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"Storm of the decade" to hit NorCal on Thurs w/ hurricane force winds in Sierra mtns
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dakkumauji
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Man, it looks like Union Square is still without power and bunch of other parts of the Financial District.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Heard on the radio on the drive home that the storm system seems to have slowed down over the Bay Area and will linger for a couple more hours.
Houses in SoCal can have basements. I used to rent one converted to an apartment. I looked at a few during that time.
Make sandbags out of plastic bags/old pillowcases and make a ring around your door. If you have wet set caulk, you can seal the lower portion of the back door.
Dance Inferno
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Shit. I'm on my way home from the office and I'm hoping my apartment still has power, I'm like a few blocks west of Union Square...
m_shortpants
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It's now been pouring for a good 10 hours straight in San Jose.
For the past two hours, I was literally standing in the rain pumping water that was flooding outside my house. There's a bunch of tanbark out there, so it kept clogging the sump pump. It was basically "turn on pump, shoot out jet of water, get clogged, unclog, repeat"
I was shivering when I came back inside and just stood under a steaming hot shower for 20 minutes. So happy to be inside, but I can see it's starting the flood again in the same area :|
For the past two hours, I was literally standing in the rain pumping water that was flooding outside my house. There's a bunch of tanbark out there, so it kept clogging the sump pump. It was basically "turn on pump, shoot out jet of water, get clogged, unclog, repeat"
I was shivering when I came back inside and just stood under a steaming hot shower for 20 minutes. So happy to be inside, but I can see it's starting the flood again in the same area :|
Doctoglethorpe
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So apparently San Diego IS getting some rain tomorrow, yay!
Its supposedly a "big storm" but thats just what we call 1 inch of rain, because we're very very dehydrated.
Its supposedly a "big storm" but thats just what we call 1 inch of rain, because we're very very dehydrated.
ZedIndyLil
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Steady, steady rain. Not too intense, not much wind, but just steady for the last 12 hours where I am in San Jose.
dr3upmushroom
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Ha, I fear that many Californians will think this will solve our drought problem.
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So I did attempt to do my usual jog today.. but..
Yup! the entire park was completely flooded. The lake is surrounded by dams and this was about 30 feet down the dam. Usually the trail goes way through there. I'd say at the deepest thats easily 8 feet of water.
Crazy!
Yup! the entire park was completely flooded. The lake is surrounded by dams and this was about 30 feet down the dam. Usually the trail goes way through there. I'd say at the deepest thats easily 8 feet of water.
Crazy!
Passive Assassin
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storm was a letdown in the sacramento area!
XiaNaphryz
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Looks like the storm became a blizzard when it Tahoe. At least 6-12 inches of snow after 1 day they're forecasting.
Yeah, it'll take more than just one storm to refill the ground reservoirs.
That's near the lake. At the higher elevations, they're hoping for 3 feet.
Solid snowpack is just what the state needs.
Not if you consider it rained for like the better part of the entire day. That's the best rain we've had in a long time.
I'm living in the Monterey Bay area and the forecasts were saying much worse than what happened. The rain was heavy for a little bit but for the most part it was rain and a little rain. Maybe coming from Florida kind of made me numb to 'storms' like this. Didn't really start up until 11 or so and it's been off and on all day. Kind of hoping for it to continue up until the weekend because the weather here has been exactly the same all year.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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it hasn't stopped raining in Butte County yet.
Marty Chinn
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I would say constant, not hard. Definitely not the storm of the decade.
Have we had a storm with more precipitation so far this decade? In certain areas this was a lot more water in a given time than our infrastructure can handle.
XiaNaphryz
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Pretty sure this is the most rain we've had from a single storm since the decade started.
MaliciousH
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You described how it is about half to two-third of the year. If you came in last year around the start of winter, you came in during a really weird winter with very little rain. Usually the rain come sometime in November and ramp up around now and stay this way (~weekly rain) till ~Feb and slowly peter out with the coming of summer. Last year it just stopped with the second or third rain.
m_shortpants
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Still pouring in San Jose. That's 12+ hours now.
Marty Chinn
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Are we talking 2010 to present or in the last 10 years? Either way I'm pretty sure we've had a harder hitting storm than this. This weather is constant rain, not hard hitting harsh rain. The wind is even calm. I'm grateful for the rain, but the number of people who stayed home today over this is kinda laughable.
Yup, didn't leave my house all day either. Got delivery for lunch and dinner to my door.
And I don't remember the last time it's rained 15+ hours now since well before 8AM now. It's 11PM now. Crazy.
BearFlexington
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Underwhelmed but still used it as an excuse to work from home. Heard BART was shit all day.
Yeah I can't think of the last time anywhere I've been that I've seen this constant of a rainfall. The Northwest Coast rains all the time, but I can't remember it raining even for this constant of an amount (that's not a storm). They also got hit bad too at the start of the week, which is why I figured this storm would mean some trouble.
renegade_dewitt
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Just goes to show how unprepared/scared most Californians are of the rain since we live in such a paradise of a state. Compare these kinds of "storms" to the monsoon-type weather of Southeast Asia, this is basically nothing.
