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SoCal & Central CA - Keep Your PW Full (Record Storm Possible Next Week)
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Thank you for sharing the Rain Timing and Intensity. I like that info. Would you mind sharing a link where that came from?
The National Weather Service from LA. As well as their twitter (I refuse to call it X) page
They actually increased the amount of time for the extreme rainfall as well as the totals.
Snowball316
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5 inches of rain at my house overnight and supposed to continue non stop through tomorrow. Another 2-5 inches expected. We could get 10 inches (half our annual precipitation) from one storm.
fholbert
Active Member
This is mine. And it is nowhere near done. Expecting another 2-5 inches through tomorrow morning.
@skepticcyclist that's a chunk of rain! We have had your monthly total in a year...
We had only about two inches, but the winds caused a fair bit of damage.
Stay safe out there,
BG
We had only about two inches, but the winds caused a fair bit of damage.
Stay safe out there,
BG
I still can’t believe this was “news”…
In other news, it’s wet outside.
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In other news, it’s wet outside.
Falling Tree Brings Down Power Lines In Lafayette
Falling Tree Brings Down Power Lines In Lafayette - Lamorinda, CA - The power lines are down on Pleasant Hill Road.
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We're just at 5" for this storm with over 9" this month. The Feb 1st storm was worse with respect to intensity as we got 4" in 5 hours with rates hitting 2"/hr. Lots of significant street flooding with that one.
I haven't used storm watch as our electricity has been pretty reliable in our immediate neighborhood. We haven't had an unscheduled outage that lasted more than a minute in the 5 years I've lived here. PWs are sitting at 60% now. Maybe I'm playing with fire.
I haven't used storm watch as our electricity has been pretty reliable in our immediate neighborhood. We haven't had an unscheduled outage that lasted more than a minute in the 5 years I've lived here. PWs are sitting at 60% now. Maybe I'm playing with fire.
While in my room making the bed, the lights went out due to an outage. I was wondering why the powerwall didn't kick in. Then I walked into the hall and saw all the other lights still on and thought it just took a few seconds to kick in. Then I realized the light in the room is on the ceiling fan and forgot that the ceiling fans are not on the backup subpanel. 
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Storm not quite over. There is another round of heavy scattered thunderstorms moving in. But so far over 9 inches. Waiting to see if this last round of showers can break the 10 inch mark at my house
@skepticcyclist Unreal! That seems like such a 6 sigma event. I know here that '64 generated an annual rainfall that was 5X average, though I know average in California is a bit misleading as we do get years that are so much wetter than average/median.
I hope that you don't float or slide away.
Thanks for sharing this.
All the best,
BG
I hope that you don't float or slide away.
Thanks for sharing this.
All the best,
BG
Yeah. Average annual precipitation for my area is about 20 inches/year. This is almost half our annual rain. Some areas received over 12 inches. It is a diffident than many parts of the US where the standard deviation is much smaller and few years deviate much from the average. We get a lot of season where we can easily get double the mean and other years were we get very little precipitation.
