Monday, January 3, 2011

RARE TASTE OF SNOW IN SANTA CLARITA VALLEY

I am not going to offer another theory about 2012.  We have read and heard way too many theories about 2012, which includes end of the world, polar shifts, etcetera.  These theories or "expert opinions" are based apparently on the Mayan calendar that does not go beyond December 12, 2012.  People interpret this as being the end of the world, I think something just happened that made the Mayans move out of their villages which made it impossible for them to continue working on their calendar.  Then there's the Photon Energy theory that shortens our days, so that instead of having 24 hours in a day we only have about six or eight hours.  I just wanted to share something that I have noticed several years ago and have told my wife and she agreed with my observations.

Back in 2000, the year we moved to our current home, my wife and I were still smokers.  We would go to our back patio by the pool with our coffee and cigarette and watch the sunrise.  This will be our morning routine every working day — we needed to get up earlier than most Canyon Country residents, because we used to work in Woodland Hills, which is a 33.77 miles or 40 minutes drive according to yahoo maps.  The drive easily doubles when you get caught by the rush hour traffic even if you drive in the carpool lane.

A) Taken around 9:30 a.m. Jan. 3, 2011
B) These days, this is where we see the sunrise
The first picture (A) shows from where we used to see the sun rise.  The last time we ever smoked a cigarette was on December 31, 2002 and we have been smoke-free since January 1, 2003.  Some time in 2005, I noticed one weekend, when I woke up early to clean the pool, that the sun rose from another spot (see second photo B).  This is about the same time when I remembered that before we moved in to the house that I held a wooden stick vertically with one end touching the ground outside the front to see the orientation of the front door — Feng Shui told me that it is auspicious for me to be in a house with the front door facing West, which according to the shadow cast from the stick, this house has that orientation.  So on the day that I noticed that the sun rose from a different spot, I made sure I did the stick test just before sunset.  Sure enough the shadow tells me that West points to a different direction than it did back in 2000.  The third picture (below) is a stitched image of the first two. This is to show where we see sunrise these days in relation to where we used to see it at least 10 years ago.

The orange circle approximates the area where we used to see the sunrise, the green circle is where we see it now.
Some experts say that the rate at which the earth's magnetic fields are decreasing is not steep enough to cause a shift or reverse in polarity.  This is good news as "a reversal could mean vast flooding, tidal waves, food shortages due to climate changes and crop shortages and worldwide competition for declining resources."  Based on my observations, however, something changed, our front door now faces Northwest.

We also have been experiencing weird weather patterns this last few years.  Last time it snowed here in Canyon Country was 2007 and that time the snow did not stick that long.  Before 2007, some older residents say the last time it snowed in the SCV was in 1990.  Yesterday, January 2, 2011, it snowed in the Santa Clarita Valley, we had about 1 to 3 inches of snow, as some local news reported, throughout the valley and did not melt until late Monday morning the next day.  It's nothing compared to what one will probably experience in Utah or Colorado or the east coast for that matter, but I think it's the best Southern California snow we'll ever experience.  Enjoy the video below!


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