AR Storm Meditation
Channel: UnclePea
Date: 2014-12-13

San Francisco was blasted by a few inches of rain in a single day on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. It was an 'atmospheric river' (AR) blasting at the coast like a fire hose. These "rivers" contain as much water as many Mississippis, wafting through the air about a mile above the sea from the equatorial region beyond Hawai'i.

This one first blasted Canada and then Washington, then Oregon, then us (in essEFF), then Southern California.

My friend John's offices (Stripe) at Folsom and 18th Street are so flood prone they moved all the furniture upstairs! (5:09) Last time a storm like this came, it flooded the area four feet deep. But he was spared this time!

I've been researching the probable AR storm sequence of 1861 & 1862, as readers of this site will know, so I decided to go out and capture some images around town. It won't appear especially dramatic to people from wetter climates, but the SF infrastructure and history of drought prepares us poorly us for this kind of thing.

If you want to help do research on the AR of 1862, please let me know through http://thinkwalks.org !

Music in this video is Aïya Aïya by Rachid Taha, who (quoting Wikipedia) is an Algerian singer and activist based in France. • Please support him and his brilliant work! •