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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 7:47:31 GMT
Hope you guys are holding up okay. It's looking pretty soggy up there. Stay safe.
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Post by lucyg on Jan 1, 2023 7:53:39 GMT
Some dumbasses out there are setting off fireworks, even though it’s raining. (This used to be a legal fireworks town, and old habits die hard.) Happy New Year.  |
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 8:19:39 GMT
I'm hearing them down here as well, and it's raining.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Jan 1, 2023 8:20:06 GMT
Very rainy here, maybe 4 to 5 inches. One window started leaking indoors so we must get that fixed. We had other couples over, we celebrated NYs at 1030 and called it an evening it was fun.
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Post by finaledition on Jan 1, 2023 10:49:40 GMT
We got 1.5 inches which doesn’t sound like a lot, but there’s a lot of local flooding. The street into my neighborhood is barricaded due to how deep the water is. Drainage ditches which are usually dry have crested banks. Police are out trying to make sure certain areas are avoided due to the depth of water.  Drainage canal on right is level with sidewalk. Left is the street. Never seen anything like it. |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jan 1, 2023 15:25:41 GMT
I'm between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. We aren't in any danger but the town just east of us has some evacuation orders with water going into houses. We've gotten so much rain during the week and this week we're supposed to get more.
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Post by ToniW on Jan 1, 2023 15:34:20 GMT
Happy New Year! I got about 8 alerts yesterday. My son said he passed 4 wrecks going home and 2 going to work and there was a road closure on our want to a birthday/New Year's party. There were also a couple of local flooded parking lots posted on Facebook, too.
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Post by lavawalker1 on Jan 1, 2023 16:10:01 GMT
I live in East Contra Costa County. Lots of local flooding out here on the farms and farm roads!
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Post by calimom on Jan 1, 2023 16:42:55 GMT
East Bay here. We have a seasonal creek on our property and it was raging yesterday. Drainage problem from a neighbor compounded things so eventually when the storms pass we will have a big mud clean up to do. But I got lots of exercise shoveling yesterday and the situation still pales in comparison to the east coast blizzards.
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Post by gramma on Jan 1, 2023 17:00:41 GMT
Here in Sacramento the wind blew so hard it sounded like a train coming through the house. We have about 3 inches of water standing in the back yard. But no loss of power or cable.
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Post by ntsf on Jan 1, 2023 17:19:27 GMT
there were a lot of traffic hazards around us (closed roads, landslides, down trees) but we just stayed home and watched it rain. water in our basement, (a little bit) but not surprising. over 5.5 inches of rain..
this morning it is clear.. but the storm door is open and only tuesday is supposed to be nice next week.
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Post by leeny on Jan 1, 2023 17:48:11 GMT
We hunkered down inside and even our dog didn't want to go out! We are throwing our Mom a surprise 80th birthday party on Saturday and I've got fingers crossed it won't be as bad as the weather folks are predicting.
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Post by psoccer on Jan 1, 2023 18:04:09 GMT
Not quite Bay Area, but Northern CA. We had a lot of downed trees in our town, and parts of the town were without electricity. My friend had a tree go through the roof and into her son's room, all are fine. Lots of flooding in the new subdivisions. Usually our street floods at the end, if we get super heavy rainfall but that didn't happen. I am going to spend some time today picking up my backyard, and then wait for the rain tomorrow. I am glad to hunker down at home.
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 20:58:17 GMT
A friend up in Belmont sent a video of his apartment complex. There is a backhoe floating in the parking lot. They suggested his complex evacuate, but he and most others on the third floor stayed. He did move his car to higher ground.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jan 1, 2023 21:25:16 GMT
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday:  Same trail, today:  |
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 22:00:46 GMT
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday: Same trail, today: Down in So Cal today we have beautiful blue skies and snatch you bald wind. |
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 22:02:23 GMT
Very sad to see hwy 9 collapsed just south of Felton. Felton is one of our favorite places to visit. I'm guessing that will take awhile to fix.
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Post by pantsonfire on Jan 1, 2023 22:05:57 GMT
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday: Same trail, today: Down in So Cal today we have beautiful blue skies and snatch you bald wind. My area of southern Ca has had rain since Saturday. As well as wind and crazy conditions up in the local mountains. |
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Post by Sarah*H on Jan 1, 2023 22:12:40 GMT
We're flying into Sacramento on Thursday and I need to move my daughter into her dorm on Friday. Current forecast is... rain. Then more rain. Then some rain. Then a chance of rain.
I'm really happy about the implications of this for the drought; when we were there in September it was heartbreaking to see everything so dead and dry, the rice fields abandoned, etc. But dd & I are doing this dorm move in on our own and it's about a 1/4 mile walk between the closest parking lot and her dorm. I don't even own a raincoat, lol!
