[pct-l] Tahoe conditions

[Stephen Adams]

Yeah, it hit hard mid-day today and did some damage I believe.  we were out driving back from a job across town and there were rapids along the streets.  Very happy to have been in a big truck.  It's now quite stormy, wind, lightning and thunder today and more coming yes.  I feel bad for those up in the foothills as I think mud slides here along the local streets where we have pretty good drainage are about on one thousandth of potential below the mountains.  Thankfully our little storm today lasted only a couple hours, along with some water spouts, one making a land fall in Orange County, which then becomes a tornado.  Now, everything is wet and soaked.  I just spoke with a water and power guy repairing damage in our alley on a pole, and he worked eighteen hours yesterday on his day off with no end in sight until the storms pass.  But the big issue is will it snow hard and then rain on it?  That is hazardous with regards to flooding in a big way.    
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:39 PM, David Ellzey wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> The rain should pick up again tomorrow afternoon and worst of these series of storms is supposed to hit Socal Wednesday. After that, a couple of small ones come though I think.
> 
> BigToe
> 
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> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tahoe conditions
> 
> Looks like the storm broke up early down here in So Cal.  It rained a bit this mid-day, and the wind blew twenty for an hour, then picked up to 30mph, and then just petered out and it cleared up.  I thought we were going to get hammered.  Maybe next week?    
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Tortoise wrote:
> 
>> Here in Crescent City, CA  the wind is howling and the rain comes down 
>> in spurts.  We are in the midst of a big storm patch per the NOAA radar 
>> images.  For Deems over in the moutains looks like he is getting lots of 
>> rain or snow there too.
>> 
>> This one came in to late for me to go out and try my tents. But there 
>> are more on the way.
>> 
>> Tortoise
>> 
>> Because truth matters"
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tortoise wrote:
>>> Up here in Crescent City, 20 miles south of Oregon and on the coast; 
>>> we've had intermittent rain squalls with lots of wind. Had some wind 
>>> last night. Seems to me most of the weather action is going south of us.
>>> 
>>> This noon I was out doing errands and got caught in a squall.
>>> 
>>> Time I got home and had lunch, the squall was past. I'm hoping to take 
>>> out my two backpacking tents, a Tarptent Contrail and a Stephenson 
>>> Warmlite 2RS and put them up in the wind and rain, get inside, and see 
>>> how well they do. Would like to give each a good test.
>>> 
>>> Tortoise
>>> 
>>> Because truth matters"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ned at pacificcrestcustombuilders.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Oh, and by the way it started dumping this morning and we can only see about a quarter-mile!
>>>> 
>>>> So far, only a couple of inches.
>>>> 
>>>> For all of you in SoCal, we hope that the mudslides and flooding aren't too bad...
>>>> 
>>>> How is it up in Lassen or the PNW??
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mtnned
>>>> Mountain Education
>>>> South Lake Tahoe, Ca
>>>> 
>>>> 
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