No power for about 600,000 in N. Calif

Source: Reuters



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0429918420080104

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Hope DUers on west coast are OK.

Oh noes! A winter storm in NoCal? Who'da thunk it?

The same storm hit Southern Oregon. It was big. We're not talking a typical winter storm here, we're talking winds gusting to around 50 mph, flooding, etc. I'm looking out my window at a tree that had a couple of its bigger branches literally torn off by the wind. Storms like this don't happen very frequently.

You'd think we'd learn to expect them by now.

...just thinking. The media does exagerate everything these days. Keeping the 'terrors' and your reptilian brain functions at a constant.

Atypical since...? 1970's...1950's...1930's? Watchout for the media omitting statistics from decades or centential data.

Being in Boston...we get Nor-easters every year. Yet nobody claims we've had any change of weather. This year, we've had a typical winter. VERY COLD right now.

But hey...the families of the Anglo-American NWO live around here.

are getting the Pacific NW's Storms the last 2 month's

I had stuff blowing around last night that 90mph gust have never moved.

It is effing howling out there right now.

I'm going down to the waterfront to really get into it.

Oh oh...

The beach is a mess right now but at least the power is back on!

and with 67mph at SFO I know here in the coastal hills we were above that. someone in our neighborhood lost their chimney, tore right off landing on their deck in front of their house. finally got my internet back just now.

My wife called me with the good news. I'm sitting in my 13th floor corner office at 3rd and Capitol in Sacto and the wind and rain are kicking the crap out of my windows. So far, I've heard of two state buildings that have lost power (Justice and General Services) and the Cal-EPA building looks pretty dark as well. Gee, I can't wait to make the trip home. Surface streets only.

Sorry about the fence.

This whole building has only electric power, so no coffee for us this morning. Trees, lines, fences down. We pissed off Mother Nature good this time.

up here in Mendo county. rain for days.

We were in the dark for two hours here at work, and had to go clear downtown to find someplace with the lights on so we could get hot food and warm air while we waited it out.

is still on and the wind has quieted down for the time being. It was really slamming things around here this morning.
I'm surprised it didn't knock down our power lines.

I did hear that our rapid transit system was down. That will really tie up the commute. UGh.

I'm glad I don't have to be anywhere.

Hope everyone stays safe.

Mz Pip
:dem:

where I live in N California we don't have a choice, It's PG&E, UG

Well, more than usual.

SF needs residential/commercial trash cans that have lids with a latch.

blown over on the Golden Gate Bridge, I think? They had a picture--unbelievable.

I don't envy them losing their power--I lost my power for 4 days in the ice storm we had a few weeks ago, and it was miserable. I'm still so grateful for lights and heat, I can't tell you.

I hope everyone stays safe.

Storm #3 sneak ashore, like the Angel of Death--a very black (lightless) cloud just came off the ocean to cover Orion's Belt in what had been a pristine night sky with Milky Way ablaze. Circa 3:30 am, Mendocino coast--not a cloud in the sky for a period of time. Two brief flashes of lightning accompanied this Cloud; no crack, no thunder. Very quiet. The brief lightning flashes did not lighten the Cloud. Strange. Maybe I'm having hallucinations. I caught the "superbug" this trip (frackin nasty cold), and I'm on lots of medicines. I was also caught in the tail of Storm #2 in South San Francisco yesterday. A flood on 280 went over the top of the car, utterly blinding us for about 30 seconds. Marin was bumper to bumper for an hour, because they CLOSED the Richmond Bridge (I have no idea why). There was 20 miles of almost unpassable tree debris on the road we finally took home. 128 closed along the Navarro (trees down). (75 mph winds at Navarro/coast.) 1 closed at Pt. Arena (Garcia River flooded). We took a gamble and managed to get home between storms. Car radio out, so we had no idea what-all was happening in Mendocino County or the rest of the state. Just finding out. And, anyway, Mendocino County rarely gets reported on, like Dennis Kucinich (and now, John Edwards--jaded though I am, and savvy to war profiteering corporate news monopoly games, I 'couldn't believe' the treatment of Edwards re Iowa, in the craprags I picked up along the way). Gonna go check on some 'news.'

We're running a generator part of the time. Using a cellphone for internet because that's down too.

My power didn't go off. If it did, I was asleep when it happened.