{"id":432,"date":"2003-10-20T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/20\/keep-your-eyes-on-the-skies\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:04:02","slug":"keep-your-eyes-on-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/20\/keep-your-eyes-on-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your eyes on the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a620'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.cbc.ca\/regional\/servlet\/View?filename=bc_rain_pm20031017\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/vancouver.cbc.ca\/gfx\/Vancouver\/photos\/031017_shooke1.jpg\" width=\"115\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nFriends, build your arks.  After a record drought this summer, we&#8217;re now deluged with 100-year-record-breaking rains.  It began on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/1066413405716_61822605\/?hub=CTVNewsAt11\">Thursday<\/a>, continuing into Friday.  Victoria logged 91 millimetres (just over 3 1\/2 inches) before Thursday was done; Lower Mainland areas were much more badly inundated by the next day (up to 150 mm).  On the weekend, the rains obligingly stopped, and coming back from a walk I cursed my boots and jacket, happy to change into sandals &amp; t-shirt as soon as I got the chance.  Today it&#8217;s nearly as warm, except it&#8217;s once again a curtain-wall of water out there.  The reservoirs are filling up (good).  Roads are washing out and people are evacuating (not good).  <\/p>\n<p>Remember when shower heads didn&#8217;t have those lo-flow controls on them?  Remember the sound?  Not that harsh, aerated sound of a modern head, but the full, soft sound of plentiful unforced water falling fast yet leisurely: there&#8217;s plenty where this came from, they seemed to say.  And it keeps coming and coming.  Some people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterhumans.com\/News\/news.aspx?articleID=2003-10-20-9\">thinking about how to use water well<\/a>, but everyone else is just looking for blue skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, build your arks. After a record drought this summer, we&#8217;re now deluged with 100-year-record-breaking rains. It began on Thursday, continuing into Friday. Victoria logged 91 millimetres (just over 3 1\/2 inches) before Thursday was done; Lower Mainland areas were much more badly inundated by the next day (up to 150 mm). On the weekend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}