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January 4, 2008
Weather: San Francisco Has Left the Continent
It's pounding rain up north of here in San Francisco. Like really pounding, with people reporting outages, downed trees, flooded houses, and on and on. The Bay Bridge is closed, there are 70mph winds, etc. Epochal stuff, at least in the eternal now of history-challenged Californians.
Just for fun, here is NOAA's instant rainfall rate map for California. The red stuff? Those are areas that are essentially under water. Don't go there.
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It IS nasty right now. Your description isn't far off.
And from a short-term "epochal" point of view, it is the kind of Pacific Storm that comes along once every year or two.
I think that counts as epochal these days.
As I once heard and like to repeat, rain is a natural disaster in California. I live here, and think that people almost anywhere else in the country would scoff at our storms.
Had to run a couple of SF downtown errands this morning over seven blocks in the Hayes Valley / Civic Center corridor. Counted, eleven destroyed / mangled umbrellas scrapped either in the trash or on the side walk.
Damage toll on Hyde St this morning: 2 felled trees, 2 fender benders, 1 scooter wipeout, 7 destroyed umbrellas, 1 old lady knocked over twice.
"Dude, there's like all this water in the air, then it like landed," R. Williams
I don't know.. I thought 105MPH winds in Los Gatos was impressive.
January 4, 1982, Golden Gate Bridge closed for three days, thousands of homes flooded. That would be at least two epochs in my short lifetime.
It's the richmond bridge that is closed.