It's raining buckets outside right now

About 1:45 in northern Cal. Heck, I gotta wait for the bus in that stuff. If this keeps up like the forecasters say, we should have a nice little river overflowing action by Saturday.

I'm in Folsom. The sky is really dark and threatening, but no rain yet.

over the next few days. Has not started raining yet.

I really feel for all those people whose homes were saved from fire in the canyons, only to have to sandbag and put up hay bales to keep the mud away.

I am happy happy happy to be a flatlander.

:eyes:

x(

it will be close, but mostly contained. They still expect heavy winds and warn us of possible local power outages (from falling tree limbs) on Friday. Either way, I got wood stacked on the front porch ready for the stove.

In my neck of the woods the power goes out if someone spits.

I lived in Vermont for 38 years. We had wind, rain, snow, ice, sleet, hail and lightning. The longest I ever remember the power being out was 3 days in the early 70's during a horrible blizzard. Other than that, it was pretty rare to lose it for any length of time.

Out here, it rains, the power goes out. And STAYS out for a week at a stretch. We were without power for a week and a half a couple of years ago and the weather just wasn't that bad. I don't get it. :wtf:

I've lived in much more primitive areas and never lost power as often as I do here. Off for 12 hours today. I have to say, though, that PG&E get things up and running fairly quickly. It was out in four different areas today. We were the last to get it back.

We built one when we built our house, and have used it several times!

It runs on natural gas...

:hi:

Which is also why I don't have a wood-burning stove, which I have been bitching about for 24 years.

we know someone down the line lost their power. All in all, the PG&E boys are pretty damn good at getting the power back up and running when it's truly crappy outside. My hat's off to those boys!

They are telling us as much as 8" in some of the highest mountains, and 45 mph winds, with 75 mph winds in the upper peaks...

Got the fireplace cracklin'...

:D

NorCal estimates are now for winds 30-35 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph, and rain in excess of 3"...

It just started here in the Santa Cruz mountains. They're talking high winds - up to 60 mph - and as much as 4 to 6 inches of rain in the next 24 hours.

Should be interesting.

I have to run out to Elk Grove to do some shopping (the pet food store out there is enough cheaper to be worth the drive,) and I'm definitely putting that off for another night. You wouldn't catch me dead on the 99 in this crap.

It's dark as sin outside, but no wind yet. As soon as I get home, I'd better go move some wood to the pile next to the door just to be safe.

A big old winter storm in store for those of us in the SF Bay area of NorCal. The winds were pretty gusty this morning and it's pouring here in Contra Costa at the moment.




THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED AN

* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR SAN FRANCISCO... SAN MATEO...ALAMEDA...CONTRA COSTA...SANTA CLARA... SANTA CRUZ...MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES FOR FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.

* VALID FROM 4 AM PST FRIDAY MORNING UNTIL 10 PM PST FRIDAY EVENING.

* NO SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED SO FAR OVER THE ADVISORY AREA BUT A STRONG FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON FRIDAY. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO START IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY AS A STRONG FRONT PUSHES TOWARD THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION. RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO PICKUP DURING THE MORNING HOURS AFTER DAYBREAK AND AS THE FRONT APPROACHES. FRONTAL PASSAGE THROUGH THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA IS EXPECTED BY EARLY AFTERNOON...THE SAN JOSE AREA BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...AND THE MONTEREY BAY REGION BY EVENING. RAINFALL TOTALS BY FRONTAL PASSAGE TIME IN THESE AREAS COULD EASILY REACH 2 TO 6 INCHES AND POSSIBLY HIGHER AT THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS...PARTICULARLY COASTAL HILLS WHERE THE EXPECTED STRONG WINDS WILL ENHANCE RAINFALL. MODERATE OR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE RAPID RISES ON LOCAL CREEKS AND STREAMS. ALSO... URBAN FLOODING PROBLEMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO IMPACT TRAVEL ON FRIDAY AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH.


THIS FLOOD ADVISORY IS TO SERVE AS A HEADS UP FOR A STRONG STORM SYSTEM THAT WILL IMPACT CALIFORNIA ON FRIDAY AND IT MEANS THAT LOCALIZED FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS IS EXPECTED ON FRIDAY OVER THE ADVISORY AREA.


A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 PM PST FRIDAY.

NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE- EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY...INCLUDING SAN JOSE- MONTEREY BAY...NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY... HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY- BIG SUR COAST- SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- 929 AM PST THU JAN 3 2008

SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON TO 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH...AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THE SECOND...MORE POWERFUL SYSTEM WILL BRING EVEN STRONGER WINDS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. BY TONIGHT... WINDS ALONG THE COAST AND VALLEYS WILL INCREASE TO 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. WINDS IN THE HILLS ABOVE 1000 FEET COULD POSSIBLY GUST TO HURRICANE FORCE...75 MPH ON FRIDAY. WINDS WILL DECREASE FRIDAY EVENING.

Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find yor fortune falling
All over town.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers.
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree.
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me

they get tossed around by the wind, so we tied them all together.

it's blustery outside, more rain to come and the radio said the CHP just shit down 50 from Folsom to Cameron Park :(

The CHP just shit down 50? Those BASTARDS!

what's for dinner, pot roast i hope, cause i'll be right over :wow: :rofl:

dropping this way and the run-off causes hydro-planing and stuff x(

:hide:

http://www.50corridor.com/index1.asp?wmp0=2&wmp1=2&wmp2=2
Top right corner has East and West bound details.

No word on the CHP shitting down 50 though. :evilgrin:

i'm here to suggest that that is precisely who handles *the high-WAYS* of California, you know: Highway 50, and such :P :eyes:

send that link to these guys, they mentioned the shutdown http://www.1240talkcity.com

I gotta go through there tomorrow to get to Lodi!

and some other places between; hubby does the logisitics, but we're already planning stuff for the other side of these cells coming through: stay safe, Throd!!

They've got four or five reporters stationed in Strategic Weather Event Venues. One showed video taken from her car with the voiceover, "The first drops began to fall about 11:45 a.m." Cut to a close-up of raindrops on the windshield.

:wow:

Another is in downtown Napa, where "This area was wiped out two years ago. We'll tell you what they're doing now."

:wow:



Fourteen minutes in and they've done nothing but weather. I WANNA KNOW WHAT'S GOIN' ON IN IOWA!!!11 :grr: