Novato

Sometimes I'll say Nevada where I grew up.

There's a town just South of me called Novato.

So I'm used to saying Novato.

So I'll say Nevada, like Novato, Nevada.

Yeah.

Okay.

So now first a shout out to the examiner who was Terence Wilson out of Oakland, which of course is a little closer than my previous examiner for my private who had to come all the way from Wisconsin.

And I'd asked him to come to Novato because flying into Oakland and then paying the landing fees twice would have ultimately cost me a lot more money.

And it meant that I could just like get to work when I got to the airport.

Now, interestingly, he mentioned that he would usually have flown in.

There was a bit of confusion on both sides here but ultimately you know we got our clearance to perform the approach but then there was a problem that we were far too close to the initial approach fix and I needed time to actually set everything up.

See, I kind of had learned this trick because, well, two weeks prior, I'd made a real mess of an approach.

We'd approached Santa Rosa from the north, and as we went missed out to the south, we just tried to go and take that immediately into the approach to the home airport, into Novato.

And they gave us the approach far too quickly.

Now the latest guidance coming in this morning actually has that storm track a little bit more to the north, closer to the Bay Area.

Out there right now, the big story, it is chilly, 40 right now in Gilroy, 43, that current temperature in Danville, right down to 37 in Novato, 40, that current temperature in Sonoma.

So it is cold this morning.

It does take time to warm us up.

I spoke with experts who are hard at work mapping out the evolving threat.

So everything around us was completely underwater.

The historic El Nino floods of 1982 swallowed parts of Novato.

Nonprofit director Shannon Parkhurst walked us around this intersection, hit particularly hard.

So everything around us was completely underwater.

The historic El Nino floods of 1982 swallowed parts of Novato.

Nonprofit director Shannon Parkhurst walked us around this intersection, hit particularly hard.

Now, if you look around me, believe it or not, every single

And for thousands of neighbors in flood-prone areas around the Bay Area, the current king tides may seem like a potential preview of the combined threat from sea level rise and El Nino-driven storms this winter.

I want people to realize that things could be really, really bad then.

In Novato, Liz Biro, ABC7 Eyewitness News.

You can learn more about what to expect from El Nino in our El Nino Effect special.

So there you go, Dave's full circle moment when he got to perform with ACDC at the MetLife Stadium.

So we'll move on to Shifty now, because he called into the radio show Guys at Five on KSVY in California to preview the short run of solo shows he's doing in December, including one at the Hot Monk in Novato on Wednesday the 16th of December.

And he described what it's like to switch between being in one of the biggest rock bands on the planet to effectively jumping in a van and doing his solo career.

And obviously the last time Shifty toured solo was a couple of years ago, and he was quite candid about why.

So it was great not only to hear from Shifty, but for him to be opening up and talking so positively, really, after what must have been a horrible time for him and his family going through losing their home in those wildfires.

But it's brilliant that he's back with his solo band.

And if you are in the California area, you can catch those shows at the Hot Monk Session Room in Novato on the 16th of December, Club Car Bar in Templeton on the 17th of December, and and then Soho SB in Santa Barbara on the 18th of December.

And if you are going along, please do get in touch because we'd love to cover those on the podcast and hear all about what goes down at the Shifty Solo shows.

Let's go to Mike.

Mike is in Novato.

Mike, how do you feel about the trade, and what's the Niners' biggest need? You're on the Sports Leader.

Hey, guys.

So who was the friend? A tribute tucked into a cover song, night after night for years to the man who made it theirs, or just a line an old friend from anywhere said because it scanned, the song never stopped long enough to say.

out on the winterland floor the old beat rolls on toward the end of the night and the lights over the stage stay low a barn on a ranch outside novato in marine county inside the barn a recording studio a mixing desk tape machines racks of electronics that as mickey hart told it were built from old navy parts pulled off destroyers and battleships drums of every size along the walls and on the floor gongs a tumpany and through the barn door the dry hills of a california summer gold and brown and very still this is where fire on the mountain began hart had been away from the band for a while in the early 70s and he spent much of that time in this barn recording he had a record deal of his own for a second album he made a rhythm track all drums and pulse and no melody to speak of and he handed it to robert hunter hunter remembered it plainly micky just gave him the track he said and told him to make it a song so hunter did he wrote the words at the ranch and the hills around it were on fire a wildfire was moving across the slopes near the studio close enough to worry about hunter took what was in front of him he wrote a song about a fire on a mountain and about someone who keeps on going while everything around him burns that early version was recorded in the barn with the words chanted more than sung a kind of spoken rhythm over the drums the album it was meant for never came out the record company turned it down But the groove did not go away.

It turned up again as an instrumental, on a record by Hart's percussion group, the Diga Rhythm Band.

It had a different name there, and Jerry Garcia played guitar on it.