Quote Originally Posted by freeringo View Post
We had grape size hail yesterday at 1pm, which has never happened here
in the 17 years I've been in the mountains. It's so cool, I love it.
We are expecting even more the next 2 days.
We have had more rain this last week than we had all last year.
Though we need the rain. It is the worst time of year to get it up here because the wild grasses are already 2-3 feet tall and they usually dry up in the next month. Now they are going to shoot up to 5-6 feet and really become a fire danger this summer. Watch out California will be burning soon.
This is the first hail storm you've had up there? We get the big hail a couple times a year. It is kind of neat. But dangerous to drive in. We do need the rain though for sure. But we certainly do not need any more fires for God sake. If California has fires like it did last year I will not be able to breath. My gosh The skies were dark and my asthma was bad.

The picture of the Sutter Buttes that I have in my album was taken during the fires that burned through Lassen, Tehama and Shasta counties last year. The entire sky was a deep, dark red orange. We thought they would never stop. we as in (ARC). So many homes lost.