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[voyager]

Labor Day 2023, Nevada flooding.    EVELYN!   Please check in.   Hoping you are safe and dry. 

[StephanieL]

I have a friend at Burning Man and my cousin lives in Vegas.  Oy.

[Evelyn]

I'm good. Thank you for checking on me.

This is our yearly monsoon season. It used to be like this every year before we hit the major drought we are still in (yes, deserts can have droughts). My area got +/- 2" of rain in under 2 hours. We are on high ground and meet code that requires being able to deal with 100 year floods. Other areas got hammered. The washes are at very high levels. But not overrun.

The ground is so dry it can't absorb the volume of rain before low lying areas flood. And older areas that were built before the code are in bad shape. Especially some areas of East Las Vegas and (small areas) of the Strip. Also the underground tunnels where homeless people live (especialy during the summer trying to avoid the heat). Thankfully the city has been strong about evacuating them when possible heavy rainfall is predicted. An example of how dangerous the floods can be...a few years ago a brand new firetruck was out doing  a swift water rescue and got swept away. The firemen had to be rescued by a helicopter. 

[AaronS]

glad you’re ok.

[hollywood10]

So coming from a place where the media proclaims every rain as the storm of the century, I have to know if you New Yorkers are seriously having a 1,000 year storm. Really?  If so, good luck.

[MitchW]

Yeah, it rained...a fucking lot.

Actually, we had the rainiest September in something like 100 years.  And evidently it rained as much yesterday as it usually does the whole month.

If we could only pipe this water to the desert southwest.

Edited September 30, 2023 by MitchW

[StephanieL]

See the Surrealism of Everyday Life thread for the current and upcoming weather in my part of the Bay Area.  Sheesh.

[voyager]

High of 91 here today.    TOO HOT for me.    No relief until Sunday/Monday.

[Wilfrid]

Oh, it just got wet and windy here. I went to the street and my dashiki got soaked.

If bad here, worse elsewhere I imagine.

[StephanieL]

The wind gusts here are crazy.  Lots of local reports of downed trees, as well as at least one downed traffic light.

[Wilfrid]

Very selfishly, I hope California gets it act together before my birthday trip in early March.

[hollywood]

5 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Very selfishly, I hope California gets it act together before my birthday trip in early March.

So far in SoCal the atmospheric river seems oversold, but it is very wet and windy.

[Sneakeater]

Good luck!

[StephanieL]

22 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Very selfishly, I hope California gets it act together before my birthday trip in early March.

I think the worst of it will be gone by then.

Edited February 6, 2024 by StephanieL

[StephanieL]

17 hours ago, hollywood said:

So far in SoCal the atmospheric river seems oversold, but it is very wet and windy.

Hope things remain OK for you.

[hollywood]

Thanks we don't need a real disaster.  Our politicos are having too much fun being heroes in the current situation.

[voyager]

Went to our foothill sanctuary for some spring weather.    Got it, but not as hoped.    It started snowing as we arrived and dropped 4" in an hour.   Husband shoveled the deck, but this fell overnight.   It's snowing now.   I was planning to  pop down the hill to the village store for eggs, but that's so not going to happen now or maybe for several days as our road is not high priority of the snowplows.

[bloviatrix]

I think that's more than we got in NY all winter.

 

[StephanieL]

Dang.  Not going to complain about yesterday's hail then.

[bloviatrix]

Spectacular day at the New York Botanical Garden.

 

[MitchW]

7 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

Spectacular day at the New York Botanical Garden.

Reminding me that we need to use our membership more!

[bloviatrix]

@MitchW - this is the best time of year to go.

[StephanieL]

Good lord, triple digits in October in my part of the East Bay.

[hollywood]

After much variability it appears spring has come to LA (also some purported billion dollar budget shortfall).  It's sunny and around 70 in the day and cooler at night.  Occasionally there's light precipitation, but really light thus far.  Traffic at rush hour on the freeways remains a clusterfuck (is everyone heading to Costco or Sam's for toilet paper and eggs?).

Folks in the biz worry about tax credits and runaway productions.  And there is a strike by video game actors who worry they are being screwed by producers and AI.

Some gloat about the inferior production quality (those wigs! that lighting!) and poor casting (why do so many men look alike? why aren't there more extras?) and acting (why is Clifton Davis somnambulant except when he's reading from a teleprompter?) in "Beyond the Gates." Others fear the viewing public will be satisfied with mediocrity.  Meanwhile, Tyler Perry adds to his riches via his studio rentals.

[hollywood]

Earthquake in New York/New Jersey?  You know you have to pay licensing fees to California for these events.