The Tijuana River is just up wind of me, at the moment. Currently, no less than 50 million gallons of raw sewage pours into the Pacific and travels north, every day. Less than three miles to the north of the river is a 5 year old hotel with what is supposed to have a real fine dining experience. Another hotel popped up this year, two miles inland. There is a new, $10,000,000,000 (Yep. I counted the zeros) SEAL training base less than two miles north of the hotel and fine dining experience. 8 miles north is a major navy airport on the same island as multi-million dollar homes with oodles of fine dining experiences. My local beach is considered the least desirable to live in CA. The island north is one of the most desirable.
In the next few days, my part of the US is looking at a forecast of 2.5" of rain. The rain is coming from the SSW. So is the wind. Wind from the south blows right across the TJ River so my community smells like raw sewage. If you'll refer to your notes about the 50 million gallons, and the 2.5" of forecast rain, figuring water flows to the ocean, and being now informed of the estuaries to the south, a fuck load of rain is going to turn 50 million gallons into a fucking torrent of a shit load of turds, needles, feminine things, condoms, and whatever pops up into your imagination. There is a pier by the 5 year old hotel. In California, fishing off piers doesn't need a license, and is popular to do so among locals. The area is also a popular surf spot and tourist attraction. The surfers don't care about swimming with the little brown fishes and the tourists don't know what they're flopping around on their boogie boards in. If none of this is disgusting to you, people eat the fish they catch from the pier.
The story I hear about getting the US involved in curbing the situation came at a temporary cost of $300 million. Not that the cost was temporary, the efficacy of the treatment plant was temporary. We built TJ a real fine treatment plant without the one consideration that made the whole thing void. What infrastructure existing in TJ is old and largely useless and cannot be fixed because they have no money. So, when things in the new plant went catawampus because not all the $300 million wound up being used for the plant, there was no money to buy new materials nor money to hire people to get things jiffy'd up.
My the Lord lift his countenance upon you, and give you peace, and bless international grant assistance, and bless him for bringing rain to a droughted, major metropolitan city. I am forever grateful. Your servant, Gingerbeard.
That's my weather report. Gawd, what I wouldn't do for a little acid rain.