plllog, Lars posted some info on KT. Like you, it was more like a Winter storm here for us, and without wind. We have a few very droopy crape myrtle branches from water-soaked blooms but that’s about it. Driving around today showed barely any evidence of rain yesterday. Definitely dry and sunny now. Apparently much different from Cathedral City and other parts farther east of us.

Yeah, the real bit was east of the mountains, but so much less population.

Agreed. I got just over 3” of rain at my house in south Orange County and a couple of hours of gusty winds. No damage, no flooding, but lots of loose vegetation debris and dirt. It wasn’t any worse than the winter storms we see.

plllog, I think the house in Cathedral City is okay, but we won't know for sure until we go there for Labor Day.

The house here in L.A. got terrible leaks in the ceiling of the studio/dining room area, and we have filed a claim with our insurance. We have already had two inspectors come to the house, and the first one said that we will have to replace all the drywall in the walls and ceiling of the dining room/studio. That is the only room that got damaged, but it is pretty extensive in that room. We will also have to have the roof over that area repaired or replaced. That room is part of the extension that was added to the house in 2003, and they did not shingle the roof over the studio area, for some reason. We might need to add shingles to that area. I never knew that the roof was not consistent over the whole house, or else I might have had that part of it shingled a long time ago. We had gallons of water drip into the dining room, and we removed the ceiling fixture above the dining table, which is where most of the water was dripping. We will get a new ceiling fixture after the ceiling has been repaired.

I saw lots of mud flooding onto streets that we frequently drive on in Cathedral City, plus some flooded streets just a few blocks from our house, but I think our roof there is okay, although I don't know what happened in the patio during the flood. From the security cameras that I do have I could see no flooding, but that doesn't mean that nothing happened in the pool area.

Oh, wow! Lars, I'm so sorry you've had so much damage! And here I was thinking of the desert, At least you're not stranded, and are there to be able to deal with LA. Thank-you for checking in. Good luck with it all!

We were lucky we were in L.A. so that we could put containers under the leaks to catch the drips. When we removed the fixture above the dining table, the canopy was filled with water, and we dumped that into a cooler that we had placed under that leak. When the cooler was half filled with water, we dumped that out, and it got half filled again.

We keep the dining table waxed, and so it did not get damaged. All the damage is in the drywall in the walls and ceiling. Workers will be here tomorrow at 8 AM to move everything out of that room and put it in temporary storage. It should take about five days to repair the room, and then the furniture can be returned.

Our modem is in that room, and so there is a chance that we would lose internet connection, but I hope that it will continue to work.

Oh, how lucky! Thanks for reporting in. So glad the house is okay. Kind of trippy that the real issues were in L.A.

The news from all over the country is so scary. But then I think of how people a couple of centuries ago dealt with the "normal" weather back then, and it was equally scary and destructive. Perhaps we've become too complacent in our "mastery" of the elements and this is just a correction we've brought on ourselves.

Either way, I'm still happy to have been missed by most of it...

Glad no-one had too terrible a time of it.

There was more flooding in the Coachella Valley this weekend, but nothing to bother us, although we did bring a few things inside. I'm more concerned that it might have rained in L.A., and our roof there is not yet protected. The construction crew will be there on Wednesday for a roof inspection and to see whether the inside is sufficiently dry to begin reconstruction.