How are all you SoCal DUers surviving with all that rain?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

Are you all safe and dry? I have been reading some stories and it must be very scary when apocalyptic weather happens! :hug:

[hollywood926]

1. I'm ready to move to Seattle...

where it doesn't rain as much.

:-)

[catzies]

2. Very funny!

:hi: from up the 101 on the coast

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. I was thinking the same thing!.......................

I'm thinking Seattle couldn't be any more dismal than WV this fall and winter. I think we have averaged one sunny day per week since the end of the summer. Seattle couldn't be much worse!

[maveric]

3. Make it stop!! Its depressing!

I havent seen any REAL sun in San Diego for a couple of weeks now.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Now that's really unusual-San Diego sounds like Boston in March

[maveric]

5. Yeah, I know! I grew up in Boston, left it 26 years ago to be warm and dry

It just isnt like its supposed to be and my arthritis is flairing up to boot.

[Trillo]

6. I read some report this morning that

this is the 7th largest recorded rainfall ever. The late 1800s set the record. So far, the report said, we've had 30 inches this year.

Actually, I'm rather enjoying the rain. I had the pleasure of driving to LA a few weeks ago, and the normally arid brown and barren hillsides around Lake Elsinore and Corona area were stunningly green with new growth.

I bet the desert wildflowers around Borrego Springs are beautiful right about now.

[hollywood926]

7. Well, yes we have much more lush green grass now, but...

it's kind of being offset by people being swallowed up by sinkholes and buried alive in mud!

I guess there's a trade-off for everything!

[Trillo]

9. Gotta get after the Building Inspector's departments.

It's a construction problem (grading, cut and fill), if you ask me. Someone isn't doing their job, and if you follow the flow of money, it's likely local governments approving shoddy work 'cause of greased palms.

I suppose we're lucky though, living on a rock (decomposed granite hillside) where we rarely ever feel even an earthquake.

[Zorro]

13. Live in San Diego county?

Our soil is decomposed granite, too. When the landscapers came in they had to use jackhammers to dig the irrigation lines.

[maveric]

10. Th LA River is a "River" again.

I saw the footage of the kid that was rescued from the rushing floodwaters last week.

[maveric]

12. The rodent population will flourish.

This happened in 97 or 98 when we gaot record rainfalls.
My house got infested with RATS!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Anytime you get that much water at sea level it's a mess

we had tornado watches here in OC this AM...it was pretty powerful weather..something we only see every few years.

If this keeps up, Californians might just learn how to drive in inclement weather :D