Posted on 10/15/2015 6:25:57 PM PDT by sparklite2
Flash flooding north of Los Angeles sent water and mud flowing into canyons and across roadways Thursday, trapping drivers and closing a stretch of one of the state's main north-south freeways.
The California Highway Patrol reported a 30-mile section of Interstate 5 was blocked by flooding near Fort Tejon, about 75 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Drivers stuck in the mud waited for roads to be cleared while thousands more were diverted to alternate routes expected to take four or more hours to traverse through the mountain region in Southern California.
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Wonderful news. They have been so dry!! It must be3 global cooling!!
Global correcting. The DUmmies sink while the prepared swim.
El Niño ???????
El Nono has started and no one is ready. Amazing.
Will the MSM find a poor flooded citizen and have him proclaim “Baraq Obama don’t care about California people”
The High Desert got the rain and hail, us here in SoCal and The Valley got nothing :(
Welcome to California.
Coming soon .... MUD.
A system that stalled over the area for ~90 minutes dumping between 4-6 inches per hour is not El Nino type rain...
The ground up here is hard pan and the winter rains are typically more of a slow, steady drizzle...what would be called a sprinkle in the SE US.
We're just about out of water.
El Nino rain is exactly what happened today.
What is interesting is that this is the same low pressure system that went through here about a week ago. Last week it drifted over Arizona into New Mexico and then down into Mexico. It then drifted back to the Pacific through Baja and then up to SoCal.
I have never seen a storm make a circle like that. But then again I have not been on this Earth all that long.
this is how it started in 1982-83 and 1997-98. I worked for att during that time. The next thing that will happen is an early snot in the Sierras and San Gabriel Mtns. Both years that happened around Halloween. In 1982-83, Susanville got 150 inches of rain and Monterey got 140. In 1997-98, the Feather River Canyon (Center Fork) recorded 155 inches and Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz county recorded 82 inches. It’s on it’s way
Yay, I remember that.
Notice it was Sum Gai (some guy) reporting.
Everyone hates an early snot.
Oops, Snow
LOL (I know)
Watched associated lightening strikes last night via radar maps. And could physically see them from a distance I must say, it seemed very odd as they were heading north along the mountains skirting the desert was well as the coastal plain areas. Some of the cells seem to develop very quickly out of nowhere which seemed quite unusual.
Beginning of the cold season already?
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