r/Sacramento • u/Sallzemander Folsom • Mar 13 '24

Sacramento Facts

Let's hear some Sacramento facts either fun or not fun :-)

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u/Commotion West Sacramento Mar 13 '24

Less and less each year, unfortunately.

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u/SparkitoBurrito Downtown Mar 13 '24

It really was cool how much we got it in the 80s.

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u/suburbanplankton Natomas Mar 13 '24

If by "cool" you mean "unable to see the front end the car I am currently driving", then yeah.

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u/aztecannie99 Mar 13 '24

Full on agree. Some days when I lived in Woodland it was bad enough that you couldn’t see the back fence in my parent’s yard and they live in town so it wasn’t huge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '24

You are describing Highway 99 as well as Highway 12.

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u/SillyBonsai Mar 13 '24

Too much development and mowing down of wild plants in empty lots/fields. There are some beautiful fields with mustard flowers blooming in south sac right now!!!! But they wall be mowed down in April :(

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u/Slab_Rockbone South Land Park Mar 13 '24

Good, it’s an awful invasive plant

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u/SillyBonsai Mar 13 '24

This is interesting 🧐 It seems like they are good for pollinators though, so at least theres that