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Spygirl
Moderator
04-23-2001
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 2:59 pm
Here are some shots I got of the damage today. I want to take some more and will try to. I'm going out west of town for my lingerie shower (yay!) and will take some pictures out there. This is the park by my house. There are more graphic shots of the damage that I'll try to capture.
These next two are shots of the street where I travel everyday.
The two shots below are of the house where I lived for a year. This was a big beautiful tree in the front yard that didn't make it through the storm. I looked through my old pictures to see if I could find a shot of it before, but couldn't. I'll keep looking.
This is a house across the street from where I used to live.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 3:04 pm
wow! some horrible storm! make sure some of your lingerie includes a flannel nightgown and doctor denton-type jammies (with the fanny flap and feetsies)!!!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 3:08 pm
Oh wow,clean up is going to be a mess.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 3:13 pm
Aside from the mess and everything...I can't help thinking how pretty ice storms make everything...I love trees and their limbs totally covered in ice.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 3:20 pm
OMG! I can only shake my head! The weather has certainly been screwy. It's unbelievable. Our weather here has been very warm and balmy. I guess nature is making up for our lousy summer.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 4:06 pm
i am thinking earthquake weather...all of a sudden, it's still windy as hell, but it's about 62 degrees (where it was about 45 only half an hour ago) and feels positively 'balmy' out. how strange....my husband came in and said, "go outside and feel how warm it just got!" sure enough, our thermometer shows 62 degrees...
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 4:37 pm
wow, that was a doozy of a storm! looks a lot different than it did in september! glad you didn't get any damage at your house. now, talk about screwy weather, we are getting snow/sleet/rain right now, and could accumulate up to 2 inches overnight, however it is supposed to be in the 40's or 50's tomorrow, and in the 60's sunday! that's fine with me. i hate driving in the shit! weird. 
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 4:54 pm
In the Chicago area, Christmas eve high temp was around 0 with colder windchills. A week later on New Year's eve day, we had a high of around 60. That's Chicago for ya!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 5:33 pm
tabby, hate to tell you this, but it's gonna change, and QUICK! we had that about an hour and a half ago, and now we got MAJOR winds and it's COLD! i'm sending you a preeeesent!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 7:43 pm
Spygirl, your old house looks almost exactly like ones in the central Illinois neighborhood where I spent my first years.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:03 pm
I have been thinking California seems like it's "due" for another bigger quake. It's been a long time. And I wonder if the shifting of the plates from the tsunami one will affect the plates elsewhere. I mean, if you think about Pangea and everything- it's all gotta move around and go somewhere.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:35 pm
Well it snowed til about 1:30pm here. Went from heavy to real light back to heavy. By the time it was over we had about an inch in the backyard that stuck, and on the roof's of the houses around us, but not many other places I could see from the house. The streets were kind of a slushy, muddy mess. Darren left work about 10am, called on his way and said the backroads out there (he takes the freeway most of the way to work, then last six miles or so takes backroads) were a mess. They don't get much traffic out there though. Took him twice as long to get home as usual, but he said once he got past the backroads it wasn't too bad. It started raining about 5 or so, and what snow hadn't melted by then was washed away. I ran out to the store awhile ago and you can't even tell it had snowed, lol. Raining pretty hard though. Kids spent about an hour out playing in it then came in to change clothes and have hot chocolate, they were cold and wet. Kota decided to go back out a little later and only stayed a few minutes before she was back in. They'd had their fun and were done with it. Oh, and once they went out I ran to grab the camera and found out I was out of film! It snows once every six years here and I didn't have any film, ack! Kota swears she's never seen snow before though we've taken them up to the mountains before. She was probably only about a year and a half old at the time though, and didn't much like it then, so this is the first time she remembers being in snow. Kids are hoping it snows Sunday night/Monday morning and I don't have the heart to tell them it probably won't happen again for a few more years, lol.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:59 pm
