It is raining, REALLY raining in California

[kpete]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Southern California

the rabbits, trees and people (unless you are driving) have relieved their many, many, month's long thirst.

just had to tell you all, kp

[canetoad]

1. Congratulations

-from one who has come to really appreciate a good (if infrequent) downpour.

[zonkers]

20. Yup. It sure is raining. And I just checked out your artwork, Kpete. Supercool.

[Iggo]

2. Walking in L.A.

Other than that, Yay rain!

[meegbear]

16. Walking in L.A-AAAH!

Nobody walks in L.A.

[enid602]

21. LA

They usually ride the 800+ miles of subway, elevated, light and commuter rail.

[Iggo]

24. Standing At Train Platforms and Bus Stops In L.A...

...just doesn't have the same zazz.

[meegbear]

25. Look ahead as we pass, try and focus on it ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2mvoh8j4M

[kestrel91316]

30. I do, lol. This AM I bundled up, grabbed my umbrella, walked 1/2 mile to the bus stop,

rode in a nice warm new pretty bus, then walked 3 blocks to the office. I won't walk the 2 miles home tonight because of the rain, but if I bug out a few minutes early I can catch the 6 PM bus that will get me a couple blocks closer to home than the AM bus.

Puts hair on your chest. Makes you appreciate a warm dry home more. Keeps weight and blood pressure down without major caloric deprivation!

[Iggo]

64. Yeah.

After the first few minutes, it ain't nuthin'.

[Moochy]

86. it was snowing last night up here in the bay

Walking is the best! It's what your feet are evolved for. I started walking to the BART train, about a mile and a half all downhill 6 times a week and have never felt better.

[montanto]

71. I do.

I walked to work in the rain this morning and will walk home again. I realize I am the exception to the rule however.

[goclark]

3. LA is getting a light rain right now

It looks beautiful ~ hope my roof is OK through the rainy season.

[kestrel91316]

4. It's not real heavy here in my part of LA, but it's been steady since the wee hours this AM.

I am more worried about the second storm, the one due on Thursday. It's supposed to be a pineapple express, warm and very very wet.

[kpete]

5. I want

more
shit, I always want more, kp

[cbayer]

6. Isn't it great!

It's is raining steadily on Catalina Island and I love it!.

:woohoo:

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Catalina is one of my favorite places.

Blackjack Mountain to be specific. If you live on the Island, you are both lucky and smart.

[kestrel91316]

31. I had no idea we had a Catalina resident here! I gotta visit there once before I die, lol.

[cbayer]

52. It's only 26 miles across the sea!

But not today. Gale warnings going up and ferry not running.

Feel free to pm me if you want any specific info on visiting the island. It is truly a treasure.

:hi:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. Torrance and Redondo Beach getting a good dose, too!

:bounce:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=vtx&loop=yes

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. And so is Manhattan Beach!

It sounds wonderful!

REAL rain!

At last!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Xicano]

51. Same here in San Pedro

I love the rain and to here the sound of it, and the earthy smells it generates. I just don't like being out in it. I think I am gonna take the day off from work. LOL

Hi CaliforniaPeggy, as a kid I spent a lot of time on the beaches along "the strand" (Hermosa + Manhattan). Parking wasn't so good back then too.


:hi:

[nini]

88. you're from Peedro?

Wilmas here - well, grew up there :D

[Xicano]

93. Ahhh, then you must of went to Banning High?

If so then you're gonna like this one. Originally I am from La Rana (Del Almo Blvd, Torrance) but I went to Carson High. Carson Colts vs Banning Pilots.

Carson Colts Own! :hi:

[nini]

98. LOL

Yep Pilot here - class of '75. And I will agree the Colts have owned us in the recent past - though I still love those Pilots and try and hit a game every year.

I actually don't hate Carson like I do SPHS. When my son played at Banning they were major a-holes. Carson was the fun rivalry - still is to me.

:D

[HCE SuiGeneris]

53. Someone should write a poem about it!

Hi Peggy! :hi:

HCE aka BushDespiser12

[winstars]

96. Redondo Here

We got maybe 2 inchs today!!! More please we need every drop!!!

