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POOL PARTY in the Hot Tub in the Pacific Ocean near #SanLuisObispo #California #USA at the #DiabloCanyon #NuclearPower Plant - May 1st, 2022 - Everybody's Jumping in Shouting "Mayday! Mayday!"

Is the Water in the Pacific Ocean 
Too Cold for You to Swim In? 

PG&E Raised the Temperature to make it DELIGHTFUL for Swimmers!

Godzilla at the POOL PARTY Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant HOT TUB
Link to a Map! 

https://g.page/DiabloCanyonPowerPlant?share

map of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant SLO

How California’s last remaining nuclear power plant transformed marine life off the coast... 

Take a dip into the Pacific Ocean along most of California’s Central Coast, and the cold water will send you running for a wetsuit. But there’s one spot where the water isn’t so teeth-chattering and instead feels much like a lukewarm bath: Diablo Cove, the oblong 40-acre inlet that sits at the base of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Avila Beach. There, the ocean waters are heated by the power plant’s cooling system, which sucks in and spits out billions of gallons of seawater every day.

Water in the cove directly adjacent to the discharge structure hovers at an abnormal 70 to 80 degrees — notably warmer than the 50 to 60 degrees typical here.


This is Story is Just a Part of a Much Larger Book:

Right side of history meme - gvan42

republicriminals are unhappy people meme




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Author's Note: I had a dream last night... and as soon as I woke up I opened up the Laptop and started Typing... 

I was taking lessons on How to do Lucid Dreaming... You Know, Take Control of your Dreams and Direct the Action and then... 

Melody Hunter on TV NEWS - Weather and Traffic


I dreamed that I was in the TV Station where Melody Hunter did the Weather and Traffic every Morning... and I walked past the cameras and Said "Hello Melody, I'm Greg..." and then I held her in my arms and kissed her... and After a Long while she said: "but, but, but... the weather?" and I turned to the Camera and said: "Sunny and Warm for All of Eternity. With a gentle Breeze... and Little Birds Going Tweet, Tweet, Tweet." and she said: "Why, That's Right! How did you Know?" and I said: "It's Written Right There on the Teleprompter. SEE? ...and Now for a Commercial Break." and as they walked off the Set she asked: "Do You Have a Job, Greg?" and I Answered: "Yes, I Do, Melody... Yes. I Do... I'm Every Girl's Dream... a Man With a Job!" 

and they Lived Happily Ever After... as DINKS! Double Income No Kids... 


Hey, If I'm going to do Lucid Dreaming... I'm gonna do something FUN! 


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Cal Poly Humboldt: I See Many Paid Posts on FaceBORG... Part of the Millions the School got is being used to Publish SPAM... To Sell the Idea that Changing the Name is a Good Idea! 

SC Said: How are you going to deal with the housing shortage and the rent and home price hike that has LITERALLY put residents out on the streets? What’s your answer to that?

JM Replied: this is exactly why I was concerned about the polytechnic change. We all saw it coming. The housing market was going to price gouge us out.

CL Said: the school doesn’t really care about that, they just want to increase the freshman enrollment from the decrease the past couple years

and I Said: Glad I went there in 2001 - 2005. Even then I couldn't find a Place to Live in Arcata. So I lived in the Cutten district of Eureka... and NOW I see that the McKay Ranch Housing Project in Cutten has been approved... The problem the developer was having was... NO DEMAND for more Homes... Well, There will be a demand NOW! https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/oct/18/mckay-ranch-subdivision-county-recirculating-envir/

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Those things Like Alexa creep me out. I don't want people listening to me. Or AI Machines Either... They Listen to your Home 24 hours a day, waiting for you to say... "Alexa?" 

and MD Replied: No one is Listening to you, Greg... 

and I Replied: SOME people are Listening... Because... I post my opinions on 13 different social media platforms... and often QuackAnon FREAKS Say I'm Wrong... So Someone is Listening... Or READING... 

Here are my settings for my Chromebook... No, No, No, No, No, Cookies are OK, Autofill=OFF

My Chromebook Settings - Gregory Vanderlaan


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What Paradise Was Like Before it Burned. My Memories of a California Town. [personal autobiography of everything I ever did in Paradise...Just to keep the Town's Memory Alive... If you are reading this in the Future. Paradise, California Burned to the Ground in 2018 and all buildings were destroyed.]

I was lucky enough to have visited the town of Paradise.

My fondest memory was Dancing at a Pow Wow. I was a member of Mom's AA in Chico and there were Many American Indians in that club. Dorothy invited us to go to Paradise for an Inter-Tribal Event. Duke was the Master of Ceremonies. I did the "Orange" Dance with a Native Woman. I held an orange between my chin and neck and then transferred it to HER chin and neck. I wore a belt with 5 Jingle Bells strapped to my leg... That Belt was used later to Chime Quitting Time at Work... At 5 PM I Rang the Bells and Everyone Cheered and went home... When I retired I gave the bells to Suzie so she could keep the Tradition Going.. Those Bells were filled with Magic because they had been "Danced" at a Pow Wow.

