Life and all in Redding California
No, not for dinner. Well, perhaps dinner for something. But here we see an overheated squirrel taking advantage of the cool comfort offered by shaded concrete block. All Redding’s critters know that afternoon means siesta time, on a hot July day. Probably both hunters and prey play by the same rules, so it’s safe to take a nap. It’s Really Redding.
I took this quick shot yesterday afternoon from Lema Ranch in Redding. This classic supercell looked almost like a mushroom cloud. Mineral is about 70 miles from Redding by car, so you can just imagine the huge size of this structure in the sky.
This from Wikipedia:
Supercell storms are large, severe quasi-steady-state storms which feature wind speed and direction that vary with height (“wind shear”), separate downdrafts and updrafts (i.e., precipitation is not falling through the updraft) and a strong, rotating updraft. These storms normally have such powerful updrafts that the top of the cloud (or anvil) can break through the troposphere and reach into the lower levels of the stratosphere and can be 15 miles (24 km) wide. At least 90 percent of this type of thunderstorm bring severe weather. These storms can produce destructive tornadoes, sometimes F3 or higher, extremely large hailstones (4 inches / 10 centimeters diameter), straight-line winds in excess of 80 mph (130 km/h), and flash floods. In fact, most tornadoes occur from this type of thunderstorm. Supercells are the most powerful type of thunderstorm.
Thunderstorms are unpredictable in what kinds of damage they could cause to people’s lives, it could be minor or it could be exponential damages to their homes and livelihoods. In America, the thunderstorms are much more extreme than those in places like the UK, due to the difference in climate and wind directions. The damage to peoples homes is mainly a lot of flood damage and the need for reconstruction work onto and in the building, by having disaster cleanup services, it could help to ensure that people are prepared before the thunderstorm, in that they will have reliable services to help them get their lives back on track quicker. Sometimes these huge storms and flooding can damage electricity lines and home plumbing systems, and as a result, homeowners can find themselves stuck with a burst pipe or a broken boiler. The key to avoiding serious long term damage is to deal with the problem as quickly as possible, especially if it means avoiding a cold home. Companies similar to thecomfortdoctors.com/heating-and-cooling-services-archbald-pa/ might be able to offer emergency callout services to help repair any damages. Even though thunderstorms look cool, it is undeniable the amount of carnage they can leave behind them, so always being prepared is key.
I received a call from Lynette Gooch of River Cities Paranormal Society, NorCal Chapter. It seems she had run across an entry in another blog post I wrote about a Redding house for sale with some paranormal qualities. I assured her my post was meant to be entirely tongue in cheek, as it happens. But her intentions were completely serious. 
She explained that she was part of a team of local folks who are in turn affiliated with a larger group, who investigate claims of the paranormal. She introduced me to their website, and you can click on it below. Their team operates without charge, and has a set of expertise and instruments to investigate… uh, ghosts and such. You can click on the various pages at their site, and learn a lot more about them and their intriguing field of inquiry. Who you gonna call? (530) 255 GHST (4478), in fact.
Looking over their site, I didn’t see any Plasma Rays (Don’t cross the streams!) for actually dealing with any paranormal activity they might detect, but perhaps they keep their Proton Packs at the ready, just in case they run across Gozer, or Zuul even. Lynnette sounded very serious about all. And I’m just poking fun with my Ghostbuster references, but how cool would it be to find something truly inexplicable? Sometimes in the real estate trade, you do see and hear about the weirdest things in people’s houses. So click on the site below to see what to do about it. Thanks Lynette!
We went up to Mt Shasta again this year for Independence Day. We did the fun walk.
The t-shirt color was red this year. We are a sea of red.
The weather was excellent, as usual.
It’s a serious run for some, and people come from around the country. Check results here.
Along the way, we are treated to some tangy grazing.
Erin gets a celebrity shot with Dylan Darling of the Record Searchlight.
Happy Independence Day from our family to yours.
It’s not Really Redding, but we saw many Redding folks in town today. It was Really Nice.
“Red dirt and rocks,” is how Raymond Miller describes his 10 acre organic farm out off Bowman Road in Cottonwood.
For 28 years, Ray has found the hard row was the right road for him. Chard, onions, turnips, and squash of all sorts are for sale today. “I started out with kiwi, 28 years ago.” But kiwi was dicey, so he branched out into all the organic veggies we have seen them displaying every week at the Certified Organic Farmers Market next to Redding’s Civic Center every Saturday morning for years. Along with Salina, and son Ed, their truck is always a welcome fixture at the market. Not to be missed. It’s Really Redding.
