[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.

[Grampa Dave]

Stay safe, your area is under another flash flood warning with the high tides and all the rivers trying to dump water.

The lower Sac went from a 6,500 ft per second measurement to over 64,000 ft in two days this week. So the Trinity and Klamath are probably really rolling down stream.

The Eel and Mad River systems got dumped on so they are rolling.

I was supposed to have received a newly introduced Spey Fly Line this week to use in some tests on the Rivers that I fish. I told the fellow who had arranged for me to be in the testing schedule to ship it at the end of the year at the earliest for my 1-2 week trial. I'm not going near any of these N. Kali Rivers until we have no rain for 5+ days and none is in the schedule.

The Yuba where I had planned to do most of my trials went from just under 500 feet per second to over 8,000. The Russian went from about 200 feet per second to over 60,000 at Guerneville. I had planned on testing the new lines below Guerneville.