Hang in there Californians! That was a crazy storm.

Fortunately (?) we "lucked out" and only got hit with extreme winds here. Other than a load of Washingtonia fronds which blew into the neighbor's yard, no clean up and no damage. We were anticipating power outages but, thankfully, didn't experience any. It seems a whole house generator is much like earthquake insurance. Once you have it, you never need it. https://files.countyofsb.org/pwd/hydrology/Rainfall%20Reports/rainfallreport.pdf Otto & Sons out in Fillmore posted videos of their 8.57" of rain they received on Saturday and Saturday night. No thank you!

I've been wondering how people have been doing in the storms in CA. Glad you're ok.

I empathize with those who had fallen trees, especially if they were as big as your oak, Jackie. That could be very dangerous. That's so much rain! I think we've had a big rain when it's just an inch.

I read that where I used to live in CA, Palos Verdes just south of LA, had some landslides or mud slides last year. Several homes were wrecked. I imagine there are more problems in that area from the storm.

erasmus - I have seen reports of damage from this storm in Palos Verdes - mostly homes sliding down hills or coastal cliffs. Since PV is a peninsula which sticks out into the ocean, of course there is more of that there than elsewhere.

roseseek - thank you for the link to the Santa Barbara County spreadsheet of rain and reservoir capacity - looks like 2 of the latter is spilling. We have 5 local reservoirs where my county gets much of its water - all of them were spilling a week ago - days before this storm!

Jackie

@jacqueline9CA you're welcome. Thankfully, Susan in Santa Barbara sent it to me. I'd not seen it previously.

I wish Ingrid would share how it is going in her San Diego County. I miss her writing and photos.

Erasmus—I live in Redondo very close to your old home of Palos Verdes. It’s still raining pretty hard and hasn’t stopped raining since noon Sunday. For us 3 days straight of rain,m (literally no reprieve) is a deluge, even if it only hit the “torrential downpour” status once or twice. The original storm on Sunday had some wicked winds. Since half of my garden is on a rooftop deck, there’s a mess to cleanup later. But at least I finished pruning—last year we got similar winds in November and I had cane damage all over.

So far we’re up to six inches of rain. I have 3 rain barrels full which is an upside but I miss the sun. One more day…

I've been to Redondo Beach many times, Ryan. That's a lot of rain you got.

Sorry to hear that about houses sliding down hills and cliffs in PV. It is like a little mountain there. Very beautiful...some big cliffs.

Sounds like you got some bad tree damage, catspa.

Here in Santa Clarita we’ve had about six inches of rain. One of my rose beds tends to flood, but nothing serious. So far we’ve escaped power outages and other problems, but ..l did see some roofers working in the complex today.
Can’t wait for wildflowers.

This is reminding me of what happened to us here in Tuscany in November. Global Warming sucks.Best of luck to all!