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socal; FLASH FLOOD WATCH -- in effect until Saturday, Feb 19, 4:00 PM
Accuweather ^ | FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2011 | NWS

Posted on 02/18/2011 1:53:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...

THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR

* A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS...RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS...SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS...SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE...SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS...SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS...SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS AND SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS.

* FROM 4 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

* WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE TODAY AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY. VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL FLOW AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT OROGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT AND HIGH RAINFALL RATES BELOW THE SNOW LEVEL...ESPECIALLY ON THE COASTAL SLOPES OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS.

* THE RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAPID RUNOFF...MUD SLIDES...DEBRIS FLOWS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.

(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: socal; stormwatch
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To: dragnet2
Hey Ernest, I've never actually even seen a flash flood, even when out in the desert camping during *heavy* rains..
I visit my brother-in-law in Arizona between Havasu and Kingman. The terrain looks like a moon scape but there are (dry) "washes", some are HUGE that you can tell major amounts of water has flowed through. The funny thing is, I've been there in some heavy rains and there are NO puddles afterward...You can barely tell it even rained. It's hard to believe there can be flash floods in that soil.
21 posted on 02/18/2011 3:05:27 PM PST by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: lewislynn

You bet....And the reason why few if anyone live around those washes, is they would be long dead...They’re rushing rivers that disappear as fast as they appear.


22 posted on 02/18/2011 3:09:03 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yep, you’re about to get hit hard. I used to live in Huntington Beach. (Marina High School grad) Now I live in the high desert of San Bernardino. When we get it, we get it hard. Joe Bastardi promised me a cold, dry winter. Cold I can deal with. Rain I could do without.


23 posted on 02/18/2011 3:16:20 PM PST by Excellence (Buy Progresso, take off the label, write "not halal," mail to Campbell's soup company.)
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To: tubebender

No rain here either......yet. The winds have lessened.


24 posted on 02/18/2011 3:29:15 PM PST by umgud
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I should expect a Freeze....here??

Uh Oh... another nonbeliever in Global FReezing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

25 posted on 02/18/2011 4:08:46 PM PST by tubebender (The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

405 was not so bad right now but our little stretch from la to orange county, 10 miles at most, had two ambulance accidents on it.

We do need more rain so I am ok with it. Want to go home, eat the beef stew in the crackpot, and go to bed early! Rainy days are cool.


26 posted on 02/18/2011 4:16:28 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Dang this iPad. Crockpot not crackpot!


27 posted on 02/18/2011 4:18:10 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
You driving with an iPad?

LOL!

28 posted on 02/18/2011 6:35:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

No, but I was at my son’s practice using my iPad. It always corrects words to what it THINKS I should be typing. It changed my crockpot to crackpot!

The worst was once I was writing a one-word text to my mom and it wrote “testes” instead of what I had wanted to say, but I’d hit send already. Excuse me, but I think Apple should NEVER REPLACE ANY WORD with testes! Just don’t! :)


29 posted on 02/18/2011 7:47:09 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: dragnet2

Well...what can ya say? They’re going to get wet...

yep.


30 posted on 02/18/2011 8:09:15 PM PST by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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