This is yet another storm coming in later today. Here's a hope it'll skip Orange County.
Posted on 01/10/2005 4:47:12 AM PST by bd476
LOS ANGELES - "Southern California began its fourth consecutive day of drenching rain Monday as a stubborn wintery mix pounded the region, triggering floods that forced evacuations and caused scores of accidents on slippery roadways.
The wet weather wasn't expected to let up until Wednesday, with as much as 6 inches of rain forecast in the region through Tuesday and an additional 2 feet of snow at elevations above 7,500 feet. Dense fog and high winds also were expected.
"We're going to be getting more of the same, harsh weather," said Curt Kaplan, a National Weather Service (news - web sites) forecaster.
The storm system was blamed for at least eight deaths over the weekend in Southern California, including a man killed when his vehicle plunged into the surf off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, and a 43-year-old homeless buried alive when the hillside where his tent was pitched gave way.
An avalanche Sunday afternoon also killed a 13-year-old boy who was knocked off a ski lift at the Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas. No other injuries there were reported.
California roads were clogged with rain and mud flows, and at least 720 crashes were reported Sunday, more than three times the number of accidents during the previous Sunday when roads were dry, the California Highway Patrol said. Fire officials estimated that 100 roads in Los Angeles had seen flooding, mudslides or downed trees.
The National Weather Service said downtown Los Angeles received 5.16 inches of rain since Friday, setting a new record with 2.58 inches on Sunday alone.
The heavy rainfall is being attributed to a sluggish, low-pressure system that collided with a stream of moisture from the southern Pacific known as a "Pineapple Express."
The same storm is dumping heavy snow across the Sierra Nevada, which stranded an Amtrak train, shut down the Reno, Nev., airport for the second time in a week and halted motorists over the mountains. Winter storm warnings were in effect with as much as 5 feet of new snow possible by Tuesday morning on top of Saturday's accumulations of up to 4.5 feet.
"It's nice to know that there are places with more snow than the Dakotas," Wendy Wollmuth said while waiting for a flight at Reno-Tahoe International Airport to her home in Moffit, N.D. "We're a bit spooked about being here with all this snow."
In Ohio, all eyes were on the Ohio River. Two recent storms sent rivers out of their banks in central and southern portions of the state, flooding ground already saturated by melted snow from a storm before Christmas.
At the same time, a snow and ice storm knocked out power in parts of western and northern Ohio. Power companies said about 66,000 customers remained without electricity Sunday, down from 250,000 at the height of the storm.
No serious injuries were reported as a direct result of the storm, but authorities believe carbon monoxide poisoning killed five people using generators for electricity since Friday.
Gov. Bob Taft declared a state of emergency in 28 of Ohio's 88 counties over the weekend, increasing to 49 the number of counties eligible for state assistance, Ohio Emergency Management Agency spokesman Mark Patchen said Sunday.
The Ohio River was about 5 feet above flood stage in Portsmouth on Sunday and was expected to rise another foot before receding Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. Cincinnati was more than 2 feet above its 52-foot flood stage Sunday, with forecasters expecting the river to crest at 57.5 feet.
Across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in Covington, Ky., three flood wall openings were closed for the first time since 1997, when the Ohio crested at 64.7 feet.
In Marietta, Ohio, emergency management employees went door to door Sunday to pass out drinking water and cleaning supplies including bleach, mops, brooms and towels, to residents who had been forced from their downtown businesses and homes.
The scene was similar in southern Indiana as rivers rose to their highest levels in about 70 years from last week's storm. Many rural residents stayed behind to keep watch over their homes until the waters recede.
State officials said some of the worst flooding since 1937 forced hundreds of people from their homes. "There are problems all over the place, but they're not concentrated in an area like a city," said Alden Taylor, a spokesman for State Emergency Management Agency.
He said levees along southern Indiana's White River, East Fork of the White River and Muscatatuck River have held so far in southern Indiana, but there were concerns that more rain forecast for this week could worsen the flooding.
