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Justavice
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11-22-2005

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Justavice a private message Print Post    
Why the heck do those semi drivers get on the road and risk their life and the lives of others in wind like that? I understand needing a paycheck, but what's it worth if you're dead? Take some responsibility, geez...

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
My manager drives the Dumbarton, and decided to wuss out and stay home today. Turns out it's a good thing she did. The "creek" behind our office (really, a ditch that is at least 10' deep) overflowed and water is everywhere. It's also been coming in the building from above, and is dripping on servers and other equipment. Our office closed down just before noon today and is staying closed until Monday.

And because they've shut down all servers, the VPN is down. Which means, oh, darn, I got the afternoon off! Whoo hoo!

Especially since we still ain't got no rain, in fact, just had some peeks of sunshine. Looks like the rain has now moved down to LA, but the weather service is saying we aren't gonna get the full brunt of the thing till tomorrow.

So while I had the afternoon off I ran some errands, went to Crunch Time Popcorn and stocked up on some yummy Cheddar Fiesta popcorn, and will curl up with the movie Hairspray and a roaring fire tomorrow. If it ever does get this far south! :-)

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
P.S. Justavice, I don't know about northern California, but we get high wind advisories here, and often high profile vehicles (which include semitrucks) are routed off the freeways. I dunno why the Dumbarton was allowing trucks, or why the San Rafael did, too.

Debra
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11-20-2003

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
It is 48 degrees and light rain. I haven't heard the wind for about an hour now. What a night and day it has been!



Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
We now have rain...lots of it...and wind...lots of it. I wish I still had my swing on the back patio...I would be sitting outside watching the rain fall...ahhh

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Seems to have calmed down a bit up here, yeah. At least the rain stopped blowing sideways.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Sea, I was up in the local mountains with a bunch of 9th graders during the storms of '69....the poor teacher chaperones!! We were stranded up there for a few extra days because the road washed away. Our group had to hike a few miles to meet the school bus. On the way down the mountain road, a large loose stone came crashing through the bus window and I was covered with lots of glass but I don't think the stone actually hit me. Talk about excitement! Heck, I made the front page of the school newspaper..hahahaha!

Currently I'm in the Fresno area visiting with my sister and it's very windy and rainy right now. I'm leaving for home tomorrow morning and I'm pretty certain the worst will have passed and I'll be able to get over the Grapevine with no trouble.


Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Egbok, you'd better keep an eye on the weather. I think the second or third storm was supposed to be the coldest, with snow levels dropping. Meaning you could run into trouble getting over the Grapevine. Be sure to check road conditions before you leave your sis's snug and warm home in Fresno (I'd hate to hear you're stuck on the vine somewhere!).

We have three storms forecast to hit soCal between now and Monday. Back to back. So, no, the worst will not be over, at least down here!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Me too Eggie, you be careful! Tomorrow is supposed to be pretty bad.

We've had a steady drizzle since 2:30 this afternoon, the wind just comes and goes. My little intersection (we live on the corner) is flooded, not because it's a heavy rain but because it hasn't stopped at all.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yikes, Eggie! Be sure to check in when you make it home! Don't envy you the drive if the weather is still strong.

Our Fountain Valley forecast is heavy rain tonight, rain/wind Saturday, Showers on Sunday. It calls what we have now light rain.

I took a nap and when I woke up it had rained and was raining, not hard.. and it is definitely ramping up to be a bit harder and very steady. Some wind too.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Eggie, looked up Gorman and right now besides rain they describe fog.. heavy rain tonight, Showers Sat, Rainy Sun but that fog thing is worriesome.. even if no snow.

It sounds like tonight is to be the heaviest, and earlier in the day tomorrow.. not TOO bad tomorrow evening and then ramping up a bit on Sunday.

But just that fog today, makes me worry about driving there. It looks like, depending on the forecast in the morning, that driving NOT so early in the day might be better.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
I always get worried right around the end of January. Around here the land gets waterlogged and there is no way any more can soak in.

I am expecting all kinds of flooding later on in the month....here.

The longest time I've ever seen NONstop rain was 1991. The year I bought this house it was three nonstop months. Everything was spongey and under a couple of inches of water.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
This is just like a flood we had a few years back. Completely flooded the main street I use to get home...and it's already started with this one. We might actually have to get sandbags. Seeing as how this city was a desert...we don't do evaporation very well...

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
it started to sprinkle here. WE ARE ALL IN A PANIC!!!

(lol CA humor here! our local news goes nuts when something besides warm and sunny happens. You should hear some of the commercial teasers...WINTER STORM, POSSIBLE SHOWERS TONITE!! details at 11 RAIN MAY CAUSE WET ROADWAYS details at 11......)

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
Same here Pamy. The local agency rep was saying on the news earlier that if the weather truly gets bad...they will close every other part of the government down (local gov't) and focus on cleaning up and making sure things aren't flooded. It's hilarious too see that this is the late breaking news...

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
LOL Pamy!!

Well it helped for me to hear that it was in no way going to be like it was in 1969.. we did think we might need to build an ark (I was living in Yorba Linda at the time).

Just in the past few minutes the rain started getting harder and the wind is ramping up, too.

I went to Togo's last night and got four large sandwiches.. should last me a few days.. but I realized just now that I'm down to the last roll of toilet paper in each bathroom.. I'll be fine, but should have brought more in from the garage. Definitely a nit.

