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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
I honestly expected this thread to turn out to be referencing Ghostbusters terminology, like a Focused, Non-Terminal, Repeating Phantasm, or a Class 5 Full-Roaming Vapor.

I had a Class 5 Full Roaming Vapor yesterday,
stank up the shop for a bit but between the HVAC fans and the Class 6 Fabreeze Air Purifier, it went away

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:
Welp, that’s a new one for me… was just woken up by my iPhone and Apple Watch screaming at me. Apparently a tornado warning was issued for my area. It did wake me up in time to watch the heaviest storm action I’ve ever seen in my area. Very very heavy rain and lots of lightning. The lightning is near constant right now and that is exceedingly rare here. The only time I’ve seen weather like this is once when we were caught in a severe storm in Virginia about 11 years ago and then again a few months ago crossing into New Mexico from Arizona on the freeway. This is most assuredly NOT weather we ever see in this area.

interesting, as you mentioned, we get lots here in Central VA,

wife and I enjoy sitting on the front porch (covered) watching the storms as they go by and sometimes over,

until the strikes get near,, ,then time to go inside,


worst we had here in a good while was a year or so ago, micro cell or some such thing dropped 11 inches or so in a relatively small area, flooded the reservoir, damaged the water plant, and flooded a few bridges downstream, that were unfortunately, on my drive home, (took a bit of a detour to get home )

flooded the creek behind my shop, which got high enough to cross the road,



BTW, no one has mentioned Sharks yet

Pretty strong winds and rain last night. I survived, but I have to go on Nextdoor and tell everyone what I went through.

I enjoy storms like that. In college they used to say, I'm only happy when it rains.

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
First the fires, then the rains, next the mudslides.

I predict we'll see mudslides there within the month.

I think I already saw a headline last week about part of coastal highway 1 being lost… as tends to happen on the coast.

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Originally posted by lyman:

wife and I enjoy sitting on the front porch (covered) watching the storms

That is high on the list of things I want in my. Ect stage of life. Covered porch in the Smokey mountains where I can watch storms.

I grew up in Castro Valley and our house had a creek running behind it. I can tell you this absolutely has happened before because when I was a kid we made runs over to Lake Chabrol to pick up sandbags. We made a wall behind our house and the creek rose and rose. By the end it came up at least 15 feet and looked liver a raging River. Came within feet of entering our house and we lived up a slope so no mean feat.

Just saw pictures of large sections of Redwood Road washed out entirely. Water is scary. But this absolutely has happened before, atmospheric River terminology or not.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
I grew up in Castro Valley and our house had a creek running behind it. I can tell you this absolutely has happened before because when I was a kid we made runs over to Lake Chabrol to pick up sandbags. We made a wall behind our house and the creek rose and rose. By the end it came up at least 15 feet and looked liver a raging River. Came within feet of entering our house and we lived up a slope so no mean feat.

Just saw pictures of large sections of Redwood Road washed out entirely. Water is scary. But this absolutely has happened before, atmospheric River terminology or not.

I think the last time I saw storm after storm after storm similar to this was 97? I would have been 14 or so. I think they called it El Niño then.

I saw the tornado warning yesterday also. Very unusual, although California does actually get about 10 tornadoes a year. I don't think there's ever been one for San Francisco specifically (although one was recorded in 1891).

It did hail this morning.

At 2AM I was watching for the neighbor's redwoods to crash down. Wind was blowing HARD.

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Originally posted by ElToro:
They haven’t built a reservoir in over 40 years. The CA population has neatly doubled since then.

Yep, since Jerry Brown's governorship back in the late 70s. CA has done a horrible job in updating infrastructure to accommodate 20 million more residents and millions of new houses and apartments. 40 million people using the same water infrastructure built for 20 million. They had the money and land in the 80s and 90s, but bending over for the environmentalists was paramount, not common sense.

^^^nailed it.
Not only the reservoirs, but other infrastructure that need periodic upkeep.
The levies that burst in the Sac Valley which has the town of Wilton underwater and part of hwy-99 closed, is a result of zero state assistance to repair/upgrade the levies in that area. The state says if the levee is on private property, it's the responsibility of the owner to maintain it, however grants and funds are allocated from the state for such infrastructure improvements. That fund has shrunken over the decades, meanwhile, we've got a multi-billion dollar non-operable white elephant in the high-speed train line running parallel to said closed freeway.

Go westward and parts of hwy-101 are underwater just south of Gilroy. This section of 101, and several more sections running through the Salinas Valley, are unimproved portions of 101...no guardrails, minimal dividers, no on/off ramps, minimal lighting, it all criss-crossed with farm roads. Not unusual for pile-ups to happen because a tractor pulled-out or, some other agriculture vehicle has to cross it and traffic doesn't check itself, even more hazardous when coastal fog rolls in. These areas should've had a causeway built decades ago.

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Pretty strong winds and rain last night. I survived, but I have to go on Nextdoor and tell everyone what I went through.

I enjoy storms like that. In college they used to say, I'm only happy when it rains.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Come visit us on the Gulf Coast when we have a Category 3 Hurricane. It might change your mind about the weather.

You buy the beer big dog. I'll also need a permission slip for the wife.

Sure you can be on the beach with Cantore.

A good brief explanation of why all this massive sudden rainfall doesn't solve long-term drought problems...

As far as tornadoes, a small one did in fact occur.

No. CA tornado

I love winter rain. Some area's can handle huge amounts of rain. Other's not. I love the rain forest in the PNW. No low lands for me though. Flood plains are a no go.

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Originally posted by kkina:
As far as tornadoes, a small one did in fact occur.

No. CA tornado

Small hamlet of a town, the main dump for Calaveras County is located in Milton. Brutally hot there in the Summer-Fall, just a punishing level of heat.

Too bad they can't channel it to Lake Mead.

And now we're getting waterspouts (you may want to mute the audio on this one)...


SONOMA COUNTY