When Trails become Streams part 2

When Trails Become Streams
The word button above this line is the first part of this article.

Today when I returned to the above trail with my dogs I noticed people had put little berms of pine needles, rocks and dirt to encourage the water to leave the trail in several places. This is  good idea to prevent erosion and to prevent people from ruining their shoes or falling down on the trail. Since it continues to rain 1 to 5 days a week it seems the last couple of weeks one wonders if we aren't headed to an 1862 event or something like it flood wise in the north of California or throughout the whole state.

However,

the storms now seem to be starting to come from the west instead of the South and West like Pineapple Express storms tend to from the Hawaii area. This also likely is an indication of a Mild or Moderate El Nino Event in progress which will likely change the pattern of weather events worldwide throughout this winter and spring around the world.

The

above two photos are the 2 or 3 foot high waterfall and the bottom photo shows low hanging redwood trees (about 5 of them watered by this stream. So, the stream actually goes on both sides of the several groups of redwoods in this valley now after the rainstorms.

Here

 is the old streambed which intersected with the old trail. Now the stream that runs 10 to 12 months a year from a trickle in the summers to about a foot deep and 3 or 4 feet wide now. But, as you see the old sream bed here is only a trickle where my daughter's corgi is now walking. So, the stream has completely rerouting through Chaos Theory which controls erosion, the weather etc.

Some people like to cite the Butterfly effect of how chain reactions of events move through time.

However, for me, I have watched the last 20 years of weather events how large rivers change their banks and alter their course and how sand on the beaches leaves some seasons and returns and how sand levels might shift at least 10 feet in altitude sometimes covering rocks at the ocean and sometimes you are walking on sand over those same rocks that are now invisible. So, when storms happen, the terrain changes the most at the ocean, and the next level of change you notice from erosion from rains next to the ocean and so on inland depending upon what elevation changes there are existing that you are observing over time.

The present temperature ranges on the coast while overcast are between 55 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit which is much closer to a normal temperature for this time of year than where we have been since about June. Mostly the temperatures were warmer except that we didn't get the temperatures in the 80 to 90 range like we usually did in past years. So, most of the summer was between 50 and 80 degrees high during the summer with an average of about 60 during the days because of high and low fog during June and July which is normal here near San Francisco.