Southern California Peas - Hurricane Hilary

I’m in south Orange County. My house gets hit pretty hard when we get Santa Ana winds. My neighbor and I agreed we will probably have our fence knocked down. It is frustrating hearing people say it will not happen or just drizzle. I keep seeing posts that the only time you should take things seriously is when Disneyland closes. All
The suggestions of what to do by the peas is so helpful! I feel prepared thanks to all of you!!!

They announced areas for evacuations north east of us. Most areas will be fine but some are going to see damage. I am tired of those that dismiss this completely and say we will only get a bit of drizzle. Probably the same people that were complaining about too much rain in March and completely forget Valentine’s Day a few years ago - we got at least 7 inches and I spent the day clearing drains and digging a trough for water to move away from our house. Yes most of our area will not see damage but other areas will. Those dismissing it keep mentioning masks and Bud Lite and keep saying that the government is doing this to test their control lol. Yes I live in a red area.

I was expecting rain to have started by now. I think it was originally supposed to start around 4 but it’s been pushed to 1 am. I really hope we get some rain here and am hoping for the 2 inches. That amount won’t cause damage and the ground could use a good soak. I don’t mind if we don’t get the wind but really hope we get the rain. If we don’t get it people here are really going to scream conspiracy.

It shows our area getting the rain around 3AM, and raining pretty much for 24 hours. The worst will be between 3PM and 5PM, with winds up to 40MPH during those two hours. I am kind of glad the brunt of the storm is not at night. The dark makes it more scary.

I agree with you about people downplaying this storm. I know that a lot of our storms do not pan out like they forecast, so I get why people are dismissive about all this. But man, just look at the radar pictures people!

I thought this storm was going to bring cooler weather. It’s 6:30am and 75°. 😩 It’s sooooo sticky. It’s just drizzling in my area of OC with a bit of a breeze but it’s very dark. This is definitely east coast weather.

Yes, humid out there. Yuck. I am used to cold rain storms. We had a good rainfall early this morning. Nothing terrible so far.

The storm is moving fast, which is good because it won’t get stuck over one area. Right now it seems to be tracking close to I-15. People on the internet think what we’ve had so far is it and are making fun of all the “doomsday” forecasts. The storm is still in Baja. Hasn’t even crossed into the US yet.

We cleaned up all of our outdoor furniture, umbrellas, shade sails, and our sons outdoor toys yesterday. It has been steadily raining since early this morning. I put some houseplants outside to get some rain water but I’ll bring them in before the wind picks up. The rain is supposed to get pretty bad in San Diego around 1 pm and stay bad until 5 pm.

I went to Target in Mission Valley yesterday afternoon and it was reminiscent of Covid times, so many shelves were wiped out. SDSU starts classes on Monday, I saw tons of parents and kids getting dorm supplies in addition to storm supplies. Just really hoping we don’t have any power outages today!

We’ve received almost half an inch of rain so far but it stopped about an hour ago. We are still expecting 2.2 inches I think it’s supposed to really hit around 2 here.

Just saw news reports from Baja and they seemed to have been slammed. Hoping for the SoCal Peas to not have as much of a storm as once expected.

1 fatality so far. A family was trying to cross a river in Baja.

We just had a stretch of about an hour of heavy rain. We are about to where we were predicted to be for rain for this storm. Looking at the rate of rain per hour this last bit was the highest I remember seeing in the past.