Hidden Buildings and Water.

The two topics are not related, except that I've heard the building leaks when it rains, and understandably too.

To begin with: Yesterday I said there were rumors of a building under a plaza, well...

Just when you think you've seen every part of a street you realize something has been there all along that you never noticed. Today was one of those days. I was walking back to my car and I looked to my left at the same old weird pointless Ivy growing on a rise with steps that led to nowhere very interesting looking and I thought..."Wait a minute, is this that hidden building?" Sure enough, I found the building. It was a bit of a disspointment on the one hand, because any thing interesting enough to draw you to the plaza is hidden from the sidewalk view, and the building itself looks rather dull and drab. But still, I explored it, and it wasn't too bad. Maybe it would have been better in the sunshine, rather than a cloudy day. Much of the roof looks like an empty lot but about a third of it is made into a plaza. The plaza even has trees, which is probably where the roof leaks.
As far as I can tell, the building itself is only one, or negative one story tall. Anyway, it's kind of an interesting way to use urban space.


On to water...
Today it is raining and hooray for that! A while back I was in Georgia visiting my sister and I was discussing Georgia's climate with her friends at a park. I was amazed at how green everything was in July since here in California July is fire season and all grass is a beautiful yellow. When I explained that California has a Mediterranean climate they said "Well that's a nice way of putting it!" They were all pretty sure I live in a desert. I wasn't really offended or anything, but I just thought I'd explain things a bit. If you live in Georgia where it rains all year you live in a "subtropical humid climate," labeled Cfa, Cfb or Cfc in the Koppen-based climate classification system. California, on the other hand is a Csa, Csb climate, known as Mediterranean or "subtropical dry summer." It rains a lot here and we are far from a desert climate, it just doesn't rain in the summer usually. Deserts are almost always dry, Sacramento is anything but dry, in fact early on the valley was referred to as an inland sea in the winter due to how much water collected in the valley. Here is what I mean....rrgh, I can't find the picture. (Somewhere I have a fantastic picture of the wetland preserve west of Sacramento.) Suffice to say, the most dangerous natural hazard Sacramento faces is flooding....mainly this time of year.

However come July and August, I'm sure that I'll feel like it is a desert and if it weren't for the luxurious valley oaks along emptied creek beds I might actually begin to wonder.

Anyway, enjoy the rain while it lasts if you're in Sacramento or any other part of the Great Sacramento Valley, because eventually, the movement of our planet around the sun is going to change the angle of the sunlight and shift those high pressure systems northward blocking off all sources of rain. It's gonna get dry and hot again. But I refuse to think about that anymore. Let it rain!!!!!