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 22:18:30 GMT
pantsonfire, we had pretty heavy rain all day yesterday. Up until then it's been sort of a heavy drizzle, the kind that is good for our plants, but not so great for the filling of reservoirs.
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Post by ntsf on Jan 1, 2023 22:20:35 GMT
I have a friend who lives in boulder creek.. was able to get out via back roads and charge her phone. I have another friend who has a cabin in paradise park by felton--mandatory evacuation. her cabin is on higher ground so I hope it is safe..
nice day.. but rain every day in near future..
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Post by malibou on Jan 1, 2023 22:22:14 GMT
Sarah*H, I wonder if they have carts available to help haul stuff to the dorms. That sounds like a very no fun task.
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Post by seaexplore on Jan 1, 2023 23:23:27 GMT
We're flying into Sacramento on Thursday and I need to move my daughter into her dorm on Friday. Current forecast is... rain. Then more rain. Then some rain. Then a chance of rain. I'm really happy about the implications of this for the drought; when we were there in September it was heartbreaking to see everything so dead and dry, the rice fields abandoned, etc. But dd & I are doing this dorm move in on our own and it's about a 1/4 mile walk between the closest parking lot and her dorm. I don't even own a raincoat, lol! Not needed. That's how you know who the tourists are. Same as umbrellas. |
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Post by seaexplore on Jan 2, 2023 0:49:00 GMT
I'm western Calaveras County. We have had our local lake increase by 55' in depth since November 1 with 36 of those feet in the last week! I'm loving it so much because it's our drinking water and our summer recreation water. We were sitting at 14% capacity on Nov.1, now we're at 38%!
Flooding has been happening around me on the low lying roads and along creeks, but we live at the top of a hill so we've been spared. My kids went to the pond that formed at the vacant lot next door yesterday with pool floats and were rafting around on it. The homes along the golf course had some water in them because the local creek floods when we get massive amounts of rain.
Today? Sunny skies and it's all starting to dry out. My kids and the neighborhood kids were all out playing in the pond again with the pool floats in bathing suits. They ended up at one of the houses playing in their hot tub by the end of the day. LOL.
We're getting ready for round 2 of the wet stuff this week.
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Post by lucyg on Jan 2, 2023 1:12:19 GMT
We're flying into Sacramento on Thursday and I need to move my daughter into her dorm on Friday. Current forecast is... rain. Then more rain. Then some rain. Then a chance of rain. I'm really happy about the implications of this for the drought; when we were there in September it was heartbreaking to see everything so dead and dry, the rice fields abandoned, etc. But dd & I are doing this dorm move in on our own and it's about a 1/4 mile walk between the closest parking lot and her dorm. I don't even own a raincoat, lol! For whatever it’s worth, I checked the local forecast about an hour ago and it’s supposed to be dry on Friday. Dammit, now I just checked again, and it says 30% chance of rain on Friday. Whatever. Ignore me. |
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Post by bc2ca on Jan 2, 2023 1:22:10 GMT
We have had a little bit of everything except sunshine and snow today. Gray overcast, drizzle, showers, wind, downpours, etc., on repeat. The really fun part was dodging waterlogged tumbleweed stopped on the freeway during a downpour.  At one point, LEOs were using traffic breaks to slow drivers down. Thankfully, it looks like we get a 24 hour dry off before doing it again. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Jan 3, 2023 15:54:37 GMT
Get ready Bay Area peas - sfgate has an article that the rain coming tomorrow is going to be a whopper with widespread flooding predicted.
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 3, 2023 18:26:23 GMT
I don’t think I have ever seen them use a 5 before. Maybe they did way back when.
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Post by leeny on Jan 3, 2023 18:28:44 GMT
I don’t think I have ever seen them use a 5 before. Maybe they did way back when. I thought Drew said this morning they've had that scale for 7 years and haven't ever used a 5. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 3, 2023 19:46:30 GMT
From Yahoo…
“As it continues to clean up from a thorough drenching over New Year’s weekend, San Francisco is bracing for an even bigger storm that meteorologists warn could be catastrophic.
The National Weather Service’s Bay Area office issued a frank and dire warning to citizens in a statement, saying the storm, which is currently forecast to begin peaking Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, could bring about flooding and the loss of life.
"To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while," the warning read. "The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down (potentially full groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life. This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously."
A flood watch has been issued for the entire Bay Area from 4 a.m. Wednesday through 4 p.m. Thursday, with some areas expected to get up to 10 inches of rain. Wind gusts are expected to hit 50 mph, equivalent to a moderate tropical storm. Those are expected to peak between Wednesday afternoon and midnight.
The storms come after downtown San Francisco saw 5.46 inches of rain on New Year’s Eve, the second-wettest day the city has ever seen.
Despite those rains and the ones expected this week, however, the state will remain in a drought, following three of the driest years on record.
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com”
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