The Doughnut Hole Closes:)

After days in the doughnut hole, rain all around but none here, the odds caught up with us and finally, mercifully, we got some rain. Over 1 1/2" so far, so heavy rain but no insane deluge like many near by; reports of 3, 4, even 7+" nearby with obvious flooding issues. Looking like 24 more hours of the mess before a cold front pushes the stuck Low off the coast and we settle into a coolish, dry weekend! On this soggy Friday, the front has become stationary, looks like right on top of us.

Storms in the far north rage on, the desert SW remains 😱 a desert. Lake Mead at the lowest level since filled back in the 30's, I'm guessing Lake Powell is sporting quite the bathtub ring itself yet I'm also guessing Vegas is still wasting power and got fountains fountaining, the oasis that isn't an oasis just the double pit; money & arm.

4 quakes above 5 today, all around the Pacific Ring O Shakes..except in the US freaking fracking zones and Hawai'i even though Kilauea did not make the active list this week, still lava swirling and that will shake things up.

TrumpVirus deaths in US still over 400/day and that's with no reports from two epicenters Flow-rider and O High O; republican governors perhaps outlawed reporting...now a $5,000 fine for a business to ask if someone is vaccinated in dung heap of denial, the GunShine state where governor's head is so far up donnie's butt that he can probably see out of the twisted, lying mouth. The state that is a peninsula but it will be much better for the rest of the country and world when the sea level rise that's coming puts it back under the sea (I'm sure most deny Global Warming but Miami is looking to spend billions on a 6' sea wall; it won't be enough:).

With clear skies this evening (unlikely here) the tiny crescent moon will be just below Venus in the west after sunset. If you haven't check out eclipse shots, lovely stuff.

And, then there is timing and serendipity...we had just passed by this spot, 1 minute?, 2 minutes?,we had not gone far, when we heard a very loud crash. Another win for pine bark beetles and gravity..