Here We Go Again... Batten Down The Hatches California !!!

[WillyT]

Supposed to get bad later this afternoon and evening.

Stay safe, and find the candles and flashlights. Got batteries for the radio?

:wow:

[lonestarnot]

1. Man, is the drought relief in store or what?

[Eurobabe]

2. Could you pass some of the snow across the Atlantic?

I'd like to ski for another month or so. It's going to be sunny and 65F in Bavaria tomorrow.

Stay safe Californians!! :hug:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Cool, I love the rain

especially on the weekends when I can snuggle up all warm and cozy with a good book and listen to it howl outside.

[EFerrari]

7. I love it except for the part where Kid and I get drenched on our walks

and when the sat goes out. lol

Last night was so clear, you could see everything up there.

[Demobrat]

4. All set!

Firewood - check. Candles - check. Lighters - check. Mag light - check. Batteries - check. Good book - check. Let 'er rip!

[malaise]

5. Stay safe n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Wee haw!

Gotta love those e-ticket rides!

[WillyT]

8. LOL !!! - Winds Are Starting To Pick Up A Bit Now !!!

Stay safe!

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

17. Where you at WillyT?

I am in Bakersfield.

[WillyT]

24. Sacramento

It's rattlin the windows a touch, but it looks like your neck of the woods might get the brunt of it.

The wind warnings were for the Sacto Valley earlier today, but now they're for the southland.

:shrug:

How you guys doin down there?

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

26. It's crazy here

wanna drive down tomorrow for dinner? :)

Wind is freaking insane, I will have a lot of yard work to do when it is all down.

[WillyT]

9. Anything To Report Out There ???

:shrug:

[LeftCoast]

10. Rain's been picking up as the afternoon progressed

We're in a lull now, but I think we're going to really get hammered tonight. The wind and rain has (at times) already been pretty heavy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Starting to have some power problems

Lights dimming off and on but still have power

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. 50 mile an hour wind gusts right now on the coast with rain in between

Steady winds of 25-30, batten down the hatches.

[AlCzervik]

13. i am wholly unimpressed with this weather system, we were told it was going to be

crazy, so far it's just meh.

[TahitiNut]

15. I wonder how it looks from Lover's Point in Pacific Grove.

Pretty awesome, I'd guess.

[TahitiNut]

14. I sure wouldn't want to be driving a VW camper van along Hwy 1 this weekend.

Sounds like mudslides are likely north of Half Moon Bay. That snowpack in the Sierras ought to keep the Hetch Hetchy full this year. Drink up, SF!

[mitchtv]

18. chance of clouds in Palm Springs

sprinkles a possibility

[TahitiNut]

21. High winds tomorrow, though. (Watch out for dust in the eyes.)

/O.CON.KSGX.HW.A.0008.080224T1800Z-080225T0400Z/
COACHELLA VALLEY-SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
538 PM PST SAT FEB 23 2008

...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING...

A HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING.

GUSTY WINDS WILL INCREASE IN THE LOWER DESERTS LATER TONIGHT INTO
SUNDAY MORNING. AS A POTENT STORM FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA ON
SUNDAY AFTERNOON...SUSTAINED WEST WINDS COULD INCREASE TO 30 TO
40 MPH WITH HIGH WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AT
TIMES.

WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT. DOWNED TREES AND
POWER LINES ARE POSSIBLE.

A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...
OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR STRONGER MAY OCCUR. CONTINUE TO MONITOR
THE LATEST FORECASTS.

[mitchtv]

25. it's been like that for days

that's why I didn't mention it. Partner is having a tough time with the air quality.

[The Straight Story]

16. Wind is hell here in Bakersfield right now

I was gonna grill some pork chops, but too darned windy and the dust is all over the place.

[The Straight Story]

19. Local weather statement:

SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 720 PM PST SAT FEB 23 2008

...GUSTY WINDS THE IN THE SOUTH END OF THE VALLEY... ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT...

LOCALLY STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE BAKERSFIELD AREA. WINDS AT MEADOWS FIELD HAVE GUSTED TO 52 MPH. REPORTS INDICATE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN THE BAKERSFIELD AREA AS WELL. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEASE MIDNIGHT. THERE WILL ALSO BE LOCALIZED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST.

[The Straight Story]

20. Kicking for fellow DU'ers here in CA

it's a nasty night out here.

[alittlelark]

22. We've had steady med-hard rain most of today

My son is flying back from Costa Rica tomorrow - I'm hoping he can make it in.

[TahitiNut]

23. SJC should be OK ... the valley is protected from the worst by the mountains

Hell... that's part of why I loved it there. When I missed the 'energy' of stormy weather, I could drive over to the coast and soak it up. The winds had to be from the south-southeast (up the valley) for it to get into the valley - for a thunderstorm, for example. I only remember about 2-3 thunderstorms in 15 years there.

