This is an article not about Crocs but just how dry it is more than ordinary here in California even along the coast of Northern California where I live.
Normally, because I wear Crocs without Socks barefoot year around especially hiking and so I can throw them off and leave them on the beach and go barefoot in the sands year around walking through the ocean water, I tend to get cracks in my heels on my feet around September or August which can be painful and might also bleed unless I use something like Cornhuskers lotion on them at that time of the year.
Why is this important?
Because the cracks appeared this year in April and May and I had to use Cornhuskers lotion on them so my heels didn't bleed.
Why is this important?
It means we have reached the dryness quotient we ordinarily reach in August and September by April and May which means we could have a truly horrific fire season like we have never seen before in my lifetime here in California.
I have lived through many many fires in Northern and Southern California. For a Californian since I was 4 years old mostly in 1952 I have learned to deal with Fires and Earthquakes. However, this looks to be (potentially) the scariest summer in the western United States regarding fires ever.
However, there is another way to look at it. For example, I have seen years when there is 6 foot high weeds growing along highways all over California and this when it dries out sometimes is really lethal fire wise to the state where sometimes 300 homes in one area burn down because of 6 foot high weeds of mostly foxtails and wild oats and the like and wild mustard grass and things like this.
So, when you only have 1 to 2 feet or less of these things everywhere (especially down Freeway and Highway mediums sometimes fires don't get going that fast (UNLESS) there are winds over 30 to 50 miles per hour. When you get high winds it doesn't really matter how tall the grasses and weeds are the fires move so very fast (Often at the speeds of the wind gusts) and then people die a lot here in California downwind of those fires because they just don't have time to evacuate where they are in order to live. Or they are brave and decide to stay and water their houses to keep them from burning up and then they sometimes die from smoke inhalation or just burn up. So, if you stay to fight the fire coming at your house make sure you have a basement to get away from it and an oxygen tank and mask so you don't die of smoke inhalation or just burning up somehow.
Here are what Crocs often look like. They are great for crossing streams or walking through water like at the beach because they often protect your toes from stubbing on rocks and tree stumps and they massage your feet as you walk in them keeping better circulation for older people so they don't lose feeling in their feet (or the feet of people any age) ongoing. Then often I just rinse off the Crocs with Water to get the beach sand out of them or the mud from local rivers that often come down trails some years from about October to March or April in this area. But not this year. Basically no rain from January through March and into April 2022. Any rain we got this year was in December and April so far which isn't much at all.
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