Posted on 07/20/2015 10:07:43 AM PDT by Enterprise
Heavy rains and flooding washed out parts of Interstate 10 in Southern California, shutting down traffic in both directions.
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The incident took place near Desert Center, about 170 miles east of Los Angeles and about 50 miles from the Arizona border.
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This is a lie
It never rains in California
The climate has changed because of Evil Whites Driving Cars and Hot Drought is the permanent condition
In my Johnny Carson voice - "I did not know that." :)
You forgot the HAARP array...
California’s two biggest weather problems are drought and heavy rains. #ThisIsScience
‘It never rains in California.’
One could say it rarely rains here in California.
Sunday, July 19, in the beautiful downpour here in Ventura County, 3 of our granddaughters ages 8 to 13, frolicked for hours in the deluge from the skies.
They got out the ‘slip-and-slide,’ placed it on the slightly sloping (small) front lawn, and happily belly-flopped in their bathing suits.
Then they got out their umbrellas and turned them upside down to catch the rain and pour it in a bucket.
Finally, said bucket was placed to catch the rain off the roof!
Hours of wet fun.
Of course we’ve got photos - it may never happen again!
“HAARP array”
musta down for cal...
Call it Whitewater Privilege.
Well, it seems that God is taking over and starting to isolate CA from the rest of us!
GOOD! ;-)
It will take decades for Fish and Wildlife to ok a new bridge.
Kinda sad when .36 inches causes a small disaster.
Here in north Georgia, .36” is a modest SINGLE summer thunderstorm.
God flushing the toilet.
Yes and in Missouri we call that 0.36” a sprinkle.
Living here in SoCal I was watching the weather radar. That thunderstorm complex had been sitting between along I-10 between Chiriaco Summit and Desert Center for a few hours at a minimum. I mentioned it to my wife being as I am a desert rat and have scouted the area quite often.
The first reports I saw were from the National weather office. Nothing on the local news for quite awhile. I will be traveling that way in a couple of weeks and they should have a detour built by then.
May you travel safely.
The desert deals with rain a bit differently than Georgia. For one thing the soil here isn’t terribly absorbent so most of that .36 turns into run off, which collects in arroyos, which feed into normally dry rivers, and can quickly turn into multiple feet of fast running water. It can be made much worse if the rain is heading up stream as it keeps adding water to the system. Then all that water starts picking up plants and the erosion is fast and dramatic. I’ve seen just a couple of inches or rain make our “rivers” run 10 feet and had a tree stump that must have weighed a ton just “appear” when the water receded.
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