Posted on 03/09/2023 10:42:57 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Officials in California are imploring residents to prepare for a powerful storm set to lash the region with torrential rain later this week as the state continues to recover from colossal amounts of snow that trapped mountain communities.
Previous severe weather was responsible for the death of one person in the San Bernardino Mountains area. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said the person died in a traffic accident. Other deaths since February 25 don't appear to be weather-related but investigations are ongoing, spokesperson Mara Rodriguez said.
About 17.5 million people across central and Northern California -- including the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento -- and parts of Nevada were under flood watches Wednesday ahead of a storm set to drench the region Thursday with dangerous amounts of rain in most of the places that currently have existing layers of heavy snow from previous brutal storms.
"A storm arriving Thursday will bring a threat of flooding from a combination of heavy rain and snowmelt to lower elevations and foothills in California, especially below 5000 feet," the Weather Prediction Center said. "And heavy, wet snow at higher elevations will lead to difficult travel and impacts from snow load.
"Creeks and streams in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada will be most vulnerable to flooding from rain and snowmelt."
In response to the ominous forecast, officials in Marin and Monterey counties in California have begun preparations ahead of the looming storm, which is expected to strike the area as a strong atmospheric river event.
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3 months minimum .....for any reeason.
They voted for rain? Sorry. We’re conservatives. We don’t believe man can control the weather.
Weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no weed.
Or someone said, once.
“We don’t believe man can control the weather”
Man can’t control the weather, but they can and do breach dam’s and not fill reservoirs with the runoff snd ice melt instead of flushing it into the ocean.
To be sure, they created their own problems...
More bad news. But hey Newsom has Covid, so ya got that going for you.
Any thinking adult should have two weeks of essentials on hand at all times. Two months is even better.
The storm that is imminent is predicted to have as much as 10” of water content... a real doozy of an atmospheric river. A follow on AR wave may bring in to CA, 5” more of water content.
Almost 60 feet of snow has already fallen on the summit of Mammoth Mtn.
The danger for many homes is the build up of snow that hasn’t been removed yet, and the crushing weight that might materialize, if the temperature is warm enough, and the precipitation falls in the form of rain instead of snow. This will be especially significant the flatter the roof, and the higher in elevation the structure resides, as the snow depths are typically greater the higher one ascends.
“In response to the ominous forecast, officials in Marin and Monterey counties in California have begun preparations ahead of the looming storm,”
Ominousity is looming. LOOMING! LOOMING!! LOOMING, I TELLS YA!!!
yeah don’t count on Gavin calling out help. he might be on ‘personal time’ in Baja again. mr Undependable
not all of us voted for him.
God has a sense of humor - and occasionally administers justice personally. ha!
“not all of us voted for him”
Of course I understand that... Just as none of on here voted for Biden. But the electorate, collectively, is responsible in both cases.
“”Those who laugh at preppers are Still laughing....right?””
They do but I don’t see how.
During these last 3 years or so the population has gotten about every wake-up call that could be given in why being prepared for blackouts, no heat in winter, food shortages, toilet paper, cleaning products, and shortages in about every field there is, is not only possible but has been recently demonstrated in reality.
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