Conservation officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources rescued nearly 150 people and a dozen pets marooned by floodwaters in homes or stalled cars as of Sunday. "
Great more of the same, glad I'am riding the bus to work this week
CAZ035-036-039>041-044>047-052>054-087-088-101400- FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 415 AM PST MON JAN 10 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED THROUGH 10 AM FOR SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY...INCLUDING THE SOUTH COAST...SANTA YNEZ RANGE AND THE GAVIOTA BURN AREA.. ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXTENDED THROUGH 10 AM FOR ALL OF VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES EXCEPT THE ANTELOPE VALLEY.. ...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM FOR THE SESPE CREEK FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF FILLMORE TO THE SANTA CLARA RIVER IN VENTURA COUNTY.. ...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR THE SANTA CLARA RIVER FROM THE SESPE CREEK CONFLUENCE TO THE RIVER MOUTH IN VENTURA COUNTY.. ...FLOOD ADVISORY EXTENDED THROUGH 10 AM FOR THE ANTELOPE VALLEY.. AT 410 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA.. VENTURA AND PORTIONS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAIN EXTENDED WELL OFFSHORE AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WARNING AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH LOCAL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR IN HEAVIER CONVECTIVE CELLS AND ON THE SOUTH FACING MOUNTAIN SLOPES. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING AND RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE WARNING AREA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN ARE THE SIMI...PADUA...VERDALE...AND FOOTHILL AND GAVIOTA BURN AREAS. IN ADDITION...THE HILLS ABOVE CARPINTERIA...MALIBU...BEVERLY HILLS...HOLLYWOOD HILLS AND THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ARE ALSO PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE DUE TO THEIR SOUTH FACING STEEP SLOPES. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.. DEBRIS OR WASHOUTS IN SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY...VENTURA COUNTY AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY. IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER ACROSS THE ROAD.. TURN AROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. FLOODING WAS REPORTED SUNDAY EVENING IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY ALONG LITTLE ROCK WASH...WHICH HAS CUT OFF SEVERAL EAST-WEST ROADS IN PALMDALE. LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTED SEVERAL VEHICLES STUCK IN THE WATER. DRIVERS MUST NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES INTO FLOODED AREAS. FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG OTHER STREAMS AND WASHES IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY DUE TO RUNOFF FROM THE FOOTHILLS OVERNIGHT. NUMEROUS RIVERS...STREAMS AND CREEKS IN VENTURA COUNTY CONTINUE TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN ARE THE CALLEGUAS CREEK FROM CONEJO CREEK TO MUGU LAGOON INCLUDING POINT MUGU NAVAL AIR STATION...POLE CREEK IN FILLMORE...AND THE VENTURA RIVER FROM OJAI TO VENTURA. ONE TO TWO FEET OF WATER COVERED THE VENTURA RV PARK ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE MAIN STREET BRIDGE REMAINS CLOSED. HOWEVER.. THE RIVER LEVEL IS NOT EXPECTED TO REACH THE LEVEL OF THE 101 FREEWAY BRIDGE. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ALONG THE SANTA CLARA RIVER IN SANTA CLARITA AS WELL...WITH WATER FLOWING THROUGH A MOBILE HOME PARK. A FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH 600 PM PST FOR THE SANTA CLARA RIVER FROM THE SESPE CREEK CONFLUENCE TO THE RIVER MOUTH. THE FLOW ON THE SANTA CLARA RIVER AT FREEMAN DIVERSION IS FORECAST TO REMAIN NEAR 100000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND THIS MORNING...THEN WILL GRADUALLY FALL...FORECAST TO DROP BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED ON VENTURA ROAD IN OXNARD. OTHER AREAS AFFECTED INCLUDE THE MCGRATH STATE BEACH AREA NEAR THE SANTA CLARA RIVER MOUTH. PROTECTIVE MEASURES WERE PUT IN PLACE ALONG THE LOWER SANTA CLARA TO PREVENT MORE EXTENSIVE FLOODING. A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SESPE CREEK FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF FILLMORE TO THE SANTA CLARA RIVER IN VENTURA COUNTY UNTIL 10 AM. AT MIDNIGHT...THE HEIGHT OF SESPE CREEK AT FILLMORE WAS NEAR 16 FEET. IT IS FORECAST FALL BELOW FLOOD LEVELS LATE THIS MORNING. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID MORNING ALONG THE LOWER SESPE CREEK DRAINAGE FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF FILLMORE TO THE SANTA CLARA RIVER. SEVERAL HOMES WERE FLOODED JUST NORTH OF FILLMORE ON SUNDAY. SEE THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNING PRODUCT (LAXFLWLOX) FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE LOWER SANTA CLARA AND SESPE CREEK FLOODING. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY COMPLETELY SATURATED FROM THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...THE LONG DURATION OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND WATER CHANNELS. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR MUDSLIDE AND ROCKSLIDE ACTIVITY AND FLASH FLOODING THROUGH TUESDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY FOR THE CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT AND POSSIBLY LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH (LAXFFALOX) FOR FURTHER DETAILS. MAINSTEM RIVER FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE THROUGH TUESDAY...AND A FLOOD WATCH FOR RIVER FLOODING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY FOR THE LOWER SANTA CLARA RIVER...THE VENTURA RIVER AND SESPE CREEK. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH (LAXFFALOX) FOR FURTHER DETAILS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ JACOBSON/BRUNO
Thanks for this thread. We're in Cincinnati, and the forecast calls for more rain tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. The local news has been showing pictures of flooding; it's terrible.
