Waiting to hear a report from my kid in Spring Valley (San Diego). The last blast that went through a short time back flooded their basement, had torrents of water running down the sides of their street, up to the rocker panels on the cars, despite having a sizeable canyon right across the road. Hope all our Dopers down there are prepared and weather this OK.
Having lived in Louisiana, 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and only 30 feet above sea level, I’m familiar with the flooding. Caught an 8 pound catfish of my front porch years ago!
Stockton has been in a calm zone for an hour or so. The maps are showing more rain coming in from the south, but that blob on the map seems to be dropping less rain that it was this morning.
I’m in coastal L.A., and we had some strong (not crazy) winds for a few hours, and a splattering of rain about half an hour ago. It’s stopped now and actually looking like brighter skies.
Sounds very serious. I hope everyone stays safe and dry.
It’s been quite a winter so far.
My kind of off-topic ramblings about regional weather/hazards chauvinism
Yes, here in western Oregon it gets tiresome when the snow-prone parts of the world point and laugh because we shut down when there’s less that an inch of snow on the streets. But we aren’t prepared or designed for it. For us, it is hazardous because the streets will stay slippery until the snow melts.
On the other hand, I used to comment, but have learned to confine it to an internal scoff (or nothing) when folks here in Oregon remark that it’s “pouring” or “really coming down.” I know it is those things in a relative sense, but having grown up in Florida, my definition of “pouring” was calibrated there, and typically means anything between, “you literally cannot see across the street,” to “you have to pull over on the freeway because you can’t see through your windshield, even with the wipers on high.”
But it’s exactly as you both say – it’s about the hazard relative to what’s typical, and to what people are familiar with and prepared for.
I’ve also seen people scoff at the mountain roads here requiring people to carry tire chains (referring to most kinds of temporary traction aids applied to the tires, not just chain ones). But, I would love to see how they would do without chains trying to cross the Siskyou Summit pass when Cal DOT and ODOT are about to close it.
About 1.5" of rain so far - been mostly dry since around 11 a.m. after a heavy morning downpour. But a new blob just plopped down on us a second ago. Forecast for my area was 2.5-3.5" by Monday afternoon, so we’ll see if that materializes.
In the meantime the winds are definitely howling. I doubt we’re out of the woods for potential power failures anytime soon.
At 10 am in Fremont (between Oakland and San Jose) the winds were so high that the rain was falling horizontally. But my rickety fence stayed up. Sunny now, we got .91 inches today and a bit over an inch and a half yesterday.
The National Weather Service issued a rare hurricane-force wind warning for the Central Coast: Wind gusts up to 92 mph were possible from the Monterey Peninsula to the northern section of San Luis Obispo County.
I’m in south San Jose. It’s been rainy since last night and pretty windy this morning. The power went out four times in around 30 minutes this morning around 8:30a.m., but it always came back on fast. I’m hoping it settles down tomorrow.
Somebody upthread mentioned Colorado (where I’ll be for a few days starting tomorrow), but it’s actually supposed to be nice there for the upcoming week. Folks there say there might not even be any snow on the ground, which I’m bummed about because that’s the only time of year I get to see snow.