Pages Tagged “drought”
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- Late Start
From yesterday: the first significant snow in the mountains above Los Angeles this winter, courtesy of last week’s storm. Unfortunately, it’s almost spring. The weather has already warmed up again. Last week I was wearing sweaters and a medium jacket. Today I’m back to short sleeves, and I had to put the jacket away on […]
- City Park Going Brown to Go Green
As near as I can tell they’ve stopped watering the grass in the back half of this park, but you can really see where the runoff collects.
- Winter and a Drought-Friendly Fountain
It’s been a relief to have (relatively) cold weather this winter. Last year I think I wore a sweater once. While the rest of the country was caught in the frozen grip of a meandering polar vortex, California was so warm people were going to the beach to cool off. Not that December heat waves […]
- Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!
The new detention pond finally got a chance to collect some stormwater for a day. It actually looks pretty nice when filled and viewed in sunlight.
- Painting the Grass Green
California has cut back a lot of water usage, but some places just can’t accept ‘brown is the new green’ for their lawns.
- Rain in the Office Pool
An unusual late-spring rainstorm gave me the chance to see the neighboring building’s stormwater pool with some actual water in it.
- Not sure how this landscaping is supposed to work
A new hotel has put in a large, shallow pit filled sparsely with coarse grass and drain outlets in what once was the front lawn.
- California Drought Sim, Water Use, and Preserving Open Space
According to simulations, California could adapt to long-term drought. We just have to actually do it. Meanwhile, the Irvine Co. sets some limits on sprawl.
- Yellow-Green Grass Gradient
The office building next door to work is being converted into a hotel, and the lawn has become a staging area for the renovation work. They’ve turned off the sprinklers, leaving the lawn around the building dried into very short straw and producing an interesting gradient in the transition from watered to unwatered. I kind […]
- Lawn Gone
I’ve started to notice the occasional lawn, parking lot, office building, mini mall and traffic island being converted to more drought-tolerant plants.
- Musings on LA, Light Pollution, and Water Management
Why it’s so hard to see the stars at night in Los Angeles, and some ways we might be able to save water by changing landscaping and flood control tactics.
- Rain!
Rain! Walked out the door this morning and saw clear blue sky, so I wasn’t convinced… but RAIN! (We seriously need it.) *sigh* Google maps informs me that my usual route home is solid red. Rush hour + OMGWTF water from sky! Surface streets it is.
- Green Lots & Venus
Walking to lunch. Vacant lots are actually green! Spotted Venus at 1 in the afternoon! Thanks, Sky Map app!
- Oh, you mean THIS drought!
Over the last week or so, newspapers and radio announcements have been proclaiming that California is experiencing drier than usual conditions, already using its reserves for day-to-day living, and we should really start saving water now. Finally. We really could have used this campaign earlier in the year. We knew by the end of spring […]
- Dry spell
It’s been a dry year for California. Water districts all over the state are geared up for drought conditions. The hills in the Orange County area are still golden-brown in mid-April. Last year at this time, they had finally turned green for spring. Here’s a shot from the Irvine Spectrum area from April 6, 2006: […]