West Coast Monsoons....was: Re: [Shotimes] Wiper Problems

[Kerby Haltom]

Could you pump some water this way?  We average about 34 inches a year, we
got about 17 - 18 inches.  No appreciable rain since June, and none in
sight.

I'll trade you some dry, if you'll trade me some wet!  :-)

Keep practicing the back stroke.

Kerby

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of George Fourchy
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:01 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: West Coast Monsoons....was: Re: [Shotimes] Wiper Problems

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:09:15 -0600, K. Angermeier wrote:

>The weather channel is calling 
>for what looks to be some nasty flooding in your neck of the woods.

Yep...it's a mini-Katrina in some parts of the North Bay...the Russian River
floods
at 32 feet, and it is at 40 feet now, and expected to go to 45 feet by
tomorrow
noon.  The Napa River affects the wine country cities...Napa, Healdsburg,
St.
Helena, and others, and they are or were flooded up to 3 or 4 feet deep on
the
streets.

We are fine...no flooding here (the Rhododendrons in the terraces are
grinnning from
ear to ear).  But I-80 didn't do too well...in the middle of Fairfield, it
(just the
freeway and the adjacent offramp) is about 4 feet deep across all the
westbound
lanes....right where we got off to have pizza last summer.  There aren't too
many
alternate routes around that spot, and traffic is a mess. It's backed up
about 20
miles, and there is nowhere to pump the water....it will have to go down by
itself,
they think.

I'm sure glad _I_ don't work for CalTrans!!!

They're saying this is a 50-100 year winter.  We had one in 1986...this one
might
surpass that one.  The wet spots in the north bay have had up to 20 inches
of rain
in one week, from Christmas to now.

George.....had to have flood insurance on the last house.....never again!!
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