The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on January 19, 2010, 06:44:06 PM
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How are the California members faring with the soon to be torrential rain fall there ?
The 'rain event' has just started here in the Phoenix area around 1530 local .
Some forecasts here are predicting 3 inches (76mm) of rain by the time this is over with sometime Friday night/Saturday morning .
Our average rain totals for a year, are 6-7 inches (152-178 mm) .
Winter storm/blizzard warnings are up for the higher elevations north and east of Phoenix .
Forecasts are predicting 3+ feet (1+m) of snow, and that's only 130 miles (210km) away, as the crow flies .
Should be an interesting week .
Looks like the bikes will be parked for 4-5 days or so .
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Soon to be...? The second storm in the series is just finishing up here; the next one comes in tomorrow. We've had brief (fortunately!) power outages the last couple days; just had a hail storm. I think we've had more than 4" of rain since yesterday.
The weather prevaricators are saying that we'll have a break over the weekend, then more rain all next week.
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That's the first rain total I've seen today!!!
Residents in the wildfire burn area north of LA, have gotten evacuation orders, mudslides have started .
Gotten about .5 inches of rain since 1530 here in Phoenix, predicting an additional inch, before morning .
The cacti are partying hard here in the northern Sonoran desert, this is their first real drink of water in 6-7 months .
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More coming your way Bob!!! Pretty exciting here in San Diego today with violent wind gusts reaching +70 mph. I think we're in the neighbrhood of 3" the past two days with the heavy stuff coming Wednesday night through Thursday.
Gotta love those desert rains out your way huh Bob? Spent a few years working in Sierra Vista back in the 80's where I experienced some gorgeous high desert downpours. The desert seems to come alive after a little watering.
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The third storm is here, NOW. It's blowing hard and raining sideways.
The NWS says we got 2-2.5" yesterday, with a few areas on the Big Sur and Sonoma coasts getting up to 5". The last seven days map shows we've received 4-5" total.
I live in a rural area up in the hills, and the local utility, PG&E, has spent a lot of time here this fall trimming trees and clearing the power lines. So far, it has paid off for us.
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More coming your way Bob!!! Pretty exciting here in San Diego today with violent wind gusts reaching +70 mph. I think we're in the neighbrhood of 3" the past two days with the heavy stuff coming Wednesday night through Thursday.
Gotta love those desert rains out your way huh Bob? Spent a few years working in Sierra Vista back in the 80's where I experienced some gorgeous high desert downpours. The desert seems to come alive after a little watering.
The wildflowers will be quite a sight this spring, if we get all the rain that is forecast .
Only down side, is that when all the vegetation dries up in June, it will be ripe for wildfires !!!!!!!!
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Thanks to all you guys out west. We're going to get your rain this afternoon and it pushes into Texas. Come April we should have a bumpercrop of wildflowers in this state. Some of you ought to plan on coming down this way for some riding. Mrs. Phorqs and I always take a Spring Wildflower ride in mid to late April down around the Hill Country. Bandera is a good stepping off point.
In the meantime, keep your leathers dry!
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B_P,
True. I always run through the Hill country and stay at Deb's place (D'Rose) on my way to Bulverde to stop at my cousins place before heading East. Except for Western Texas and the gawd awful desert, Texas has some incredible roads, scenery and people. I've grown to love the trek left to right through that big state. Also our stop in Lockhart for some of the best BBQ anywhere.
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Mike, the d'Rose is for sale.
And don't be raggin' on West Texas too hard. The Big Bend area and the Rio Grande roads are lightly traveled and a treat on two or four wheels. But, yes, it can get a little warm..
Monte
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Received 1.25 inches (32mm) of rain yesterday .
Ground is finally softened up, so I planted a couple of cacti this afternoon after work .
Forecast through Saturday morning, is 2 inches (51mm) of additional rain .
Was clear this morning, so I did get to ride the oil head into work today .
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Re: California Rain
Reply #8 - Today at 16:37:35Mike, the d'Rose is for sale.
And don't be raggin' on West Texas too hard. The Big Bend area and the Rio Grande roads are lightly traveled and a treat on two or four wheels. But, yes, it can get a little
A "LITTLE" warm Monty?! No disrespect intended, I actually enjoy Van Horn and the scenery in that area, everything you need there, gas, stores, eateries and Motels. Besides, after leaving Van Horn I know I'm almost there (Hill Country) to cool off. Best part of the West Texas Desert are the early morning starts before sunrise after those late evening summer rain storms..quite nice.
Deb backed out of selling the D'Rose, for the time being. She needs some help with that place, she works way too hard all by herself. She's a great gal.
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Looks like today is going to be an 'interesting' day .
