention,
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
> 
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In reply to: Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] drought in California, Folsom Lake at 15 %)
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