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300sniper said:
What road is that?
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A bit up Volcanoville Rd.
arse_sidewards said:
Should throw some 16ft road plates over it and call it good for now.
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That is what they did temporary but they are going semi-permanent since this is only way in/out.
Santa said:
Not with what's coming. They don't fix it now it will be 10 times worse by the end of these storms.
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From press release:
"Crews from County Roads has been on the scene assessing the situation and preparing a plan. The plan includes limited crossings for the area immediately, passenger vehicles only. Crews from the County and Veerkamp construction will be installing temporary metal plates over the area this afternoon. The road will still be limited to only one lane and passenger vehicles only. The major repair will begin immediately and is expected to take approximately 5 days."
 
Santa said:
Not with what's coming. They don't fix it now it will be 10 times worse by the end of these storms.
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this

each storm is only going to make problems worse.
we got 18 inches of rain last month. a lot, but by no means near any record
the problems will be later in the year if we keep getting heavy rain over the next 3 months.
the ground will not be able to hold anymore, and things will start moving... a lot more than they have recently.

one day the Clevland slide will let go and cover highway 50
happened just up river in Whitehall in 1997 and also back in the late 70s
 
2big bronco said:
Supposed to be another 3-8 inches here wednesday night into thursday with 70mph winds.
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I don’t think the rain will be as big an issue as the wind this time around. I am fully expecting more trees coming down and taking out power lines. Looks like there are a number of storms lined up for the next week or two, things could get interesting
 
I talked to one of our local fire chiefs today. His worry, as stated above, is long term power outages.

Local authorities already spinning it to be PG&Es fault.:shaking:

They closed our facilities for all non essential personnel. That means my staff(maintenance) and our PD. I'm guessing 30 of my 40 staff will call in tomorrow. Maybe 25. In their defense, most of them have hour plus commutes through low lying areas. I'll be there and If need be come home and pull the cover off the bronco for fun in the "floods".
 
Here's a look at 22:000hrs PST Looks like it's winding up.


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Splib said:
Here's a look at 22:000hrs PST Looks like it's winding up.


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Still a big MEH to me. We have dealt with this kind of shit for my entire 48 years of life.

Mudslides, flooded streets, fallen trees. Some who live in the outskirts know, you and the neighbors just deal with it.

Now, everyone thinks it's the governments job to take care of them, so rather than deal with stupid, the govt. just shut things down and stupid is happy because they get to stay home.:mad3:
 
KDXSR5 said:
A family member's house up on a small lake between Sacramento and Tahoe is trying to flood. I have been shown pictures throughout the day. The dam on the lake is at capacity and the spillway is not keeping up. Hopefully water doesn't make it too much higher. Fingers crossed!
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I’m guessing Cameron park lake.

As others have said yes we will still have the drought forever now and will not build anymore storage.
 
Santa said:
Still a big MEH to me. We have dealt with this kind of shit for my entire 48 years of life.

Mudslides, flooded streets, fallen trees. Some who live in the outskirts know, you and the neighbors just deal with it.

Now, everyone thinks it's the governments job to take care of them, so rather than deal with stupid, the govt. just shut things down and stupid is happy because they get to stay home.:mad3:
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Thats where im at with things. Living ruralish my whole life you just learned how to deal with shit.

I see fb posts asking things like "who do I call at the county to clear the drainage ditch alongside my house, its cloged with branches and im worried my yard will flood".
Calling someone else has never even occurred to me.
 
Santa said:
Still a big MEH to me. We have dealt with this kind of shit for my entire 48 years of life.

Mudslides, flooded streets, fallen trees. Some who live in the outskirts know, you and the neighbors just deal with it.
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same here.

