[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.

[tubebender]

PG& E had 51 power outages around Humbolt Bay after a vilolent short lived wind storm last night about midnite. 42,000 customers down out of 120,000. We haven't had much rain out of this storm. Our TVs spend a lot of time on the Weather Channel this time of year.

A tanker truck and trailer jack knifed on the venerable arched Fernbridge on the route to Ferndale. The trailer went in the river and the truck is hanging over the bridge. This bridge has survived huge floods and too many earthquakes that I care to recall. I don't know if it was a fuel truck or milk transport.