Posted on 12/20/2010 11:44:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES A storm pounding California with record rain and heavy snow spawned minor flooding, mudslides, small evacuations and road closures Monday, but forecasters warned that the bad weather's worst impact may be yet to come.
Virtually the entire state was affected, from coastal cities to the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada and southern deserts. Rainfall records fell, numerous traffic accidents snarled roads, trees tumbled and even some horse races had to be canceled.
Some locations in Southern California received more than 12 inches of rain,..
The storm was expected to intensify Tuesday night and Wednesday, with between five and 10 more inches.
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5” of rain up here in Auburn 30 miles east of Sacramento up in the foothills. All was well until the electricity went out and, without the basement/garage sump pump, I had to bail for two hours yesterday morning. Not so bad though ... about an hour from here there’s 10 feet of fresh powder in the mountains. More on the way (YIKES!)
Nothing here. Well, a few flakes last night, now melted. Calm, about 34F.
why you werent posting hysterically when Humboldt County had the 100 year flood in 1955 and then you totally abandoned us during the 1,000 year flood of 1964 and never posted once...
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personally, I was 1 in 1955 and 10 in 1964, we had no internet and we’re too po’ to afford postage .. heck, we didn’t get a tv until ‘61 and then it was nbc uhh,, what was the question? ask the Mrs. if she knows they repaved Daytona..HaPPy Holiday! we been dry all day, but dark clouds loom..
Shoveled my fourth round of “climate change” off the deck in as many days this am.
Lovin’ it.
You’ll be in good shape to watch the bears and vikes tonight..
Don’t forget traffic...
http://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?Region=Greater+Los+Angeles#lat=34.06119&lon=-118.10107&z=2
The rain don’t bother be one bit, but the wind last Friday was quite a beech!
Left me with a 100 foot Doug Fir in my backyard!
Snow expected before MNF kickoff
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=5938923
MINNEAPOLIS — For all the talk about the hard playing surface at TCF Bank Stadium, the biggest issue Monday night when the Minnesota Vikings host the Chicago Bears may be the slickness of the field.
The Minneapolis area is expected to get four to six inches of snow from daytime through the end of the game, according to Accuweather.com. All that precipitation on an artificial surface could lead to severe footing problems, which is one reason the Bears moved Saturday’s practice to Northwestern University, so they could become better acclimated to playing outside on turf.
The game-time temperature is expected to be 19 degrees with a wind chill of minus-1. Snow began falling at approximately 10 a.m. CT and continued into late afternoon.
BART had an electrical problem in the SF-Oak tunnel yesterday, don’t know if was rain related. Also a little problem with one of the refineries in Martinez due to power outage, nothing serious.
Did notice an old guy with a boat full of animals out looking for directions this morning, though... :D
lol.. I spent a couple years in the early 80s traffic in the basin and never went back.. I can imagine the mess.. roach coach collisions, mudslides and more.. Thank goodness for Onstar!
Who? :-)
The little woman thanks you. She has 7 weather links in the toolbar favorites as she goes for a 3 mile walk every morning between 6 and 7, rain or shine, thunderstorms,100 mph wind and even a 7.2 earthquake and she has done this since 1976. The first 34 years it was from 5am to 6am but she fell and broke her elbow a few months ago and decided that at 70 it was time to make a change...
"Now...where did I put my keys?"
(Photo: courtesy of mammothmoutain.com from today)
Emergency Alert network interrupted with Flash Flood warnings for parts of LA County!
Glad to help her out.
Driving today was HECK, again. Freeways very wet, rain pouring down. Neighborhood getting saturated, intersections full of water. But now that I am safely inside, the sounds of the constant rain are kind of nice. But it’s a bear to be out in it.
It’s been a while since we’ve had nonstop rain here for 3 days. Even the few moments I was out with not much coming down, it was still spittin’.
OK, now I think that’s beautiful. Nice shoveling job, too!
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