[DBoon]

8. Snow level supposed to get to 1500 feet! (nt)

[kestrel91316]

32. We'll white on the tops of the Santa Susana "Mountains" to the north come AM.

[doodadem]

9. Light rain here in central Calif.

But everything had already done its yearly dramatic green up last month. I spent the day yesterday getting grass mowed before it hit last night. Laid in a supply of firewood and hay.

With the rain we are supposed to be getting, do you guys down south worry about mudslides???

[NV Whino]

11. It snowed at my place

Of course, I'm in the boondocks of NoCal.

[L. Coyote]

12. It is the rainy season in CA

[kpete]

a rainy season?

if only, kp

[LooseWilly]

56. Today is the rainy season that is...

[mitchtv]

67. even Palm Springs

a steady soaking rain. We had a shower or two last week, but nothing like this for about 2 yrs. We always get skipped , not today

[David Zephyr]

83. Two hours!

Wow! Mount San Jacinto must be beautiful now.

I'm coming out next weekend. Can't wait.

[mitchtv]

103. just magnificent , I saw it this AM

even the S Bernadinos are covered

[question everything]

60. During El Nino

which is what we are told is happening this year and, I remember, in 1998. SoCal had a lot of rain then.

[Greyskye]

77. We had a snow day here.

Both my teacher wife and my student son are happy. :D

[tabatha]

13. After a long time, I managed to get out yesterday

to photograph some fall colors. At the slightest breeze the leaves were fluttering down.
Next weekend, the fall leaves on the trees will all be gone after the rainfall, and starting to be broken down on the ground by the rain to feed the new leaves that are popping up all over. Can't wait for this spring. Last year was sad. Got to be very tired of ash.

[azmouse]

14. It's just starting to rain here in Phoenix!

This is the first rain that has been heavy enough to actually wet the ground since Sept! :woohoo:

[Cleita]

15. Yes! Thanking the rain gods. It's way overdue. n/t

[madrchsod]

17. it`s going to head across the plains...

around here up to 10 inches of snow and 35 mph winds... i guess i won`t be driving to chicago wednesday.


good to hear you guys out there are getting much needed rain.

[NYC_SKP]

18. Snowing in the Central Valley, Below Sea Level, at my place this morning...

Happens about once each decade...

[tyedyeto]

82. Snowed in Oakdale this morning

My daughter lives there after from moving from the foothills. My grandsons wanted to build a snowman but it wasn't sticking at all.

[bridgit]

19. Was a little chilly last night, supposed to be 25 tonight not supper cold compared...

to DUer's in higher/colder climates but round 25dgs is when allot of Californians start thinking about wearing socks to bed :)

[kestrel91316]

35. I wear socks to bed from November through April, lol, but then it costs so much

to heat my minimally insulated apartment c 1970 that I can only keep it about 60F without bankrupting myself, lol.

Puts hair on the chest.

[bridgit]

39. I have a 70's apt too, with a wall heater than isn't real efficient at night...

so it gets turned off but yeah - socks! More than just the name of someone's cat :)

[kestrel91316]

42. I have three tiny wall heaters with blowers. Pitiful. I just dress warmer.

I even wind up wearing the long johns I got for my Christmas visits to WI at times.

But to be perfectly honest, as long as the sun shines, my place gets enough solar heating to stay tolerable. It's only the cloudy +/- rainy +/- windy days that make it frigid.

[KamaAina]

46. Oh good. I just moved into -- you guessed it -- a '70s apartment with a wall heater.

And it's in San Jose, not SoCal. "Winter's cold and damp in San Jose, ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba..." :scared:

[Ignis]

55. Welcome to the SiliValley.

Wouldn't it be nice if more homes in this area had real insulation, double-paned windows, etc?

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! :scared:

[KamaAina]

57. And if we had a real public transportation system?

You would think, in a place that's so green it's banning plastic grocery bags (SJ only), and even had people going through the trash at a street fair with grabbers to put things into composting, wouldn't you? :shrug:

[Ignis]

62. Isn't it cute how there's a transit black hole in the South Bay?

East Bay into SF and back? No problem.
Peninsula into SF and back? No problem.

