Santa Rosa, CA had 7.24" rain so far today. Still pouring down.

[BSdetect]

Last edited Sun Oct 24, 2021, 08:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Likely 8" by midnight.

Sunday, October 24 4.40 pm now.

7.8" now just before 6pm

[jimfields33]

1. Wonderful news. California sure needs it.

Sometimes Mother Nature does correct herself.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. That's a lot of water. Any danger of flooding?

[BSdetect]

5. Some local. The Russian River will probably overflow though it was very low.

[Ilsa]

3. Flash flooding? mudslides? washouts?

I hope everyone will be okay.

[BSdetect]

8. We are at 780 feet altitude but lower areas are reporting floods.

https://weather.com/news/news/2021-10-24-california-live-updates-debris-flow-flooding-west-storms

[ZZenith]

4. Yikes. That is an awful lot of rain.

That’s a third of your annual average total in one day. Hope you have the ark loaded up.

[Delphinus]

6. Whoa!

I know you all are in drought, but it is coming down too fast to be soaked up and be of use. Stay safe.

[Tree Lady]

7. My daughter who lives there said

It is flooding all over.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

9. Is that since some time last night? NT

[BSdetect]

10. Since midnight Saturday One day of rain Now at 8.2" at 7pm

[RussBLib]

11. Maybe it will help fill up a reservoir or two

They need some rain in the south too. So far most of it is in NorCal.

[cally]

12. Any mudslides yet on burn areas

I know we have warnings of flash floods. I live in foothills and it has rained steadily but not almost 8 inches. Yikes

[Sympthsical]

13. Yeah, lots of flooding

Depending where you live. Santa Rosa's a mess. Plenty of creeks and rivers overflowing. It's too much all at once.

But at least it's moisture?

Last I looked, we're at 6+" where I am in North Bay. Fortunately, the valley and neighborhood have excellent drainage, so not a lot of standing water or flooding to worry about that I've seen.

Other places, not so lucky.

It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the winter brings.

[msfiddlestix]

19. I saw videos posted of the Santa Rosa Creek roaring through Brush Creek and Flat Rock

Didn't know where Flat Rock was, but I'm quite familiar with Brush Creek. That image was almost unrecognizable, it's been so long since it rained like this.

[Sympthsical]

21. We have a deep set creek that runs parallel to our neighborhood

It's like a little gorge set about ten to twelve feet lower than surrounding earth with a little bridge over it. I walked over this morning, and the water made it all the way to about a foot under the bridge and the width had tripled, which I have never ever seen before. Fortunately, the rain has stopped, so it shouldn't get too much worse. Because of the way the houses and drainage are set, no one would flood if it did overflow. Still, I wouldn't have thought it even close to possible.

[msfiddlestix]

23. We have a creek which running through the middle of our complex which is one of our highlights

it's part of the Santa Rosa Lagoon watershed and part of the wildlife reserve the complex was built next to. The banks of the creek is substantially fortified, wide and deep. Basically designed to withstand exactly what we had experienced over the weekend.

Yesterday at about Noon or 1:00 ish, the creek rose just shy of breaching the banks, but then a couple of hours later it had receded about a foot despite the fact that the rain was still pouring as heavy as it had been for the preceding several hours.

Grateful, but puzzling. I speculated that there must have been debris obstructing then cleared, further down at some point.

The one flaw in the design of our complex is the foundations of our units are quite flush with ground level. No foundational space which is weird. If the banks were breached I'm certain we'd have had significant water damage/flooding structurally and in our cottages.

I hadn't recognized that potential problem before I moved in, but later told there's never been any flooding in it's history. I suppose it survived the 2005 storms without property damage, since the creek reportedly had not been breached then, I shouldn't worry about it.

Enjoying a break in the weather at the moment. Opportunity to run errands... mindful of flooded conditions though.

[BSdetect]

14. Pretty sure we had 10" by midnight and .6" since then. Will check the monitor later.

[ripcord]

15. I'm hoping we get rain but not that much

I'm watching the storm roll in now over the desert and flash floods are a real concern, we also have a chance of really high winds.

[msfiddlestix]

20. where are you located? Sonoma County or neighboring?

[BSdetect]

22. Santa Rosa, Sonoma. Outside the city limits.

[msfiddlestix]

24. we're sort of neighbors..

[msfiddlestix]

25. I hadn't heard about high winds. shoot.

the wind is not my friend. guess I'd better prepare for outages.

[ripcord]

26. The southern California high desert

I'm watching these big storm clouds roll in over the mountains and the wind has picked up to about 30 mph.

[msfiddlestix]

27. hmm. batten down the hatches

and make sure your power back ups are charged up.

Guessing you're probably well prepared living in the desert mountains. Stay safe.

[mountain grammy]

16. Thanks for keep us informed

stay safe.. I know you badly need the rain, but that much at one time can be devastating.

[msfiddlestix]

17. I'm in Cotati, 7 miles south. Rain Gauge over flowed the 10" mark, and that was around 3:00 pm

yesterday. It was a neighbors' gauge and have no idea if he had emptied from the day before or not. When I see him later today, I'll ask. But if he did it means we had much more here. The interesting thing about our region is the micro-climate/weather conditions from various locations differ sometimes quite significantly.

Some of the creeks in Santa Rosa roared like raging rivers. fascinating the radical changes from bone dry conditions to that much rain in a day. I'm appreciating greatly despite some of the damages. At least it wasn't wild fires anymore.

[msfiddlestix]

18. Looks like we have a number of neighbors in this thread. That's Great!

Cotati here.