Day 7: RAIN! (part 1)

6/21/24 - Chris's personal notes: ""This perfect rainfall, which fell "like sifted flour" gently covering every surface, triggered not just more than 0.3" rain accumulation by noon (Black Range Lodge's gauge), but further perfect light rains, which have now continued inermittently for four additional days (through the 25th of June, 2024). None of this rain was forecast by the satellites. But it is what I was shooting for, to a finer point than my best hope.""
Chris Searles and the town of Kingston are happily surprised by the perfect, early-morning, gentle rains, starting about 6:45AM, Friday June 21. By the end of the day, Chris' goals for the Kingston project are all exceedingly and elegantly reached by the rain / biosphere system's ability to share and cycle moisture self-advantageously ("to thrive").
In contrast, the Apple app's integrated-forecast:
gave rain a 10% chance at 9am,
said there'd 0.3" precipitation,
showed "cloudy" as summary.
In this arguably breakthrough moment, Chris goes for a short walk into the Black Range foothills to investigate area rainfall coverage, and in so doing gives some water efficiency and water ROI ("return on investment") calculations.
ROIs
In short: he invested about 5,000 gallons of the community's water resources (1/4 of a swimming pool) and this rain alone returned:
significant fire threat reduction,
next rains attraction,
systemic air cooling / comfort level increase,
vegetation greening softening and beautification,
increased food production,
drought cessation,
measurable oxygenation-boosts (though we didn't measure them),
delivery of at least 20,000 gallons of water to the greater landscape and wildlife.
And then it kept going... day by day, more soft rains.
#biointegrity
#rainmakers