 I took a Drumming Class with Adult Education. I was Working at Ja-Kay's Farm in Concow with Mike. She hired us to put unwanted stuff in a giant dumpster. It was a Birthday Present for her Father. When he came home from a trip, all the garbage would have been Miraculously Cleaned Up. When we were done with the day's work she invited us to go to a Learn How to Play the Drums in a Big Group Class. Mike did not go but I accepted the invitation. They held the Class in an abandoned Chinese Restaurant. There were about 12 students and we played Bongos and Congas. The teacher had sheet music for us to read and learn specific beats. After Practicing for a few weeks we performed at the Chico Farmer's Market. We Played "Miserlou." He played Guitar and invited some other musicians to play keyboards and bass. After that performance The Teacher wanted to GO PRO and Go on Tour, Charge admission... that ended the group for most of us because we just wanted to have fun... I do remember that at that performance we played the song incorrectly... We were supposed to play the beat for 20 bars and then STOP PLAYING so he could play the melody on the Guitar... well we failed to all STOP at the same time... He just shrugged and grinned... and Nailed the Solo. Oh Well.

 I went to the Feather River Hospital and Had a Colonoscopy and Polyps Removed. 

 We went to see RADAR perform in a play. (Gary Berghoff)... It was at a The Fancy Playhouse and we met a lot of our friends in the audience... It was a RARE performance by Gary Berghoff who was a Paradise Resident. Makes me Wonder How He's Doing Now... He's Alive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burghoff

 Mike C. and I went to see a friend perform in the play "Same Time Next Year." I was amazed by my friends ability to memorize lines... The play has only Two Actors and a tremendous quantity of words.

 Swimming in Butte Creek. It's a Wild Inner Tube Ride when the water is high in the Spring... OKI Dam is a beautiful wide swimming hole and we went skinny dipping there.

 Visiting the Honey Run Covered Bridge.

More pictures of the Covered Bridge:
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-honey-run-covered-bridge-over-butte.html

Finding Gold in a Quartz Crystal on Butte Creek. Craig and I went to the Bridge Just Upstream of the Covered Bridge and Took a Video of the Creek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqTJXTmt7o
On the Side of the road was a shady spot and I sat down to smoke a cigarette. When I was done I picked up a rock to snuff out the fire and it was a beautiful white crystal quartz with a vein of gold... I kept that rock... It's in My Back Yard in Eureka Now... Right next to the shiny black rock I picked up at Mount Saint Helens in Washington State.

 Swimming (illegally) in the Reservoir. It provided drinking water to the Town so people were not allowed to swim...

 We went to an AA Meeting in Paradise. Small Meeting, everyone knew each other and I felt like a Stranger in a Strange Land. But I'm glad I went... I love Visiting Different Towns and Going to their Meetings... 

 I had a friend who lived in Paradise who was a "Clamper" (a member of E Clamper Vitus - a Fraternal Organization devoted to Helping the Widows and Orphans abandoned by Gold Miners That Died.)

 Driving up the Skyway and Stopping at the Overlook to see Butte Creek Canyon.
photographs of Chico California by Greg Vanderlaan gvan42
Butte Creek Canyon photographed on the Skyway to Paradise, California
The town was Named for a "Pair Of Dice"

 More Pictures of the Butte Creek Canyon:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/paradise-butte-creek-canyon-california.html
Camp Fire Map 11/19/2018
We are REALLY Lucky that the Firefighters Put it Out
Before CHICO Burned. Thank You.

Click on the link to see... 6 Photographs of The Honey Run Covered Bridge over Butte Creek near Chico and Paradise, California BEFORE it Burned - a great place to go Tubing when the Water is High... a WILD RIDE!
The Bridge was destroyed by Wildfire on 11/9/2018
So Sad... It was a Historical Landmark.
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-honey-run-covered-bridge-over-butte.html