We've had rain ALL DAY!! I didn't go out in time and decided to stay home.. was a bit worried about food, but had enough for a couple of roast beef sandwiches.. but had one earlier in the day and awhile ago I remembered!! I had some frozen home made tamales.. my present from my hairdresser!! Yummy.. just ate one and have a few more like money in the bank. Oh yeah, weather.. well the good news is the repair to the roof seems to have worked well.. the bad news was that yesterday that portion of the ceiling fell in.. with lots of soggy insulation.. I donned my new rubber gloves (size SMALL! So unusual to not find only gigantic gloves) and one of my new mask things, which of course meant that in the cold room my breath fogged up my glasses.. I filled up my kitchen wastebasket twice.. very heavy, hauled across the upstairs, down the stairs, across the downstairs and managed to dump contents of both into one large plastic bag.. but there is much more to go. I do have a claim number now and the State Farm guy said if it is deemed to be wind damage to the roof then some things will be covered.. he asked about the carpet.. I think the carpet is ok since luckily I had that area covered with plastic but I think some shoes bit the dust, everything is dirty and there is a large hole with a larger damaged area due to water and ripped off cottage cheese. Since the problem was loose flashing on the roof that seemed to appear after the winds the other day. The winds are back too.. Awww, maybe they will get more snow... there's lots more storm where that came from.. But I'm VERY thankful that Mark got up on that roof in time and
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 10:46 pm
This is my usual earthquake site and page: USGS
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Friday, January 07, 2005 - 11:09 pm
kaili, yesterday we had a "cluster" of small earthquakes where i am in so cal (the inland empire, aka the ie) they say it is 1 in 20 chance they were foreshocks of something bigger. but they also could be lessening of pressure to avoid a big one. if we don't shake away we are going to be flooded out. it has rained all day here
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 2:07 am
Spy, those pictures are amazing. I've never in my life been in or near an ice storm. Brrrr..... It's been raining all day in SoCal and there's more coming tomorrow.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 8:12 pm
More rain here today but we had a gap and I sprang (sprung? springed? spronged?, whatever).. leapt into action and raced out and got some vitamin C (was down to 0) and some Togo's meatball sandwiches which will keep me very happy while the rain comes down.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 8:17 pm
I'll never forget having to drive in an ice storm to get home for Easter break... horrid... it took 6 hours to get a normal 1 hr drive... my roomie switched, I fell asleep heard a rock hit the car and immediately sat up and said, "FIND a hotel, enough already"... the ice covered our car, we had to stop and chisel it off the wiper blades...
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 6:19 pm
We are getting pounded with steady, heavy rains now, with kabooms expected. Flood watches all over So. Cal. according to NBC.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 6:30 pm
Just heard that most of the rains are pounding northern San Diego county. Pretty heavy rains, according to the local weather person. Fortunately, here in the heart of the city, it's been missing us. Although the wind is now starting to pick up. Spy? Those picks of the fallen branches from the ice storm? (All's I can say is WOW!! Pretty but brutal!) We had a similar look, without the ice! The past couple of storms have been very windy with heavy rains, and lots of downed trees, branches, and palm fronds. One street near me was covered with palm fronds, and several large eucalypus trees fell across a back road I take from downtown into Hillcrest. But I think I'll take our wild weather over an ice storm any day! <wink>
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 6:33 pm
they're predicting we are going to get an ice storm, ewwww.....
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 6:55 pm
Okay....we've had enough rain in SoCal!! My goodness, there is actually an inch of water covering our backyard lawn right now!! And Egbob reports that our garage has an inch of water coming from the back to the front as well. I'm concerned for people located in the burn areas and I hope they are doing okay.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 7:04 pm
The rain sucks!! Our roof is leaking onto our bed! Our toliet overflowed yesterday...so much for karma , I shoulda kept the damn tile! LOL
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Scootersmom
Member
08-10-2002
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 7:37 pm
Awwww, Pamy. Dang it! Here is a pic from a local tv station right after our ice storm last week. I hope it loads ok!

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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 8:11 pm
I know this rain sux. It's starting to smell like a swamp outside! We really need to dry out a bit. And get some SUNSHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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