BillyVance 34 #51 January 19, 2010 Quote Quote Deluge part 1 is over for now. Everyone report in. All good so far? Raining again here in NorCal...heard some thunder too. Did it sound anything like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #52 January 19, 2010 Quote Quote Quote Deluge part 1 is over for now. Everyone report in. All good so far? Raining again here in NorCal...heard some thunder too. Did it sound anything like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w I haven't even clicked that link,,but is it ACDC ThunderstuckYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #53 January 19, 2010 QuoteQuoteWas that '83? I remember that year - it was when Seal Beach Pier collapsed. Twas a doozy. Things seem well here in Fresno. The time I remember in Perris was around 1998 or so. The flood at Elsinore that caused the DZ to move (twice) was in 1980. See a little history here: http://projectpi.skydiveworld.com/DZelsinr.htm ltdiver Was that 98? there was a worse flood there around 92 if I remember right, I saw hundreds of skydivers lose their shoes trying to walk in from the muddy swamps, I never landed in the water once, but most of our Students landed in the north field, which is higher, and I was filming them! There was a flood at perris I believe in the 70's that many old timers talked about, they even shot video of carp swimming threw the Office! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #54 January 19, 2010 11:30 in La Crescenta: Thunder, lightning, and hail . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #55 January 19, 2010 Quote Quote Quote Quote Deluge part 1 is over for now. Everyone report in. All good so far? Raining again here in NorCal...heard some thunder too. Did it sound anything like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w I haven't even clicked that link,,but is it ACDC Thunderstuck you know me too well. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orchid 0 #56 January 19, 2010 It's pouring here....thunder & lightning in the OC. arghhhhh."Love is doing small things with great love." Lacrosse: Legally beating men with sticks since 1492 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #57 January 19, 2010 Just pouring since noon in El Cajon,, (San diego) damned pool is already over flowing....Bit of Wind...not bad yet! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hottamaly 1 #58 January 19, 2010 Same here in Perris. Haven't heard any thunder yet. Might get some snow by Friday. Skydiving gave me a reason to live I'm not afraid of what I'll miss when I die...I'm afraid of what I'll miss as I live Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orchid 0 #59 January 19, 2010 Yeah...my pool is overflowing as well. I really don't mind the rain if I don't have to leave my house...it's the crazy fucks that are driving that I worry about."Love is doing small things with great love." Lacrosse: Legally beating men with sticks since 1492 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #60 January 19, 2010 We are now under a Tornado warning...I feel like I am back in Mo.! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #61 January 19, 2010 I filmed a Tornado right after landing at Perris one year,(storm rolled in before we landed, when we hit the ground it was pouring), first time I ever saw a white tornado, (no it wasn't a dust devil) I need to dig that video up, and convert it to digital! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orchid 0 #62 January 19, 2010 Yes, the schools called & they have all the students on lock down in the main building."Love is doing small things with great love." Lacrosse: Legally beating men with sticks since 1492 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hottamaly 1 #63 January 19, 2010 Me thinks the drought is getting over. It's raining by the gallon now. Thunder arrived as well. Skydiving gave me a reason to live I'm not afraid of what I'll miss when I die...I'm afraid of what I'll miss as I live Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orchid 0 #64 January 19, 2010 ...oh more is coming (thunder), it's still rumbling here in the OC."Love is doing small things with great love." Lacrosse: Legally beating men with sticks since 1492 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #65 January 20, 2010 4:13 near the Burbank airport - just started a good solid rain again after a couple hours of rainbow weather. The hills are now completely shrouded but I can still see some brightness in the sky (coming from the opposite side of the hotel as me so I can't see how much the sun is still poking out). Speaking of rainbow weather just as I hit "post" the most SPECTACULAR double rainbow just popped out to the east of me. Holy moly! (Added a crappy cell phone quality photo)."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warpedskydiver 0 #66 January 20, 2010 California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic. Or just about anything else, damn don't they realize it rains just about everywhere else? We had people honking their horns and flipping us off while we were in a convoy because we had to pass them during a rain storm. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nanook 1 #67 January 20, 2010 Quote California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic. Or just about anything else, damn don't they realize it rains just about everywhere else? We had people honking their horns and flipping us off while we were in a convoy because we had to pass them during a rain storm. What is this "anywhere else" you are talking about? _____________________________ "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #68 January 20, 2010 Quote California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic. Uh . . . you're going to bag on California for not suffering enough traffic?!? When was the last time you visited southern California?quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,998 #69 January 20, 2010 >When was the last time you visited southern California? I'm thinking around 1949. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #70 January 20, 2010 >>California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic.<< They just announced mandatory evacuations beginning at 9AM tomorrow morning. This will involve about 500 homes in the La Canada, La Crescenta, and the Tujunga areas. All these places are right below the burn areas of the Station fire and the timing is in advance of tomorrow's storm. They haven't announced the exact addresses yet, so we don't know if it will involve us. Warpedskydiver, I hope the certainty some families here are going to lose everything tomorrow will give you a good laugh . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #71 January 20, 2010 Quote>>California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic.<< They just announced mandatory evacuations beginning at 9AM tomorrow morning. This will involve about 500 homes in the La Canada, La Crescenta, and the Tujunga areas. All these places are right below the burn areas of the Station fire and the timing is in advance of tomorrow's storm. They haven't announced the exact addresses yet, so we don't know if it will involve us. Warpedskydiver, I hope the certainty some families here are going to lose everything tomorrow will give you a good laugh . . . NickD you safe Nick? Hey Gypsy aren't you in one of those areas???You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warpedskydiver 0 #72 January 20, 2010 Quote >When was the last time you visited southern California? I'm thinking around 1949. That is what you get for thinking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warpedskydiver 0 #73 January 20, 2010 Quote >>California, where people think they are superior to everyone else, until it rains or snows or heavy traffic.They just announced mandatory evacuations beginning at 9AM tomorrow morning. This will involve about 500 homes in the La Canada, La Crescenta, and the Tujunga areas. All these places are right below the burn areas of the Station fire and the timing is in advance of tomorrow's storm. They haven't announced the exact addresses yet, so we don't know if it will involve us. Warpedskydiver, I hope the certainty some families here are going to lose everything tomorrow will give you a good laugh . . . NickD Why would I laugh, my point was merely that some people will constantly panic. I think you missed my point. Hey guess what? When people failed to evacuate in 1983 guess who got to go get them? Yeah, that was a real hoot.they send hundreds of us out there because some people would simply not listen. Now I can understand the elderly or infirmed, but if you had enough time to watch TV you certainly had enough time to pack your bags and get out of low lying places or the base of slopes that had been burned. This is CA, nothing new about mudslides, people should be well prepared. I live next to an area that floods quite often, I see the same lax attitude to getting out or being prepared. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DSE 5 #74 January 20, 2010 No one I've seen is panicking. What I do see are trees blowing over on top of cars (kinda hard to foresee), roofs being torn off (not terribly easy to foresee), and hard-baked soil due to drought that prevents the ground from absorbing an inordinate amount of rain. Saw a boat sink in the harbor at San Diego today too. Not sure how they could have foreseen that, exactly. Sure, folks can run away. It's not the "getting out" that is the issue. It's what they might come back to not find. Yeah, some folks in SoCal can't drive for shit. So what? That means they should enjoy property damage? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warpedskydiver 0 #75 January 20, 2010 Not at all, it merely means they need to heed the warnings and act appropriately and in time. Just look back at past events like these and it is easy to see that lack of preparedness. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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