Well I'm sure a 5.0 earthquake on the east coast woud get a lot of media attention while most people in California will sleep right through it.
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"Storm of the decade" to hit NorCal on Thurs w/ hurricane force winds in Sierra mtns
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Well I'm sure a 5.0 earthquake on the east coast woud get a lot of media attention while most people in California will sleep right through it.
DUFFMCWALIN
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Shhhh let the people on the east coast win something for once.
Had to cancel my Reno trip.
Probably a smart move since you never driven in snowy condition
OrlanisWorks
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That's too bad, hehe.
I let my folks know of the warning. Living up in the mountains and shit ain't easy, and it'll be a whole lot worse with high winds and tall, thick trees hanging outside over their house. Previous owner was a bitch who apparently wouldn't finance cutting down the trees. God I hope when I go there that there isn't a tree in the living room.
m_shortpants
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Currently sandbagging areas of my parent's house which are prone to flooding. Probably going to work from home as well. It takes me 1 hour to do 15 miles on a regular day, no way I'm going to even try it in a storm lol.
Oh, hey, I won't lie, I shit my pants during the American Canyon quake.
rykomatsu
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ground is so saturated that anywhere i can brace it is soft, also I think the tree would snap the 2x4s, but yeah, will go try that
billy beane
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We're still in a drought. This past month has been the most it's rained in a long time.
I mean it's nice to finally get rain, but fuck not that much.
ZedIndyLil
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We appreciate you bringing the rain, bud.
thezerofire
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Professor Beef
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Fuck, I have work that day, too. Hope Colma doesn't get it too badly.
Boogie9IGN
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Those 4 days it rained like crazy that week had more rainfall than all of 2013, no lie. Shit is nuts
We have had small rumbling here and lived, anything higher we are simply not prepared for, same goes for you and this weather on the left coast, I'm sure you'll all be just fine after the dust settles...well when the mud settles anyway.
Good luck and be safe...
Out here in southern california and the central valley, sustained heavy rainfall would be disastrous. We absolutely need rain, but not like this with torrential floods stripping the land and drowning everything before it gets soaked back into whatever is left of the water table.
Anyway, stay safe northern California. Pack that snow, my clients need it and so does my snowboarding season.
Anyway, stay safe northern California. Pack that snow, my clients need it and so does my snowboarding season.
m_shortpants
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Oh yeah. -_-
I'm still conflicted about it. Obviously the suicidal person needs help, but wow, what an asshole. I wonder how many thousands of people's day that one person ruined. Kids waiting for parents, People who needed medical attention. Etc etc.
Pretty much. Wish we'd have them more often.
Ruined my evening, that's for sure.
dakkumauji
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I'm sure this will cause a complete mess on Thursday in just about everything but god, I miss having a nice real storm in the Bay Area.
Little Green Yoda
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Mountains.
#BenefitsOfNotDriving
Yeah, not sure I'd be comfortable driving across the causeway in a storm this bad. I really hope we don't see any flooding where I live.
Becareful....i live in SF and what worries is all the hills here lol... Theres so many here and with rain like that... I'm going to avoid driving at all cost...imagine.. pac heights... Russian hill.. Nob hill..bernal heights..... I'm staying low in inner Richmond
MaliciousH
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I lucked out with this storm. I'm driving up to SF from LA on Saturday for a conference. This storm could have easily happen then. I've drove in stormy conditions before from San Luis Obispo to SF. Doable but it can be tense especially in the hills/mountains. I'm not sure if I would like to deal with it for 6-8+ hours.
From what I'm seeing... everywhere eventually. This storm is going to zipper up with the coast from the north. You guys are going to get more of the core of the storm while us in LA going to get more of the tail.
speculawyer
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So . . . I guess we have an El Nino?
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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im in NoR Cal Chico to be exact and its all everyone at work has been talking about.
i was definitely enjoying the highly insensitive opinions on suicide that everyone on facebook had no problem posting
i'm stoke for this storm. my dog will be horrified though
Yaphett Kotto
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I welcome this weather.
Fucking tired of seeing the sun.
I miss the east coast.
Fucking tired of seeing the sun.
I miss the east coast.
IndoAssassin
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It has begun...
Eh, people saying it's overblown: depends on where you're talking about. A LARGE part of Northern California is in serious risk of flooding every time shit like this comes about. I live right next to a levy, it happens like once every 10 years and it blows. Smaller towns often have the actual flooding you see (If the levy near me broke I'd be under 10 feet of water within a few minutes when it's flooding like that), so it definitely can be bad. All of the big cities won't suffer anything but rain and flooded streets though.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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I stay near a dam but its pretty low do to the drought and lack of rain along with having a very hot dry summer. My town also doesn't have a great sewage systems so even when it rains a little streets seem to get flooded fairly easily.
shaowebb
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I used to live in Modesto CA in the bay area. If it rained an inch it'd be a flooded street given how poor the drainage was setup on their roads due to their low annual rainfall. Literally just a street river one inch deep over coming the few drains that would plug up.
An inch an hour? There is gonna be some flooding.
An inch an hour? There is gonna be some flooding.
Lol Modesto is not in the bay area. Not even close.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
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Never understood why people call Sacramento and its surrounding towns the Bay area it is nowhere near the water or the bay. Coming from Boston Mass the Bay State I was very confused when I heard Sac and its surrounding cities and towns refered to as the bay. Sac is the most country farm like rural city I ever seen. I mean within Sac its a nice small city but its literally surrounded by country side and its as inland as it gets with no ocean or large body of water around it so why do people call it the bay?
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