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20,000 years ago, where I live was under a few hundred feet of snow. So yes, it has gotten warmer. It will probably get cold again too. The only constant is change.
WTF. Tornado Warning in LA/OC!
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Ok, little update for you guys.
It's raining like hell right now, but I went outside and got some pictures while the rain dyed down.
I have a huge waterfall of water coming down from the roof outside of one of the windows:
Also, two of the storm drains in the courtyard are plugged up, so the water is just pooling up by the front door in the corner of the courtyard. It's pouring out of the gutter really fast, and it's just about ready to start overflowing under the doorway into the house, but fortunately, it's just marble tile inside, so with a few towels up against the door, there will be no water damage to anything.
Here is the flow of water from the gutter:
I went outside and took a look at the street. There is a divider thing in between the two lanes of the street in front of my house. My side is fine, but the opposite side is flooded 6 inches high:
You really can't see it too well in the pictures, but the waves in the ocean are a muddy brown color right now:
High tide and large waves out on the rocks:
And for reference, this is a normal day:
There is tons of mud down in the street at the beach below the house:
The brick wall between the 2nd and 3rd tiers of the backyard fell down!
This has actually happened twice before from the bricks just coming loose, but they were pretty secure since last time we fixed them back up. They fell from the wind and water alone:
It's raining like hell right now, but I went outside and got some pictures while the rain dyed down.
I have a huge waterfall of water coming down from the roof outside of one of the windows:
Also, two of the storm drains in the courtyard are plugged up, so the water is just pooling up by the front door in the corner of the courtyard. It's pouring out of the gutter really fast, and it's just about ready to start overflowing under the doorway into the house, but fortunately, it's just marble tile inside, so with a few towels up against the door, there will be no water damage to anything.
Here is the flow of water from the gutter:
I went outside and took a look at the street. There is a divider thing in between the two lanes of the street in front of my house. My side is fine, but the opposite side is flooded 6 inches high:
You really can't see it too well in the pictures, but the waves in the ocean are a muddy brown color right now:
High tide and large waves out on the rocks:
And for reference, this is a normal day:
There is tons of mud down in the street at the beach below the house:
The brick wall between the 2nd and 3rd tiers of the backyard fell down!
This has actually happened twice before from the bricks just coming loose, but they were pretty secure since last time we fixed them back up. They fell from the wind and water alone:
What's funny is the culture shock from region to region. I remember how scared all us Texan's were of an earthquake when I we through LA, yet all my friends around here from LA get really freaked out when they hear we have a tornado warning. Tornadoes don't scare me at all, and earthquakes don't scare them, but reversed we're all unsettled.
Florida is a whole other story. There torrential rain is the norm, yet that kind of rain would halt any other state entirely.
Florida is a whole other story. There torrential rain is the norm, yet that kind of rain would halt any other state entirely.
snow in the carolinas is really funny to watch. when i was stationed there i remember the schools closed for days after it rained and froze. the news had footage of busses going off into ditches and the gymnasiums at the schools were used for the children to stay if the parents couldn't drive over the ice.Max said:
our supervisors said "i don't care if you're from pa ny maine or alaska and you can drive in the snow that doesn't mean the guy coming the other way can too." it was also funny to here a guy with a southern draw warn you about "blacguise." i knew there was racism in the south but to here that in a winter safety briefing made my day. sgt harrel never heard the end of it.
and yeah i've been through torrential downpours and floods and huricaines and blizards but a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in japan was a bit unsettling for me. i was a good 30-40 miles from the epicenter and i don't know how much stronger it would have felt if i was closer.
Yeah the problem here is that our cities are just not designed with large amounts of rain in mind, like how a lot of places aren't designed with earthquakes in mind. So Cal is a relatively safe place to be in the event of an earthquake, but a bad place to be when there is a lot of rain.
I used to live in Florida. I remember getting caught in rainstorms and it feeling like I was being pelted with large ball bearings. When I would ride my motorcycle, at the first sign of rain I would pull under the first awning I came too. Now I live on a peninsula that is almost in the middle of Lake Superior. In the winter it snows almost everyday. I can't wait till spring comes up here.
weldfish said:
i do not envy you one bit. i HATE snow, and really dislike pretty much any other type of bad weather. i'd never complain once if it were 80 and sunny every day for the rest of my life
of course as i'm typing this there's a winter weather advisory on TVI'm a big fan of mongo-weather, too. I grew up in Minneapolis in the 60's and 70's and we NEVER had a snow day that closed the schools. We'd sit around listening to the radio, hoping - it didn't matter. 12, 18 inches of snow - shut up, shovel out your dad's car then walk to school. Drifts got up to 12 and 15 feet by late February. Every year, we'd lose a few farmers who went out to check the cows, and a few drivers who got caught with a breakdown out in the middle of nowhere - pre-cellphone days, ah yes. We had tornadoes too, one blew the roof off my aunt & uncle's house and they had to stay with us for one season. It just seemed normal. Then I moved to Miami in time to see the the first recorded snowfall ever AND Hurricane David. Then Tallahassee where it could rain, then Austin TX (blue northers) then back to Miami where I sat through Hurricane Andrew in a 1930's wood house in Coconut Grove - 60-foot cabin cruisers in the middle of the road 2 miles from the bay. Andy was the last category 5 hurricane to hit America that century. If you've ever been in the eye of a big hurricane, you know that they are ALIVE. After a while, you get over being afraid and it's kinda fun.... :evil4: Hollywood disaster movies seen trivial & even disrespectful, after the real stuff. I remember the wood ticks best - billions & billions (& billions) of wood tick eggs blew in from the hurricane, and then hatched... eeeeewww. 
