How are the LA folks handling the rain?
 

It looks bad from here. How's everyone holding up?

Looks to me like they're having a blast
 

Thanks Kevin, not sure how I missed that thread...

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Has the looting started yet?

LOL, it always looks worse on the news than it is in real life.

A little while ago on the local news, the reporter was reporting live from a mudflow area.
She was telling us all how the water was violently rushing down the road and debris is starting to move too.
The cameraman panned down to a very slight trickle of clear water, maybe 1/4" deep and ONE LEAF.
That was the debris, a leaf. Hope the army corp of engineers can handle a leaf.

I liberated a Fuch from Kevin's shop on Monday afternoon during a break in the rain. Gonna hang it in my garden as a hose reel. Thanks, buddy. SmileWavy

Yesterday I was on the phone with a couple of people in our Irvine office. They were obviously shaken by the thunder that sounded like it was just outside the window.

They could have cared less about the tornado warning though.

About every ten years we get some good rain here, the only thing that makes this so bad is the fires last year. We have had storms that ripped off the end of the pier in Huntington Beach, the water was over my sidewalk four blocks from the beach in down town HB. I am sure there is a lot of water around but I don't see it as anything new/different. Just the fire problem from last year.

You didn't hang it yet???????

You know that saying how a man's house is his castle? So true for me, as my place is currently surrounded by a moat. Waiting 'til that subsides before I venture back into the yard (aka front swimming pool). You don't wanna be driving your Bugatti anywhere near my place for the next few days.

I'll keep that in mind.

I doubt it, we might end up with another Salton sea...

The rain is really not that bad, completely blown out of proportion. I like the rain though so others may disagree and I'm ~ an hour north of L.A.

I remember when I used to live next to a flood control channel in La Verne. I think it was Christmas '88 that it rained so bad that water was sloshing out of the channel. The bottom of the channell was level with our back yard and then it had an 11 foot concrete wall to contain the flow. The other side of the channel was carved out of a hill side.

rumor is you guys actually had a funnel cloud form over the beach.

I'm in Santa Clarita, where are you?

Not to diminish the significance of flood damage... which is real, but LA drivers sure get freaked out by the wet-stuff. It's a series of moving chicanes out there on the freeway...

Normally thats true but for some reason this season seems to be a little better than most. maybe it's just 'cause I've been avoiding the freeways also.

Three to be exact.

Oxnard/Ventura area right by the port Hueneme navy base, a little beach called Silver Strand. I work in Camarillo.

There was an actual tornado that did a little bit of damage up in Goleta, so not just funnel clouds.

California in general tends to overreact to any weather, I remember last year the weekend before christmas when it snowed the closed a good portion of the I5 which my dad and I were going to take to Mammoth. When they opened it up around 1pm there was hardly anything on the side of the road..... I've dirt biked through deeper snow........

LA wasn't so bad, but the drive to Vegas was baaaaddd. I had to leave my bike in Pasadena and get a rental car to get to Vegas. Wind near Barstow was the worst I've ever seen, would have been suicide on the bike. Tumbleweeds were moving as fast as the cars on I-15.

hell we thought you bikers were "TOUGH!" CAPTAIN AMERICA would have eaten those tumbleweeds for breakfast with a smile on his face and swallowed them with budweisers and never spilled a drop on his american flag fuel tank!


i thought YOU were BORN TO BE WILD!


good luck, 2+ inches of rain at my house. at least 3" here at work and the next one is slated for monyana and its gonna be WICKED!

drive/ride safe.

I got in an accident on Sun. My wife was driving her mom's 2002 Lexus ES 300 after a heavy rain and lost control at 30 MPH. At the time of the accident there was only a light rain.

The Accident Totaled the car, the air bags did not deploy. I cannot believe the extent of the damage considering we were going only 30 mph. I know had we been in my Cayenne we would not have lost control.

I cannot believe how many accidents I've seen over the past few days.

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I'm glad I don't live in LA. It sounds gnarly.

You LA guys should move outside the city limits where the weather is much better.

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Does LA have tornado sirens? Do people there know what they are, or do they assume the Japanese are attacking?

