Already sick of rain but might as well get over it.
The sun is shining this morning and Pinns got over an inch of rain the last 24 hours.
Same goes for politics - I'm sick of that too and disgusted to boot - but as I said - might as well get over it.
You can't control what happens there any more than you can control the weather.
Of course conspiracy theorists will disagree.
I was just happy to have a successful field trip yesterday.
On the way up to UCSC, I watched untold gallons rushing down the streets and into the storm sewers - then straight to the ocean.
My students got to see a lot of water processes in action - something we don't normally see.
A few highlights at UCSC were seasonal stream flows, sheet flow on asphalt, a waterfall on the normal climb down into the main quarry and a disappearing stream in a sinkhole. By the time we got to the top of the hill that overlooks Santa Cruz and the marine terraces - the rain, wind and fog/mist completely obscured the views and negated any chance for our usual discussion to end that portion of the trip. I just started laughing and many of my students were swept up in the contagion.
Leaving the hill and heading to the beach, we were treated to a break in the storm and were able to map a couple dozen faults and see a bunch of cool stuff that made up for the "fiasco" at UCSC.
It turned out to be a really good day.
The normally dry waterfall was rockin' with all the runoff.
Check out this tree that had recently fallen off the top of the seacliff.
Here is a fossil I've never seen there before - gotta love the ocean's ability to fluctuate and uncover surprises.
