WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[PattyD22]

8 hours ago, Blarg said:

Raining, no wind. Still not looking forward to the drive early this morning to the Inglewood area to take Carol to her surgical appointment. Going to need to take the truck to get through intersections. I am surprised they hadn't cancelled. 

Hope all goes well for Carol, @Blarg.  Drive carefully out there.

[gotbeer]

8 hours ago, Blarg said:

Raining, no wind. Still not looking forward to the drive early this morning to the Inglewood area to take Carol to her surgical appointment. Going to need to take the truck to get through intersections. I am surprised they hadn't cancelled. 

No more rain on the west side.  

[PattyD22]

So up here in Big Bear, we made it through pretty unscathed.  Just under 5.00” of rain for the 24 hour period (4.96” to be exact).  The winds were clocked at gusts about 60 MPH, but really no significant issues up here, a few scattered power outages lasting an hour or so, but nothing we don’t see during any storm.

NOW down below in Forest Falls…. Different story.  As usual, Forest Falls had significant flash flooding and Highway 38 is completely washed out.  It will be closed, again, for a significant amount of time.  And CalTrans, in their infinite wisdom, went ahead with their scheduled maintenance and closed Highway 18 from Snow Valley to Big Bear Dam until 4pm.  Fucking pure brilliance.

So now the only way for people to get down the hill is through Apple Valley and over the Cajon Pass.  Thank you CalTrans for not taking the advice of officials and delaying the scheduled work for a couple days.

Other than that, all is good.  The sun is breaking through and we are drying out.

[Blarg]

48 minutes ago, PattyD22 said:

Hope all goes well for Carol, @Blarg.  Drive carefully out there.

There and back home. The fastest in and out of that area since the Covid shut down. Light sprinkles going in at 5am. Nothing on the drive back and no road flooding. 

[Jay]

1 hour ago, PattyD22 said:

So now the only way for people to get down the hill is through Apple Valley and over the Cajon Pass.  Thank you CalTrans for not taking the advice of officials and delaying the scheduled work for a couple days.

When you drop down 18 into Lucerne Valley, if you make a right on highway 247 about 15 miles you get to Bessemer Mine Rd. If you follow that road a few miles you get to Soggy Dry Lake (where we used to camp and do OHV stuff). Does that dry lake fill up when we have a big rain event?

[Tank]

12 hours ago, Lhalo said:

Had breakfast at Malarky’s and drank beers on a boat in the harbor for half the day. This storm was a nothing burger. 

i think people heard the word hurricane and were expecting exceptionally fierce winds and two feet of rain. it weakened pretty significantly by the time it reached us.

i thought i heard that this was the single rainiest August day on record in LA county.

[PattyD22]

42 minutes ago, Jay said:

When you drop down 18 into Lucerne Valley, if you make a right on highway 247 about 15 miles you get to Bessemer Mine Rd. If you follow that road a few miles you get to Soggy Dry Lake (where we used to camp and do OHV stuff). Does that dry lake fill up when we have a big rain event?

I never take that way, but when I do end up on Hwy 18 through Lucerne Valley, the dry lake by the shooting range always fills up so I assume Soggy Dry Lake does also @Jay

[PattyD22]

4 minutes ago, Tank said:

i think people heard the word hurricane and were expecting exceptionally fierce winds and two feet of rain. it weakened pretty significantly by the time it reached us.

i thought i heard that this was the single rainiest August day on record in LA county.

Enjoy your free day off today, @Tank.

Do something outside on this nice, sunny day.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Not all that much in Las Vegas proper. More rain than we usually get, but the widespread flooding that was predicted didn't materialize. We had some wind, but not enough for me to put down the patio umbrella while I was in the back yard last night.

The mountains west of us were less fortunate. Eight inches of rain, and a large section of the road to the Mount Charleston/Lee Canyon area was completely washed away. That is about 20 minutes from the house.

Edited August 21, 2023 by Vegas Halo Fan

[notherhalo]

it was a big letdown in Reseda, just some hard rain for a few hours here and there

[T.G.]

Looks like Palm Springs was hit pretty hard.

[Jason]

28 minutes ago, notherhalo said:

it was a big letdown in Reseda, just some hard rain for a few hours here and there

Poor media types didn't get what they were hoping for. 

[Jason]

At least we get more weather reports when storms show up. 

[Lhalo]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

When you drop down 18 into Lucerne Valley, if you make a right on highway 247 about 15 miles you get to Bessemer Mine Rd. If you follow that road a few miles you get to Soggy Dry Lake (where we used to camp and do OHV stuff). Does that dry lake fill up when we have a big rain event?

We used to camp and ride dirt bikes just southeast of there at Giant Rock.

[Jason]

47 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

We used to camp and ride dirt bikes just southeast of there at Giant Rock.

I’ve rode out there many times. It’s been a long time though. My old ass will just get hurt if I ride dirt bikes again. I used to go bird hunting a lot near sawtooth canyon near Slash X off the 247. 

[notherhalo]

 

[notherhalo]

old school evelyn

[Kotchman]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

At least we get more weather reports when storms show up. 

I miss the days of hot Univision girls. One more thing libs destroyed. 

[cals]

6 hours ago, notherhalo said:

it was a big letdown in Reseda, just some hard rain for a few hours here and there

You’re a bad boy cause you don’t even miss her. 

[St1ck]

13 minutes ago, cals said:

You’re a bad boy cause you don’t even miss her. 

I'm just glad that the storm didn't cause the cancellation of the All Valley Karate Tournament. 

[katie]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

At least we get more weather reports when storms show up. 

She’s ok. Solid 6. 

[St1ck]

24 minutes ago, katie said:

She’s ok. Solid 6. 

Her personality is like a 3. Her sense of humor is a 2. Her ears are like a 7 and a 4. Add it all up and what do you get? 16. And he treats her like she's a perfect 40. It's nuts.

[Redondo]

Maui home stands alone, untouched by deadly wildfires that destroyed neighborhood

 

[TBM-850]

A hard landing at John Wayne airport during the storm. Left landing gear driven up through the wing.

A short runway, heavy crosswind, darkness and wet runway (braking) are a bad combo.

[gotbeer]

Sigh.  Chino to LA.