Hurricane 2023

[frorider]

#overlanding

[Timberridge]

You can't stop a Subaru.

[east or bust]

Getting the northern tip of this system in central Idaho and I haven't seen rain like this in a long time. Impressive.

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Took off the main Salmon this past Saturday. I feel bad for whoever is floating it this week. Gunna be a wet one and a good chance of some new blow outs.

[SumJongGuy]

All my San Diego and LA peeps have checked in as OK.
Our generator got a 2.5 day drill last week. Lots of sketchy trees in the area were knocked down by some bad storms last Tuesday. 100K+ lost power for an extended period. Hurricanes will say hold my beer to that though.. Let's see what hits this season. Hopefully not much..

[evdog]

Rain totals across Socal

SoCal - https://forecast.weather.gov/product...&highlight=off
LA - https://www.weather.gov/wrh/TextProduct?product=rrmlox

12" Mt San Jacinto
12" San Gorgonio (Raywood Flat)
8.5" Mt Wilson
7" Mt Laguna
7" Palomar Mtn

Higher elevation mountain areas all got hammered pretty hard - San Bernardinos, San Jacintos, San Gabriels. Across the San Gabriels and cities right below got 4-6", lots in San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys as well. Palm Springs area too, 3-4". Lots of flooding and road closures there.

But we just came out of a southern Sierra backpack trip Saturday afternoon, and it was pretty unprecedented. We got to the car at Cottonwood Pass trailhead around 2PM, it started to rain a few minutes later. So far nothing unusual; afternoon showers are par for the course about 30% of the summer. But then the rain picked up. Instead of clearing as we dropped into the (normally hot and dry in August) Owens Valley, it was dumping by the time we got to Lone Pine. Then yesterday, I swear I never wasn't using my windshield wipers (and much of the time I was focused on avoiding puddle lines on the road) for 400 miles across Nevada. It wasn't not raining until Utah a bit east of Wendover.

I looked up some Sierra point forecasts, where we'd been. All those JMTers we'd talked to and hung out with are (literally) hosed right now. Yeah, I know, when you go into the wilderness, "you find more than you seek", and I've sure gotten my share of Type 2 Fun weather in the Sierra over the years. But damn, those folks are getting clobbered now. Those two women from Ohio starting the JMT who we shared a Soldier Lake campsite with Friday night... I guess they're huddled in their little 2-lb syl-nyl tent at Crabtree right now getting dumped on, and Whitney sure isn't happening for them.

At least when it finally clears up they'll have nice fresh air rather than getting choked with smoke or worse getting fire evac'd. I'll always take any rain that comes our way. Forecast currently shows snow and rain up there for tomorrow so at least they'll get a white Christmas lol.

Also illustrates why I always bring a tent rather than a bivy in places like Sierras or CO where thunderstorms often happen.

[406]

Fun times playing in the warm rain with the kids during the heaviest down pour yesterday. Nothing large from the eucalyptus trees fell in my direction, but good amount of small stuff to clean up.

Couple traffic lights out on drive into work, but I was early so no traffic issues.

[SumJongGuy]

Fun times playing in the warm rain with the kids during the heaviest down pour yesterday. Nothing large from the eucalyptus trees fell in my direction, but good amount of small stuff to clean up.

Couple traffic lights out on drive into work, but I was early so no traffic issues.

Nice when there was no lightning to deal with

[ötzi]

PSA - Tropical Tidbits is the best tropical weather source I've found. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/

[zion zig zag]

Took off the main Salmon this past Saturday. I feel bad for whoever is floating it this week. Gunna be a wet one and a good chance of some new blow outs.

I have a coworker that put in on the Middle Saturday.

[nickbokhoven]

This storm put a serious hurt on the eastern Sierra corridor. Instagram posts show Road washouts and slides.




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[bobz]

Yeah, several popular trailhead roads are washed out or closed due to rockslides. Oh yeah, and 395 is closed from Bishop to a little north of Ridgecrest.

