I've never seen it rain anywhere as hard as it rains in Vancouver, BC. Like a million cows peeing on a flat rock at the same time. I remember stepping out of building when the rain first started, and by the time I made it to the curb, the gutters were bank full! I grew up near the 'rainforest' where the redwoods grow in California, too. The Coast Range in Central Cal is composed mostly of sand. I was there when a whole 'mountain' got so waterlogged it collapsed, burying a small town. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/gen...-more-homeless
Back here, we sometimes get a foot in a day, which results in a massive flood, usually of the 'flash' variety. I only saw one of those in California. We were camped in the mountains on the Mokelumne River, when a cloudburst caused a small dam upstream to break. Fortunately, our vehicle and tent were about 6 feet above the now raging river that had been a gentle stream minutes before, and the road didn't get washed out. That was the fastest teardown of a camp on record, though.
I remember the January 1982 storm. I was living in San Mateo County at the time, working a job where I was on the road for most of the day and there were a lot of places I couldn't get to for a long time afterwards.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
The storm that just finished up with us as viewed from NASA's GOES-West satellite.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
This is interesting. It rained over night and into the morning, then cleared with a few clouds here and there just like the NWS said it would. I've been working in the attic for several hours, and hear all this rumbling going on. I come down, and it's like midnight out, thunder, lightning, and raining like a cow standing on a flat roof. It's 63 degrees out, and it's almost worth pulling out my bicycle to go riding in the rain like I did as a kid. Almost..........Besides, I can't find any cards to put in the spokes.
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St Augustine FL : 75 sunny today, had the AC on.
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50°F (10°C) and raining here.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
40 degrees and a very light mist. Expecting rain later today at home in Oklahoma
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