[nickcarraway]

Man "surfs" flooded streets of Aptos after atmospheric river

[rktman]

Recent AR storm? Recent? Still going strong at our place. Woke to rain, lots of it and now transitioned to nasty slushy soggy snow.

[sit-rep]

atmospheric river... just plain stupid and I will ignore anytime seen in the future...

[Texas Fossil]

As a young boy, I did that after a heavy snow. On a home maded sled. Two heavy pieces of oak cut on band saw and shaped with block plane. Smoothed with sanding block and waxed.

Rope was tied to a hole in the plywood top of the sled. short piece of rope allowed me to stay stable, but easy to release.

It was fun.

I lived next door to the school. The track field was straight out my back door, across the non-existant alley.

It was an ideal place to drag it.

[x]

A category 3 atmospheric river

How do they know it wasn't a category 4 bomb cyclone or thundersnow or a heat dome or a category 7 polar vortex or a firenado or a derecho or a category 9 haboob?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The storms just keep coming. It's another one of those epic winters that happen every 10 to 15 years. We had one in 1983 that wiped out the private road to our investment property in Scotts Valley.

The major reservoirs are at 50% to 75% full, so there is room to take the water.

Accuweather -->

Even though a long train of storms from the Pacific will continue to roll ashore through early January, there is the potential for the major storm to unload 8-16 inches of rain in a narrow zone of Northern and Central California during the last part of 2022.

In some locations, an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ rainfall of 20 inches will be possible with the storm, and much of that rain is likely to fall over a 24-hour stretch through Saturday night.

Enough rain will fall in the zone from San Francisco to Sacramento and many other locations in Northern and Central California to trigger urban, small stream and river flooding. As of Saturday morning, San Francisco had received over 2 inches of rain as it continued to pour down heavily. Four to 8 inches of rain could fall near Sacramento.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm sure the neighbors just loved the wake that that SUV made as it barreled down the street.

-PJ

[SamAdams76]

And if my woody breaks down on me somewhere on the surf route
I'll strap my board to my back and hitch a ride in my wetsuit
And when I get to Surf City I'll be shootin' the curl
And checkin' out the parties for a surfer girl

[minnesota_bound]

The video after that shows a tuna leaping out of the water and catching another fish to eat. Too bad they did not show the shark that leaped out and caught the tuna.... : )

[yesthatjallen]

That’s water skiing not surfing.