{"id":105451,"date":"2024-11-11T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=105451"},"modified":"2024-11-11T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T00:41:05","slug":"taking-stock-in-socal-zone-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=105451","title":{"rendered":"infrastructure week in the SoCal zone 10 garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that the back garden has been (mostly) cleared and sorted, it’s a little weird to find that some of the remaining plants have now turned into nameless strangers. Especially the aloes. The one pictured, with the elegant scroll-worked leaves, I’ve finally decided must be Aloe pluridens aka the French Aloe. I’ve been making progress with identification through checking old photos and blog posts, a comforting post-election distraction. There’s just one other aloe that will remain a mystery to be solved once it flowers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aloe pluridens?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wish I could just as easily untangle the painful mystery of the recent election results. There are lots of theories<\/a> on offer. Democrats have lost the working class voter because __________. The degraded state of the information ecosystem is certainly a factor, and I have a little story that might illustrate this part of the puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the North Oregon Coast, where we’ve spent the better part of the last three years near Tillamook Bay, work is now underway on repairing the South Jetty. What may sound like a straightforward construction project is anything but to the locals. It concerns infamously hazardous conditions arising from the convergence of fresh water from five rivers exiting through the narrow mouth of the bay. The crabbing and abundance of steelhead and salmon make this coast prime fishing, but the turbulent waters have taken their toll on the community in lives and income lost. Some families lost a husband and a son in a single disastrous fishing trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kincheloe Point was named for the surveyor Julius Kincheloe who drowned in 1867 while sounding the bar. The lost city of Bayocean was settled on this peninsula in 1909.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Proposals for solutions go back to early in the last century, when an oceanfront community raised the funds for the Army Corps of Engineers to tame the waters and make the boat journey to their homes a little less harrowing. Two jetties were recommended, one on each side of the bay’s mouth, but funds enough for only one jetty were raised. The one-sided solution only exacerbated the problem, and the community named Bayocean<\/a> was ultimately swept away by the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the 21st century, both north and south jetties were in place, with continual repairs needed to strengthen them. In particular, local government has sought repairs to the South Jetty since 2009. In January 2022, $62 million was allocated from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for repair of the South Jetty. The source of funding is not a secret but it doesn’t appear to be widely known and\/or acknowledged either. This work critical to the small fishing communities will undoubtedly be completed under the incoming president’s term, the one voted in office by Tillamook County. The one who never got an “Infrastructure Week” off the ground. The one who didn’t fund the jetty work when he had a chance. The one who will probably take credit for the economic success all these projects will deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are thousands of such projects underway right now in every state. (You can check the work funded in your state here<\/a>.) For me this is the kind of problem-solving that one party consistently delivers for voters. Sure, there’s a long arc and it can take years to see results. Would hearing some of these infrastructure success stories on the campaign trail have made a difference? What do I know, I’m just an old liberal…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marty is quickly finishing work on the fence project. Fence is fresh painted a light grey, multi-color panels yet to be decided. The neighbor’s roofline is all that’s visible, a vast improvement over looking in their windows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Take care, AGO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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