Wed/Thurs: "Bomb cyclone" aimed at California

[intrepidity]

This looks serious, in the sense that we are already (thankfully) saturated, but more heavy rain in a short period, combined with heavy winds and colder temps, means landslides, trees falling and power outages.

So, today is the day to fill your gas tank, charge up your devices and power banks, sandbag if it applies, etc.

[SheltieLover]

1. Kicking for visibility

[BComplex]

4. Thanks for kicking, SheltieLover! I've got a bunch of family out there!

I might not have seen this, and I'm glad I did!

[multigraincracker]

2. OK, who prayed for rain?

[Mr.Bill]

3. Every non-Atheist in the state.

[msongs]

5. gotta get these storms over the colorado river basin. interesting, thx 4 posting

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. Thanks for the Heads Up

I have been watching reports and knew rain was expected, but not this intense. I've notified my neighbors.

[Hekate]

7. We are a very big state with a long, long coastline. It is of great interest to me whether this ...

… comes as far south as the Central Coast, but so far I’m still looking at the Oregon-California border, which is many hundreds of miles north of me.

I’ll come back and listen to the whole thing — and maybe go to one of the national weather sites he mentions.

[intrepidity]

10. It will affect the whole CA coastline, into Baja

So I'd def expect the central coast to see some action.

Stay safe! I am mainly concerned about trees falling near me, as I live in a redwood forest. The trail I walk daily where I live has so many trees that are barely hanging on--I expect many of them won't survive to the weekend. And then (thanks PGE!) the power lines become collateral damage. Last month we were without power for two full days when a tree took out some lines. I don't have a generator, and I can usually manage just fine for 1 day, but 2 really pushed me to the edge, lol (because internet is also down then, so no phones either).

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. This is not an ad for a product, but hopefully some useful news for those battening down the hatches

Or whatever else you might want to batten down. I saw this tape at a building supply place, and the promo material made this stuff out to be as far ahead of duct tape as duct tape is to Scotch tape.

It was called "Hurricane Tape." so named because it can purportedly be used to tape sheets of plywood over windows or doors, and it will hold them in place through a hurricane.

They demo also included a guy taking a piece of the tape about 6' long, and taping the front end of one vehicle to the back end of another with about a 6" overlap of tape, and without winding the tape into a twist, the first car was able to tow the second.

It was really convincing, but where I live, the need for a $15 roll of tape is pretty low, so I didn't buy any. I hope that, should any of you decide to try it out, it works as well as advertised.

[Katcat]

13. Thanks!

Not in California but always need some good tape. Cats have dug out the weatherstrip on my doors and during that freeze last week it got downright c9meome and the only tape we could find was painter’s tape.

[flying_wahini]

9. I was in one of these. We got around 13" in about two hours. Yes. VERY Scary.

I was just North of Houston.
During that time the heaviest downpour measured for a single day was 12.07 inches (306.6 millimetres) on August 26, 2017

[BigmanPigman]

11. 60' waves, I wonder how many surfers

will be tempted to ride them. That seems suicidal.

The additional snow in the mountains will help the state's water supply a lot.

[intrepidity]

14. Hah, you *know* there will be surfers out there

Surfers tend to be a bit crazy about risk, imho--or at least, surfing seems to attract some people who are not at all risk-averse....

[niyad]

16. Now I have "Ride the Wild Surf" playing in my head.

[Katcat]

12. Safety first!

All you people who live in or near that area please be careful!

[niyad]

15. KNR. We had a "bomb cyclone" here in March 2019. Cat 2 force winds in some areas.

Hundreds of cars stranded. Roads closed. Schools had sensibly been cancelled. Power outages. A real mess. And yet, two days later, I was on the other side of town, toward the mountains, and there was almost no snow, no evidence of this mess.

Holding you all in light.

[intrepidity]

17. NWS tweet

Link to tweet

[CoopersDad]

18. I'm right in the middle of it, serious damage along the central coast.

I'm above the flood zone but right on the ocean with a front row seat.