If this is my last post… Please tell the authorities to search for my bloated corpse somewhere in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Over two and a half inches of rain are expected to fall in the L.A. area over the next 24 hours. To put that in perspective, a quarter of an inch is considered a damn good storm around here.
Clearly, we’re all going to die. So far, I’ve counted a total of zero corpses floating down the torrential rivers that were once our streets but that number could rise even higher. Even the sky this morning was black and angry like an incredibly racist simile. It got to the point where I had to turn on my headlights and, almost, almost, had to use the windshield wipers.
I only wish I could have stayed home to share my last moments with those brave, tight-sweatered weatherwomen who gave their last to warn us of our impending doom.
Real non-tropical-cyclone weather phenomena aren’t named. Only those faux-hipster marketing monkeys at the Weather Channel are dumb enough to disagree.
I hope they got the reservoir at Oroville Dam low enough to absorb this.
At least I’ll get a good, long guilt-free shower in before I’m swept under.
I’m expecting something like five inches or more in the foothills where I’m at. That’s not fun wherever you live. I’m planning to work late and hopefully the idiots will have already been washed away when it’s my turn to commute.
Naming a storm is pretentious, but it’s hard to rage against nameless forces. :o
The high winds forced the cancellation of a ton of flights, so I am spending another night in Denver. Also had a boat trip for Saturday cancelled as well.
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Lucifer? Seriously? Not only do they do the naming BS but they go for Lucifer? Oh sure, tell me it’s some neo-faux-pagan pitch to reclaim the name of Bringer-Of-Light Morningstar…
(And I suppose the PCH is getting rerouted again in a number of segments and some homes up in the hills will be now down in the canyon. )
Would that all the water fell as snow up in the Sierras or the Colorado headwaters, though…
Up here on the Central Coast there are a lot of power outages due to trees falling down from the storm. Lots of road closures too, due to trees or flooding. One of the local high schools has been closed because of trees falling on campus.
As for rain, we’ve probably had more than 2 inches so far. Which is not so unusual for up here. It’s the wind that’s getting us more than the rain.
Lived there for 20 years. I just saw the pics of the high school – you’ve got a bad one on your hands, for sure!
Stay safe and keep out of the way of trees, as much as you can. There will be a lot of cypress limbs ready to come down as I’m sure you’re already aware.
