Where on the internet can I go to find out how much rain has fallen during this storm? Is there a site that does real-time snapshots of this?
Ditto this. The power went out 15 minutes before dinner was to come out of the oven. Luckily we have gas appliances, so out came the camping lanterns. Dinner by lantern-light, then sipping the good stuff while listening to the wind and the rain. Power came back about an hour or so later. I have to remember to reset the clock on the microwave. All the others in the house are self-setting.
Our power hasn’t gone out, but apparently we may get GRAUPEL!! :eek:
This site will show you the actual radar map for the LA area. You can click on the map of US radar sites at the top of the picture if you want to switch to another area.
The radar map updates every 5 minutes and you can watch the progression of the storms through your area. You can also animate the map.
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=SOX
If you poke around you can find statistics on rain amounts.
Holy crap! It looks like it is raining like hell!
My coworker and I were running an errand at lunch and almost had to pull over on the way back. We couldnt see a thing. There are floods all thru out the Mira Mesa (central San Diego)areas, I can attest to that much. There are trees down everywhere too. Including a couple of cars smashed by some on the street of my office building… now thats a bad day at work!
I’m a little worried about about my house as we’re up on a steep grade… so, here’s hoping everything holds up so I can enjoy my weekend in Vegas!
My wife and i were in San Marcos yesterday, and drove back home (to San Diego) about 3.00 p.m. Later in the evening the news reported flooding around Mira Mesa, and on I-15 south around the 52, so we were happy that we left before the worst of the rain.
They showed Pacific Beach on the news, and people were attempting to drive throught there even though their headlights were totally submerged. 
Yep… we drove thru a few questionable flooded areas hoping we wouldnt show up on the news sitting on top of our cars. I’m not looking forward to my drive home tonight after work!
That being said, I can deal with a few days of “crazy” weather a year. Luckily for San Diego we didnt have any hugely devastating fires this year which will help with our levels of destruction.
My MIL has a basketball hoop in her pool, our fence almost ended up in the neighbor’s driveway, and the steeple at our church was toppled by wind. :eek: They interviewed my dad (church trustee on the scene) on channel 7 in LA- his grandsons thought it was so cool!
I heard on CBS radio this morning that this series of storms dropped more rain in less than a week than we had ALL OF LAST YEAR. :eek: Last year’s grand total was 7 inches, and I think we got that in the first two days.
link to pic of graupel, new term to me.
http://addins.kttc.com/blogs/weather/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/danterriblock_graupel.jpg
Well, it stopped raining.
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And started snowing!!!**
graupel huh? looks more like some one up above has challenged us to a snow ball fight!
A bit further south, one of the benefits of the storm (if you like sushi): free maguro at the beach.
Yeah, we got stuck in a bloody hailstorm picking up our son at school… sheesh!