[alittlelark]

31. Thunderstorms are becoming more frequent here

none tonight.

[Irishonly]

27. Light Showers Inland Valley

It's just raining enought that the dogs don't want to stay out. DH and I went to Vince's tonight for their spaghetti special for two and it's a perfect night for it.

[KitchenWitch]

28. Not really hitting us much right now in the inland OC

But I am from Minnesota and what is often hyped up as a storm here is barely a blip on the radar in Minneapolis.

[The Straight Story]

29. Being from Ohio myself a storm means a tornado

The wind I can handle :) It is still pretty messed up though, lots of sand and local damage. Nice to have something to talk about weather wise here other than "it's sunny and hot" :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

30. Yah, you guys sure do get the hot weather up there.

During the summer, I add 5 degrees to whatever is forecast for LA and that is what we usually end up with as our high.

[WillyT]

32. Kick !!!

:kick:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

33. Stay Safe West Coast DUer's!!!!

Vibes for safety WillyT :hi: :hug:

[Atman]

34. I'm there now! No rain here, but more snow than I've ever seen.

I've been at Lake Tahoe all week...we awoke to the sound of avalanche-control bombs going off this morning. It's been snowing HARD since yesterday morning, with snow warnings in effect until 10:00 tonight. They're expecting 100 mph gusts on the mountains this afternoon...so we're taking a day off from the snowboarding. But tomorrow should be pretty sick after this has all passed. Supposed to be bluebird days again. We were snowboarding in just sweatshirts at the beginning of the week, mid-fifties; by Wednesday it was starting to snow lightly; Thursday and Friday we rode all day in incredible pow, heavy snow falling both days, all day. This place is insane! Now, if only the plow would come and dig us out of here!

.

[WillyT]

35. Oh Man... We Got Trapped In A Cabin For A Couple Of Days, Many Moons Ago...

It had snowed like crazy, and since the cabin was further back in a subdivision, our road was last on the list to get plowed. We were down to about three cans of Campbell's soup, and our last joint. The plows finally came, and we took off for Heavenly Valley.

Waist deep, almost Rockies type powder. I almost never skied the "Gun-Barrel" run, because usually it's all rutted out, and frozen into Sierra Cement. Not THIS day! It was one of the best powder runs in my life. I just kept smiling this big-assed smile, and whoopin and hollerin all the way down the run.

I'm big-assed smilin right now just remembering it! Thanks!!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[Atman]

36. I've done some crazy sh*t this week!

Gunbarrel is awesome...but my wife freaked when I said I wanted to end my day on a double-black, so we just downloaded instead. It was like you said -- just tons of powder (Friday). I'm kinda glad I didn't, though. Still sore from a pow day at Kirkwood on Thursday, it dumped ALL day, we were afraid they'd close Carson Pass, but we made it. Barely. Sentinal Bowl, Cornice and The Wall, OMG! In this kind of powder, you can try all sorts of stuff I'd never do back home on Vermont ice. I'm letting the legs rest today, after five days in a row (Hit the Headwall and Siberia at Squaw, too). Supposed to be regular temps and partly sunny tomorrow. I'm sure there'll still be some of this stuff left.

.

[WillyT]

38. One Of The Ultimate Powder Places Is Steamboat Springs Colorado...

If you've never been there, give it go. The way they've left many large trees standing but well spaced, allows for these little mini-runs. If you see tracks going off to the right of a tree, there's usually untracked mini-runs to the left of that same tree. It is wonderful for finding fresh virgin powder.

And even if people have skied through...

There was this one clearing in some Aspens at SBS, that everybody eventually had to go through on this one run. It was a small field of powdery moguls. And I got into this rhythm on it, doing these aerials and turning from mogul to mogul, that is was like jumping on a trampoline. I'd go springing off one mogul into the air, hit the trough of the next, and spring right back into the air again and again. Everybody was giggling the whole time we were doing this.

And if ya want an entire run that is a huge natural half-pipe, Jackson Hole Wyoming is the place. We saw this under one of the lifts, and I told our group to follow us. We left our poles at the top of the run, and just went from side to side of this pipe doing all sorts of aerials and tricks.

God I miss those days.

:hi:

[margotb822]

37. Rain now, fires later

This early season rain is enough to get young plant life growing, but it all dries up in the summer. It becomes the kindling that feeds the fires.

[WillyT]

39. Ya Know... That Has Always Cracked Me Up...

Not the fires...

But like you say, during years of plenty of rain, they warn us that the under-growth will become a fire hazard later in the summer. But... if it's a year of drought, they say that it's a fire hazard in the summer.

Personally,I'll take the rain.

:shrug:

:hi:

[margotb822]

40. So, we're basically screwed!

I guess that's what happens when we try to live in the desert... :cry:

I am also enjoying this rain. It cleans up the air a bit and keeps bad drivers at home!