Raining HARD in California

[kpete]

this is the NEWS OF THE DAY for us

San Diego is getting drenched

I am going to stare out the window ALL DAY LONG with my 19 month old grandson, Angus Lou


LET IT RAIN

[Gothmog]

1. This is great news

I remember when Houston was in a drought

[tech3149]

7. I would say good but not great

The problem with drenching cloud busters is that most of that water is down in the storm drains into the ocean before it can be absorbed. A more green planning policy could slow those drenching rains to be absorbed but short term political life cycles aren't too interested in solutions that require long term planning.

[kpete]

22. We will take it

every drop

[haele]

2. Going home from work is going to be miserable...

And husband has a doctor's appointment later this afternoon.

Sigh.
Might as well go home now before lunch is over.

Haele

[kpete]

23. must have

rain.

[haele]

27. I know, but stilll...

To many people seem to have learned how to drive from arcade race car games...

Haele

[MindPilot]

37. If you know anyone who owns or works at a auto body shop...

This is like Christmas!

[malaise]

3. Great news

Let it rain

[lunatica]

4. still dry as a bone in a desert in the Bay Area

[sakabatou]

51. Yup

[dreamnightwind]

64. North bay is getting some

Drizzly the last couple of days, expecting measurable precip tomorrow (Wednesday). Should at least moisten things enough to reduce fire risk in the short-term, better than nothing (I live in the west Sonoma county redwoods, scary these days, the horrible Middletown fire is not that far away, a similar fire could easily happen here). Counting the days till rainy season, assuming there is one this year.

[lunatica]

80. Good luck!

the fires this year are horrible! Here's hoping you get rain.

[dreamnightwind]

82. Thanks, got a half-inch, it'll help a little - eom

[Warpy]

5. Lucky you

Storm just passed me by here in NM, close enough to smell the sharp, pungent smell rain always has in the high desert, not close enough to have a single drop hit the ground.

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. Got drenched north of ABQ.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I managed to keep the camera dry on the way to jeep from the county board of supers

took a couple photos of the drive home and posted the non story with the non flood advisory from NWS... I need to change shoes.

[stranger81]

8. Nothing up here in Humboldt yet.

But fingers crossed . . . .

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

62. Nor in this section of Sonoma Co. but I hope it comes to the Valley Fire.

Someone got up to pee just after 5AM Sunday and saw the sky lit up. We were called out and got it under control at 4 acres. Could have been real bad if there had been any wind. Real steep slopes, lots of old stumps and down logs, they were still moping up today.
That's our local report. We could use the rain too.

[stranger81]

63. Stay safe!!

The Valley fire is no joke.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

65. You are right about the Valley Fire, I was on a small coastal hills fire.

We had 4 neighboring fire departments and CDF working it. Starting an attack in the dark was something. I have been to two lightning strikes at night we put out, but both were more open. We had to put ladders against the road bank to get up and start working. The right bank was against a gravel scree chute. I warned the hand crew that went up to work that flank about it, but I heard a chainsaw and then one of the crew rode it down. During afternoon mop up Sunday I had gone up with some pencil line to attach to a T, then I tried to get up slope to work a smoking stump. I had to crawl up, when the rock beneath me started slipping, the a few square feet of rock above me shifted, I left the smoking stump and went after stuff with flames inside the burn. Hoped it didn't flair before someone got to it coming down slope. A CDF crew spent the night watching it.

[JI7]

9. it seemed it rained all night and into daytime in los angeles

Hopefully we get more of it this season.

But i really hate the warm weather combined with it. Reminds me of when i was in Singapore.

[underpants]

10. ...but sometimes it pours

[kpete]

24. pour then

we need every drop & then lots more

[onecaliberal]

11. Decent amount in central California. We got some yesterday too

[elfin]

12. Hello Mudslides?

They can't catch a climate change break. Hope the much needed rain refreshes and replenishes, but doesn't cause more problems.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. It causes different issues

we were joking that we will need mooring lines on the jeep

[bluedigger]

13. Do you people ever stop complaining about the weather?

The only time you do stop, it's to whine about geologic events. Puh-lease!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Well here is where poiting out we have weather is a nice thing

We have flood season, drought season, fire season, interrupted by the occasional rumbler. As former governor Schwarzenegger used to say... bad governor, but could be funny, we live in a full action state.

[bluedigger]

19. All we have here in the Four Corners is hot and cold.

You should all move here. Esta muy tranquilo.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I like the occasional rumbler

it is good to rise the blood pressure.

[MindPilot]

36. I'm deeply suspicious of anything that falls out of the sky and is not on fire.

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. LMAO

we were joking here that there is nothing like a hill on fire that starts to go downhill as the ground loses it's grip due to... the quake in the middle of a storm.

Yeah, yeah photographers... We got a twisted sense of humor.

I got a camera (three really) ready to go.

[MindPilot]

42. You know the underground (i.e. way below sea level) parking structure at Mission Valley Mall?

My son once remarked how appropriate it was to use aquatic animals to designate the spaces there, "because that is what's gonna be living in your car after the liquefaction."

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. Yup. hey, I got some amazing photos every time it floods. I wonder if a car

or two are in there... a tad soaked?

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. Rain on Napa Valley, please!

