Posted on 02/19/2005 11:29:09 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060-192100-
FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1010 AM PST SAT FEB 19 2005
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ORANGE COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET UNTIL 200 PM...
...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM TODAY FOR ALL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA BELOW 6000 FEET EXCEPT THE COACHELLA VALLEY AND THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS...
...A FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM TODAY FOR FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA EXCEPT THE COACHELLA VALLEY AND THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCAL HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN THE ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS...SANTA ANA MOUNTAIN AND FOOTHILLS...THE INLAND EMPIRE...AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS. THERE COULD ALSO BE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ALONG WITH MUD AND ROCK SLIDES IN SAN DIEGO AND WESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTIES. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED AREAS OR GO AROUND BARRICADES. IF CREEKS OR STREAMS RISE TO NEAR THEIR BANKS THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A LARGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST WILL SEND WAVES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY. RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES...WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS TODAY COULD TOTAL 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS UP TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE.
THE SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA DURING ANY HEAVY RAIN EVENT...ESPECIALLY IN AND BELOW BURNED AREAS. ALL RESIDENTS LIVING ON OR NEAR HILLSIDES OR MOUNTAIN SLOPES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS. MUDSLIDES...DEBRIS FLOWS OR ROCK SLIDES MAY OCCUR AT ANY TIME...EVEN DURING PERIODS WITH LITTLE OR NO RAIN FALLING.
THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ISSUED A LANDSLIDE AND DEBRIS FLOW ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...EFFECTIVE THROUGH MONDAY... FEBRUARY 21. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON DEBRIS FLOW AND LANDSLIDE HAZARDS...VISIT THE FOLLOWING USGS WEBSITE...
PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND STAY INFORMED ON THIS STORM SYSTEM. IF FLASH FLOODING OR MUD FLOWS ARE OBSERVED...MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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HTTP://LANDSLIDES.USGS.GOV
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ATKIN/PG
CAC059-071-192200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 853 AM PST SAT FEB 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA
* UNTIL 200 PM PST
* AT 846 AM PST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED ROCK AND MUD SLIDES IN ORANGE COUNTY AND IN THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DEVORE...CAJON SUMMIT...VILLA PARK...MUSCOY...LOS SERRANOS...LOS ALAMITOS...LAKE ARROWHEAD...EL TORO STATION...CRESTLINE AND ALISO VIEJO.
MUD SLIDES AND ROCK SLIDES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MUD SLIDES AND ROCK SLIDES CAN POTENTIALLY TRAP AND KILL PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THEIR PATH.
RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN AND BELOW RECENTLY BURNED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO HEAVY MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS WHICH MAY BLOCK ROADS AND CULVERTS. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOODING AND PROPERTY LOSS COULD RESULT IN AREAS WHERE RUNOFF IS RESTRICTED OR BLOCKED.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
LAT...LON 3380 11813 3348 11764 3357 11747 3384 11775 3407 11760 3407 11716 3437 11693 3455 11722 3456 11761 3396 11776
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ATKIN
is it just me, or is Glendale a rain magnet? I commute from Universal to Pasadena, and there are days when it's not raining anywhere but Glendale. It's weird.
Not that I can see, since we are in the foothills and on a hill. There is a LOT of water running down the street almost "river like"..... My daughter lives in La Verne in the foothills there, and said that there are road closures and mud coming down from the recent fires there.
No, but I am through bleeding for La Conchita residents. They were warned 9 years ago to move out, and they got nailed last month. To this day, most are still there.
They didn't want to give up their VIEW Lots......
Burbank, I'm bailing water from my crawl space opening.
I live in Tennessee and we get 40 or 50 inches of rain a year.
I lived in so. California 26 years and I do not remember it ever thundering or lightning. I do remember if it rained at all we had rainy day session at school.
Great view , and dangerous as hell. No way anyone should be allowed to live there. It cost us 8 million last month to dig them out.
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heading right for the Big Burn Areas.
We have been WET.....
I beleive the updrafts around the mountains contribute to increased levels of rain. My folks that live ten miles from me in La Cresenta, get double or more rain that we do in Glendale. About a decade ago, I measured how much rain they got one spring. It was an unusual year, but I lost track at about 45 inches. I don't remember how many times now, but the five inch collector overflowed on occasion, meaning that I potentially lost inches of rain for my record keeping. That's a lot of rain.
I commute to Van Nuys each day to work. It's the strangest thing I've seen, but the small area where I work, is always experiencing a downpore about double the rainfall I've driven in on the way to get there.
Not Fair!!!!
We've been pretty fortunate as power goes of late. It used to be that we'd have it go out for hours at a time two to four times per year, a few years back. I think the people in my area finally had a belly full, and told the city to get it's act together. I know I sure did. At any rate, things are better on that front.
LA36 is now airing the mayoral debate hosted by KABC.
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TV Weatherman MARK KRISKI, who has had a great track record in correctly predicting Southern California weather for years on KTLA-TV Channel Morning News,
...has recently stated that he feels the Christmas Earthquakes/Tsunami's in South Asia have tilted the earth axis enough to affect the world's weather patterns.
Seem so..?
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If he had that smirk he's usually sporting, he was probably goofin' on ya.
I am not sure , but I do know that last week we were told that Big Bear Lake was up about 10 feet!!!!! Yahoo!! For the past two years, we have not launched our boat due to yucky lake conditions. Snow is supposedly above 6,000ft elevation so let's hope so......
Suppose to get a foot of snow before it is all over.
OC has had 3" of rain so far and another 3" on the way Sunday they say.
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Actually a usually smarty-pants MARK KRISKI was very serious when sharing his thoughts on TV about Southern California weather patterns being changed by South Asia's recent Earthqukes/Tsunami's.
In today's ABC-TV Coverage of the weather-suspended Los Angeles NISSAN Open Golf Tournament a longtime commentator remarked that in all his years there he has never seen such severe Los Angeles weather.
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