Red Car Property: This Heatwave Can't End Soon Enough

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 20, 2011.  Think cool thoughts.  Red Car Property looking toward Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase & India St.   (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Red Car Property: Mudwatch, Rainfall Totals

Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 26, 2012.  It looks drier than it actually is.  It was barely walkable before last night's rain. Break out your wellies if you want to walk the Red Car.(Click on photo to enlarge.)

 

We're tracking rainfall totals collected in the Corralitas Drive rain gauge...

 

December 26, 2012: 0.3"

Season to date: 3.62"

Red Car Property: Mudwatch, Lake Red Car - Too Slippery For Walking

Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 13, 2011.  A couple of dozen cars going to and from Rose Scharlin Co-op Nursery School, twice a day, and less than an inch of rain, yesterday, has made the area between Riverside Place & Lake View Ave (around Lake Red Car) too slippery for walking.  (Click on photos to enlarge.) 

Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 13, 2011.  You can still walk around the shores of Red Car Canyon Lake.  The wooded canyon area is surprisingly dry, as is the meadow.    

Lake Red Car: Mudwatch

Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 18, 2011.  It doesn't take much rain for Lake Red Car to fill up and make the path near Rose Scharlin extremely muddy and very slippery.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

My hiking boots were so caked with mud, I could get no traction, so I took Riverside Place on the way home.  I watched one driver of a small car, despite proceeding very slowly on the dryer portion through the mud, fishtail terribly here today.