So.....bangshifters in Cali staying dry?

[Monk]

How's that limo holding up Scott?

Anybody getting the mud slides?

Tonight's news didn't show a pretty
picture

[66gg1tnc]

Re: So.....bangshifters in Cali staying dry?

Up here in Ridgecrest, we've gotten 3/4 of an inch on the valley floor.....1-2 on the hills and southern Sierra's. May not seem like much but in the desert it'll flash flood quick! I have ponds forming in my yard and the dirt roads leading out to pavement have 6" to a foot or more in the dips and holes. Some are getting real soft on the bottom. We have a 1' to 3' deep layer of concrete like clay and sand with loose sand and gravel on top that makes up the dirt roads around here. More than 3-4 days of steady rain can soften them up and turn them in to mud bogs.

No, the county does not and will not maintain the roads around my house. Us locals have to.....that would be me as I'm the only one with a tractor and a big enough sled.

[Loren]

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Oh, we're soaked here in NE San Diego. Payback for the gorgeous 80F days last week... :D

[Monk]

Re: So.....bangshifters in Cali staying dry?

Up here in Ridgecrest, we've gotten 3/4 of an inch on the valley floor.....1-2 on the hills and southern Sierra's. May not seem like much but in the desert it'll flash flood quick! I have ponds forming in my yard and the dirt roads leading out to pavement have 6" to a foot or more in the dips and holes. Some are getting real soft on the bottom. We have a 1' to 3' deep layer of concrete like clay and sand with loose sand and gravel on top that makes up the dirt roads around here. More than 3-4 days of steady rain can soften them up and turn them in to mud bogs.

No, the county does not and will not maintain the roads around my house. Us locals have to.....that would be me as I'm the only one with a tractor and a big enough sled.

News talked about 60 mph mud slides

[66gg1tnc]

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Haven't heard that but, yeah. A debris filled flash flood shooting out of a canyon mouth across a road can ruin your day real quick. A few years back, one hit Death Valley.....they found a 1 ton van a mile or so away from the road half buried in the river bottom after a flash flood....Not sure if they ever found everybody that was in it or not.

My wife just called an hour ago.....the street behind my house now has a 3/4T 4X4 Suburban stuck up to the rocker panels in a "sippy hole" I drove through coming to work tonight. Guess I won't be going that way on the way home!

[Gary 351C]

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It's been raining here for 2 days straight, I've almost forgotten what the sun looks like . . . .yellow, right?

This is what happens when it rains real hard in Ridgecrest, I'm sure Rob remembers this.
We lived at Norma and Los Flores and it turned into a river. Stay dry Rob!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1cwyt-oc8&feature=related

[66gg1tnc]

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I remember that! We used to live over on East Wilson. Our street never got that bad but it did get curb to curb a few times.

[Scott Liggett]

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Everything is water logged including me. I'm on my third set of clothes. Its been raining nonstop since Friday. They say we have two more days of it.

My neighbors have renamed Hughes Ave to Lake Hughes as it floods easily.

Most of the news stories of mud slides were from the areas that burned over the last couple years. I live in the basin, not near any hills, I dont have much to worry about.

[Chassisman]

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I've got between 18-24" of sand bags keeping the water out of our shop. It's holding for now...but they're calling for heavier rains tuesday and wednesday.......UGH !!!!!

[ls7gto]

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Good luck guys....

[stage1scott]

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THIS SUCKS!! after living in Ohio for 7 years before coming to mostly perfect socal, the occasional deluge still depresses me. we have a small waterfall/pond in our backyard, and I have to pump it every 6 hours or so to keep the water out of the house. not exactly life threatening, just a pita. OTOH, no plowing/shoveling here.

[horsewidower]

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Things have gotten better here after staying dry yesterday. Sunday I woke up to small stream flooding and some roads impassable. We had half the horse paddocks turn into a lake.

Might be dry today, up here, and then rain like hell until Christmas.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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the gang bangers can't do their crimes

[SuperBuickGuy]

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the gang bangers can't do their crimes

the viaducts are clean ;D

[Scott Liggett]

Re: So.....bangshifters in Cali staying dry?

The LA River, aka the drainage ditch, is full. Downtown LA has gotten close to 8 inches of rain since Friday. Our annual rainfall averages 15 inches. We have half already and this storm ain't done yet. Any politician that utters the word drought this month will thrown off the 6th street bridge into the LA River.