Today we got a nice heavy rain, though it didn't last long. Every little bit helps, though, and the creosote bushes are perfuming the air.
I decided to go wild and try making a pinto bean hummus (I cook dried beans and keep them in the freezer). Beans, tahini, olive oil, garlic, lime juice, serrano peppers. 🤞🏻
Nervous question: anyone catch omicron and have the first symptom be nausea/vomiting? Because this is happening to a (boosted) friend who did indoor dining 2 days ago. 😳
Chickpeas vs Pinto beans. I'll eat hummus but it's not my first choice. SLap it on flat bread and chomp chomp? Sounds like a lot of carbs.
I may have had covid about2 weeks before it was news. There was no testing at that time. I don't know. I was so sick i couldn't do much. When the official news of the pandemic and vaccine came along. I was on that in a heartbeat. The misery of whatever I had was so bad, I never wanted to experience anything worse.
Good Luck.
Nearby Cherrapunji on the Sohra plateau also received record rain - about 4000+ mm in 18 days in June, but slightly lower on a daily basis than Mawsynram:
Both places are on plateaus in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas that just pop out of the plains after relatively flat terrain of several hundred km from the Bay of Bengal. When moisture-laden monsoon clouds reach the region, they climb about a 1000m+ relatively abruptly, and dump a lot of precipitation on top of the plateaus, making both places among the wettest in the world. There is a similar Mesa in Columbia, South America, which also sees the same phenomenon annually.
I did have GI symptoms (mainly diarrhea) from my breakthrough Omicron infection months ago, so nausea is certainly a possibility.
On rain, we're having the first rainfall right now from the SW monsoons, which happen in summer in India. It's not as heavy as some areas in the hills - Mawsynram in NE India got over 100 cm of rain in 24 hours recently. I haven't ever been there, but here's a visual of a bridge near a waterfall after the deluge:
Those ~100 cm are about twice what California receives in an average *year*.