[NormsRevenge]

HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 900 PM PST TUE DEC 17 2002

...ANOTHER STRONG STORM DUE IN ON THURSDAY...

ANOTHER POWERFUL STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ON THURSDAY...BRINGING A NEW ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT AREAS SOUTH OF SAN FRANCISCO WILL RECEIVE THE MOST RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM BUT THE ENTIRE REGION WILL GET SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION.

RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...REACHING THE COAST ON A BROAD FRONT FROM MONTEREY BAY NORTH. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL THEN SPREAD SOUTH THROUGH MONTEREY COUNTY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. RAINFALL TOTALS SHOULD BE HEAVIEST IN THE SANTA CRUZ AND SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS WHERE 3 INCHES OR MORE ARE EXPECTED DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. OTHER PARTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS SHOULD RECEIVE 1 TO 3 INCHES.

WITH THE WATERSHEDS SATURATED THROUGHOUT THE REGION...RIVERS AND CREEKS WILL RISE RAPIDLY AFTER HEAVY RAIN BEGINS. MUDSLIDES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. NUMEROUS SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THESE SHOWERS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL.

PERSONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND...AND POSSIBLE FLOODING ON THURSDAY. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND UPDATED FORECASTS.

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MARKKANEN

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks like a big one!

[GOP_Raider]

"STRONG WIND"...great. I dont think my home has recovered from the 80 MPH winds from the last storm. If I wanted to endure hurricane/blizzards I would have stayed in Wyoming.

And if any environmentalist wacko drones on about a freakin' drought, I'm going to slap 'em!

[BenLurkin]

Guess it'll take down more of my fencing. Maybe time to put in that slough stone when its all over.

[Chairman Fred]

The last one left .40 of an inch in San Diego. We'll take it. Will you let us have another half-inch?

Water hogs. (;-)

[ALinArleta]

Just had to cut down my large tree in my front yard due to spliting of the trunk by the wind last week. Time for pay back.
"Dear Lord! Please pee on Barbara Strisands house till it washes into the ocean and she has to move to France! Amen".

[American Preservative]

Thanks Norm. : ) Good thread.

Surf's up-ping! : )

[tubebender]

Last Thursday morning Eureka was 25 % of normal and all rivers were closed to fishing due to low flows. We now stand at 97 % and most rivers are now receding from flood stage.

[Grampa Dave]

At about 9:30 am we started having the predicted rain fall come down. (19 December)

Now at 11 am the wind has shifted around to the SE, and the rain is starting to really come down. When our wind shifts to the SE with a front coming in from the West, we can really get swamped with the rain.

The wine country is better prepared now that people realize the hundreds of millions spent the past 5 years on flood control haven't worked and probably will not work when we have massive rains, huge flows down creeks and rivers with large high tidal effects in Dec/Jan/Feb..

I was supposed to be testing a new Spey line this week and next week. They called Tuesday and said that the lines would be air expressed to me. I said to send them to the next person on the testing schedule as none of my rivers would be fishable until probably after New Year's.

Here is the latest radar image of this storm as it impacts us.

[luckodeirish]

Why is it that these storms seem to hit at commute home time? Monday it took me 2 hours to drive the 23 miles home. I may have to stop for a pint tonight if that is the case again..

[.38sw]

And I STILL have been unable to get a roofer out to look at our roof. We've had a leak since Friday. After Sunday night's storm, there were buckets of water on the floor in the breakfast nook. I've called roofers all week - everybody is too busy. We moved into this house in August. When I took the old curtains down from the window in the breakfast nook, I could see that there had been shoddy repairs done around the window - lots of spackle, and painted over. Now I know why - and it isn't from back-up rain gutters. We've already checked that out. It's a tile roof, and the tiles are intact, so there's something else going on. :(