I was wondering how many KTers were affected by the storms. I hope everyone has their power restored by now. We just don't realize day to day how much lights, gas and water are appreciated. A loss for even a few minutes reminds us.

Sable, I'm glad you have your power back and have your computer up and running. Maybe everyone else will too.

Linda

We're up in N. California (2.5 hours north of Sacramento) and had 86 MPH winds. The big oak trees have been uprooting and crashing into homes. They have such weak root systems, it's easy for them to topple. I have a few 3 year old CA Redwoods that'll have to be re-supported and adjusted, LOL. Our kids' school was actually cancelled due to the winds- it sounded like trains coming through the house! Other than that, we're okay with just remnant winds and gusty rain. Thanks for thinking of us Californians!!

Blessings to all,
Haley

I'm in the East Bay Area. It's nasty, cold, pouring and windy but we haven't had any power outages, thank goodness. My house is toasty at 73 degrees, Grant is sleeping and I'm feeling exceptionally lazy. And we have a surprise bday party to go to tonight - not looking forward to going out in this weather!

Stay safe everyone, especially on the icky unsafe roads.

We lost electricity several times yesterday, for varying periods of time ranging from seconds to several hours. We also had horrible, horrible wind. Right now it is POURING. Normally I love to listen to the rain, but there comes a point when enough is enough, and I'm about at that point. We're supposed to go to my sister's tonight for dinner, and if it weren't for the fact that my niece is visiting from out of town, we'd stay put.

Have a cyber friend from Pacifica and haven't heard from him since the 3rd which is strange.

Pacifica must have been battered, so maybe he's still without power. There are places in the Bay area that are without it even now. Good luck to him.

My GD is in Marysville and they had no power yesterday.She said it came back on around 9 last night.

My GS is in Waterford,near Modesto,and when i talked to him last night he said they hadn't lost power ,but he had gone to the store and got 30 candles,all different sizes,flashlight,cooler and ice and plenty of milk for GGS and other things he thought they might need.

It didn't hit here in Oceanside,san diego cnty til almost midnight,and the big rains didn't come til around 3 a.m.It stopped for a few hours and i went out and cleaned things up,but it's raining again now.Not as bad as N.Ca though.Stay safe everyone.
Kathi

We're ok here ...So Ca...just got rain and it's freezing. A little wind, nothing like up North! We got lot's of wind last week. We did have a major branch of our tree breaqk off last night though...just missed the block wall thankfully! This is really rare for us to be so cold here!

We were fortunate here in our little town but other towns and cities in our county had falling trees and high winds.
We got less than two inches of rain and it was more or less steady and fairly light.
I guess more rain is expected tonight.
Stay safe, everyone!

I watched the weather channel last night as the rain was starting here in Southern California. They said Donner Pass was expecting 10 FEET of snow. Reminds me of the history lesson about the Donner Pass party and being snowed in for an early winter as they were trying to get to California. Starvation and deprivation.

Louise here, checking in...after more than 10" of rain and no power since Friday early morning. I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains, where trees and power lines are down all over. I'm at the laundromat in town, which has wifi.

I don't think we'll get power back for at least another two days. But last night we were keeping warm and toasty. DH was sipping a martini, me a glass of Merlot. One cat in each lap.

kathi mdgd - I live in Yuba City right over the bridge from Marysville - what a small world!

We haven't had power since yesterday morning at 7:00 a.m. May not get it back on today either. We have a friend that lent us a generator today so we have power for now. That's one of the worst storms I've ever seen. Winds were so high. There are so many downed trees all over the place. It's crazy around here.

In Aptos, by me, we have had 5.5 inches of rain and lost power for short periods. The only bad part is I lost 3 panels on my greenhouse, but found them at the end of the 2.5 acres. I can't believe they blew that far. Of course everything was trashed that was inside the greenhouse. We repaired it good enough to weather the next storm but I will have to do some major repairs later. And lots and lots of branches and debris to clean up.
Clare

I had a relative with the Donner party....he went for help early on and only came back after the horrid winter was over. His wife and daughter survived.
What an awful point in history that was....the Donner party.
A calamity of errors.

We are currently remodeling part of our home. As such, the entire contents of our kitchen, dining room and my home office are in cardboard boxes stacked halfway to the roof in one half of our garage. The other half of the garage, front to back, is stacked with our new kitchen cabinets ready to be installed on Monday.

Last night the wind was strong and the rain came down fairly hard. Hard enough to cause our atrium to flood, which in turn seeped water into the back half of the garage.

The rain must have been blowing toward our house as the front of our garage floor was wet as well. How that happens with a fairly new metal, roll-up door with weather stripping, we don't know. All we know is that a few soon to be installed drawers and upper cabinets got wet and swelled, as did the shelves of our very nice 12' bookcase and a few bottom cardboard boxes (which are supporting several others) got wet enough to start to buckle.

As you can imagine, we had to do a lot of shifting and rearranging this morning and will have to see what the contractor says about the damaged cupboards on Monday morning.

Other than that, I am really enjoying the rain! :-)

Jodi-

I am near Reno, we got over 8 inches of snow on Friday night to Sat. Got a couple more since then. Today is Sunday. We are to get a little bit more then Rain all week, so then we look at flooding around here, since all the snow melting and the fires we had and nothing to keep the mud from flowing. It should be an interesting week to say the least. We had one levee break up North of Reno. No power outages that I heard of. We shall see what we end up with. In my neighborhood, we will be fine, we are on a bit of higher ground than some areas around here, closer to the mountains. I hope we don't have bad flooding like we did 97... lots of homes were a mess.