A couple of days ago, when this weather started, I went out and bought some candles and flashlights, and I put those and the matches in a container in an easily findable place.
We’ve had power flickers around here, but no serious outages yet (knock wood!) We’ve moved the camping lanterns inside, just in case. All you coastal Dopers just hunker down and ride it out. We don’t want to lose any of you.
Tornadoes are a violation of my contract. I just might sue. 
Seriously. I pay way too much money in rent to have to put up with this! The city owes me money.
Best of luck to all of the mandatory evacuees this morning. Sounds like it’s going to be quite the day. The news this morning was saying that once today’s rain starts hitting around noon, there are areas that could get over an inch per hour, which, for LA, is a ridiculous amount of rain.
Everybody just hang on.
Clouds are starting to roll in down here.
Luckily I remembered my umbrella today!
NVM, posted it in the other thread, didn’t mean to spam.
Okay guys, looks like it’s starting to get nasty down here in coastal South County… woo hoo! 
Everybody back up your computer, make sure your candles and batteries are handy, and curl up for a long-assed day indoors!
8 inches of rain expected this afternoon/evening- damn…
Reporting from downtown LA, here. Just ducked across the street for some lunch. It isn’t coming down yet – still at the drizzle stages. But the drizzle actually stung because of how hard the wind was pushing it. Some odd angles for rain here in LA, I will say that. It’s going to be a fun afternoon. I am so glad I am not part of the commute these days.
Every time I read the title of this thread I hear Joe Friday.
‘This is the City. Los Angeles, California. It was Tuesday, and it was raining in Los Angeles…’
I get “It never rains in California but girl, don’t they warn ya, it pours man it pours”
Haha I saw on the news this morning that some jerk kid down here in San Diego decided to “swimming” in one and had to be rescued.
(He may not have actually tried to go swimming in the channel, maybe he “accidentally” fell in, but I like to think he was just that stupid.)
Bolding mine:
Shouldn’t that read “…and now, new and improved with tornados.”
Also I’m not calling that slight gust of wind from your link a tornado. I’d call that “a kitten sneezed”. According to the link a basketball hoop fell over. I grew up in the south western part of Oklahoma right in tornado alley. If at least one persons house was not picked up and thrown at least one mile down the road then it was not considered a tornado. At worst when you went to the store someone might comment, “It’s a bit breezy out today.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don’t live in Oklahoma.
On the plus side, a 4 bedroom house is like, thirty bucks.
max and the typhoon … kitteh vs tropical storm
I had to drive to Pasadena in the middle of the day on the 18th, and I’m amazed that I wasn’t killed on the way there or back by freaking morons who can’t slow down a tiny bit in this rain. I got soaked head to toe because umbrellas are useless when it’s windy.
I was at work today close to Pomona and there were tornado warnings in the area which were lifted later.
Why can’t we get all the water we need over a period of months instead of in just a few days?
Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before. 
So I get home tonight and find the wife was a candlelight dinner for me. Not romance, power failure.
The whole neighborhood is black.
Oh well I need to catch up on my sleep anyway.
Well, at least the rain should help lessen the drought. I’ve hear CA has been getting desperate for water.
Sadly, when it rains like this it all runs off into the ocean and does not help with our drought.
True. Most of our water comes from snow melt from the Sierra. Fortunately the snowpack is reasonably healthy so far.