The governmental authority that operates Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, announced that no aircraft will arrive, or depart after 1400 local due to high winds, that's the first time in the 17 years I've been here, that the airport is going to be closed before 'heavy' weather actually arrives .
My employer Southwest Airlines, is getting all aircraft out of Phoenix by that time, and anticipates the airport to be closed for the remainder of the day .
Only time they pull all aircraft out of a city, is when a hurricane approaches .
We just learned that one of our aircraft ran off a runway in San Diego in high winds, no one injured, but the plane got 'banged up' a bit .
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We just learned that one of our aircraft ran off a runway in San Diego in high winds, no one injured, but the plane got 'banged up' a bit .
Seems ironic to me that a plane that can travel hundreds of miles per hour got banged up in high winds. Hope everyone was OK, it hasn't made CNN yet. That calls to mind the time I was on a SW flight out of Love heading for New Orleans. We weren't 2 minutes in the air when we had to turn around and go back. Seems that one of the ground crew had forgotten to close a cockpit window and the crew couldn't pressurize the cabin. Stuff happens sometimes!
Nothing but blue skies and mild weather in N. Texas today. Sure wish I was out riding somewhere, like down around Leakey on the Threes.
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It's been decent here, warm and rainy, but we almost never get as much rain at one time as some of you get. This morning I rode all the way to work and it didn't rain on me at all! THAT'S how good my Olympia Phantom suit is. ;D
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We just learned that one of our aircraft ran off a runway in San Diego in high winds, no one injured, but the plane got 'banged up' a bit .
Bob,
Interesting for sure. Batten down the hatches, we're getting hit pretty hard at the moment here in San Diego with wind gusts, +20' waves and heavy rain, with the strongest still out over the Pacific. A record low in Barometric Pressure of ±29.3 in. Perfect conditions for a tornado and funnel clouds. I haven't heard about the aircraft situation, are you talking about Lindbergh?
Good day to test rain gear.
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I haven't heard about the aircraft situation, are you talking about Lindbergh?
Yes, it was at Lindbergh field .
Apparently, the aircraft was blown sideways off of the runway,and one of the engines hit some runway/taxiway lights, so no major damage to the aircraft, engine cowling, and probably a precautionary engine change .
Aircraft was towed to the terminal .
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The morning news -ABC network- this morning reported that a second commercial aircraft had been struck by lightning while in California airspace. A bit more intense than St. Elmo's Fire.
Monte
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We had three aircraft hit by lightening yesterday, that came into Phoenix .
All three were ferried out to a heavy maintenance repair station, as the repairs were too much for us to handle, on top of the normal workload .
Phoenix is currently under a tornado watch until 2200 local, about 5 hours from now .
Southeastern Arizona, east of the Tucson area, is under a blizzard condition warning until tomorrow morning .
Like I said earlier, going to be an 'interesting' day .
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I just got back online here. The power went out yesterday at 8:15am. For us, when the power is out, we have no water either (on a well and our tank is below grade), so we've been camped out around the woodstove.
It's still drizzly here, but at least the winds have died down. They're saying it will clear over the weekend.
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As of 0500 today, had a total of 3.5 inches of rain .
Possibly adding an additional 1-2 inches through tomorrow morning .
That's about half of our average annual rain fall in around a little over two days .
Normally dry rivers and dry washes are flowing now, catching some people off guard, as a lot of roads here in Arizona go through the dry river beds, and washes and the road ways are flooded until the water subsides .
A lot of people don't realize they are driving cars, and not boats, and find themselves in real danger after trying to drive though rushing water .
Natural selection starts culling out the stupid humans around here !!!!
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"Natural selection starts culling out the stupid humans around here !!!!"
And even though the majority of those you mention have migrated into Az from Ca, most still reside here. Anything except sunny skies around here creates a perfect storm of stupidity on the roadways.
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Hang in there fellow forum members! We here in ON, Canada have been watching your weather fairly closely...all quiet here you see. Anyone know if Melena's Windsor, Ca. area is alright?
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Final total, 4.2 inches (107mm) of rain .
That's 60% of our average rainfall in 72 hours .
I had a few tall cacti blown down, the ground is so soft now, that it's like thick oatmeal .
Tomorrow morning should be clear 36 F. (2 C.) and high humidity, I'm anticipating fog when I leave for work at 0520 .
Current conditions are : clear, sunny, a bit cool, 50 F. (10 C.) with wind out of the southwest at about 15 mph .
Visibility is 150+ miles .
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Glad you all made it through OK. I headed down to SoCal on the 16th. I got one day of sunshine then nothing but rain for the rest of the week. ~sigh~ And of course, the day I left, it was sunny and gorgeous out. grrrrrrrrrrr
I can honestly say that in the 35 years I lived in the L.A. area, I had NEVER seen it rain like that. That was insane.