How are the LA folks handling the rain?

[71T Targa]

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

[KevinP73]

Could this the the last days of SoCal?

[71T Targa]

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

[masraum]

Kevin's Avatar is too small.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Has the looting started yet?

[sammyg2]

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.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Has the looting started yet?

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.

[71T Targa]

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.

[BeyGon]

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.

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by Noah930

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.

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

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by KevinP73

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.

[BRPORSCHE]

Originally Posted by Noah930

You don't wanna be driving your Bugatti anywhere near my place for the next few days.

I'll keep that in mind.

[LSA]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

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 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.

[legion]

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.

[flatbutt]

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

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by LSA

I like the rain though so others may disagree and I'm ~ an hour north of L.A.

I'm in Santa Clarita, where are you?

[grudk]

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...

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by grudk

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.

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

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

Three to be exact.

[LSA]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I'm in Santa Clarita, where are you?

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........