I’m in central Douglas County, Oregon, 90 miles north of the California/Oregon border. Its raining pretty good at the moment, but has been dry up until about an hour ago.
The weather forcast is for rain through tonight then a 60% chance of rain tomorrow, which means it’ll be raining 60% of the day.
No wind, as usual. Rain is no big deal for us. I do not want wind.
Just landed at SFO. That was…exciting.
We were in Simi Valley when we got the flash flood warning alert. The drive back on the 118 into SFO had the worst visibility I have ever seen.
It’s been whipping pretty good for a few hours, but almost no rain at all, and lots of sun…but now a dark cloud has covered up the blue sky.
Power has been out for about an hour or so. I hate when the power goes out.
Our power is on, but a large proportion of the city is out (Stockton). Many signals are dark, but people are playing nicely.
The heavy rain has stopped (for now) and only minor flooding in parts of downtown. The last storm was worse with much heavier rain over a shorter duration.
I was asleep a lot of the afternoon, but DH reports a couple of brief power outages. We’ve had to reset alarm clocks and the stove clock. The iPod dock on my nightstand changed volume at some point too (it was annoyingly loud when I woke up, it’s normally set to soft-background level). Not currently raining.
I’m in south Sacramento, not that much north of the Elk Grove border.
I’m in the same area as @snowthx. It’s been windy all afternoon but it started getting really windy around maybe 6pm. The power has flickered off for a few seconds several times, but no prolonged outages yet.
I usually listen to the local NPR station while I’m doing housework on Sunday afternoon, but their broadcast signal has been off the air for the past several hours. I’m guessing the wind must have damaged their transmitter. I can listen over the internet though.
The metal chimney for my wood stove (which I never actually use) has gotten blown partly over and is standing at an angle now. And the cap that goes on top of it has been blown completely off. No way I’m going up on the roof to fix it until this wind dies down.
The creeks are at capacity and there have been a lot of downed trees one of which took out part of a couple of apartments in Goleta. One creek near the airport did over run and the airport is shut down. We didn’t get a whole lot of wind.
I ran out to the grocery store during a break in the rain and it was an absolute joy. Fully stocked (so the panic buying on Friday and Saturday wasn’t an issue), fully staffed and only like two other customers other than me.
So far my house is still standing, but a big pine fell on my neighbors’ house and totalled it. It was an extreme fixer when they bought it 3 years ago, just finished a $0.5 million complete renovation and now this. Totalled their car too. They all are OK, luckily.
Simultaneously, a giant eucalyptus fell on a power line 2 blocks away and everything is dark . I bundled up the dog, hit Safeway for some comfort food, and checked into a motel.
My friends up the road in Loomis clocked a 51 mph gust. I know this sounds puny to those of you who are in hurricane or tornado land, but we aren’t prepared for it!
SMUD’s power outage map has been down for a couple of hours. KCRA said it’s crashed due to the number of outages. I find that odd, since I’ve seen that map go over 300k customers without power and still work.
Seeing a report that outages are up to ~2 million for the day so far. I’ve been pretty lucky - not even a flicker yet.
But the wind hasn’t stopped and the rain started for me again about two hours ago, sheeting in sideways.
I have relatives there, who are fine so far, and they’re glad that the rain’s stopped. My kid’s taking me to the area, flying in mid-week. Hope the airport and roads are open then!
I wonder if they misspoke and it’s really down due to the number of people checking for outages.
Seems more likely to me, really. KCRA is one of the most dependable for weather forecasts, but the quality of their writing does leave a bit to be desired (not that any of the other local TV stations do much better).
I grew up in Santa Barbara. Normally, a very mild climate.
I am now remembering, that during the time that @Seanette and I were engaged, there was a very big store that hit Santa Barbara. I remember us foolishly venturing out into it one night, to go to K-Mart to exchange a defective cassette player, and finding some normally-very-reliable roads blocked with mud and debris. That would have been 1994 or early 1995.
We live in Sacramento, now, which is a much rougher climate than Santa Barbara. The storm hitting is now is not unusual for Sacramento, but would be very unusual in Santa Barbara; though I think what we got hit with back in Santa Barbara in 1994-1995 is much worse than what’s hit us so far, here in Sacramento, with the current batch of storms.
For those of you who have followed the story of @Seanette’s and my former stray that decided, almost two years ago, to be our cat…
Earlier today, as I was aware that we were supposed to get a pretty bad storm, later, I was wondering if I might be able to get Buddy to pose by a window, looking out at the storm, and include it in a post on Facebook commenting on how much he must now appreciate a warm, dry home, after however many of these storms he’d surely had to weather, in the past, outside with no such shelter.
As I was pondering this, he went to the back door and meowed to be let out. It was very windy, at the time, but not yet much rain. Sure enough, he went out, and spent some time out on the patio, before meowing to be let back in. He surely appreciates having comfortable home to come into, but he’s no stranger to being out in bad weather, and I guess he isn’t as averse to it as I would have expected.
I moved here in 1990 and the 1995 storm was much worse and possibly the worst one in our history. For the last several years of my career I worked a short walk from that KMart. It’s a Target now and much nicer.
Yesterday afternoon we had some of the windiest weather I can remember for this area. Some gusts were clocked at higher than 40 mph, which is a lot for us.
It rained heavily nearly all day, with occasional bouts of extreme downpours. I saw when I got up a half hour ago that we had a power outage overnight, because all the clocks were on the blink.
Luckily our crummy fence between us and the neighbors from hell didn’t blow down. It would have released their pitbulls into our backyard.
The forecast is for more rain today, especially this morning, but tapering away by the end of the day.