Over two weeks of rain predicted for 2023-24 ice rink

Fourteen more days of August, hang in there.

City meetings are largely cancelled – the notice from the June 28 Finance Committee agenda says the next meeting isn’t until September 27. And minutes are months behind – they haven’t posted any minutes for 2023 monthly meetings.

We do know that council has approved funding for another year of the Downtown ice rink despite heavy and increasing financial losses. That based on a slick, pages long “report” produced by $taff at taxpayer expense.

https://chico.ca.us/sites/main/files/file-attachments/6.28.23_fc_agenda_packet.pdf?1687390810

Staff blames losses on rain. Wow, in Winter? Really? Well, I don’t know if Staff has done this, but I looked ahead at various weather sites, even Farmer’s Almanac, and there are nine days between Dec 15 and 31 with more than a 49% chance of rain. Yep, nine days in two weeks, that’s a deal breaker as far as I’m concerned, but council went ahead and approved another year’s funding.

So I’m going back to look at January – six days with more than a 40% chance of rain predicted in the first two weeks. Look it up yourselves, tell me what you find.

A week ago my husband and I realized we can’t afford to run our air conditioner all night in our stuffy apartment so we set our air mattress up and the battery tv outside, under our old E-Z UP. That was about a week ago – it’s rained twice since. Last night about 11 pm, woke up in the middle of X Files to feel rain. I saw one video from North Chico that looked more like January. Anybody see that coming? Weatherman did, and I’m going to trust him from now on.

Chico City Council continues to play their little fiddle while the town collapses into anarchy all around them. They have approved a quarter of a million dollars for a guaranteed flop.

Meanwhile, I just did almost all my Christmas shopping on Amazon Prime day. I’ll do the rest on a quick trip to Oregon. When my 5 year old coffee maker took a crap recently I sat down at my laptop and ordered a new one. When we needed to add more security lights at our rentals, my husband went to Amazon “order again” and within a week we had new security lights posted all over our property.

I like to buy clothes online – there’s free returns if it doesn’t fit. Socks and underwear are just a matter of “order again”. Why would I want to wait while the staffer gets the key to the underwear display, or worse – expose myself to the risk of being run over or pepper-sprayed by an escaping shop lifter?

Oh, by the way, Thanks Lowe’s, for FINALLY ejecting campers from your parking lot after I witnessed a contractor catching a guy going through the back of his truck. I rarely go into the stores these days, I sit and watch the truck while my husband does the shopping. Or we drive to Oregon, only 4 hours to the Medford Lowe’s.

This is Chico, just keepin’ it real. Thanks Dude!