• seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    Neat. Just below the dam you can see where the river is changing course as a middle finger to said beavers.

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    3 days ago

    Sunny during a heavy rain storm. Huh. I’ve no doubt of the ecological and hydrological impacts of beavers and their dams, but this is not during a rainstorm.

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      3 days ago

      Sun and rainstorms can definitely overlap.

      My mom used to say that when this occurred, it indicated that “the devil is beating his wife.” I have never before considered the implications of this, but I looked it up and I still don’t know.

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        The illustration of the idiomatic phrase can be explained as that of the devil spitting the fire of hell (the sun rays) and his wife’s tears (the rain).

        I guess that makes sense?

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          That’s what I figured. If it was raining over the clear part of the river, I’d assume all the runoff from the land around it would make it muddy as well. The heavy storm is probably up river and washing all the muddy water down, until it gets blocked by the beaver dam.

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        “after a storm” would be more suitable for clarity and to get the point across with the least overhead.

        At any rate, beavers be cool as hell.