Word: snowmelt
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...this stuff, plus the lighting, heating and cooling, security, sound system, curtains and window blinds, can be run through a computer controller. George Collins of Peterson & Collins, a high-end builder in Washington, has a client who has taken it to the limit. A computer runs everything from the snowmelt system in the driveway to the temperature of the fish tank to the alerting of the homeowner that someone is in the swimming pool...
...might even have heard or spotted the resident wolf pack that roams the valley, apparently unconcerned about anglers in silly chest waders dropping in from the sky. Steep cliffs rise on each side of the river to snowcapped peaks and glaciers. The only sounds are of a waterfall spilling snowmelt into the river, the buzzing of insects in the afternoon sun--and the screaming of your reel when a big coho takes the streamer and tears off downriver, trailing 100 yards of line...
...supply of firewood is almost gone. Snow covers the ground, still two feet deep and melting squalidly, the temperature almost 40. The other day, as the town snowplow bullied through, roostering snow, it knocked down the mailbox and left it capsized at a drunken angle in a snowbank. Now snowmelt runs downhill onto the dirt road, which is reduced to quagmire. The car bucks and lurches through rutted mud. The creek rushes and brims...
Critics of the test note that the magazine quaffed the fresh-tasting stuff from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt rather than the sometimes foul-smelling brew from the groundwater basins of the San Fernando Valley. While the report has gratified local officials, it has perturbed others. Says Sy Linden, co-owner of a Santa Monica appliance store: "This story is killing my water-purifier business...
Water levels are rising because of years of abnormal amounts of rain and snowfall, 26% above normal in the lakes basin during 1985 alone. With damages totaling well above $15 million since last spring, lake dwellers are heading into the snowmelt and storm season with growing dread...