How are the rest of you doing, weatherwise?
Take along an umbrella, boots, and maybe a floatation device just to be safe. / just a little light rain humor
How far are you from the Ohio River, or more important, what's its status now?
you got that right,I'll need all of that just for the 10 min walk to the bus stop.
Seeing how you're a lot closer to Punxsutawney Phil's home than us I'm wondering if you are concerned about the higher temperatures or if you are simply bragging. :)
Hopefully, higher temperatures and no snow is not a bad sign for your area. What's the word there?
It's even raining here in Kuwait. Not like So California, though. I head home tomorrow so will be in the mix when I get there (in Orange County)
This is yet another storm coming in later today. Here's a hope it'll skip Orange County.
We are a little more than 6 miles from the river according to Mapquest driving directions, so the river itself isn't a threat to us.
HOWEVER, there is an ancillary body of water called the Mill Creek that very sucsessfully flooded this neighborhood in 1937. My father lived about 1/4 mile from where we are now, in a three story row house. They spend quite a while camped out on the third floor, because the other two were under water.
I think we'll be OK. It's dry here today, and the flood gates have been closed, so at least something was learned from earlier floods.
Information and pictures can be found at http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4065649/detail.html
Keep safe, everyone!
I'm in southcentral PA, too. Raining straight for a week.
BLEECH.
BTW what is a kid doing on a skilift in bad weather?
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The latest is that the Ohio River is flooding and there is speculation on how much higher it will go.
From the link you provided:
"CINCINNATI -- Flooding along the Ohio River has already begun and the big question is:
How high will it go?
With more rain coming this week, the fear is the river may not stop where current predictions are saying it will.
The predictions themselves have been rising along with the river. Four days ago, the river was supposed to crest at 54 feet. It was already up to 56 feet here at 11 p.m. Sunday.
The latest prediction is 57-58 feet – that's 5-6 feet above flood stage -- with a crest at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
That wouldn't be as bad as the last major flood in 1997, when the Ohio reached 64.7 feet. But the river could rise above the latest predictions because more rain –- heavy at times -- is headed here and along the river valley Tuesday and Thursday, News 5 Meteorologist John Bateman reported..."
Link to the rest of the Ohio River flooding story
The best answer can only be "God in Heaven knows."
Not being a skier, I can't answer that.
I'd rather have the rain than the snow. I have a 20ac garden center and nursery that requires plowing, and I'm getting too old for that crap, anymore.
Check the Farmer's Almanac: we're going to get hammered in february, BTW.
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/uszone1.html
I can't remember a year in the last 15, since I moved here and opened my 20ac garden center & nursery, when we didn't have snow, ice and cold in January. usually, it's frozen over in either Nov or dec; this is unusual.
That said, The Farmer's Almanac says we're gonna get hammered in February. We'll see...
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/uszone1.html
I am not thrilled with your prospects. I have to drive 3 days a week on Rt 78 to New Jersey (over 2 hrs each way) early in the morning 3 days a week for 12 weeks starting Wednesday.
Keep the snow, I guess I'll take the rain!
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