Actually want to go alllllll the way around the Bay? Oh, sorry, we don't do that. :crazy:

[KamaAina]

66. Silly me. Here I was thinking I'd be returning to the transit-friendly Bay Area.

As long as I only go back and forth to work, I'm fine (office is moving closer to rail shortly). But what if the future Mrs. K. (whoever she may be) lives off one of those hourly bus lines?

Being in the NHL is not enough. SJ needs to start acting like The Largest City In Northern California(TM) in this and other areas, notably affordable housing.

edit: spelling

[Ignis]

72. Yeah, I just don't understand SJ housing prices.

I mean, I guess I understood when the dot-boom was still in full swing, but it's not like there's a lot else going on to justify SJ rents/costs at the moment.

:shrug:

We opted for Fremont and a longer commute...but at least we're still on the BART line. :D

[Moochy]

89. Yeah.. too bad the north bay did not hold out longer on negotiations

There should have been some way to go to the state for the missing funds. The south bay segment tax referendum was voted down by the voters.

It puzzled me why we don't yet almost 40 years later have a BART loop, instead its some odd cross with macarthur at its center.

[Ignis]

91. Well, at least MacArthur is a beautiful, cheery central hub!

:eyes:

[Moochy]

92. yeah if you like freeways on all sides of you lol

Mac Arthur Bart is surrounded by four, 6-lane freeway under passes and flyover bypasses.

bay area dystopian brutalist at its best! :D
Oh and to help cover up the view of THE WORST SECTION OF FREEWAY TRAFFIC IN THE BAY AREA, there are advertisements!

[Ignis]

99. And those are the GOOD parts.

Just wait until the wind kicks up and your train is delayed. :(

I'm soooooo glad I no longer have a transfer at that station, especially in this cold-ass Winter.

[Gormy Cuss]

94. and God forbid anyone wants to use mass transit to go from the East Bay to SJ or Sili Valley.

The balkanized transit systems around here are just stupefying.

[Moochy]

95. yeah it makes no sense

regional transit? what mean that?

The county level is good enough for us!!! that means...

SF/Muni
Marin
Contra Costa
Alameda
San Jose

What's most disappointing is we had light rail...


http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_observed/berkeleyobserved9702.html

[Ignis]

100. "Ya gotta go north to get south!"

New England or Bay Area? You make the call! ;)

[Throd]

22. And it is snowing in Sacramento.

OK, not like upstate New York, but still rare for these parts.

[laughingliberal]

34. I'm just over the hill in northern Nevada and that storm has dumped over a foot in our area

and still going. Awesome! Unless you have to drive today.

[Gormy Cuss]

97. It snowed in the Diablo Valley last night (SF East Bay.)

There was still a layer of snow when I looked out at 7 AM. Woo hoo!

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. We should get between 1' and 2' of new snow by midnight tonight here in Big Bear Lake.

There is snow forecast from Thu-Sun as well. CAR HOCKEY next Fri-Sat-Sun when the flatlanders come up to play in it.

[damntexdem]

26. Uh, oh, down come the hillsides.

When it ain't drought, it's mud flows.

[kestrel91316]

27. My Weather Underground page won't come up, lol. Server overload......

47F and rainy, rain in the gutters but sidewalks NOT flooded. Much heavier rain off to the east.

[stopbush]

28. Having lived most of my life on the east coast (NYC, NJ),

I can say that the rain I'm seeing today in SoCal is hardly what I'd call REAL rain. More like a few sprinkles.

That said, it doesn't take much for the mudslides to get going around here.

[stopbush]

36. OK, now it's raining hard by any measure.

And I've got to drive up to Riverside. Shit.

[kestrel91316]

37. The BIG warm wet storm is due on Thursday. Hang onto your hat.

[Desertrose]

29. and its raining in N AZ too!!

No snow here and hopefully we'll miss that...but YAY!!! REAL RAIN!!!

[tyedyeto]

84. Not much rain here in Southern AZ

Just a few sprinkles. But the wind is blowing. Gusts that moved my car around while going about 40MPH.

[slackmaster]

33. I forgot to set up my rain diversion system and had a minor flood on my property this morning

It was almost ankle deep.

[Starry Messenger]

38. It's cold today!

We got a little rain on the peninsula, but I heard it was snowing in Oakland and Livermore! Wild!

[Froward69]

40. looks good

it is refreshing. I have seen the trees wilting before, it is not a good sight.

