Aloha

tomorrow the pineapple express is coming to town. no it's not a special viewing of the movie and no it's not some fancy train car parade. the pineapple express (also known as Pineapple Connection) is a non-technical, shorthand term popular in the news media for a meteorological phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated heavy rainfall from the waters adjacent to the hawaiian islands and extending to any location along the pacific coast of north america. (thanks wikipedia) in other words it's gonna rain.

the san francisco bay area is another locale along the pacific coast which is occasionally affected by a pineapple express. when it visits, the heavy, persistent rainfall typically causes flooding of local streams as well as urban flooding. in the decades before about 1980, the local term for a pineapple express was "hawaiian storm". during the second week of january, 1952, a series of "hawaiian" storms swept into central california, causing widespread flooding around the bay area.

the same storms brought a blizzard of heavy, wet snow to the sierra nevada mountains, notoriously stranding the stream liner "city of san francisco" on january 13. the greatest flooding in northern california since the 1800s occurred in 1955 as a result of a series of hawaiian storms, with the greatest damage in the sacramento valley around yuba city.

so hearing about this down pour i had to go buy new windshield wipers. mine were the ones that came with my car but i did not know that they were falling apart! it rained about 3 weeks ago and that was the first time i had used my wipers. well since then i've had a piece of the blade flapping against the windshield on the passengers side. so i forked out $26 bucks and got some heavy duty ones. this pineapple's got nothing on me! luckily we don't really live that close to any water.


song lyrics of the day:
I only wanted to one time see u laughing
I only wanted to see u laughing in the purple rain