I know. DS lives up there and has to commute to Oakland several times a week. Not fun.

Wow! That's scary.

I think some of that is heading our way for tomorrow. *whimper*

What a mess! We have definitely had a brutal winter in California.

While we were on our vacation, snow and wind caused a large tree on the power company's easement which runs through our property to break in half and fall on the power line. The power line snapped and I am not sure how long that live line was arcing and sparking before our nearest neighbor noticed smoke coming from the direction of our house. He called the utility and they came out on their snowcat to plow the road so that their trucks could get in and fix the line.

The highway the runs though my area has been closed off and on for months due to mud and rock slides. The road people thought they had it pretty much fixed and were near to re-opening the road when this big boy slid down the mountain and landed on the road:

Needless to say, the road was closed again and is now open on and off to controlled traffic. No idea when it will re-open for good.

I remember years back when storms took good portions of California Highway 1. It's the scenic coastal route. About a season past the storms they were still repairing the road that year.. I decided to drive the route up from Southern California despite knowing I would be delayed by patches of roadwork. What I didn't expect was to be caught in a rockslide. It wasn't a large one just a lot of dry dirt and pebbles but I was driving blind around hairpin turns for probably less than a 10th of a mile. But it scared the wits out of me and it felt like forever. I was afraid to stop and get buried if something big came down and I was afraid to go forward for fear of driving off the cliff with almost zero visibility. I still like taking the coastal road but I always get a bit nervous when I reach the high elevations where it happened.

Dawn is this up in the Sierras?

That sounds scary, watchme. We are in the Klamath range up in the far northern part of the state.

A friend texted that there were high winds and trees down everywhere. She's outside Castroville (1/156/101).

I cannot tell you the number of times it felt like, as a passenger, the car was going to go off the edge on Highway 1. Kids worry about dumb stuff. Looks like a reality now. Stay safe!

On the plus side...your reservoirs are full again!