Rain, Snow, and Mudslides...

[Tbars4]

...They said they were averaging a new sigalert every 10 minutes...Guessing the amount of wrecked vehicles today, Thursday should have a lot less traffic..

...I just ran out and got dinner in the brief stop of the rain...It looks like I timed it perfect cause here it comes again...

 

[Tbars4]

...They are saying we got 14" of snow locally...

..Time for Boomer and Ritsui to post their pics...

 

[Ritsui]

...I'm hoping Ritsui and Khiori chime in too...

..:scratch:...I'm starting to wonder if they still take their sport out to play?..

"Play" might not be the word for yesterday. 12+" snow in some areas in just a few hours. No plows in our area until this morning. I seriously needed chains front and back to get up our street. I really shouldn't have left the house at all, but you know... I just had to get to town on the worst day of the year thus far .

I got to have some fun strapping a poor guy in a Taco out of a drift. He slid off the road (driving too fast for sure) and when I came on him he was trying to get himself more stuck... (no shovels, no traction gear at all). Locked and chained front and rear... it was incredibly easy to pull the Tacoma back onto the road.

Sorry, I was was alone and watching the road to avoid getting run down, so I wan't taking any pictures. Won't be so dramatic today, since it started raining late yesterday and packed the snow down a lot, but I'll snap a picture of our street in a few.

Hope everyone in the higher elevations (Boomer) is doing OK. I'm pretty sure some places had 18" or more.

 

[FROADER]

Good to hear you guys are fine up there Rits.

The rain was nice while it lasted I guess. There isn't a cloud in the sky today down here.
8:45am:

 

[shreqboi]

so i went up to lyttle creek yesterday wid a couple buddys nd man was it a blast

there was up to about 2 ft of snow in some areas. it was great

too bad i couldnt take my truk out instead i went in the homies fronteir

but it was cool

 

[Stic-o]

No clouds and Sunny here too, Nice view of the snow on the mtn, where only a few months ago was fire.

at midnight it was 33* with a windchill of 22* last night. BRrrrrrr!

 

[jims99]

In Tujunga, jesssus, im glad im not at home this week....

 

[cybergasm]

and to think that 33 degrees would be a heat wave where i am at right now :

 

[Tbars4]

...Harley and I spent the day at the Beach in Newport...Clear sky's and 51* and you could see the mountains covered with snow...Sorry, no pics..

 

[Stic-o]

didn't get to warm here today. In the 40's all day. Went down the hill tords Pasedena, and was close to 60*

Already as cold as it was at midnight last night here. I heard it's going to be down in the 20's here tonight

 

[Tbars4]

...Rounds 2 and 3 today thru this weekend...Not much snow expected though..
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/weather/local/storms-spur-accidents-mudslide-fears-20091211

 

[cybergasm]

Came down the 15 this morning pretty much scattered showers from Mtn Pass to Hesperia
And the Cajon Pass was sock in with Fog <20 foot visibility at times. fun fun.

 

[Tbars4]

...Not much here today...

...The ground was wet this am...Looked croppy all day but didn't even drizzle...We are finally just starting to get some rain..

 

[Tbars4]

...The rain is here...

...Woke up to rain this am and it has been getting gradually harder...The heavy rain should be tonight into tomorrow...

..The ground is already saturated so I hope all will be ok for everyone...

 

[cybergasm]

yea it was here last night on and off all night

Saw a nice 3 car wreck this morning on Beach Blvd. north of Chapman Ave.

 

[Tbars4]

...Evening update..

..Rain on/off all day but has intensified this afternoon..Starting to flood pretty good on the streets, and the freeways are a mess...

...Rim of the World has a rock slide..Houses by the Hollywood Bowl are being tagged and, Seismologist are out on foot in the burn areas by La Canada and they say they hear the rocks grumbling...

...Mammoth Mountain has gotten 3' from this storm and expect another 3' by Monday and are open 25%...They are expecting to be fully open by Wednesday..

 

[Tbars4]

...And the sliding has begun...

"Multiple landslides have been reported on state Route 2 between La Canada Flintridge and Mount Wilson."
http://cbs2.com/local/Landslides.Stranded.Angeles.2.1366609.html

..video...
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=121883@kcbs.dayport.com

...Stormwatch update video...
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=121866@kcbs.dayport.com

..Tujunga...
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=121875@kcbs.dayport.com

 

[Stic-o]

I guess 90 cars got stuck up on the 2 by a mudslide by Mt. Wilson. The intervied some guy coming down in a Ranger, and he said " Whoa, It's crazy up there, like Jurrasic Park!"


I think I should go up there now for sure.:shifty_ey

 

[Tbars4]

...Rockcrawling your street on the way to work...What a way to start a day...:biggthump

..They are saying 101 vehicles were caught between the 2 slides up there...

...The sun is coming out here and we are about to venture out and see what all the rain left us...The flash flood watch is about over...

...And of course, we need to find some missing people who went hiking in this storm...
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=121898@kcbs.dayport.com

...And power outages..."Crews Work To Restore Power To Thousands In SoCal"
http://cbs2.com/local/power.outages.no.2.1367169.html

 

[DB_1]

I guess our week of winter is over, now back to our regularly scheduled weather in the 70's