Is California ready for these storms? (Los Angeles, Sacramento: neighborhood, most dangerous, office)

[stone26]

I did some sandbagging around my house and the neighbors, which is not really out of the ordinary. As I am typing, the wind outside's kicked pretty ferociously. The rain is supposed to come tonight, which worries me since we have a lot of snow on the ground. We've done what we can do. Now it is just sit and wait.

[fresnochili]

Originally Posted by JGC97

We got a good rain today. No high winds, though. That would have been bad. Snowing in the Sierra (that's nice to see). Sunday's supposed to be a doozy, though. Heavy rain and wind gust 50+ mph and lots and lots and lots of snow in the mountains. Yay! Some flood risk in parts but right now it's classified as moderate. As long as we don't receive three inches in an hour, it should be okay. So far, it's been a nice winter and this morning that weird little rodent said Spring is coming early. I don't know. He's been wrong before.

So far so good, it's wet outside, but not currently raining. I heard the rain last night though. No wind.
Let's see what happens later on.

I don't feel we've had half the rain or storms that we had last year, not yet anyway. Seems like a pretty mild winter.
I can remember when the night lows would be in the 18-25*, haven't seen those #s lately.

[SeaOfGrass]

Originally Posted by JGC97

We got a good rain today. No high winds, though. That would have been bad. Snowing in the Sierra (that's nice to see). Sunday's supposed to be a doozy, though. Heavy rain and wind gust 50+ mph and lots and lots and lots of snow in the mountains. Yay! Some flood risk in parts but right now it's classified as moderate. As long as we don't receive three inches in an hour, it should be okay. So far, it's been a nice winter and this morning that weird little rodent said Spring is coming early. I don't know. He's been wrong before.

lol

[The_Sim_Mister]

Is the storm that bad that everyone is freaking out?

[Ceece]

Rainy, really really windy, power flickering....we've seen it before but it always makes me nervous. Especially the power part.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Originally Posted by The_Sim_Mister

Is the storm that bad that everyone is freaking out?

Well, the media is doing their best to make it so.

[SeaOfGrass]

Where did it hit the hardest? We barely had sprinkles today.

[Wile E. Coyote]

I saw some blurb about LA and how they do not have drains in the street. Wha?

Well we regularly will get 5-6 inches of rain over a weekend and there are certain places where water makes it over the roadway (most of those have been fixed). But, here a lot of effort is put into street cleaning and sucking the drains clean. So, we do not have a lot of flooding in the residential, retail and commercial spaces. Most flood prone areas are in the agricultural stretches.

I lived in N CA for 20 years and it almost topped off the aqueducts one year we had a 100-year flood. But, mostly we experienced drought. The newer residential suburb areas had almost no problems with flooding or losing electricity. The problem is that a lot of infrastructure needs to be upgraded and there is a large stock of old homes.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Wile E. Coyote

I saw some blurb about LA and how they do not have drains in the street. Wha?

There are storm drains, although they're probably having trouble handling the amount of rain that's fallen since last night, along with the debris flow and storm water runoff. We received two emergency flash flood warnings. The L.A. River was apparently about to overflow last night. State of emergency declared in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties. Some schools cancelled and many CSUs have gone online for today's classes. But hey, the Grammys still went on last night...

[NORTY FLATZ]

Bel Air and Woodland Hills has had > 9 inches of water, over the last 40 hours....

(According to CBS-8 news, just now.)

We've had about 1/2 inch, over the same period, so far.

(You can see where I am, in my profile above.)