[evdog]

Lots of main roads in Death Valley closed as well, and I'm sure the backcountry roads there got hammered. That's a bummer. The park was still recovering from last summer's and winters big storms.

For Seano, there is a partial closure on I-8 at top of the climb from the desert, due to rockfall. Last update said one way with traffic control, so possibly a bit of a wait until that gets cleared.

[evdog]

Some footage of Palm Springs flooding. Seems like a predictable result from building a neighborhood that juts out into a major wash. The freeway pictured is I-10

[skaredshtles]

Some footage of Palm Springs flooding. Seems like a predictable result from building a neighborhood that juts out into a major wash. The freeway pictured is I-10

It's kinda like all those towns/neighborhoods built in flood plains in the rest of the country. I wonder at what point people will figure this out.

[The AD]

Sorry for the political interlude, but this is too idiotic not to share:
Fox News Tells Viewers ‘They’ Let Tropical Storm Hilary Into the US ‘Because It’s Biden’s America’

In the first minute of the right-wing cable channel’s “The Big Weekend Show” Sunday evening, host Kennedy opened with a dramatic introduction.
“The big story tonight: The wrath of Tropical Storm Hilary. 42 million desperate souls in the path of the storm which made landfall in Mexico several hours ago. But they let it right into the country because it’s Biden’s America.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hi...idens-america/

Trump would have Sharpied that shit right back into Mexico, apparently!

[evdog]

Trump would have Sharpied that shit right back into Mexico, apparently!

And if that didn't work, his border wall would have stopped it for sure! lol

[fomofo]

I posted this article from 1988 a while back in another thread. It's worth a read. This war is still going on. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1...he-mountains-i

That is one very long but extremely good/fascinating article. I've been chewing on it in chunks, and still am only about 2/3 of the way through. Great deep dive into all the related issues.

It's kinda like all those towns/neighborhoods built in flood plains in the rest of the country. I wonder at what point people will figure this out.

They pretty much did a while ago, (see above), but people want what they want, and developers and real estate pros wanna make $$, so on it goes.

[t-the-east]

Bobz is a big double negative guy

[PB]

Bobz is a big double negative guy

Gonna hafta 'splain that.

[Skistack]

It's kinda like all those towns/neighborhoods built in flood plains in the rest of the country. I wonder at what point people will figure this out.

Maybe when (federally subsidized) flood insurance becomes prohibitively expensive.

Which, for their sake, I hope those folks had. Otherwise they’re in for an unpleasant conversation with their agent.


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[bodywhomper]

Is that area in the FEMA mapped floodplain?

[evdog]

Which, for their sake, I hope those folks had. Otherwise they’re in for an unpleasant conversation with their agent.

Sounds like a lot of people in Palm Springs did not have flood insurance.

[evdog]

That is one very long but extremely good/fascinating article. I've been chewing on it in chunks, and still am only about 2/3 of the way through. Great deep dive into all the related issues.

Cool. There is a part 2 to that article that I was able to find at one point and IIRC was good also.

Might take a bit of google searching to find a non paywalled version. This one requires a subscription -- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1...-the-mountains

[neufox47]

Sounds like a lot of people in Palm Springs did not have flood insurance.

Selling flood insurance to Palm Springs residents… like selling ice in Antarctica.

[seano732]

Lots of main roads in Death Valley closed as well, and I'm sure the backcountry roads there got hammered. That's a bummer. The park was still recovering from last summer's and winters big storms.

For Seano, there is a partial closure on I-8 at top of the climb from the desert, due to rockfall. Last update said one way with traffic control, so possibly a bit of a wait until that gets cleared.

Thanks evdog, we are headed back to the Q tomorrow, that’s gonna add more time to an already loooong fucking drive, plus we just left Thing 2 at school, and Mrs. Seano is a fucking mess….Gonna be a fun one, boys…