and Here is what Liz Merry Said about the Rebuilding of Paradise... 
Liz Merry
“Someday I’ll meet you all in Paradise…” So sang the great Scott “Ska-T” Pressman of Chico’s Spark ‘N’ Cinder Band. I spent last weekend in Paradise for Gold Nugget Days, which celebrates the discovery of a 54-pound gold nugget found just north of town in 1859. A gold nugget of that size could solve a lot of problems, couldn’t it?
It was my first visit to Paradise since the Camp Fire destroyed the town and left 85 people dead over 4 years ago. Dozens of our friends and family members lost their homes and many survivors relocated to Tehama County. Welcome!
Paradise looks very different now, of course. Where there used to be trees there are now sweeping vistas. That happened here in Manton, too, after the Ponderosa Fire. Driving up Forward Rd., you could suddenly see way down Battle Creek Canyon and over to Hwy 36E. Silver linings. We’ll take ‘em.
There is a buzz of construction as people rebuild their homes and lives. Apparently there was not much rhyme or reason as to how people were reimbursed by their insurance companies and the PG&E payments have been all over the place. There are folks who have been in their lovely new homes for a couple of years and others who have just started to receive funds to rebuild or move on. Neighborhoods are a patchwork quilt of new homes popping up among chain link fenced parcels with nothing but a cement slab to identify them as former residences.
Paradisians were jubilant to see old friends and neighbors. The hugs were long and sincere - like they never wanted to let go. Survivors of such enormous tragedy share a special bond. Gold Nugget Days is something that bridges Before to Now and unites them as a community. A great reminder that all communities are made up of people, not buildings and trees.
I spent Friday and Saturday nights in Chico at the home of my longtime BFFs Kathy and Lynette. We worked together at LaSalles in downtown Chico in the mid-80s, when it was a yuppified fern bar and restaurant. Kathy went on to create and coach the Women’s Golf Program and Team at Chico State and Lynette teaches art at Diablo College a few days a week.
They bought a beautiful home together in the Chico Avenues decades ago, fixing up a mother-in-law unit in back for Kathy while Lynette lives in the main house. I haven’t seen either of them since before Covid, so having this time to catch up was fantastic. They are both brilliant and we pretty much solved the world’s problems in a few hours.
Downtown Chico, on the other hand, is looking downright shabby these days. It was always appealing, bustling and thriving, but now appears to be in a sharp decline - like the “doom loop” we keep reading about in San Francisco. Empty storefronts are rampant - even the four “anchor” spots on 2nd and Main Streets. The 7-Eleven on the corner of 1st and Main is closed with a chain link fence around it - shocking. There is an air of seediness and danger - what happened?
A perfect storm of challenges from many directions hit the town, that’s what. 10,000 people showed up overnight after fleeing the Camp Fire. Traffic became insane. Covid closed the University and many businesses couldn’t survive. The homeless situation is at crisis level. Mental health resources are stretched thin. Without a variety of cute shops and the proliferation of online retail, shoppers just aren’t as likely to spend an afternoon browsing. There is an argument that the downtown landlords, most of whom don’t live in Chico, are charging too much for rent. How much is a storefront worth when it is surrounded by empty ones? Who is going to risk the time and money to open a new place in the middle of a downward spiral?
There are many factors at play, but Lynette pointed out one that hadn’t occurred to me. When the bottom fell out of the traditional cannabis market, those friendly hill folk didn’t have buckets of cash to spread around every fall. I can personally vouch for the increase in spending at Wild Oak every October and November. Time to rethink our county ordinance which is still depriving a path to legitimacy for an entire industry and its many spin-offs in manufacturing, testing, packaging, etc…What do you say, supervisors?

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Photos of Butte Creek Canyon California near Chico and Paradise. The Covered Bridge before it Burned. and Chico Creek's One Mile Swimming Pool...

photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
On the Skyway to Paradise, CA
This Canyon is Famous for Gold Mining.
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
showing valley floor
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
looking towards Chico
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
another view looking towards Chico.
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42

photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42

More Photos of the Covered Bridge
Before It Burned... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-honey-run-covered-bridge-over-butte.html

There is Now A Plan to Rebuild the Covered Bridge...
Millions of Dollars Donated to Build a BRIDGE TO NOWHERE! 
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/new-honey-run-covered-bridge-gets-financial-boost

"One Mile" Swimming Pool in Chico California - 

Bidwell Park - It's Located One Mile from Main Street...

photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Students "Horsing Around" at the pool
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Students competing in a "fill up the bucket with a sponge race."
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Three teams. A person runs to the pool, soaks sponge,
run back to bucket, empty sponge...
repeat with next team member...
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
much shouting needed... I Guess...
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
My Staircase... No Diving, so I just crept in Gradually...
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
When the Lifeguard is Present, no bicycle riding allowed...
This Kid is taking advantage of the LACK of Law Enforcement
to have a great time... Also, no smoking in the park... I lit up
since there was no-one to enforce the rules.
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Picnic Area 37. Redwood Trees.
These trees were brought from the coast where they are a
native species and planted in Bidwell Park.
Note how the forest floor is swept clean...
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Photo taken from within the Redwood Grove.
Note that the native trees are Not Redwood.
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Train Depot Chico, CA
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Caution: Don't stop on the tracks.
photographs of Chico and Paradise California - by gvan42
Mural... Link to More Pictures!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=Chico
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