[kpete]

44. BEAUTIFUL!

i swear, i love that map!!
kp

[David Zephyr]

85. It is a beautiful thing.

Rain...rain...yes, rain!

[alp227]

41. There was snow in the foothills east of San Jose.

Locally, weather forecasts warned of "low snow levels" yet I see nothing freezing in the main part of SJ.

Also some news coverage

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/07/BAMB1B0B19.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

[KamaAina]

45. It was disconcerting to see that this morning, to say the least

at least the rain had stopped before my trek to the rail stop -- and even longer trek (a half mile) to the office.

[Ignis]

63. This cheered me up incredibly on a grey Monday morning.

Here's to having snow close enough to look at, without having to actually shovel it. ;)

[TommyO]

47. Now, how long before the inevitable mudslides?

[Festivito]

48. Enjoy it while the glaciers and icebergs last.

I feat that as soon as the mountain snows, glaciers, and ice packs quit being sublimated into the air, we may experience long droughts.

[Hekate]

49. Hallelujah! It's pouring outside, and one of my cats is complaining that there's no door into...

... summer. She's wandering around the house meowing -- this door, that door, no luck. My 4 chickens have decided to stay inside their coop during the heaviest spates, but they also come out and get rather damp and ratty looking. LOL.

Edited to add: I'm on the Central Coast, the Santa Barbara area.

Except for the danger to the burn areas, it's all good.

Hekate

[jus_the_facts]

107. Poor kitty...I absolutely LOVE that book....

:hi:

...I've posted about it in the lounge before too. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer

[Hekate]

108. What a great link--thanks! OMG, looking at the pub dates, I think I must have read it as...

... a really young kid, like, I would have been 9 that year. My dad always subscribed to F&SF and to Analog, and I read them almost from the time I learned how to read. (For women sf readers of a certain age, oh the thrill of Telzy Amberdon and Podkayne showing up as characters. Girls as protagonists, at long last.)

Anyhow, I'd long forgotten the actual plot, but it figures it would be Heinlein. Sometimes one of my siblings will come out with a catchphrase from some long-ago thing we all read -- and the thing about the cat looking for the door into summer is one of those.

Thanks for the memories. :hi:

Hekate

[jus_the_facts]

109. You're most welcome...I bought it through the Sci-Fi Book Club as a reprint....

....and it's one of my favorite Heinlein books. :)

[tonysam]

50. It's snowing like crap in Reno

I hate the stuff, unless it is in the mountains.

[laughingliberal]

74. I'm in Carson City. My little Jack Russel tried to go out and disappeared

Not for good but we had to look for his little brown ears sticking out of the snow.

Noon news said 18" had accumulated in Washoe Valley and that was a couple of hours ago. It hasn't quit, yet. I guess I'll call this a silver lining. Unemployed but, at least for today, it's a plus. I'm not out in this struggling to make it to my patients' homes as I was for years in this mess.

[tonysam]

76. It's still doing it a little bit in Reno

My car is out of commission for a few days--I need a new battery--so I ended up walking several blocks to the nearest store to get some food. It was quite a walk trudging in the snow.

My dogs were outside, and they, too, got "lost." The older dog, Tony, got confused of where he was going since his eyesight isn't very good anymore. The Chihuahua, Sam, also had a hard time with the snow.

[laughingliberal]

79. Aww, the poor little angels. Sorry about the battery. Our cars hang by a thread and we struggle to

keep one running. Miserable you had to go out and walk in it. If you have a way to get there the Kragen in Sun Valley (our shop is up there) just got bought out and I heard a couple of days ago they had a big sale going on with batteries which, usually, cost about $110 going for $39.

[David Zephyr]

54. And it is glorious.

My front door is at the wilderness beginning of the Angeles National Forest and all the critters are having a great time out there.

This rain is glorious. May it continue.

And thanks for the OP, kpete.

[kpete]

59. yes

absolutely glorious!!!!!

I am loving every drop
more, more I say
kp

[shimmergal]

58. Maybe we'll get it tomorrow here

in Vegas?

'Course the kids are hoping for snow. We had it one evening last Christmas season. . .

