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Sneaks

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OK, Northwestern ladies and gentlemen. You've had your fun at our expense, so you can stop exporting Seattle weather down to San Diego.

16+ inches of rain so far (normally under 10" all year), F1 tornado in Fallbrook, over 30" of rain in the LA basin, mudslides everywhere. Lake Hodges, formerly at 17% capacity, up 40 ft., now at 100% capacity and planning to open for recreational use after a 4 year ban. Two more days and 4" of rain predicted, and that's just this storm!

What's next? Snow? Drive through Latte kiosks? Arghhhh

The only bright side is that our local weather talking heads are ecstatic. Most were in high school when we had the last severe weather.
 
Whoo Slow down there on that kind of talk :roll: , It is all you Californians coming up to Washington that have changed the weather!!! :wink: They have brought the warm sunny weather up here with all there hi teck companies moving this way and that makes it so the rain has to go someplace where there is an opening. Guess where that would be?? I cannot remember when we have had so many 90 and 100 degree days in western Washington and I have lived here over 60 years. Just look at this Month! Warm sunny days week after week and not enough snow to open the ski resorts. Now if we could get Red Fox and some of his cronies to move down here it might even up and be back to normal :shock:
 
Sneaks-
Only 16"? Heck we got 35"+ here in Santa Barbara so far, and La Conchita is on slide watch again. But, like you said, the lake is FULL.
It rained hard and the wind blew all night last night. The sun sure look good this morning, but they say it is only a teaser, more rain on the way---- WOW ----it just opened up again!! And man is it coming down.
 
We've had so much rain, I think the Coast Guard is going to start training for crossing the bar like they do on the Columbia, except they are going to do it on the Santa Clara River, that dumps into the ocean here in Ventura. Never seen so much flow coming down. Normally it's just a trickle, but now we have to look out for logs, etc. just like up in Seattle!!
Cut it out, you guys!! :cry
 
It' s even raining over here Nelson -- most rain ever recorded in a Nevada winter!! The wildflowers are exploding, and when the sun finally comes out it will be one of the best flower years in a generation. Our desert is green with grass!!
 
Man, I see on the news where you folks are getting hammered.....it has been absolutly beautifull up here......does this mean that your regularly scheduled brush fires will be canceled? those always make for interesting news
 
Our desert is green with grass!!
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Uhh what kind of grass, Bill? Is Nelson anywhere near where they hold the annual "Burning Man" festival? I hear you can get high just parking downwind of it.

Roger, we've got a number of mini La Conchita's going here. Thankfully no deaths but certainly several displaced families and one 33 year old pet hospital. Mud slides and major sink holes are happening even in Pacific Beach and on Coronado, but the vehicle accident rate has come down slightly so either folks are learning how to drive in the rain or natural selection prevails.

Ken, just wait. Late summer may just turn into a nightmare again all over SoCal, simply because all that rain is gonna give us massive amounts of tinder dry vegetation. One Santa Ana and a careless cigarette could really do some damage. Last year's fire will be hard to top though. :cry:

Mike, I loved Ventura. 95 N. Ash was first apartment in first Wifetime back in 1959. Oxnard was a migrant city and Port Hueneme had lots for sale behind the base where the marina is now . . . $500 a pop. Jeeze you brought memories back. Mostly good.

Now if it would only stop raining! :amgry
 
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Ken-
We're going to send the brush fires up to you, just like we did the earthquake a couple years ago. :shock:
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Fine. Ken will send you a volcano. And maybe some smelt if they show up this year.
 
those fires may go nicely with the drought we're enjoying now....HEY, how are you folks set for volcanic activity? St Helens is poofing out steam and ash on a regular basis still.

It's looking like a no show on the smelt, those sand shrimp work pretty good though
 
Still raining in Nelson -- got frogs hopping through the cactus. And, Sneaks, we don't let on what kinda grass we're growing in these hills -- last guy to check up on us is still walking barefoot and scalped somewhere east of Techaticup.
 
Hi, Y'all

I've dug out from my shelter here in West L.A. and suggest to all those interested to look west and imagine how beautiful the islands will be when we finally get a chance to take an up-close look in the Spring!

Best regards,
Scaley
 
The weirdos with the "END OF DAYS" signs are going to be parading around if this keeps on. :lol:

For once it was gorgeous in Norcal while Socal was drowning. :?

Don
 
little history.. in 1956 0r 59 northen ca. got flooded so bad the sac river and the feather were one river all the way to gridley and orville. the ridge at hell hole (how a lake ) got 53 inches in two days. hell hole damm broke and flooded sac. for a month.
 
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little history.. in 1956 0r 59 northen ca. got flooded so bad the sac river and the feather were one river all the way to gridley and orville. the ridge at hell hole (how a lake ) got 53 inches in two days. hell hole damm broke and flooded sac. for a month.
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Could have been 55/56. I was just reminiscing with another East Bay raised Brat (CharkBait) about the Pleasant Hill flood that year. San Diego has now exceeded their all time record for total rain (150 years anyway) and the season ain't over. I heard Death Valley has had more rain than Seattle this year. :shock:

Catman, if you insist on a permanent climate swap, we reserve the right to throw in Hollywood and the earthquakes as well.
 
With all the rain in Southern California, maybe you guys down there could build another pipe northward, this time all the way to the Columbia River and beyond. But make sure it goes both ways, depending on the yearly differences. Be sure to bypass Northern California, leave our water alone! Going through Nevada would be nice. You can probably sell them some too. California Water Politics, 2005. Pardon my Siphon, Sir!
 
Nope, skip Nevada, thanks -- we have all the rain over here we can handle. More than twice the annual rainfall already, here in Nelson. We have waterfalls in the desert and shorebirds wandering the washes.
 
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