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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 4:29 pm
a few pictures from fresno. our about five minutes of a hail storm...top of a pencil size hail. now it is sunny and cold, even got rid of our wind. **sorry for poor picture quality...it was taken from my blackberry**

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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 4:58 pm
Crappy rain. Cold, pouring rain, windy. And did I say cold? (It's only 56 degrees here!) Only one more week until the shortest day of the year. You may see me do a happy dance that day, since it'll be all downhill to SUMMER!!! Brr. Really. It's COLD OUT THERE!
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 6:40 pm
really, really cold but not wet. I even left my long leather coat & sweater scarf on for about 1/2 the day at the office & that is so rare for me.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 6:53 pm
This was the boys(pugs) first snow and they were amazed...wanted us to leave the door open so they could go in and out the doggy door in the storm door. They'd be inside and I would move towards the door to shut it and they would run outside again. Thank heavens they got tired of that after awhile. DH kept yelling for me to come and see Sonny walk backwards in the snow. He claims he has ever seen a dog walk backwards. As soon as I grabbed my Flip he would stop. I hate snow...I really did have to walk a mile in the snow to my one room school house in Oklahoma. I see you rolling your eyes but that is the honest to God truth!!
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Hail! I got caught in Hail!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Monday, December 15, 2008 - 11:29 pm
Hope you all are OK, Scooter! This is getting to be just too much for you all! It was warm, rainy and windy in the 50s. Cold front caused the hard winds and temps are dropping into the 20s.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 12:39 am
Scoots, I hope ya'll are ok! It didn't get above 45 today. Rained on and off most of the day and for a brief few minutes we had snow. The mountains are covered almost all the way down to the foothills of Palmdale right now. Bil got stuck going to work at 4am on the grapevine, they waited about an hour then decided they weren't going to make it through and turned around to come home. By 7pm, the dark clouds were coming in (we'd cleared up some) and it's nasty out. Cold, windy, rainy. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if it snows overnight.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 11:49 am
Big poofy white clouds in the sky but supposedly thunderstorms and even MORE rain tonight. THUNDER!! (Love thunder, but hate it if it's when I'm trying to sleep!)
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 11:49 am
No word from Scooter??? Anyone?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 12:04 pm
I just did a search and she has posted this morning!! Pics in the paper from Yorba Linda show some bad mud action last night, so hopefully she is posting from warm and dry..
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 12:20 pm
I heard on the 11pm news last night that Yorba Linda evacs had been lifted and no homes had mud damage.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 1:07 pm
sorry sorry sorry!!! Here I be!!! Yes the mandatory evacuations were lifted at about 4:15 yesterday afternoon, right after I finished packing for the night, of course. We are still under voluntary evacuations, however. I'm never 100% comfortable until all orders are lifted. Thank you everyone for thinking of me 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 1:09 pm
Just be safe tonight, since another wave of storms is coming in! 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 4:35 pm
Bonza.. it was the picture of the large equipment moving a mudslide from in front of a YL home that looked like bad action.. but it was an ROP facility in Anaheim that had the caved-in roof and students sent to hospital and I gather home damage in Modjeska.. and yes.. at the time I posted earlier today there was actual SUN here in Fountain Valley and within 5 minutes the clouds were rolling back in and that was the last sun we've seen.. plenty of clouds. Hoping all is safe tonight for Scooter (and for Bee's OC home too.)
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 4:41 pm
Sea - I saw all that also on the news. Yikes. It sounds like some of the YL homes were spared the mudflow because of the actions of the people that put up the cement y-channel barricades. Unbelievable, too, about the store roof. Scooter - we will all wish for sunshine for you, and soon!!!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 5:13 pm
Sea, that picture was in our local paper, too (it was an AP photo), and it was of a local person using the dozer (not someone like a Caltrans worker). Down here, we got an inch of rain in 24 hours. Which is a LOT of rain for us. I can still see puddles on the (flat) rooftops of the apartment buildings across the alley from me. Still poofy white clouds, but DANGED COLD!!! Only 57 degrees out right now. I'm wearing flannel PJs and a thermal shirt (rather than my usual boxer shorts and tees!)! 
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 5:14 pm
It's 40 degrees here in beautiful Northern California. Lots of grey puffy clouds and very, very cold. I'm predicting SNOW! I wish I was in my flannel PJs and thermal shirt!
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 6:24 pm
It's 19 degrees here right now and the snow is coming down beautifully. I didn't even mind walking home a little earlier because even though it's cold, the snow is so beautiful and sparkly. It looks like glitter to me. I think of that as Christmas snow. Looks so pretty walking and seeing all of the Christmas lights. They said we might get up to half a foot.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 6:46 pm
It was foggy this morning then burned off, was sunny and 78* in central east coast Florida.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 7:59 pm
Nick, they are saying snow to the 1-2,000' level here overnight, and I heard it'll be just as low in the Bay Area. You may see snowy peaks in the morning! 
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 9:00 pm
Costa ... I heard that we are going to have a dusting of snow on Mount Vaca. I didn't even know we had a Mount Vaca. lol! Is anyone concerned about their pipes? My sister .. who lives in the Bay Area .. is concerned about them freezing.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 11:27 pm
it is supposed to freeze tonight in fresno. pipes are wrapped. vacanick, if it is going to freeze, i would recommend your sister wrapping her pipes with towels. it is expensive to fix the piping. she can always go out during the day to ace or something and find better wrapping and probably not so ghetto wrapping.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 11:55 pm
We have a winter storm warning now through 8pm tomorrow night. Strong winds and ack ack heavy snow accumulation of 4-8 inches with locally higher amounts of 12 inches expected through tomorrow evening. The kidlets are excited at the idea of staying home tomorrow for a snow day.In case anyone is wondering, we get snow maybe every 5-6 years around here. Nick, I just talked to mom earlier, she told me she's been cleaning up all day from frozen pipes bursting last night (she runs a private boarding care home.) The house is older than mine (mine is mid 50's) though so the pipes probably weren't wrapped or insulated in any way. I know ours weren't.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 5:35 am
Why do pipes burst in California? We have sub-zero temps here (New York) a good bit of the wintertime and it's not very common to hear of burst pipes other than those in mobile homes where the pipes are under the trailer and close to the ground. The pipes in my basement aren't insulated or anything, either. Just wondering
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 6:57 am
High: 51° Low: 33° for today. I actually thought the low would be lower. But I'll still check the bird bath for ice. Good question Huk about the pipes. I have no idea why that is. I don't have a basement to house my pipes, nor do I think its common here. Could that be it?
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