Sun, I live on very low ground here in Fountain Valley, definitely in the river flood plain (but there are dams way upstream that allowed us to be out of mandatory flood insurance area).. what is the terrain like where you live? I think I know that you are west of Vancouver? I am so unfamiliar with the area in general.. it looks so interesting on the maps and I see islands and water, etc..

Closest I've been is Orcas Island, in the the San Juans (part of USA, but they call it "going to America" if they go over to the mainland) and they have hilly terrain there.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Pamy!

We were sitting here watching Ghost Whisperer, all of a sudden we got the emergency broadcast thingie honking at us and then heard this: FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY....except the Antelope Valley (we're often the red headed step child of LA County, figures they'd leave us out of a flood too.)

Before we could hear anymore though, there was a pretty decent sized explosion across the street and all the power went off. And then before the kids could start to get upset, the power was back on for just about 30 seconds, and then popping and sizzling and fire across the street and the power went back off. Transformer blew, knocked down a power line and set the neighbors grass on fire. Fire dept got here pretty quickly.

Caleb isn't scared of much but he is terrified of bad storms and this totally set him over the edge. Searched out a few candles adn the flashlight while trying to reassure him (and the poor puppy was going nuts, ended up having to put her in her crate) and then made the kids get dressed and threw them in the car to go to walmart for more candles just to get them out of the house.

On the weather front, it was really really bad for a while between the wind and rain. Today was trash day and Darren left the cans sitting in the gutter where the trashman left them...they started to float away, I had to go out with the kids to get them down the street, lol. When we got out of Walmart the rain and wind had stopped and we got home and lit are million candles.

Finally about 10 the electric company got out here to work on the transformer and line (which I guess didn't actually fall but shot sparks or something on the neighbors grass.) It was kinda cool, I was sitting here watching them, they had the pole lit up, only light in the neighborhood, and the rain and wind had started again and I could see the rain blowing sideways. Those poor guys must be miserable tonight. They were out there about half an hour and then started to leave and I was just a bit worried cuz we still didn't have power! Then I saw the last truck, they actually drove up and down the streets with a spotlight checking the lines and other transformers before they turned the power on.

Now it's still raining pretty hard, very windy, but at least we have power. The kids made up a bed on the living room floor and decided to sleep out here tonight (I'm pretty sure that was Caleb's idea, not wanting to sleep alone with the big storm going.) They've got blankets set up, in their own sleeping bags, and more blankets and both dogs piled up on top of them, lol.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Good for Caleb, making lemonade out of the lemons.. he sure wouldn't want to just say, I'm not sleeping alone.. And I'm sure the dogs are both helping too.

Still raining, windy here, some static on the cable.

Evacuations ordered for four of the canyons in OC. I suspect that includes Bee..

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Considering what she had to deal with at home after the last rain, it's probably better if she did get evacuated.

Sigh, Darren has to get up in two hours to go to work. I'm trying to convince him not to go. He hasn't gotten any sleep between helping to find candles and the flashlight and settling the kids down and the wind. He's still insisting, wide awake at 12 when he has to be up at 2 that he's going.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Beek just had some kind of surgery. So this is just a doubly hard time if that is what happened in her area.

War, I love to read about your family. I can just picture them bedded down on their sleeping bags with dogs snuggled up next to them. Glad you are okay.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Ah, well luckily Beek does have the house in Long Beach, so hopefully they can evacuate there if need be.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Maybe they were there to begin with anyways once they saw this coming?

Hehe, only problem with the kids sleeping on the floor is that they aren't as small as they used to be. They take up half the living room, it's like walking through a mine feild, all these tangled arms and legs and paws.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 3:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
what is the terrain like where you live?

nearby a river (down about two streets) which kinda travels down the side then turning a bend to the front of my area. So suffice it to say I am on River land here but has been many millions of years since the River came out this far. There would never be river flooding up here on the top of the hill. Being a glacier fed river it has very tall steep bluffs on each side of the river. It could rise 50 feet and not breach the bank here.



Howver, downtown is different. The river has a hydro-dam so the water flow is controlled.




however, teh land itself is 'river land' which in my mind means it retains more moisture than farther away.

the empty lot beside me looks like riverside all year long yet the river is a 10-20 min walk away.

so once the land is saturated by rain, it seems to stay spongey.

THe area I am in is mountainous on one side, flats down to farmland and the ocean on the other.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Well, the forecast storm finally decided to make landfall down here. And it's been a bit of a doozy, although so far, nowhere near the rainfall totals expected. The wind is pretty fierce though (I'm keepng an eye on some palms that look like they are gonna be losing fronds any minute). It's really cold, wet, and just plain nasty out. Glad I don't have to be anywhere today... I'm staying hunkered in. I just got a box of Harry & David Royal Riviera Pears, and if I have to, I'll brie sandwiches with pear and baby arugula all weekend long! :-)

BTW, we have flash flood warnings in effect here, in the burn areas. Several thousand have been evacuated. And power outages scattered around our county. Fortunately, it's a low traffic day (Saturday) otherwise I think the freeways would be a royal mess!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
It's actually predicted to get up in the low 70s here today & tomorrow. I'm going to get out later & go get my hair trimmed.