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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 8:34 pm
I'm okay, just grumpy and hoping to escape the biggest rains in the next days.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:15 am
Gray/grey, however you spell it... it's a miserably dull day. Blech.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:42 am
Pamy, I'm not sure why the closure.. with Knott's I'd guess flooding and winds. Disneyland closed at 8pm (they would have been open later because of the holiday) and CA closed at 6pm. SCP.. well I do know Costa Mesa got a LOT of rain. I'm about to leave. Not raining here at the moment but the little rain icon in the paper has a huge lightning bolt emerging from, uh, the bottom portion. My goal is to pick up, hope the "compassionate cancer" oncology place is fast (snort! more likely they will be crowded and the waiting room will be freezing.. as it was yesterday and all days) and she will have a fairly quick appt and the roads will be okay (lots of accidents on them yesterday, even with the holiday light traffic) and then I'll make it home prior to the appearance of rain, wind, lightning bolts and assorted fun. As Bee would say wheee!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:15 am
I can speak from personal experience, Disneyland in the rain is freaking miserable, lol. We still talk about little "adopted" sis' first trip to Disneyland and how horrible it was. She was 8 or 9 at the time, we made it on Dumbo before it started to pour and continued to pour the rest of the day. Thought we were being smart and ran to buy overpriced rain ponchos with the mouse ears on back...until we turned around and saw 20,000 other people wearing overpriced rain ponchos with the mouse ears on back. Miserable experience, even with the ponchos we were soaked, half the rides shut down and there's really not all that many places to escape the rain, and trying to keep track on an 8-9 year old when she was dressed exactly the same as every other kid there was awful. I think we stayed about 3-4 hours before leaving, then drove 2 hours home wet and freezing. Only good thing was with her being so young, we'd taken jammies for her to switch into for the car ride home (thinking it'd be late and she'd be asleep) so she was able to get into dry clothes. And they don't (or at least back then) give passes to come back on a dry day cuz they put out signs warning you about the weather before you go in the park. It's very dark here, but at least no wind. The rains supposed to come later I guess.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:19 am
24 degrees, no wind, with a light, pretty snow Good luck, Seamonkey!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:55 am
Walnut Creek, Ca Rain, wind, lighting, flood canals and creeks are rising. It seems to have stopped raining now but the wind is up. And it seems to be a little colder today, but predictions are that the worst storm will be tomorrow and then the Jet Stream will shift and the worst of the remaining storms will hit So Cal hard.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:20 am
It's getting darker!
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:31 am
Scoot I heard snow in your area 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:05 am
Bite your tongue, Dfennessey, most native So Cal'ers have enough trouble driving in rain and you want to add snow??? The weather is being nice to me today. I needed to take cans and bottles over to recycle sometimes this week (they start to take over the garage, lol,) and knew this would be pretty much my only chance to do it since rest of the week is supposed to be nasty. In my rush to get out of the house, I missed a couple bags but oh well. Got over there, waited my turn anxiously looking at the sky, finally got done and hopped in the car to leave. No sooner did I pull out of the parking lot than it started sprinkling. Heard on the radio we're not supposed to get the heavy rains til later this afternoon, around 4.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:10 am
War it is only going to snow around Scoot. the rest of you are safe as long as you stay away from her
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:12 am
LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:41 pm
It is now pouring here, makes yesterdays rain look like a moderate sprinkle. It sprinkled on and off for about an hour and has only been raining hard for maybe 20 minutes but we've already got water coming up over the curbs out front and my back patio is a small lake. Dog looked at me like I was nuts when I opened the door for her, if the rain keeps up like this she'll probably float away at this rate!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:49 pm
OMG thunder AND lightening in downtown LA! OMG. I've NEVER seen lightening or heard thunder since I moved here.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:52 pm
OK, seriously. Tornado warning, SoCal.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:52 pm

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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:13 pm
That tornado warning is for SEA's area up to Irvine. My area is getting strong winds and heavy rain now. Channel 5 is giving instructions for tornado. Click your heels.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:15 pm
it is just raining in Boston yesterday we had sleet/snow/rain. roads were a mess.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:16 pm
Channel 5 still says that tomorrow's storm will be worse than today. They are giving doppler updates for the tornado warning up to Ontario.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Bonza, I thought you were joking and just now Caleb said OMG mom, tornado warning! What the heck are you supposed to do in a tornado? Tish, how bad is the thunder and lightening? We're expecting it sometimes today but haven't heard/seen any yet. I'm actually kind of glad Caleb's home sick today, poor kid is terrified of thunder and lightening.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Wargod, take blankets and pillows and get inside a closet. Stay away from windows.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:24 pm
we are under tornado warning as well And Anaheim, Fullerton too
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:31 pm
You guys stay safe! We're not all that close to where they have the tornado warnings, but it dawned on me I'd have no clue what to do in one.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:32 pm
War, it really wasn't bad, at least by the standards I grew up with in Philadelphia, but it was shocking because it'd been so long since I'd heard thunder or seen lightening. When the lightening first flashed, I thought it might be an emergency vehicle or something on the street, but then a pretty substantial boom followed in like 10 seconds.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:33 pm
Ch. 5 just said that the tornado warning is extended to 2 p.m. Wind and rain is worse here. Tishala, has the thunder storm left your area yet? ETA: Just saw your post Tishala. We have thunder here now.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:34 pm
Big thunder. Big lightening. Big winds. Big rain. Big running waters and debris. Big scared. wheeeeeee, indeed.
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