Stabby McSter
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storm of the decade my ass
m_shortpants
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I don't think so. The highways on my commute were all flooded. On top of that, my office lost power lol. Flooded highways were a mess.
Yeah but it's all relative. I'm always fascinated by this compulsion of people to be total dicks about how others respond to natural events. I can't feel that bad for CA though because CA people are just as dickish when it comes to others reacting to earthquakes. Not me though I'm a nice guy.
These two replies in this order work. I don't get how people don't think that mass amounts of flooding and power outage doesn't = a pretty big storm (for the area). This is not the Midwest or East Coast, so we aren't exactly prepared for this sort of thing.
Bare Grills
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Its windy as hell here in cen cali. I tried flying a kite but couldn't get it to work. I got tired and went back inside. Its suppose to rain all night.
SilentSoldier
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While it hasn't been pouring, the rain has been constant and has yet to let up. I hate it.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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how ironic Rainy its still so Rainy outside lol.
With all the flooding and power outages? No, those didn't affect everyone but it also wasn't predictable who it might affect. Ergo, people stayed home. Hell, entire bart stations had to shut down for hours.
We haven't had anything like this since 2010 for sure.
i love rain but i almost forgot it existed living in irvine for 4 years hah.
Twin Drive System
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Ugh, my mom barricaded the garage with sandbags trying to prevent water from getting in. Surely enough, water still got in but the sandbags actually prevented water from leaving. We live on a hill so none of this really mattered in the first place, she wasted money on sandbags.
But then she calls the fucking fire department at 10 PM over the puddle forming at the entrance of the garage thinking the house was going to get flooded. I go out and see a fucking fire truck parked in front of the house wondering WTF is going on. The firemen were pissed. I could hear it. They try to explain that they are called for emergencies etc. I was too shocked at what even happened to answer any of their questions.
How embarrassing.
But then she calls the fucking fire department at 10 PM over the puddle forming at the entrance of the garage thinking the house was going to get flooded. I go out and see a fucking fire truck parked in front of the house wondering WTF is going on. The firemen were pissed. I could hear it. They try to explain that they are called for emergencies etc. I was too shocked at what even happened to answer any of their questions.
How embarrassing.
speculawyer
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On the way home from the Sharks game, a freeway sign said 101 flooded @ Willow, all lanes blocked. That is normally where I would exit.
I crossed over and took 280 instead. Did hit a huge 8 inch deep puddle on the Shoreline exit though, that was kinda scary.
Sharks game was short lots of fans. But that was good for me, I had crappy upper level seats so I snuck down to some 9th row lower level seats. Much more fun to watch the game from down there.
I crossed over and took 280 instead. Did hit a huge 8 inch deep puddle on the Shoreline exit though, that was kinda scary.
Sharks game was short lots of fans. But that was good for me, I had crappy upper level seats so I snuck down to some 9th row lower level seats. Much more fun to watch the game from down there.
Fenderputty
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Supposed to hit me over the night. I don't think we're supposed to get it anywhere near as bad as nor cal, so I'm looking forward to it. It's only and inch expected.
Whoa. Hmm. Hope everything's fine by the time I have to go to work tomorrow. That's pretty close to me.
charlequin
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Managed to walk to the Sharks game from work and then back home afterwards entirely without incident. I expected fewer people at the game, but then I also expected to hit more than middling rain, no wind, and a few spots of 6-8 inch puddles downtown tonight.
It's really just the dissonance between the weather that's happening and the problematic results that occur. Here in San Jose it rained all day but never got above what I'd call the high end of moderate rain at any given time, and there was no wind to speak of, so from my perspective it would barely count as inclement weather -- you wouldn't even get this on the news in New England.
At the same time, because California doesn't get these storms that often, the results are quite a bit greater -- the ground can't absorb water so the flooding starts much faster, and the highways aren't built for wet driving so the commutes (even where nothing floods) are much slower and less safe. I'll probably give people a bit of a hard time tomorrow (or Monday....) but in reality it's good that people stayed home -- it's much better for everyone if people can make sensible decisions to stay home in poor weather, both for their own safety and to make things safer for the people who do need to go out.
It's really just the dissonance between the weather that's happening and the problematic results that occur. Here in San Jose it rained all day but never got above what I'd call the high end of moderate rain at any given time, and there was no wind to speak of, so from my perspective it would barely count as inclement weather -- you wouldn't even get this on the news in New England.
At the same time, because California doesn't get these storms that often, the results are quite a bit greater -- the ground can't absorb water so the flooding starts much faster, and the highways aren't built for wet driving so the commutes (even where nothing floods) are much slower and less safe. I'll probably give people a bit of a hard time tomorrow (or Monday....) but in reality it's good that people stayed home -- it's much better for everyone if people can make sensible decisions to stay home in poor weather, both for their own safety and to make things safer for the people who do need to go out.
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