Three cheers for the weatherman! You do a great job given the magnitude of the unknowns.
Only God knows the weather.
Posted on 01/05/2023 6:22:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The City of San Francisco is attempting to blame the National Weather Service (NWS) for the poor local response to last week’s rains, which saw “sewer geysers” in some neighborhoods, and extensive flooding.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
City officials squarely blamed a lack of preparation on incorrect weather forecasts from the National Weather Service — but the agency disputes that and has communications with the city to back it up.
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Officials said that San Francisco was not prepared for the New Year’s Eve downpour because the National Weather Service indicated only half an inch to three quarters of an inch of rain would fall. The Chronicle was unable to determine where that number came from based on NWS forecasts.
Yet, San Francisco had been included within the boundaries of a flood watch issued by the National Weather Service days in advance that encompassed the entire Bay Area, and NWS spokesperson Susan Buchanan disputed the characterization that the agency had failed to indicate the potential for serious rainfall.
Rainfall predictions increased over time, as it became clear that the storm would bring historic levels of precipitation to the area. On New Year’s Eve, the city’s total rainfall fell just shy of its single-day record.
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Simply Mother Nature trying to clean the bathroom.
You are SO right! How else was all that crap and urine going to get cleaned off the sidewalks?
It’s Weather ,LOL
and it sounds like San Francisco got a good cleaning
Three cheers for the weatherman! You do a great job given the magnitude of the unknowns.
Only God knows the weather.
San Francisco is one of the few cities served by a COMBINED sewer system that collects BOTH sewage and stormwater in the same network of pipes, then treats and discharges the combined flows. The pipes discharge to intermediate transport/storage vaults underground. So when the T/S vaults fill up, the water backs up and erupts out of the sewer grates.
It's this COMBINED system that give the city its lovely aroma in the summer. Sometimes, the odor from the street drains would knock a buzzard off a sh!t wagon.
Bomb Cyclone, atmospheric rivers and flood watches we thought that meant sprinkles.
You would think the EPA would outlaw these. They must be too busy looking into mud puddles on farmers lands.
At least the sidewalks in San Francisco got a much-needed rinse.....
“Sometimes, the odor from the street drains would knock a buzzard off a sh!t wagon.”
BWAAAHAHAHAHA! Now that right thar!
I have a trip to SF planned to visit family in two weeks (I stay outside of the city) - I’m hoping these “bomb cyclones” clean off the city’s filthy streets.
I suspect the Bay itself to be very toxic after all the feces is swept into the storm drains.
San Franciscans like playing in feces, so what’s the big deal? They should be used to it.
I live on the other side of the country and I’ve been hearing about this approaching storm and the amount of wind and rain expected for at least a week. For SF leaders to blame the weather service for their failures is just the standard “not my fault” response by the democrat politicians for their failures to prepare.
I was wondering why certain areas of the city smelled so terrible - I know part of it is from all the human feces on the sidewalks, urine too. Mission Street smells strongly of urine - but then there are a LOT of homeless in the area. Other areas, around the man hole covers, the smell is absolutely terrible.
We ride bikes all over the city to get around (parking is almost non-existent) - I’ve asked my SIL to never take us down Mission Street again.
The storm drains flow to the sewage treatment plants. But the sewers DO overflow to the Bay and the Ocean during flooding.
The city of SF is in violation of the clean water act to allow this to happen. Of course, the EPA will do nothing to help.
“Other areas, around the man hole covers, the smell is absolutely terrible.”
Now you know the reason why. It took me a long time to figure out why back in the early and mid 70s. I would ride my bike around town a lot and the smell coming up from the storm drain grates was horrendous. I worked in 20 foreign countries in the mid 70s to late 80s and none smelled like that!
I guess God decided he needed to wash the streets.
For some time in the 1990s I worked in the One Market Street towers at the Embarcadero. Some days, the smell from sewer drains at Mission Street and Embarcadero wharf was intensely bad. This is because the sewers back up where the streets hit the edge of SF Bay. Add the thousands of workers in 40-story skyscrapers in the area and the sewers sometimes can't handle the discharges. Beautiful views of the Bay sometimes spoiled by the smell.
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