Posted on 02/04/2024 8:28:58 PM PST by Libloather
The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers battered California on Sunday, prompting the first-ever warning for hurricane-force winds in the state's history.
California is bracing for what could be days of heavy rains, flooding on roads and knocking out power to nearly 800,000 people, with 97 percent of the state's population under flood warning.
The current 'bomb cyclone' - a term denoting a storm that rapidly intensifies over 24 hours - could dump more than 8 trillion gallons of precipitation on the state.
The storm inundated streets and brought down trees and electrical lines across the San Francisco Bay Area, where winds topped 60 mph in some areas, blowing what looked like a white flag of tarpaulin off a building. Gusts exceeding 80 mph were recorded in the mountains.
A video out of Los Angeles caught chilling images of planes flying into the city as they tried to navigate the terrible conditions.
In Southern California, officials warned of potentially devastating flooding and ordered evacuations for canyons that burned in recent wildfires that are at high risk for mud and debris flows.
The National Weather Service office for Los Angeles warned that 'all systems are go for one of the most dramatic weather days in recent memory.'
One Home Depot in Santa Barbara, which saw some of the worst of the chaos in videos posted online, sold out on sandbags and was instead offering customers potting soil and fertilizer.
'This storm is predicted to be one of the largest and most significant in our county´s history, and our goal is to get through it without any fatalities or any serious injuries,' Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told reporters Saturday.
Classes were canceled Monday for schools across the county, which was devastated by mudslides caused by powerful storms in 2018.
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Astrologers are better at predictions than “climate scientists”...welcome to the Idiocracy.
If the “bomb cyclone” combines with an “atmospheric river” and the “pineapple express” forces the “polar vortex” to form “thundersnow”, it will be an “existential crisis”.
Can the hyperbole get more ridiculous? Pretty soon those into scaring people will start naming each cloud some scary name.
They complained about the drought, now they complain about the rain.
There’s just no pleasing some people.................
I thought it was an atmospheric river???
Judgment of God on California?
Well, I don’t mean that I have the authority to say that is what is happening. But I think the question should be obvious to others.
Fires
Mudslides
Invasion by illegal aliens
Drugs and overdose deaths
Torrential rains
Will big earthquakes be coming soon?
I know there are many good people, and even some Christians trying to live Godly lives there. But I guess I am just having my Captain Obvious moment.
We’re in Reno. In downtown not too much snow. At our place around a foot. Driveway here we come. 😳. We get “shaddowed” out a lot of the heavy precip.
Lake Meade is about a third full. It is at ~10M acre feet now. Full capacity is ~30M.
The media frenzy is amusing.
Heavy rain and high winds but hardly a state of emergency.
Drove through it and it was windy with very heavy rain but not that big of a deal
Would not want to be one of the homeless living in the drainage tunnels though
If they just had some dams to capture the water for future use. Oh wait..
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history-begins-final-stretch-welcoming-salmon-home-180983621/
Are you always this much of a jerk, or are you just feeling frisky today?
CC
A little of both. Par for the course on this site.
Well, at least you’re honest and well adjusted about it.
Cheers,
CC
😉👍
Wyndam Clark was declared the winner, leading after 54 holes.
-PJ
Alright..... who let little Timmy play with the weather machine?
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