Big Meadows campsite; Rock Creek Ridge in the distance. - MLW - High Uintas Wilderness, Utah
Posted on 01/22/2010 8:52:22 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (CBS) ―
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Storm-battered Southern California is beginning to dry out after a wild week of storms that flooded streets, spawned at least a few tornados, and left a trail of damage, but mudslides could still be a concern, but with predictions for more showers Friday, the supersaturated ground threatened to send damaging debris downhill.
Officials have said the risk of mudslides can last up to 72hours after the rains have stopped.
Hundreds of evacuees forced from homes in foothill communities are expected to learn sometime Friday whether it's safe for them to return home.
Authorities said an extensive flood-control system was working, but many of the basins designed to catch debris-laden runoff from fire-scarred mountains were full and evacuations remained necessary.
They insisted that residents of endangered homes should obey evacuation orders.
"It's not safe to say that we're out of the clear just yet," Gail Farber, the Los Angeles County Public Works director.
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See #15 for much detail.
Got about 10 to 12 inches here in the Santa Cruz mountains.
"The fact that this is an El Niño system is encouraging," she said. "You see a conveyor belt of storms.
So if we could get more storms like this with breaks in between that would be great."
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I am not sure we want that down here....Snow in the Sierra's is the way to go....
Snow in the Sierra’s is the way to go....
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Yup,, seeing as our industrious elected officials have refused to build new storage infrastructure (aka dams and reservoirs) and squandered billions on nothing lasting
about 5 inches here on the edge of the N. San Josie foothills
Rain is Good
Makes me remember the great fishing in the High Unitas after the July snows finally left.
Much smaller stuff of course.
spell check is a pain but maybe I should have used it.
Big Meadows campsite; Rock Creek Ridge in the distance. - MLW - High Uintas Wilderness, Utah
Expect more rain, wind, waves today
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Published: Jan. 22, 2010
Updated: 9:59 a.m.
The last in a series of wild winter storms was clearing out of Orange County today, but not without taking a soggy parting shot that soaked roads and raised again the threat of flooding.
Forecasters expect showers to continue through the afternoon and said isolated thunderstorms could still dump heavy rain in places. The National Weather service warned that high surf – with breakers topping 20 feet – could damage piers and flood coastal areas, especially around Seal Beach, Huntington Beach and Capistrano Beach.
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On Thursday, rescuers spent hours searching the fast-rushing Santa Ana River before determining that a report of a teenager missing in the water was bogus.
That report came from a man whom rescue crews helped from the edge of the river on Thursday afternoon. He initially passed himself off as a teenager and told his rescuers that his 14-year-old friend had been washed away, Orange Fire Capt. Ed Engler said.
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It expects mostly sunny skies on Sunday and Monday before the next wave of potentially rainy weather moves in Monday night.
I thought all of next week was going to be clear....
A tree that had fallen and crushed a camper during high winds in Tuesday's storm, sits parked at Doheny State Park in Dana Point, Wednesday morning.
MARK RIGHTMIRE, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Orange County freeways were inundated by a torrential rain that made driving treacherous Tuesday
H. LORREN AU JR., THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
I don't see any road....LOL!
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