They said it would be the worst, most severe storm in years, and that we should hunker down and prepare - in tone the suggestion was that we should prepare to die! It's that bad of a storm!!
This is the message we see from the authorities as we are driving around on all major freeways:
Severe storm? Really? We are talking lots of rain and some wind. It snows here once every ten or fifteen years. It's below freezing only occasionally in the winter. Please.
It's like they want us to panic. The high school my kid goes to was considering closing for the day. I had a CPAC meeting that actually was rescheduled because of storm fear.
STORMAGEDDON!!
This morning, after the Stormageddon was supposed to already be here, I awoke to nothing but some wind. No rain at home at all.
STORMAGEDDON!!
Driving to work, some scattered raindrops on the windshield. Still windy. The road still basically dry. Multiple stores closed in fear. Traffic really light because, I guess, people are staying home from work, huddled around their flashlights and freeze dried food.
STORMAGEDDON!!
Now that I'm at work, it's raining, but not particularly hard, and nothing like the torrential downpour that was threatened. I'm totally disappointed I'm not losing friends and relatives to the fury of Mother Nature.
No snow, no sleet, no freezing rain. The lights are still on. What a crock.
They hype snowstorms that way here. We just look out the window in the morning......
ReplyDeleteAt least that's snow. It has to be below freezing to snow, so you could actually be uncomfortable outside. Here, it's just rain. Pleasant, cleansing rain.
DeleteFor what it's worth a few more miles south of you, it's 68 degrees and dry as a bone. Lightly scattered clouds. I think that I'll bag work for the day and go to the beach.
DeleteMan, that's the plan.
Deletei was in san diego in 1978 when a "pineapple express" set up...2-3 days rain..2-3 days dry..repeat. after 3 months every time it sprinkled, the rivers flooded. bridges and roads washed out..several folks drowned....if another express has set up...oh, boy am i glad i moved to the east coast
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80's one came in late spring. Three days of warm torrential rain on a full snow pack. That was the closest Sacramento ever came to going down. They actually keep a shift of firemen over to prepare to blow the levees with dynamite to send the American River around town. If it had rained another three hours, they would have been required to take that action to save downtown. This, on the other hand, is no Pineapple Express (so far).
DeleteThis storm so far has be a dud. It has been raining here for 8 hrs.... We have received just over 2" of rain. Back in the spring of 1982 when I was living in the Sierras (7000') we had a storm that dropped 17' of snow in 8 days. 8' of that 17' fell in 48 hrs. It was amazing to see that much snowfall in such a short time.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a severe storm! I hope you had a good snow shovel, or better yet, a bulldozer.
DeleteWe did a lot of shoveling that week. All the cars in the parking lots became just little bumps in the snow. Unless you remembered exactly where you parked your car, you ended up digging out several "bumps in the snow" before you found your car. It was at least 2 weeks before we found our garbage can. Caltrans actually closed the highway for two days because they could not keep up on plowing the road. It was quite an adventure, but I was much younger at that time. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda sorry I missed this post yesterday.
ReplyDeleteUp here, at this end, we got two inches in 8 hours and the winds gusted into the 60s.
BTW - the pomegranate jelly is scrumptious.
Thanks again.
My pleasure, Uncle Skip.
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