California Getting Blasted By Storm Heading SE of us

Thanks for the heads up, Butryflynet, I'll try and contact a friend near Lake Isabella.... last I heard he was off to the post office. Hmmm.


Oh! And take care of yourself, y'hear?

Looking at Wunderground, he's right in the midst of big water.

Stay safe, Golden State A2Kers.

This is smart, I think, but such travail - mandatory evacuations in some Orange County burns areas:

LA Times article HERE

TV mentioned this earlier and said up to ten feet of snow in some areas.

Ten feet of snow.

Ten feet of snow coming in at hurricane speed winds.

Can't even begin to imagine that.

Hoping everyone is hunkered down with plenty of dry firewood.

It ain't no picnic here in Ventura either. We need the rain but not all at once!

I'm seriously worried about my friend, but I'm thinking he's a busy boy and won't even try to call. He's mr. computer, and will email if he can.

Take care too, Nick.

I've got friends by a Malibu burn, but they're not in the hills.





Aside -
For a thrilling read, try John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain....

Hopefully we'll get only the tail end of it, but later tonight the rain
should start....

This looks rather scary

The local news reports are saying they only measured 2 inches of rainfall all day in the Sacramento area but I think that is because most of it never made it into or got blown out of the rain guages.

I know I was walking in water up to my mid-calves this morning as I tried sweeping leaves from a drain in the parking lot before I gave up and moved my car.

The wind was awesome. I heard those same train sounds that everyone always comments about in hurricanes. Quite distressing, especially when punctuated by the thump of falling tree branches and pinecones on the roof and cars.

Things have calmed down quite a bit now. Still high winds but no rain downpours added into the mix. Next round is due to arrive in a couple of hours.


Osso, Folks in the south lands near the base of fire areas are out busy building sandbag and haystack walls to shore up the hills from ash mudslides. Emergency Service folks are in quite a panic down there trying to get everyone to prepare.

No kidding!

Heard from friend, he's whining about the shrill tv jabberheads... so he's just fine.

What . a. freakish. storm.


10 feet of snow?
Close to the desert?


We had over 100 days of constant rain this summer.
Will we have an odd winter too?


Seems like mother earth is trying to shake us off..

Driving thru Nevada ahead of a storm once, and had to stop in the salt flats to take a picture of a giant snowstorm engulfing the truck, cactus and all....

Freakish is not the word.

RH

The storm has reached us now - very, very windy outside, my windows are shaking (scary) no rain yet. We're expecting 3 inches. Stay tuned!

Hope you don't also lose your power supply.

Stay safe, folks.

In Temecula (Between San Diego and Riverside) It is no big deal right now and we don't expect much trouble.

Weather is always personal for someone.

BBB
My pantry and freezer are full but I'm buying fresh produce today just in case.

I bought two types of snow shovels, one of which I think I can manage if snow is not too deep west of the Rio Grande in ABQ.

Dolly and Maddy are now wearing sweaters when they go outside for a quick pee and poop.

BBB