The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Melena on January 21, 2012, 10:08:51 PM
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It started raining here in Northern California on Thursday. Finally. It's been a very dry 3 months here when we usually get a ton of rain. I was starting to get worried.
It was dry and cold (for here). We don't do well when it gets below freezing every night for weeks at a time. It got up into the low 50's (F), but the high temps didn't last for very long.
But now, rain sweet rain. The plants love it. I can hear them singing. ;D Oh, that's just the rain drops coming down. ;) And the low temperature is now in the 40's (F).
Forecast is for more rain the next 2 days, and then clearing and more sun than clouds for another week with highs to 70F? I think I can handle a ride in that weather. ;)
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We've also watching that big storm in the Pacific. It may split when it makes landfall on the west coast and bring some moisture to some of the drought stricken areas of Tejas. Enjoy the wet. [smiley=thumbup.gif]
Monte
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Lots of rain in Georgia as well.
Kept me off the bike last night... :P
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Raining here in SoCal today, wish you would have kept it in the North. Arrrrgh
It's already rained a couple of times in the past 6 months, we're way over quota
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Forecast...Snow tomorrow AM, hay ho California Dreamin at least we had a rare treat last night when the Northern Lights visited Yorkshire.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090611/Northern-Lights-Extraordinary-display-skies-YORKSHIRE.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
The pub in the feature is the Tan Inn highest pub in England a well known bike gathering point.
Lou
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Lou,
That looks amazing!
I saw the northern lights many years ago on a cold clear night in Ireland, no light pollution, it was spellbinding and very humbling...
Incredible, I really want to go to the arctic circle to see them again one day.
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I wasn't worried, Melena. I was enjoying a half way decent winter. Now I need an amphibious bike.
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Should be great northern lights tonight as there is a really strong solar storm.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html
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Monte, I do hope you got some of this rain down there in Tejas. Looks like it might have as wilcom reports rain down in So Cal. Be glad of that rain, wilcom. That may just be it for the winter. ;) Hey, wait a minute. You said you are over quota? Well, maybe you'd just better send some of that water up here. ;D ;)
Mr. Gumby ( ;D ) So you're getting all the rain there in Georgia? Ha! That's where it's going. It's better to get rain than not, I suppose.
Lucky Lou - snow? Brrrrr. I'd rather be here where we might get a bit of snow near sea level every decade or so. But you got to see the Northern Lights? Oh wow. How really cool is that? 8-) I saw them once when I lived in Juneau, AK. I had to get up in the middle of the night in the middle of winter and even then they were pretty dim and far away. I've heard that the Northern Lights from this solar storm are supposed to be pretty dramatic. But darn, I think I'm still too far south to see them. I'll have to be happy watching the videos.
Bill, can you see them when you're flying? Probably you're paying attention to your instruments instead. :o I would hope.
Ed, I've been watching the snow and rain in Oregon and was thinking of you up there hoping you weren't getting flooded out. So sorry the storms ruined your winter. ;) But I'm loving the rain. Well, I was loving it. Looks like we're in for another dry spell down here for at least another week.
Well, whatever weather you're having, enjoy it!
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Ed, I've been watching the snow and rain in Oregon and was thinking of you up there hoping you weren't getting flooded out. So sorry the storms ruined your winter. ;) But I'm loving the rain. Well, I was loving it. Looks like we're in for another dry spell down here for at least another week.
My house doesn't flood (I live on a ridge) though my driveway was washed out a little. I rode the R65 today and will poke about on my way home to see if any of my back roads routes are open. The ride this morning was nice.
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Four inches in the rain gauge of a neighbor in the last 24 hours. A nice, slow soaker.
Heavy flooding in parts of the DFW Metro-Mess. Why do some folks insist on driving around barriers and straight into flooded roadways? Just because that Class A big rig made it through, doesn't mean the soccer mom in the BMW SUV will make it. She didn't. Saw it on the telly. Water over the beltline and into the now totaled car. One of many.
Would enjoy hearing all the excuses attempted to be sold to the spouse this evening. [smiley=argue.gif]
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Four inches in the rain gauge of a neighbor in the last 24 hours. A nice, slow soaker.
Heavy flooding in parts of the DFW Metro-Mess. Why do some folks insist on driving around barriers and straight into flooded roadways? Just because that Class A big rig made it through, doesn't mean the soccer mom in the BMW SUV will make it. She didn't. Saw it on the telly. Water over the beltline and into the now totaled car. One of many.
Would enjoy hearing all the excuses attempted to be sold to the spouse this evening. [smiley=argue.gif]
I don't get that. 4 inches in one day would make Western Oregon a disaster zone, though not my house. We get a lot of rain, but it's just constant for 9 months. One inch in a day is a lot.
And about the barriers: that hurts, as I was thinking of doing just that on the way home. At least I can push my R65 on through if it floods out!
Really though I was thinking I may need to just poke around a lot of different ways to make it home.
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I didn't go through the high water. It was at least a foot and a half deep, over the muffler level anyway. And flowing pretty fast.
I thought 4" sounded like a lot for one day but then I read this:
http://www.polkio.com/ns/news/22280/storm-wreaks-havoc
"Falls City may have seen the most rainfall during the storm, with 10.2 inches in 50 hours, ending at 10 a.m. on Thursday, according to weather spotter reports. In the same time frame, Grand Ronde saw 5.4 inches of rain. Heavy rain may not be done with us yet, though."
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Ed, 10.2" in 50 hours? OMG! I know you get lots of rain up there, but that's a soaker for sure. I was thinking that 4" in a day is an awful lot too. If we got 4" in 24 hours we'd be drenched for sure. Especially if it kept raining like that. When the ground gets soaked all the rain ends up in the low areas, especially the roads. I just stay home when it's like that. ;)
At least you're getting some rain down on that parched Texas prairie, Monte.