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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

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On 8/4/2026 8:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

.

One hopes the book contained more than your post.
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On 8/4/26 10:40, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 8/4/2026 8:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

-a-a "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
-a-a published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

One hopes the book contained more than your post.

Indeed there is a lot more to that rather poetic
book. I wish we could expect soft rains this winter or
even this summer and autumn but more likely it will be
like the recent Winters, Springs, Summers, and Autumns.
Windy with a chance of floods and many inches of Snow.

But here in the City of San Francisco we may
before long feel the fury of the unbalanced climate
which we have largely been spared to now.

Presently though 65-# at 11:11. Winds of 3-5 MPH.

Meantime to the North, South and East
we have wildfires in California.

bliss
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BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.invalid> writes:

On 8/4/26 10:40, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 8/4/2026 8:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

-a-a "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
-a-a published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

One hopes the book contained more than your post.

Indeed there is a lot more to that rather poetic
book. I wish we could expect soft rains this winter or
even this summer and autumn but more likely it will be
like the recent Winters, Springs, Summers, and Autumns.
Windy with a chance of floods and many inches of Snow.

But here in the City of San Francisco we may
before long feel the fury of the unbalanced climate
which we have largely been spared to now.

Presently though 65-# at 11:11. Winds of 3-5 MPH.

Heck, it was 52F (11C) yesterday when I woke up in
the santa clara valley. Reached 91F (33C) by mid-afternoon
and back into the 60's by 8pm. RH 25%. Rather
comfortable out of the direct sun during the
heat of the day with a mild afternoon sea breeze.

Meantime to the North, South and East
we have wildfires in California.

All small and all under control except for
yesterday's Gann fire. Mostly remote
areas, and few, if any, structure losses.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
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In article <114t85u$2ble7$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 8/4/2026 8:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

.

One hopes the book contained more than your post.

Here is the (first edition, thus the date being different)
story, as told by X Minus One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyyscYBXTk
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On 8/4/26 11:27, Scott Lurndal wrote:

BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.invalid> writes:

On 8/4/26 10:40, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 8/4/2026 8:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

-a-a "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
-a-a published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

One hopes the book contained more than your post.

Indeed there is a lot more to that rather poetic
book. I wish we could expect soft rains this winter or
even this summer and autumn but more likely it will be
like the recent Winters, Springs, Summers, and Autumns.
Windy with a chance of floods and many inches of Snow.

But here in the City of San Francisco we may
before long feel the fury of the unbalanced climate
which we have largely been spared to now.

Presently though 65-# at 11:11. Winds of 3-5 MPH.

Heck, it was 52F (11C) yesterday when I woke up in
the santa clara valley. Reached 91F (33C) by mid-afternoon
and back into the 60's by 8pm. RH 25%. Rather
comfortable out of the direct sun during the
heat of the day with a mild afternoon sea breeze.

Meantime to the North, South and East
we have wildfires in California.

All small and all under control except for
yesterday's Gann fire. Mostly remote
areas, and few, if any, structure losses.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

Many people lost their apartments in several city fires
down the Peninsula from San Francisco and in other places.

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On 8/4/2026 11:08 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury was written and
published in 1950. It contains (according to one web page):

|Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.

A story that stays with you for a long time.

I finally looked the title's origin. Its
a poem from 1918 by Sara Teasdale:

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

pt
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 11:14:36 -0700, BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.invalid> wrote:

Indeed there is a lot more to that rather poetic
book. I wish we could expect soft rains this winter or
even this summer and autumn but more likely it will be
like the recent Winters, Springs, Summers, and Autumns.
Windy with a chance of floods and many inches of Snow.

I wouldn't be inclined to complain. Inclement weather beats the
aftermath of a global thermonuclear war.

Or should that have come with a spoiler warning?

John Savard
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 23:12:12 -0400, Cryptoengineer wrote:

A story that stays with you for a long time.

Not the only Bradbury tale like that.

I finally looked the title's origin. Its a poem from 1918 by Sara
Teasdale:

Scores highly on the face-prickling index.
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Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

I finally looked the title's origin. Its
a poem from 1918 by Sara Teasdale:

To the nature of Teasdale, Bradbury adds home automation gear, which
also does not inherently care about humans (like today's AI systems).
- It's not clear whether humans care.

Lao-Tzu observed (~ 5th century BCE):

Nature is indifferent to life.
It treats everything like a straw dog.

(These were dogs woven from straw used as sacrificial
offerings. During the ritual, they were treated with
the utmost reverence, but the moment the ritual ended,
they were discarded and trampled without any emotion.)


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