[JI7]

61. i love the rain, i hope we continue to get a lot of it

this is my favorite time of the season. i know a lot of people like socal because of the warm weather we get and the beaches during spring/summer.

but my favorite time has always been when it's cold and raining, cloudy and dark. i even love the beach more when it's like this. i like going to the pier. and sometimes at night when you look out it's just total blackness. probably because the heavy clouds are blocking the moon. and there isn't any light out there. but i love it.

[doodadem]

65. EEK! It's Snowing!

Our light rain just turned into major snow here in the lower Sierra Nevadas, and its sticking.

Very pretty. Our first of the season. This will make the skiers up at the Parks happy.

[MazeRat7]

68. We started coming out of our drought around mid-sept.

The lake I sail on was about 40' below normal, its now only about 15' below normal. All indications are the southern portions of the US are going to have a very wet winter due to El Nino and I for one am ecstatic. I know how it feels to finally see some of the wet stuff falling. Almost surreal after so long with nothing.

Peace,
MZr7

[malaise]

69. Send some to Jamaica

We have a serious drought.

[Nikki Stone1]

70. 9 homes evacuated in Big Tujunga area due to rains (KNX 1070 news)

http://www.knx1070.com/Evacuation-Centers/5837720

[David Zephyr]

87. In 1978, I was in a house in Tujunga that nearly came down.

We woke up and mud was two feet deep and still pouring into the house from the hill in the back, and the owner's dogs were barking to wake us all up.

I was with a "friend" sleeping after a lot of drinking in Chinatown. Quite a night.

[BeHereNow]

101. Madame Wong's?

I loved that place...
Is it still there?

BHN

[David Zephyr]

102. OMG.

Madame Wong's! She died, you know. I used to hang out there in the early days (1978/1979...sort of a blur now before it really got hip) with my beat up Gibson just to play if I could.

The place I was drinking at that fateful night in Chinatown, but close to Phillipe's and Union Station. It was at David Lee's Ye Me Loo's (although the spelling may be wrong). Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt hung out there a lot back then (along with Lucy's El Adobe in East Hollywood). It was one of the oldest bars in Los Angeles at that time. Now gone, too. So sad. Had a great bar.

Did you hang out at Madame Wong's? The stage was something else.

[BeHereNow]

106. Hell yes, a little later than you though- 1984??? Like you said, it's a blur.

Now the Palomino, Raji's, The Music Machine, The Breakaway, Lingerie Club,
to name a few- I played all of those places on a regular basis.

Where did you play?

I took my daughter to The Cat and Fiddle yesterday for lunch.
Ever go there? Ran into an engineer from the Record Plant I knew
way back when.

I hadn't been in years, with the exception of a DU lunch we had
a few years ago.

Speaking of which, aren't we DU for a DU meet up in LA?

BHN

[Nikki Stone1]

73. According to the map, San Diego seems to be getting more than in LA. Can anyone tell?

http://weather.latimes.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=SOX&lat=33.97457886&lon=-118.24745941&num=6


But in the foothills of LA:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/manditory-evacuations-in-some-canyons-with-heavy-rains-predicted-this-afternoon.html

[NMMNG]

75. It even rained in Northern California

:woohoo:

[whistler162]

78. There go the houses, now mobile homes, down the hills

[WhiteTara]

80. drive carefully...they're all crazy out there

and the roads are slick from the first rain!

I'm sure you know...my mother self just popped up there for a minute lol
:hug:

[Vinnie From Indy]

81. It is very interesting to read all the accounts of DU'ers out west

It sounds like many of you live in very beautiful places!

[debbierlus]

90. But, it NEVER rains in Southern California

Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before!

It never rains in California...

But, girl...let me warn yeah....

It pours

MAN, it pours!

(What a set up line)!

:)

[Cleita]

104. I remember back in the fifties when we had regular floods in south

Los Angeles when the rain came down hard. The city finally fixed that by engineering a much better drainage system.

[a la izquierda]

105. yay, CA!

i always liked the rainy season in socal. well, everything but the drivers...meant there'd be snow for boarding in the mountains, and nice running mountain springs in the early summer.

here in oklahoma, we're having drizzle and 33 degrees. dropping to 20 tonight and 12ish tomorrow night. yipes! happily, the texans seem to be staying in and not driving around like drunken monkeys.