.75" of rain in 2 hours!

8 years ago

El Nino seems to be making good on its promise. 1.6" a few days ago with a threatened "up to three inches between Friday and Monday". Half of that has fallen in the first two hours of rainfall from that threat. This is going to be "interesting"....

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nikthegreek
8 years ago
plus another .75 in the other 2 hours makes 1.5" in four hours. Huh? Sorry, I couldn't resist! I'm just jealous that's all.
jacqueline9CA
8 years ago
It has been raining here steadily for 36 hours without stopping. As of yesterday at 5PM, we had gotten 4.8 inches of rain in the prior 6 days. I am looking forward to see what last night and today's total adds to that. Lovely, but believe it or not, this is not at all unusual here in Northern Calif when we have "normal" winters. All of our reservoirs in the county I live in, which are local and there are about 6 of them on one mountain, are spilling and have been for several days.

A little further North of us, the Russian River is expected to reach flood stage tomorrow or the next day. The news folks have been doing "man on the street" interviews up there the last 2 days, and have been disappointed at the reaction. It is so funny - anyone who is local does not think this is a big deal - they are used to it. The huge summer homes perched above the river all have lower levels which used to be routinely emptied of their summer deck type furniture every Fall. Then the river would come up & in, and then in the Spring people would just wash out those levels. The only people who are surprised are the tourists and the news folks. One local man said: "you just wait - this weekend it will be great!".

They are even doing something in some places I have not heard of them doing for at least 5 years - releasing water from some of the reservoirs for flood prevention, which was one of the main reason those reservoirs were built in the first place.

Jackie
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roseseek
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8 years ago
Wow! That's great, Jackie! Sorry for the double post. I have no idea how that happened.

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