California P's - ready for the rain?

I'm surprised you haven't had any rain. It woke me in the night and was still pouring when we got up at 6. Poor DS almost took me up on my offer to drive him and, to my absolute shock, took an umbrella! We have a lull right now so I took the pup out for a nice long walk.

As someone who lived in the PNW most of my life, rain isn't the problem, but volume of rain with ground that can't absorb it is. And drivers that don't slow down (kind like how a little snow creates havoc in Portland and Seattle). I've never hydroplaned until living in southrn CA and that was definitely my scariest driving moment.

There are big problems with our school designs that don't work when it rains. I've said it before, but our classrooms open to the outside and there are uncovered paths/sidewalks instead of halls between them. The cafeterias are completed open air with a few tables having shade canopies that don't really keep anyone dry. Elementary kids hang their backpacks and coats on hooks outside the classroom and there is no designated spot for them to move in if it rains. Kids that buy their lunch walk outside to the cafeteria, pick up their lunch tray and carry it back to the classroom in the rain. Teachers hate having the kids eat in the classrooms, but there is no other covered area. It is the same at the HS, except the kids carry any backpacks & coats into class regularly so the only problem is the smell of wet teens building during the day.

Did you see Mario Lopez lost half his Hollywood backyard in a mudslide onto the road below after last week's rain? I can't image how much more will be washed away this weekend.





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Oh, that's good news Lucy! yay!

I saw that about Mario's house, that was crazy! I know it was just the backyard, but if I were Courtney I'd be in a hotel until summer! I swear that's too close for comfort to me, the rest of that hill can come down, we've seen it many times before.

I'll never forget what happened in La Conchita (north of Ventura) in that horrible mudslide that killed families and engulfed part of the town. Unbelievable to me there are over 300 people still living there under that hillside. They can't get insured, I know it's beautiful there but come on.

Sunny here in the OC for now. I learned how to lower the pool water level in case we get a lot of rain tonight. It was probably about time to learn that skill, but I actively avoid anything pool related because that's dh's territory. Unfortunately, he's traveling.

I know, right, Colleen? I do too.

I sure hope a lot of the residents that live butted up against the hillside are on highest alert. But then, the slides are so insidious, they just start and I imagine a large rumble but by then it's too late to get out of harm's way.

I'm in SF today and the sun is peeking through but the rain is on the horizon

Wait-what? 65 degrees and heaters?

Sorry to see your fence down, kristi.

I drove by it about an hour before it slid.  I was at school in Santa Barbara at the time and now dh was my fiance and living in Santa Monica, I was headed down for the weekend to visit.  I ended up having to take a ferry (whale watching boat that they repurposed) from ventura to SB to get back to school and work. 

Northern California now.  We have had more prolonged (12+ hours) power outages in the last month and a half that in the last 8 years.  The hail/rain that came down around 5:30 the morning was deafening in my bedroom - there is a skylight above my bed.  I am hoping that the city gets a break on Saturday...I'm headed up for the women's march and I don't have a raincoat!! I have been looking for the last week and can't find one anywhere!

Well of course! Anything below 70 is cold and below 60 is freezing! 😉

We are just a bunch of pussies.  There, I said it, and I'll own it. If it's sprinkling, and the temperature drops below 65, I am miserable. Go home, make some soup, get under the covers miserable.

Not California but I think we're getting the same storm tomorrow. It's been wet off and on. You wouldn't think it floods here but it sure does and most time if is heavy rain my mudroom floods. I'll still take it over snow any day!

I think most people don't really understand that we regularly go several MONTHS with out rain much less a significant storm especially in Southern California. Plus with the drought it has been even more rare in the last few years.

So, I'm kicking myself today because I should've gone to the market yesterday when it wasn't raining so much.