February 28, 2014
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A Pulse -- It's Raining
It's been raining off and on overnight -- it just started again, and it's pouring so hard I can't see across the road! The wind is blowing, too! I'm glad I don't live at the bottom of a burned-out hill!
It's been raining off and on overnight -- it just started again, and it's pouring so hard I can't see across the road! The wind is blowing, too! I'm glad I don't live at the bottom of a burned-out hill!
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I heard it on the news yesterday. Mud slides might be a problem?
Wednesday night's rain was gentle and soaking. This is downpour! The roads below the burn areas are all protected with k-rails, and the houses with sandbags, at least to some extent. That area is under mandatory evacuation, and the last report I saw said that mud is just beginning to flow. They are now predicting 2-4 inches (double yesterday's prediction) -- it could get nasty if we really have that much rain!
Wow can't win with mother nature
Hah! So far, mudflows down roads that will turn into mudslides soon; LA River flowing, two men and 2 dogs rescued, and another man rescued downstream. We're in a lull, but the next wave isn't far behind! You can't fool mother nature!
such a needed rain ~ but yet a hazard ~ oh my ~
Heavy rain is a double-edged blessing -- this is HEAVY rain! I just heard that some of the almost-empty reservoirs may fill if the rains keep up for another couple of days as is predicted. Cachuma will be helped by this, too, but not filled.
I'm glad you are getting rain but even more glad that you don't live where the mud is already flowing.
Where I live is pretty safe -- I'm on top of a knoll -- there's a stream at the bottom, but it's quite a distance away, and quite a distance down. Thanks for the thought!
I've been watching your weather too...Be Safe Janet!
Thanks -- I'm pretty safe, on top of a rounded knoll, and blocks away from the stream below.
The good and the bad coming in tandem! I'm sure you are welcoming the rain but it would be terrible if the cost was paid in lives...
Definitely good and bad in tandem. So far no lives lost, although there have been 3 men and 2 dogs resuced in swift-water rescues. I think that the worst hasn't come yet...
Janet, I watched NBC this evening, and saw the force of the rains and the flooding in some areas. I hope the water level in Lake Mead is rising.
I hope that Lake Mead will get some water from this storm -- and Lake Cachuma, too (Santa Barbara's lake), and Folsom Lake (above Sacramento). There are so many that need water, and there's enough to go around in this set of storms. I just heard that the long range forecast is for warm weather again after Sunday, so I hope we get lots of water this round! Whatever we get will be about 1/3 of the normal rainfall for a year, so it won't solve all our problems, but it will help a great deal. There are mud rivers below the mountains now, and they are anticipating that more rain will bring down whole hillsides! It's scary, no matter what!
It is raining here, but we need so much more.
Exactly, Frank -- I hear you've been getting lots of rain there too!
It sure has been raining hard! It's a good thing, though I won't lie--I hate the rain. But I'm glad to be at home today and grateful for the free car wash and small relief to our dry spell.
Yes, I was glad not to have to go out today! During a dry spell this afternoon, I told a friend that I would be walking to the mailbox to get my mail -- 5 minutes later when I actually opened the door, it was pouring another deluge! It's nice, as you said, to have a small relief to the dry spell, but we need so much more that this is just a drop in the bucket!
I'm glad to hear that it is raining aplenty there. It's an answer to many prayers. Now we just need to pray that you are all safe from anything bad that might result from so much at a time.
I'll be safe -- I can stay home, and I don't have any mountains to slide into me. There are already mudslides in the mountains, though, and there are several hundred homes under mandatory evacuation because of the risk below the burn areas. We have two more days of rain to get through -- although I haven't heard of any serious injuries yet, there has been one swimming pool filled with mud, and several rescues in the rivers (usually dry). It's not pretty here right now!
Congratulations!
We had about 5-6 inches of rain -- enough for one day of supply!
yes, thanks for your comment. Rose looks really good for any age and we get a kick out of trying to keep up with her at our ages younger then her. I like to find out from her what she thinks since she's been in the business so long.
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