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Post by SeaRat on Jan 2, 2023 23:09:37 GMT -8
You guys in Northern California Okay? We see a lot of damage on our local news. ‘Hope everyone is okay.
John
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Post by vance on Jan 3, 2023 8:23:10 GMT -8
SF Bay Area is a bit soggy. No problems around my immediate area, so far. My local hiking area has lots of small slides which have effectively closed the trails.
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 3, 2023 10:16:09 GMT -8
We're have a respite today! Wednesday and Thursday we're supposed to get hammered again. We've had a few mountain roads wash away. I'm not at all a fan of zoos, especially the Oakland Zoo. A culvert failed and obliterated the road in: when the the zoo's CEO was interviewed he talked about how disappointed he was about it and how the visitors would be too... Sorry, but first and foremost, he should have talked about the safety of the animals: to be quite honest it almost felt like an after-thought   JB |
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 3, 2023 13:56:27 GMT -8
Beau is always really smart:
My wife and I were talking at lunch and she was telling me about her Uncle Bob who was a lineman in Fort Wayne Indiana, he also did a lot of SAR. She said it would flood every once in a while, and because he was Mr. Outdoors, he loved anything to do with boats: when the floods came he would always be the first guy out there with his chain of kayaks, canoes and rowboats saving people.
JB
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 3, 2023 17:31:48 GMT -8
JB,
Beau has great words. One thing to remember about attics is that many are covered with plywood, and that's really hard to break through. A chain saw will do it, but a pry bar, especially from underneath, may not be enough. An axe also is problematic from underneath as it is difficult to swing it effectively. So if you have that kind of roof, simply don't go up there!
John
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 4, 2023 9:44:20 GMT -8
John, thanks for the vid--yeah, pretty spooky! We have a few things going for us, and that is, our nearest rivers and major creeks are nowhere near us, also, we're not too far from the ocean for it to drain into  The heavy rain is supposed to begin around 4:00 today. Hopefully this will help, if not fix the low water levels in our western reservoirs like Lake Mead... JB |
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 5, 2023 13:37:41 GMT -8
I keep hearing the term "bomb cyclone" so I looked it up: it has been around since 1980, so contrary to popular legend, it's a real thing and not something made up to sound more dangerous: think of it kinda like "Hurricane Lite" or "Diet Hurricane", "A third less calories but still fills up!"  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesisJust as I was picking up our dinner dishes and putting them in the sink, snap! the lights went out  We were on the unlucky side of the street, we live on a corner, and our next door neighbor still had power  The power came back on just as we were getting ready for bed, so it was duration of two hours... In the mean time, we drew the curtains and talked while we watched the silhouettes of trees dancing in the wind against the leaden sky or planes coming and going from Oakland Airport. I also made shadow puppets making my wife laugh: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, chickens, ducks... Anyway... JB |
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Post by Aquala1 on Jan 11, 2023 9:53:19 GMT -8
I’ve been out of town and haven’t been watching the news much, until yesterday. Unbelievable how bad the damage is. Are all of you still holding up ok?
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 11, 2023 17:30:40 GMT -8
Ty. so far we're all OK here. Some of the footage I've seen is shocking: deep water, and flooded creeks and rivers with the water moving at an unbelievable rate, like 30-40-Mph--not an exaggeration! OK, here ya go--very nasty! This is a La Niña year, not El Niño, meaning the water feeding it all is colder than usual. Although 1997 was pretty bad, that was an El Niño: I remember taking my new girlfriend to meet some of my friends for dinner. By the time we left it had dumped like mad. My car was a 1959 Rambler American... All the roads were closed except for one or two, and the water was up to the center of the hubs... When I went to step on the brakes it just made a sickening grinding sound of the shoes rubbing on the wet drums... the brown water was moving at a pretty good rate as I turned down a residential street to see even deeper water illuminated by my headlights washing a garbage can down the road. We basically crept home at about five-mph for about 10-miles. I couldn't wait to see my cat: I knew that when I saw her we'd be safe at home  JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 11, 2023 22:34:23 GMT -8
Jaybird,
Amazing footage; we're not seeing all this here in Oregon. The networks are showing only seconds of footage, andnot detailed stuff like this. WOW! Stay dry as possible, my friend.
John
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Post by Aquala1 on Jan 12, 2023 19:23:13 GMT -8
Agreed John, that’s some pretty intense stuff. Other footage I saw showed hillsides falling away with mud and trees covering the road.
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 13, 2023 9:22:47 GMT -8
It looks like there's an end in sight: it should stop for a while on Wednesday. Hopefully there will be more rain after we get a rest from it all...
JB
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Post by artc on Jan 13, 2023 13:00:59 GMT -8
My thoughts and prayers to everyone effected by this disaster.
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 13, 2023 15:02:25 GMT -8
Errrr-ahhhh? Mind you, they were just guessing where the biggest would be, you may as well just close your eyes and stick a pin on the California map JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 13, 2023 17:57:35 GMT -8
'Looks like the California surfers were in surfer's heaven! Those were huge waves.
John
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We were on the unlucky side of the street, we live on a corner, and our next door neighbor still had power 
The power came back on just as we were getting ready for bed, so it was duration of two hours... In the mean time, we drew the curtains and talked while we watched the silhouettes of trees dancing in the wind against the leaden sky or planes coming and going from Oakland Airport. I also made shadow puppets making my wife laugh: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, chickens, ducks...
