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Unlike Bobby, I love the rain

The burning shore looks to be extinguished for now. Hallelujah! 

Fingers crossed the hillsides hold. Good luck. 

Now with big rains coming they're worried about massive mud slides in the burned out areas.

Suburban life has some advantages.

Dibs on Atmospheric River for a band name, if nobody snagged it yet.

^^^ Better than bombogenesis?

When it rains it pours:

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You've all been asleep and you will not believe me!

Heavy rains trigger debris flow at sites of recent wildfires in Northern California

Debris flows are occurring and already causing road closures in California on Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service, as heavy rains moved into the area near sites of recent wildfires. The NWS advised that it may be too late to evacuate, but do not attempt to cross a debris flow. Instead, take shelter in the highest floor of your home.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1407438299686346755

^^^^ I'm at 2000 ft on east edge of Sana Cruz Mtns and we are getting gusts around 40 knots ... like this for hours ....

What are the freeways like today? 280> 1 or 101 North...

We've had about 4 inches here in the last 24.  We only got 12 inches all last yr.

Mount Tam has recorded over 6" of Rain since midnight last night.

I'd be wary about any route, but especially Hwy 1.

Last night (returning from Frost), traffic was halted on the elevated section of 880 over downtown Oakland.  Major flooding (cars could go through slowly).

Be safe out there!

82mph gust in Newport OR today, several squall lines crossing the Willamette Valley at the moment, and the low is still hundreds of miles offshore (35' + waves)

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6 inches of rain on Mt. Tamalpias in 12 hours produces this...

One hundred feet from the front door; we've got about 2 feet of clearance left. (Water is usually 4 feet under the bridge.

And the heavy stuff will be from 5-Midnight.

Gonna be a long stressful night.

Gulf Coasters hopefully have flood insurance.  Is there such a thing as fire and mudslide home owners insurance? Curious. 

Best 'o luck, west coasters.

Send some of that rain down south! Just some of it though...

Best of luck, LCL, and all the left-coasters. 

Part of my city is evacuating due to flooding, but I think I'm safe. I get a nixle flash flood alert about every hour, but the flooding is mainly near the creeks, and we're about ten blocks from the nearest creek. 

That's a sweet swirl cloud Noods! How's your mitt healing?

I pulled the stitches out myself on Friday (Doc changed our visit to telemed), that was fun...  but it's doing much better, starting to get my grip back!   

Salem OR had a wind gust of 57mph (53mph official gust at the airport)

Meanwhile, multiple tornado / waterspout warning on the north coast / WA coast, don't think I've ever seen so many at once before; 

 

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Here's some 24 hour rainfall totals in CA;

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=sto&issuedby=STO&product=P...

 

From the NWS in Sacramento;
Through 8 pm, the rain continues and the Sacramento (City) precipitation total so far today is 4.84 inches. This now places us solidly in 2nd place for the all-time record daily rainfall since record keeping began back in 1877! Stay tuned for updates and stay safe.

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12.6" of rain here in Kentfield/Larkspur which almost gets the most rain in Marin being in the immediate shadow of Mount Tam. My yard is totally flooded.....

In a matter of days we went from setting the all time record for the most days in a row without rain to breaking the all time record for the most rain in a 24 hour period. 5.44 inches in Sacramento.

Grateful for the rain..however, according to the models most of CA it will experience yet another drought.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046313870/la-nina-winter-weather-us-temp...

One big storm or even a series of big storms won't break the drought. It was near comedy when a few western states declared an end to the drought a few years ago. This one is merely part of an ongoing 30 year trend of hot & dry. 

Hard to ignore the fact that Lake Mead has dropped over 50 feet in the current water year.

POURING In VTA CTY Right Now !

To bad most of this rain will be swept back to sea.

Huge fuckin' bummer! It's never going to rain again!!!!

Only the lawnmower ban will save us now.

Hope Local and his place is okay. And all y'all. 

Thanks Slick. We were super close. Had it been a little higher tide, say in Dec/Jan, we would have been screwed.

Hopefully the whole winter isn't like this, but it really now goes from one extreme to the other around here.

The final tally on Mt. Tamalpias (we basically live at the base of it), was almost 17 inches in less than 2 days.

The third-biggest storm ever recorded in the Bay Area, in terms of total rainfall and wind speeds.

Pretty wild here Sunday!

Good luck to those affected.

Here on the northern gulf coast 6" of rain is Tuesday.