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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:56 pm
Thank God it cleared for our drive home from OC to IE. We were on tornado watch and I hear tomorrow will be worse!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Bee, I gotcha.. heck when I lived in the canyon, eveything was down there and was the "flatlands". As near as I can tell, I probably drove through the cell that producde the tornado in Costa Mesa. And just now it started raining hard all of a sudden. Must be some powerful raindrops because it is actually triggering a motion detector with light that lights the sidewalk between my building and the next. I'm sure no one is outside walking right now. I was hoping you caught a break, Pamy, because when I was out it was simply hellish. American Cancer Society called all of us drivers and said if there are driving advisories tomorrow, don't drive. It is up to us and I'll just have to see. I'm scheduled to leave here a little after 1pm, pick up around 1:30pm and drive to Orange (Tustin/Katella) for a 2:15pm appt and then back. Same freeway that was so bad today but more of it. But if it isn't raining hard yet, we'll probably go. her driver for today cancelled but they sent her in a cab. I also heard something about tomorrow being worse, Pamy. Hope not. Hope this rain right now does its thing overnight. Thankfully I didn't have a ride assigned for Thurs or Fri (at least so far).
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:10 am
just checking in on my west coast friends. War I am glad the snow did not last too long. I hope Scoot got more than you
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:40 am
uuggghh
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:45 am
Scoot you are always welcome in Boston. It may be cold but no rain or snow today.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 12:06 pm
It's been drizzly here all morning. I think this might be the longest it's gone at one time, a light, steady rain for the last 20-30 minutes or so. Had some fairly strong wind for a while earlier but that's calmed down for now. If it wasn't for knowing it's going to get worse later and worrying about places flooding and mudslides in the burn areas, this morning would be kinda pleasant.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 12:45 pm
OK my power went out. So I'm officially the stormiest SoCaler here! LOL.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 1:32 pm
our power has been flickering all morning...and on the other side of town "couple miles" a couple power lines went down in the Walmart parking lot and landed on a bunch of cars...so the north side of Chico is dead right now and warnings to not go near there...the whole Mall,Target,Shopping centers are shut down... My back yard looks like a battle field with branches and pools of water.... The gal two houses from me lost her tree in the front yard but thank goodness it landed in the road and not her house...... that was shear luck cause its a huge tree..... they got some guys out there with power saws cutting it so cars can get thru.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Walnut Creek, Ca Early morning commute was windy blustery wet, etc., my umbrella turned inside out a couple of times from the wind gusts. Power outages overnight. Mid morning poured like crazy for awhile, then the blue skies and and then the sun finally came out.We had sunshine between 12:30 and 1:30, LOL. The flood channels are really full, apparently the reservoirs are filling, yeah! and some of the office building are having leaky windows. That is actually amazing since these are newer buildings. Now it is turning dark again outside, guess the next storm is rolling in. ETA: Oops, just heard some thunder!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 2:34 pm
AND they just announced a tornado warning for Santa Clara, amazing!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 2:52 pm
You know, I know that LA weather is ideal about 95% of the time, so I feel guilty complaining about it, but OMG this rain is the pits. Downtown LA is horrible....they just don't build roads here to drain properly because we never get this kind of rain. I mean, we need the rain but come on! Spread it out a little bit.
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 3:56 pm
Just a bit of trivia for you Californians watching it rain. If you were to measure the gallons of water that landed on an acre of land after one{1) inch of rain, it would total somewhere around 22,000 gallons and weigh about 13 tons.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 5:56 pm
Thank goodness I wasn't assigned to THAT job!! I had been told that it was ok if I felt in danger and didn't want to drive today, but as I've said elsewhere, how do you call up a woman with glioblastoma multiform in her brain, let's just skip a day. So.. this morning it hadn't started to rain much but the promise was that it could be worse than yesterday. I got my shower and got ready and then called my patient. She claims that yesterday by the time her cab got there to pick her up (her driver cancelled) it was late and the rain had pretty much stopped. But on Monday she had to wade through water to her knees to get her mail. However in the paper, it says that her city, Westminster, had 4 inches of rain yesterday.. yep that was the part of Westminster I drove through yesterday. I wondered if it would help if we went early but we weren't sure if the facility breaks for lunch. She called and they said it would be ok to come in at 1:45 (vs 2:15). That isn't a big difference and usually we get there early anyway. So.. I told her we'd go even earlier, just watch for me. I was letting Am Cancer Soc folks I was doing that and the rain started picking up and the wind started blowing so I gathered up my stuff.. hat, umbrella, rain jacket, schedule, mileage log, what was left to read of the newspaper, my kindle, cell phone and took off. We got there early and even with some waiting, she got her radiation over with and then got in her weekly appt with the doctor -- I saw him when he came in from outside -- what a pleasant and positive doc and she says he is that way with patients. And we left the place before she was supposed to get there and good thing.. as we drove back to her place, rain kept getting harder and harder and then I headed home, drove through In n Out and by the time I got home it was raining hard. And since then it keeps getting harder and windier.. not sure about anything else like tornadoes or crazy waves down at the beach. They expected beach erosion. Basically, rain for the next two days. Im in for the duration.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 6:16 pm
It got very nasty here this afternoon, especially by the time I went to get the kids from school. Very heavy rain and like Tish was saying about LA, our roads aren't really built for that type of rain. Darren coming home from work today took twice as long as normal, he'd called and said it was a mess, couldn't see more than 20 ft in front of the car. Fairgrounds has been open for large animal evacs (horses, llamas, cows, etc) and one of the parks in Palmdale is open for human evacs. I believe the evacs are from Acton. Grapevine was closed down when Darren came home and they're looking at about 1/4 of the employees not making it to work tomorrow cuz of snow on the other side of Mojave. I hope everyone is staying safe and not having too many problems.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 11:55 am
Walnut Creek, CA update LOL, I feel like a weatherman. Only fog, lite rain and a little wind. They say we have a big storm moving in later this afternoon. Oh and some more land fell into the sea, and a few trees came down and knocked out power.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 12:16 pm
The Boston area is in the high 30's today with plenty of sunshine. We are supposed to get about an inch of rain next Monday. But I would rather have the rain because if it were snow we would get a foot of it.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 12:48 pm
lol Dipo I'm enjoying your updates. Davis, CA update Light rain, cloudy, no sun at all and cold.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Been absolutely pouring rain for about three hours now. About an hour ago, we got the reverse 911 call. Flash floods. Prep for evacuation. (We're not going) And about ten minutes ago, there was like a mini tornado crazy wind thing that freaked me out pretty good. The road is, of course, blocked with rocks, mud and debris again. (see above. lol) But, hey, it's just weather, right? Everyone out here is safe, even if wet and muddy. Everyone stay safe!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Heh, funny. It's been raining (a hard, steady rain) since about 9am here. Streets are pretty flooded and its just not very pleasant out there. Today is trash day and we'd decided last night not to put the cans out, we only have one small bag of trash, it can wait til next week. I noticed earlier that several of our neighbors decided to skip as well. One of the "fun" things about our garbage man is that he'll pick the cans up off the curb to empty them but always drops them off in the middle of the street, usually three houses down from where they belong. He'd just come through when I went out to check the mail and I had to stop and giggle for a couple minutes cuz when he set them down in the street empty, they just started floating away down the street, lol. It's not at all unusual to have to hunt your trashcans down around here, but it's not too often cuz of rain that you do!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:11 pm
It's nasty weather, Bee! I Can't believe how hard it is coming down now and has been for the last 20-30 minutes. Thought it was bad earlier. It's also gotten cooler, much cooler than it was this morning. One weird thing, we have had all that much wind. Monday I think it was we had the worst of it, it'd be really windy then stop and rain some. Rain would stop and it'd get really windy. But that was the worst day...we have had the occassional strong gust and winds lasting a few minutes, but thats about it. And around here, that's very odd, we have wind 9 out of 10 days most the time!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:18 pm
it could be worse War. You could be having the S word again
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:20 pm
Dammit, Dfenn, don't say that! Although, yesterday you said that to Scooter and I got it so maybe she'll get it today.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:21 pm
Dfennessey is pushing her luck. lol Just got the first break of the day. It has been non-stop raining and wind all day long.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:26 pm
Flights being cancelled at Ontario, John Wayne and Burbank. I think LAX too. 3 planes got hit by lightning yesterday.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:36 pm
I am just saying Rosie it could be snow can you imagine how much snow you guys would be getting? and if it does snow Scoot will be happy to shovel you all out.
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