It's too windy to sleep, so here I am instead.

Our yard's a bit of a mess, yah?


The Storm of the Century, it's starting!


(not my pics)

It's growing!

 

But I have it pretty easy.

 

 

 

 

...a storm can never compete with...

Wind or rain, there is always time for BoobieMovies.

Keep safe LC.

Floods like that happen every single year here in Austria, in the lower regions. (Not all of us live on mountain tops) Sometimes its more dramatic than usual though.

 

 

Be strong LC, be strong. Remember that after rain there is always the sun.

@Woldan ... yeah. Every time there's a storm like this, certain areas get river flooding (sometimes pretty bad), and sometimes landslides in the hills but the general "panic/news" is always a huge over-reaction. They are closing a big/main SF road tho...something about a levy flooding maybe. Not sure.

 

Be strong LC, be strong. Remember that after rain there is always the sun.

I was not one of the lucky schools that closed for the storm.  My wife did stay home, which is nice.

Read they haven't closed that many schools in over a decade or something?

 

I suppose California has so little severe weather in most areas/times that anything out of the ordinary seems extraordinary.

 

Anyway...hope anyone in the areas that are hit with actual flooding stay safe. Myself, I think I'm going out to play in the puddles for a bit. Camera/video in tow. I'll stay away from major roads/won't be going far, however. It's madness out there.

California and Rain - sounds like Georgia and Snow.

So much telecommuting today. BART ridership was the least crowded I've been on in a while.

 

The crowd apparently paid heed to the talking heads on the morning news shows

 

Yeah, this storm is a bit...overstated for now.

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Germany somehow can't figure out how2snow despite the fact that we get snow every year. The result is traffic and delays out the butt.

lulz.

SF Gate blurb: Are we storm wimps

 

Also:

 

 

Funniest thing on the news: a not-tall femalereporter standing on dry land by a deep puddle, who then proceeded to step into puddle, talking about how water came up higher than her ankles (as an example of how much rain).

Fingers crossed for mass SJW drownings...I probably shouldn't have said that. Hope everyone is fine, even if don't like them and they want to ruin video games.

Heh.

 

To be a little fair, our infrastructure is generally poorly equipped in many areas for stormy weather. Drains, power, housing design, soil consistency etc. Which is why a little storm can knock our power out and cause minor flooding via backed up storm drains in no time, if rain is constant for a day.  3-5 inches over a day or two can be a fair percentage of annual city rainfall, and the one time I recall this area having significant flooding (parked cars high-flooded height) was from 7-10" of rain over 3 or 4 days, I think. Maybe it was less...it was over 3 decades ago, barely remember.

I was more worried about the wind, but that died down fast.

This rain better not disappoint or my cover/reworking of The Dead Kennedys will be for nothing. I call it "California unter Alles."

Dagmar the weather female just told me down here we're on the destination end of the Pineapple Express, a storm-tail moisture pathway directly from Hawaii. I believe her, all day the sky was full of weird clumpy clouds barreling under super-high gray blankets. About an inch of rain expected tomorrow, she said, red dress straining slightly in all the right places.   

Sure, it's not as spectacularly awful as East Coast storms, but for West Coast standards, it's pretty out-of-the-ordinary and even extreme.

 

People kayaking down streets and to Safeway in Santa Rosa.

Manholes being blown off in Mission street, water shooting up twenty feet or so.

 

Even here, in Redwood City, where the bay is right in back of us, the winds and the rain are pretty hardcore.

 

So yeah. While it is fun to exaggerate and make fun of us, it's not like the fuss is over nothing.

 

A lot of cars are underwater.

Well, there's a record drought in the state. They should be thankful.

And we are.

 

It's honestly a double-edged sword.

Must be a great time for some windsurfing though.

I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain.