Many people love the rain. Individuals who have pleasant houses get indoor enjoyments that they would never think of but for the rain. The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest. Americans has experienced serious droughts before the major drought that most of America, and especially California is experiencing. Years of scant rain, in America, is leading to the disappearance of the Sacramento River. As it stands, Sacramento, California is bracing for a record storm, it is supposed to be the strongest rainstorm we have experienced in 6 years, with wind gust of up to sixty miles per hour. We could see 2.5 inches of rain in this system. Do we never perceive our own foibles? It is happy we can find consolation in the follies of our neighbors.

This weather event is a major concern right now because the ground is saturated, and many of the leaves are falling off of the trees and collecting on roofs and in storm drains. If you have a Victorian, there is a partition on the roof that keeps the rain water from falling on you, as you walk up to the front door. The only problem with this design is it also allows for leaves to build up on the roof, which could also cause moisture to collect and could cause your roof to fail prematurely. To what purpose live we, if not to grow wiser, and to subdue our passions? So be sure to clean your roof, gutters and storm drain.

In the past few week, Los Angeles, California collected 2 billion gallons of water from the storm, which is good because this will keep South California from relying on water Northern California during the warm months. Nonetheless, for December of 2013, Sacramento only got about 1.25 inches of rain, and so far this year, December of 2014, Sacramento has gotten 4.65 inches of rain and about 2.5 inches more expected. Many of you may be thinking we are in the clear, as far as the drought is concerned, but we have only had 3 percent of the rain we need for the drought to be over.

Thankfully, we have the rain because, when Jerry Brown was Governor of California in the 1970s, the State dried out then, too. Sacramento, California used to be a major farming town, but the drought of the 70s caused the soil to dry out, lose nutrients, and blow away. There were dust storms, some were extraordinary. Several dust stormed collected topsoil from farms and a huge cloud of black smoke will fill the sky and mute the sun. Sacramento, California essentially became a dust bowl, and thousands of acres of farmland was ruined. Sincerity glows in the simple words of nature, it is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves.