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the weather. We're not going anywhere.
The weather is expected to pick up strong and long again this afternoon possibly causing significant flooding in hillside burn-areas. The second storm, predicted to be more severe, is expected to arrive Monday evening and stick around through Wednesday.
A flash-flood watch is in effect through Sunday night in recent burn areas in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties and residents near the Station Fire burn area are advised to move their cars off the streets.
And probably won't for several days. More sleepy time.
We're in the SM mountains, the rain is pretty serious here. although we don't have the problems of fire areas, historically our nabe has had some pretty interesting winter slides.
ReplyDeleteWe've stayed home all day. Our basement - which leaks every six or seven years - just started puddling up. Other than that, so far it's OK. No power outages yet.
It all feels very beseiged. Our (22 yo) kid is in London, and has a flight out of Heathrow scheduled for Monday. We are resigned to the fact that he may not get out, and may have to spend Christmas in the dorm.
Our SIL has been teaching school in Kiev, and grabbed a chance to fly home to Florida for Christmas. She's been trapped in the Brussels airport for 2 days.
Maybe she can find her way across the channel and she and our kid can have a Christmas together.
It all feels very beseiged.
From Our Discouraging Words Editor:
ReplyDeleteCrossed the Channel once, in Sept., but it was still storming like crazy, & people were quite motion-sick, so even the sea may not be an option for the SIL. Very wintry & snowy in the collective old country, we hear.
Had two outages when it rained in October; fingers crossed, the DWP has fixed/waterproofed the vaults.
Just don't park on the street, & we hope all make it home for the holidays, hum-bugging aside!