#rain collection

Heavy Rain Just Below the Snow Line

Feb. 13, 2025

We got about two inches of rain today and it was absolutely torrential. We still have limited rain collection capacity, but we carried over 100 gallons of water by hand in buckets from our one rain barrel on the one side of our tiny house roof that has a gutter to our larger water tanks this afternoon. If we had more capacity, we could have collected 1000 gallons, and that is no exaggeration.

We bailed rivers of water out of our horse's pen as the rain continued to fall until around sunset. LA also got slammed with rain and as of 7pm this evening, LAX received 1.90 inches.

Rain Harvest House, Valle de Bravo, Mexico - Robert Hutchison Architecture

Dating simulator Yamamoto 😆

That piddley rain we had the other night, which didn’t count as any measurable rain to the National Weather Service, nearly filled a whole rain barrel.  It stopped just short of the overflow hose to barrel #2.  Take a moment to think about that.  It counted as “no rain,” and yet here I am with nearly 50 gallons of free water that ran off from one corner of my house roof.

This is why rain catchment and rain gardens are important. This is why some places pass laws making it illegal to catch the rain that falls onto the land you own.  Water utilities cost more in the summer.

This is why if Las Vegas, NV and San Jose, CA worked on un-paving and catchment, if they caught and stored the rain that falls on their cities instead of forcing most of it to run-off, both locations could catch enough rain every year  for their annual needs.