Vegas Here! I've never seen so much rain in the 7 years I've lived here..Reminds me of the North East. I guess tomorrow is supposed to be even worse? Thank God for the Michelins though, the rock in the rain..Now if we can only make the retards here drive better in the wet...!

Have you thought about taking lessons?

I used to live in Glendale just south of Montrose, and the Angeles Crest was my playground. I was sad when the fires stripped that range. Now I wonder how bad the mudslides will be.

Early last century, in 1934, there were huge mudslides from the Angeles Crest. It is now called the Pickens Canyon slide. The mud went all the way through LaCrescenta-Montrose, to or past Foothill Blvd. Destroyed 100 houses and killed 45 people.

Giant mud diverters were built after that. I fear they're going to be tested with the combination of El Nino and slopes stripped of vegetation. That area is much more populated now than in 1934. Just to the east, La Canada is stuffed with expensive homes and, I would think, at risk too.

I've had lessons in the rain, I've raced in various conditions...the problem is regardless of how great of a driver you can be, it's everybody else you have to worry about and can't control... Let's face it, driving a 911 with all the SUVs around me in the rain in Vegas, doesn't make me feel any safer and I have always been a proponent of a performance based vehicle to get you out of trouble as opposed to a large car with tons of sheet metal around it that doesn't handle but can withstand a hit. (That would make for a great debate)

No. No tornado sirens. We do have Tsunami sirens in some spots, and lots of dogs to tell us when an earthquake is about to strike.

Mandatory evacuation for all burn areas, though some people opted to stay. :rolleyes:
(Mandatory doesn't mean they force you from your home, btw. The authorities just strongly urge).

I think about ten or so years ago, a landslide buried an entire town on the way to Santa Barbara. One can see remnants of what was once there from the 101 fwy.

La Conchita

They've had a couple of major slides, the first was in 1995. People killed, but folks still live there. Some houses still standing half buried.

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Today is supposed to be the worst. I heard on the radio this morning, it could be the worst storm we've had in 5 years.

We will see.

I just completed approx 1,400 miles over 3 days of the worst weather driving of my entire life. Left LA monday trying to make it to medford, OR in my new ( to me) 73RS clone. Got as far as Redding and then ran into multiple road closures which made it impossible to continue. Due to time constraints and some car trouble I had to return to LA yest . Blasting crosswinds, rain coming down in sheets for hundreds of miles, lightning, fog, visibility near zero in 70-80 mph speeds bracketed by 18 wheelers spraying curtains water, praying that no one is going to panic and slam on the brakes creating a massive pileup and not daring to slowdown for the same reasons.
Finally made it back safely after a 12 hr drive and with not a scratch on the car but with a dead starter motor which had me refueling the car with the engine running...

We got very lucky.

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haven't really driven my baby for several months, 3 months maybe?, couldn't take it any more, I took it out yesterday (wrong day).
Couldn't see shhh. It sits too low. All those modern big trucks/SUVs keep dumping water on my face. And it's too dark, 911's headlights is too bad. All night long, I only see "butts" (trucks butts). Today, I am driving minivan to see from the above. Now, I understand why truck's drivers love to drive next to lady drivers :lol:

This storm was so totally overhyped by the local media.

And now the acting governor has declared a state of emergency so we will get federal funds.

The other 49 states need to pay for el lay to clean up after the rain - great!

I don't drive any different in the rain (unless it is in water of any depth).

I don't understand how so many accidents occur in the rain in SoCal.

yeah I don't see how rain is such a problem. BUT I drive/ride in it all the time. So being accustomed to it makes all the difference I guess.

People's general driving abilities are so marginal even during nice weather, that whenever some adversity is thrown into the mix (such as poor visibility, decreased traction, road debris, puddles, working the windshield wipers and defroster, and the general distraction of the presence of rain--not to mention eating/drinking while working the cellphone, nav system, and radio) there's no reserve driving skill available.

A few things that make it different here, right now we are at about 9 inches of rain for the season, that's a lot for here. The streets usually don't get that much water, when it rains, once in awhile, the streets have an oil slick on them, you get more rain and the streets get washed more often, plus snow and maybe salt. We have drivers that don't get used to wet streets and the drive. We have drivers that never drove in Mexico and now that they are here they are real coboys. First time driving and first time in rain.