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Your comment says 4 hours ago, did the rain start? Best wishes.

• bombcar 3y ago
  Either whartung fell asleep or was washed out to sea. It’s interesting how similar that reads to waiting for an enemy to attack a fortified position.
  • johnea 3y ago
    Oh yea, we're all rolling around on the ground with our tactical flashlights! Hut Hut Hut... Waiting for "the enemy"... You know, those non-people we get to cap with our gunporn h/w without a glimmer of remorse... Just like in "Final Incineration of the Infidel! #14"... In the city of San Diego now (12:45pm PDT), we're experiencing light rain. Nothing even close to an emergency at this point, much less "THE ENEMY"...
    • bombcar 3y ago
      Based on my experience with traffic on the 5, rain is a much more mortal enemy for San Diegans than any army could be.
• scruple 3y ago
  It started raining in Orange county around 5am. I went out for a run at 6am and it started to downpour shortly after. It's slowed a bit now but it's been raining nonstop.
• whartung 3y ago
  The rain started, it's been quite light, and has stopped for the moment. So far, under .2 of an inch with a predicted 4"+, so "it's rain, but not as we know it". If we're in for 4" in 24 hours, there's going to be some catching up to do. The winds are not due until early to mid afternoon. One friend, in OC, thinks this is being "overhyped". On the other hand, the weather warnings are using words such as "devastating" and "catastrophic". The problem, of course, is that the area is large, the terrain is varied, and what's "nothing" for one person and "devastating" for another can be as little as being on a neighboring street. OC is farther from the core of it than I am. Another friend, who has a cabin up in the mountains, that area is under mandatory evacuation. I doubt he was up there, and it's not surprising. Not so much because I think that area per se is under particular danger (it well could be), but simply getting in and out of there is via some rather nasty roads, and the exit is right next to a river bed. Not a place you'd want to be, or try to leave, as I can see it simply being cut off. I'm on part of the alluvial fan of the foothills, so any water is likely to pass me by. That said, there's a creek and canyon mouth north of me, quite capable of flash flooding. But there's a good amount of just raw riverbed land than any outflow will have to work its way through, and any real water would likely take to the street (the streets are part and parcel to the flood control system as well) long before it could impact me. But there are folks farther up the hill. We're also at the bottom of Cajon Pass, notorious for its wind. My concern is that it will act as an amplifier of the already fast winds, and we may get a taste of that. Tomorrow is trash day, and some of my neighbors already have their cans out, and I just shake my head. My other neighbor just planted a large, 20 ft palm tree -- on Friday. We are eyeing that warily, just really bad timing, and can only hope the wind doesn't take it. It probably won't but I moved my car out of the way anyway. So, more waiting. It's like being in that Twister movie, with the storm chasing us in slow motion. We're sheltering in place, made some nice waffles for breakfast. The cats are ignorant and ambivalent, more interested in cleaning something, have their fur brushed off, or bonking a sibling. There's always solace taking moments to watch them instead of the dark sky outside. Thanks all for the thoughts, I'm sure we'll be fine. Hopefully the "catastrophe" and "devastation" will be limited to the others nearby. Hopefully the limit of my catastrophe will be my neighbor trashcans in my driveway.
• supertimor 3y ago
  Rain started plus a bonus earthquake. Good times.