Mother Nature, doing mother nature shit.
happens all the time.

news needs to make every "event" the worst in recorded history


what does this even mean?
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we had winds 2 years ago that topped 120mph at Loon Lake and well over 150mph at Kirkwood
gusts are expected to be 60-80 today :laughing:
 
WLDWUN said:
what does this even mean?
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we had winds 2 years ago that topped 120mph at Loon Lake and well over 150mph at Kirkwood
gusts are expected to be 60-80 today :laughing:
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I dont want to make excuses for the news and I'm not metorologist, but it's my understanding that the jet stream isn't something that we feel on the ground other than the weather it brings in:

noun: jetstream
  1. 1.
    a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth. There are typically two or three jet streams in each of the northern and southern hemispheres.
    "brief bursts of cold air have been blown into the region by the jet stream"
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2big bronco said:
Thats where im at with things. Living ruralish my whole life you just learned how to deal with shit.

I see fb posts asking things like "who do I call at the county to clear the drainage ditch alongside my house, its cloged with branches and im worried my yard will flood".
Calling someone else has never even occurred to me.
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In my case: I know how to deal with this shit.

I can have a crew of people show up with saws in a few minutes who I have helped fix fences, move, build their Jeeps, weld random shit. If the tree had fallen on my house I would have had it cut up and the house tarped off before midnight on new years eve.

However, I pay taxes to the county and it is their responsibility to maintain the roads. In an emergency or even if something becomes Inconvenient for myself or a neighbor, sure I'll lend a hand. We used to have a joke growing up that you would sweep the last few leaves into the street and say "it's the county's problem now" It was kinda funny watching the county crew do the reverse.

We lived on a street with open drainage ditches when I was a kid and we kept them clean, that is just common fucking sense the water came up to our porch about 18" above ground level in '97. That same house today the homeless fill the ditches with their trash, no way I am sifting through that shit to get stuck with a needle.
 
total newb said:
Rockbuggy84

Hows your place or the rest of galt?
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Not sure if you remember the area from when you dropped the axle, but my area even though rural, was elevated quite a bit when the property was divided.

Add to that, went I built the home and my shop, I had flooding in mind, so I built on a raised foundation giving me over 20” extra clearance and my shop is an additional 10” above grade. I brought in load after load of soil to compensate.

I remember the neighbors mocking me in 2017 when I was building, for doing this. Now, they’re freaking out because our main creek that drain’s our area currently has 3 massive trees blocking it that fell over.

The county sent a crew out immediately, but they’re so overwhelmed, the small crew barely made a dent and the rains back, so shits gonna get interesting.

As for everywhere else, new hope to Thornton still has 3-4’ across the road and Wilton has a couple very low lying roads with water. If the weather report is accurate, I think the flooding is done.

We had multiple levy breaks that actually help the majority. It relieves them and sends the water into mainly very large fields. There are a couple homes that will flood due to these breaks, but this should honestly be no surprise to them.

These homes are in locations with a history of levee failures and flooding.

Today is all about the wind. We’re expecting 50 mph winds with very saturated ground. Pg&e and smud are already overwhelmed, so I’m guessing that the power will be out for many in no time.
I spent the evening prepping 4 of my generators to loan out as needed.

I’d like to point out that power outages are becoming far more common and getting it restored is taking much longer nowadays. This and our fuckstick of a governor is outlawing generators. Liberal logic.
 
WLDWUN said:
news needs to make every "event" the worst in recorded history
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So much this.

It is so hard to tell when something is going to be bad or if it is being hyped to sell terror porn to the masses. The news and Gubernment blew their credibility wad and now we are all ignoring them to the point that we are all going to die of something stupid.
 
Sandy Johnson said:
I dont want to make excuses for the news and I'm not metorologist, but it's my understanding that the jet stream isn't something that we feel on the ground other than the weather it brings in:
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yes I am aware the Jetstream does not get to ground level directly, but does drive the weather to some degree.

but stating it is the strongest Jetstream in years with not data to back that up.
just trying to make it news
 
The neighbor that yelled at me for blowing leaves out of my culvert thanked me for keeping the drain clean so the court doesn't flood. :lmao:
Random pic I took at river yesterday.
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MigGunslinger said:
It is so hard to tell when something is going to be bad or if it is being hyped to sell terror porn to the masses. The news and Gubernment blew their credibility wad and now we are all ignoring them to the point that we are all going to die of something stupid.
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Yep, the boy who cried 'Wolf!' :shaking:
  • Bomb Cyclone
  • Atmospheric River
  • Polar Vortex
  • Pineapple Express
  • Snowmageddon
  • Unprecedented Drought
    • Unless you look back 60-90 years :homer:
  • Most Extreme-y Heats Evar :eek:
    • Unless you look back 60-90 years :homer:
When every event is "epic" (like a millennial just discovered it) there's no room for escalation.
 
