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Sun is peaking through clouds right now. The worst has passed, doesn't look like it will rain again until next week.
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Herdfan
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Thanks!
Eric
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Yep and what a relief. We need rain and I happen to love rain. Just not dumped on us all at once.
Eric
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Probably the safest bet at the moment, right now there is a series of record setting storms lined up offshore and it's devastating most of the state. My area is mostly closed and all the major freeways are flooded in all directions, none of us have ever seen anything like this in our lifetimes.According to the offspring, it is snowing in Santa Clarita.
She needs to go out, but having seen how they drive in rain, she is going to stay home for now.
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Very lucky so far in my part of Silicon Valley. Only problem nearby was across the street, where a tree took down a power line and it only affected one house.
Saw another tree down on page mill road in Palo Alto, but they got it off the road pretty quickly. And 280N was backed up after the first storm last week around Los Altos, but not sure what the issue was - looks like a tree might have come down on the high way, based on how things are still coned off in one stretch.
We had one day of wind gusts in the 20-30MPH range, and everything else has just been “normal” rainy days.
On the other hand, my wife is distraught that a large chunk of capitola ended up under water.
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Eric
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Yeah I have an appointment in the late morning in the city and think I'll have to leave maybe 3 hours before just to be sure I can make it on time from the Sacramento area.
They're saying that the normal protection layer that we get from the storms has completely broken down, opening up the door for one after the other as far out as they can see.
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We have a cabin in a river valley about 3 hours south of SF. Luckily ours is on an elevated level because this is the cabin directly below ours today at river level, and by river level with normal river flow it’s probably a good 15 - 20 feet above water level. It far exceeded that knocking the cabin off its foundation.
Eric
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Which river? I know they're all at flood stage.
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Arroyo Seco river.
Hard to believe this is the same river when I was there a couple weeks ago for Christmas, low clear and calm. Picture taken about 30 ft to the right of that cabin.
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even a dry creek (English translation of arroyo seco) has water in it now and then
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Pretty river.
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Santa Barbara is so flooded, people are kayaking in the streets. Look at the almost submerged cars. Yikes.
https://twitter.com/RyderChristNews/status/1612576492764164099
https://twitter.com/RyderChristNews/status/1612576492764164099
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Just found out a family who also has a cabin on the lower level of our cabin property needed to be air lifted out this morning. The flood damaged cabin I posted a picture of was built in the 40’s. So nothing like this has been seen in all that time. There are 5 other cabins on the same level and I can’t imagine they’ve done any better. There’s a single main road into the area thats about 10 miles long that is completely flooded out in sections. I can’t imagine the devastation I will see in person eventually.
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Still no power. Tree is cleared, and they also chopped down the one that is still standing in the photo above at the far left (It started leaning). The guy in that house had large chunks of electrical equipment that hit his lawn, made a crater, and bounced, splashing mud on the side of his house.
Power company is saying Thursday, 10pm is expected repair. Cable company has no estimate for when internet will be back, but I imagine the power needs to be done before they even start.
Power company is saying Thursday, 10pm is expected repair. Cable company has no estimate for when internet will be back, but I imagine the power needs to be done before they even start.
Eric
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We went for 2 days at my buddy's place in Daly City, the hardest part was sleeping with no heat, even with covers. After I went home they decided to get a hotel and just as they were leaving it came back on for them. Hang in there, I know it sucks unless you have a power backup of some kind.
According to the offspring, it is snowing in Santa Clarita.
She needs to go out, but having seen how they drive in rain, she is going to stay home for now.
Those mountains that border Santa Clarita immediately to the east, there are ski areas up in them. Usually the snow stays in the mountains and we only see the snow off in the distance, but this has been a "cold" winter in the Los Angeles area, and it does occasionally snow in Los Angeles itself.....everybody panics and goes crazy
First rain after a dry spell makes all the oil on the road quite slippery.....everybody panics and goes crazy
