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Watching Golden California Burn, Slide, And Flood
California is the golden state. Maybe the golden child. It’s losing its gleam
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
This time the roaring rivers are atmospheric
California.
We base our golden dreams on movie stars there. We have progressive movements there. We have bastions of billionaires there. We have Silicon Valley with all its advances and absurdity. The place is chock full of Elon Musketeers and Disney Mouseketeers.
My family lived there once.
Now, we watch every year as droughts and heat feed fires, snows snaggle traffic, and this week, floods drench the wretched.
The golden gate
Once upon a time, I marveled in utter astonishment at the California redwoods and sequoias. I have been trying to grow some ever since.
But, many researchers think that those in California are a lost cause. The world is heating, many have already burned.
I learned that just a bit over a century ago — a blink of an eye in the life of a giant sequoia — San Francisco famously shattered in an…