[Auggie]

35. We might get some tomorrow (Wednesday)

[Dont call me Shirley]

44. Rain dance time.

[tblue37]

18. GOOD! nt

[hamsterjill]

21. Hip! Hip! Hooray!!!

I felt the same way when it first began to rain again last spring in Texas after such a horrible drought, and we were not as bad off as California has been.

May you enjoy every drop of it!

[kpete]

25. thank you hamsterjill

we will


peace,
kp

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Except, as counter intuitive as this is

the El Nino will not break the drought, The state relies on the snow pack, and these are expected to be WARM storms. So unless they park over the reservoirs.

[Retrograde]

26. What we need is snow in the Sierras this winter

to start refilling the reservoirs. Rain down south is good for replenishing local water tables, but the state's water collection infrastructure is mostly in the north.

I'm still jealous: it almost seemed as if we'd get some yesterday but nothing here south of SF.

[Hortensis]

58. Yes! When I lived in Yosemite as a child, high country snowpack was so

deep it bent the Forest Service's solid iron railings. When I lived in Lake Tahoe in the early 1960s, snowpack in the mountains behind us was so deep that a passenger airliner disappeared into it without a trace. Those were heavy snowfall years, yes, but...

[Control-Z]

28. It poured in south OC overnight.

I heard on the news that we got more rain in one night than all the rain combined for the past year.

It really poured - like I haven't seen in many years!

[AngryAmish]

53. You didn't move the bodies!

[brush]

30. Rain is good. What's the temperature there? Going for the weekend.

[geardaddy]

31. Congrats! I hope it rains for a week!

[shanti]

32. that came from arizona...

wish we could get some of that up here in norcal!

[SoapBox]

33. And here I am, out of town...

In Portland where it's supposed to pour...but it hasn't happened yet.

I looked at SigAlert.com for Los Angeles this morning about 7A...WHAT a traffic disaster.

Hope it rinsed off the South Bay as everything has been disgustingly dusty and dirty.

[MindPilot]

34. So unusual for it to raining and warm.

Save Water -- shower outside!!

Bring it! Maybe my lawn will turn green again for a couple days.

[kpete]

66. Save Water -- shower outside!!

YES!!!!!!

[Gormy Cuss]

39. It's not even rainy season.

[ejbr]

40. Congratulations!

[secondwind]

41. I love your grandson's name! n/t

[kpete]

67. Angus Lou

The Lou is For THIS Guy

[turbinetree]

45. I have family out there-----------this is to you California and the West------------you need this...

[pacalo]

60. Thanks for that!

[turbinetree]

74. You are more than WELCOME.......................

The great State of California, which I lived in for over 15 years needs water and snow fall, and the entire west coast from Alaska to Mexico and beyond needs water..
And just thought Mr. Slow hand could cheer you folks up............................... and here's another one of my All Time Favorite bands

Honk-----------------------for a political revolution Bernie

[mountain grammy]

46. Good news... may it rain on the fires!

[Enthusiast]

47. That is great news!

[msongs]

48. rain totals for So Cal so far - lots of rain in the mtn forests -

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/display_product.php?sid=SGX&pil=RRM

[Gman]

49. Welcome El Niño.

[AngryAmish]

50. Make some soup.

Nothing like soup on a rainy day.

[Ford_Prefect]

52. Rain On! Rain On!

[SHRED]

54. Encinitas checking in

I collected about 300 gallons. That means about an inch of rain. We needed it.

[Kber]

55. My son got made fun of for bringing an umbrella to school with him.

He's a freshman college student in southern Cali.

He texted today to say he was very happy to have it!

[catchnrelease]

56. This made me laugh--too true!

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[Stardust]

59. Very cute!

[allan01]

57. rained hard here in sonora last night :)

i second the motion.

[MineralMan]

61. My parent's citrus and avocado farm got

.75 of an inch, just north of L.A.

[malaise]

78. Well even that is better than nothing

I'd settle for that right now

[MineralMan]

79. They had just finished an irrigation, too.

That means that there was zero runoff on the cultivated areas. That's great and will be very beneficial, even if it wasn't a lot of rain.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

68. Always liked California in the mudslide season.

[lark]

69. Glad you are finally getting some rain.

From my friends that still live in northern CA, I know it's been brutally dry there and the rain is badly needed.

[ecstatic]

70. Will this help put out the fires? Nt

[CountAllVotes]

71. Just moved car outside

Needed washing bad, believe me! Coming down up north heavily at the moment!

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain ...

& recommend.

[Kablooie]

72. The traffic was insane yesterday.

it was like no one had ever experienced rain before.

But, sigh, back to normal today and 100 degree temperatures coming again soon.

[C Moon]

73. From what I was just reading, there may be more on the way next Tues/Wed.

[Not a Fan]

75. Watching out the window ....

... I'd be outside and I'd have the grandchild with me. I'd be dancing in that rain.

[kpete]

76. we did that too

Angus Lou's favorite is watching the trucks & buses SWISH through the puddles

puddles, puddles, everywhere

peace,
kp

[wryter2000]

77. Not in Oakland

It's cloudy, but no rain.

[CountAllVotes]

81. Heavy down pour in the north now

Glad I moved my drought stricken car out there -- getting sand blasted like now!

[yuiyoshida]

83. we have had some fairly light rains in SF

ITS wet out there, but no drenching down pours.