Intuitive fred888: We drove home today because it was sunny but weather is supposed to worsen Saturday

Friday, May 17, 2019

We drove home today because it was sunny but weather is supposed to worsen Saturday

The 2nd of 3 Atmospheric River Storms is supposed to hit California and the Sierras Saturday Morning. Because of this and visibly able to see the snow level dropping lower in Yosemite Valley and because the Merced River appeared to be rising and rising potentially to flood stage, we decided to leave rather than ask for another day at The Majestic Hotel (Ahwahnee) there in Yosemite Valley. I texted a friend and he said we were "Luxury Camping" which we all found kind of funny. After all, I remember being a rock climber in the winter time in Yosemite Valley in a VW Bug with friends with the back seat area filled with climbing ropes and pitons and sleeping bags and tube tents to try to stay out of the snow. (If you have never seen a tube tent it is a long tube of plastic you suspend between two trees usually to try to keep the rain off you somewhat. But, they don't work for mosquitos because you don't have a screen just a tube of plastic sheeting (often orange or green colored). Also, unless you bring something like clothes pins to close up the wind often wind and rain or snow can also blow in from either end.

I had the orange plastic one you see for about 5 dollars or so way back when to save money camping in Yosemite while rock climbing there around 1969 and 1970. I would have been there with friends climbing mostly between ages 21 and 22 then. $5 to $7.80 actually. So, when 3 of us traveled back to Los Angeles County and Palos Verdes where 2 of us lived then one person had to take turns laying on top of all our gear stored in the back seat (climbing ropes, pitons, harnesses, etc. and sleeping bags, food etc. warm clothes and the rest. I had a 1966 Seablue colored VW Bug and my friend had an Oval Window 1959 Bug which got incredible mileage but was very slow because of only having 36 horsepower then. My 1966 VW Bug had 50 horsepower and could cruise at about 75 miles per hour long distance but the 59 Bug was much slower then but got incredible mileage too. My 1966 got about 30 miles per gallon at 17 cents a gallon which was pretty incredible back then too. The minimum wage was about $1.17 an hour or something back then while I was in college. I asked and it said

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$1.45 in February 1970 for the minimum wage.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=minimum+wage+in+1970&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS750US750&oq=minimum+wage+in+1970&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4423j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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