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Sandy Johnson said:
Had some friends who live in a low spot next to a creek out side santa cruz have their back yard flood. They had been there a few years and felt it wasn't normal for how much rain they had gotten so they hiked/waded/swam down stream and found their neighbor's fence a few houses down had collapsed into the stream a dammed it up causing the flooding. Neighbor wasn't home, so they cleared the fence our for them. Flooding fixed.
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If everyone on a drainage did this.......:flipoff2::beer:
 
Hooligan said:
Dang!
Im on Sac Municipal Utility for electric, got an automated phone call today to expect power outages tomorrow due to the wind.
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:lmao::lmao::lmao:

My wife texted me the audio on that ( from India) . CocK A Doddle Doo. Mr Rooster. :crybaby::pinky::crybaby:

I agree with Santa and Xr.
The NWS web page is bullshit spam mutherfucker garbage. Huge Oversized text on page 1 after I type in 95742 (Rancho Codova CA) is about snow on the east coast. :goofball: Thanks a lot thats a huge help here in getting Karen to stay home and screech on Next Door. OMG, what about the poor squirrels ?

Advertised 50-60 mph winds. All over the news. Where ? Exactly ? They dont bother to provide that. in the same breath. 60 mph would wipe half of Rio Linda off the map.

If you are parked under a large Valley oak or rotten old Elm tree, :idea:
 
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Don’t take this as negative or condensing but how does this stuff happen to you guys? Out east we get heavy rains all spring it’s not uncommon for it to rain every day in a month. At my old house I had a creek that was ankle deep and probably 20 feet across when we would get heavy rains it would go from ankle deep to 6-8 feet within the hour.

We have ditches on the side of the road and most of the rural roads are raised 5-8 feet if they go through low lying areas, similar to rail road tracks.

Is it a dirt thing or you guys don’t have proper rivers/creek/streams? People building on flood plain’s because lands so expensive? You will see flooding like in the pictures yearly but it’s never too terrible and just fields and the occasional house.

Stay safe everyone affected.
 
Pocahontas said:
Don’t take this as negative or condensing but how does this stuff happen to you guys? Out east we get heavy rains all spring it’s not uncommon for it to rain every day in a month. At my old house I had a creek that was ankle deep and probably 20 feet across when we would get heavy rains it would go from ankle deep to 6-8 feet within the hour.

We have ditches on the side of the road and most of the rural roads are raised 5-8 feet if they go through low lying areas, similar to rail road tracks.

Is it a dirt thing or you guys don’t have proper rivers/creek/streams? People building on flood plain’s because lands so expensive? You will see flooding like in the pictures yearly but it’s never too terrible and just fields and the occasional house.

Stay safe everyone affected.
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I think it's just a matter of frequency. The more often it happens, the less damage each time.
 
one thing that hurts alot is like stated above it does not happen alot so the ground does not absorb it slow. then its all sand, at least where i used to live in cali, just north of LA on the coast. so mix rain and mountains made of sand, bad shit happens. they always joked that we had 3 seasons, rain, mud slides, and fire. then repeat. some winters were nothing, but winter of 2000 or 2001 was el neno season and the base flooded rather quick, like parking lots with feet of water and more... plus one mud slide that washed a small town right to the ocean, at least parts of the town. crazy bad
 
Zero rain in the last two hours and only intermittent breeze right now. Regarding "stuff happenig to us". A big part of it is geoolgy or landforms. The steep mountains and incised valleys concentrate the water. Down it comes. Virtually all the flood plains have been built on and the watercourses are behind levees. Man and construction is imperfect and not infinite. Water and gravity dont give a shit. Flushing a toilet, flushing out the drainage same shit.

There were abundant recent age freshwater clam shells in the soil in my backyard urban track home in Natomas when I broke the grounds with a shovel. :idea:
 
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