[glennaro]

True enough! Just making an observation of the use of language. Instead of "it's raining", we now have a "rain event". Instead of a "snowstorm" or "an arctic cold front moving in" we have a "polar vortex" ... ooohhh, that's far more scary.

Not diminishing in any way what's been going on out here (particularly in Placer County where I am) since Christmas, I just find this "hyper language" a bit amusing. Cheers!

[gundog]

Places where flooding wipes people out for the third time always annoy me. Occasionally, the weather on the Oregon coast will let you know why nobody ever built a house on a certain tract of land. There are very pleasant, riverside fields, not far from here. I remember when every steep gulley upstream was scoured out by rain, and decades of forest/ logging debris ended up in an 8 foot deep, and hundreds of feet long tangle of potential firewood. And if it hadn’t stopped there, it would have taken out a bridge