California Storms
11Are you Californian mehtizens okay?
@narfcake, @lisaviolet - and I know there are others of you out there.
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Are you Californian mehtizens okay?
@narfcake, @lisaviolet - and I know there are others of you out there.
Thanks for the concern, @Kyeh. I’m doing fine myself, though I do expect actual damages to crop up later. My house is on expansive soils, so I won’t be surprised to see some shifting in the coming months.
@Cerridwyn - how are you holding up? You’re up along the central coast now, right? I believe you used to be in the IE.
Thank you for asking. The way the coast it contoured, we hardly ever get banged with storms very hard. We’ll get tail ends of storms, but nothing like north of us.
According to our weather station, at our house we’ve gotten 1.57" of rain since January 1st. We got almost an inch on January 1st. Yesterday wasn’t even a third of an inch.
It’s still a lot for us, but nothing like the rest of the state.
For it to be bad here, we need a direct hit, from either north or south (monsoon season).
@lisaviolet
My apologies.
“we hardly ever get banged… very hard. We’ll get tail… We got almost an inch on January 1st. Yesterday wasn’t even a third of an inch… It’s still a lot for us… we need a direct hit, from either north or south”
Glad you and the cats are ok. Sorry lol.
@unksol smh…
I’m good. Areas around me, not so much. And you got it @narfcake. Central Coast now. Watching Santa Cruz get pummelled and watching the power go out (*cough *cough * -PGE really sucks)
As the old saying goes “Tis not a fit night out for man nor beast”
@Cerridwyn @narfcake @lisaviolet
I’m glad you’re all doing okay; those sink holes and waist-deep water being shown on the news look pretty dreadful.
@Kyeh @lisaviolet @narfcake
Very much so
Lots of people evacuated all around and lots of devastation
Well there are tree carcasses in the streets, and on peoples cars and lawns still here in Sacramento. All the tree cutting services are very busy, even at night I see them cutting up trees and branches to get them out of the way. My area hasn’t flooded, we did get a few inches of water on the back patio we had to wade through, but we’re ok thank you for asking.
@BriPliana Glad you’re okay. I read your comment right after seeing this on TV - the tree’s width almost matches the reporter’s height!
@BriPliana @Kyeh
This is the root ball of a huge tree that was blown down by a windstorm in the woods near my house a few years ago. (Kid for scale)
@BriPliana @macromeh
GEEZ… It makes me sad when a huge old tree comes down like that! It must have been ancient.
@BriPliana @Kyeh The photo was taken on Weyerhaeuser timberland that is adjacent to my property. This particular area is ~a mile from my place. They had recently clear-cut the trees on the downhill side of these trees when the big wind came along and, with nothing to block it, took this one (and many other remaining ones) down. They went ahead and finished logging (and replanting) the area not long after.
@BriPliana @macromeh
Oh - then it would have been coming down anyway, I see. I’m still sad when really big trees are felled but maybe it was near the end of its lifespan anyway.
@BriPliana @Kyeh When they logged the commercial timberland adjacent to the back of my property, there was some contention over a large fir tree that was so close to the line that it was hard to tell whose tree it was. After some back-and-forth, we finally decided that it was (just barely) on their side and they took it down. The stump was a full 4 feet in diameter, but upon counting the rings, I was surprised to find it was only about 55 years old (about the same as me at the time
). It had some periods of pretty fast growth (i.e., wide rings) over the years.
When I used to hike by the tree with my kids, we used to call it “Grampa Fir Tree”, but I guess it was actually closer to “Uncle Fir Tree”.
@BriPliana @macromeh Really?!
I guess in the verdant PNW things grow fast! So have the replacement trees gotten big since then? (Not that big yet, of course.)
@BriPliana @Kyeh The replanted trees are about 12-14 feet tall (too big to poach for Christmas trees
).
When they cut the big fir down, they cut off a slice to square the butt of the log. I thought “Hey! I can make a cool patio table out of that!” But it was so heavy that my tractor couldn’t move it! Now it, along with the stump, is covered with a huge mound of blackberry vines.
@BriPliana @macromeh That would have been a wonderful table! Blackberry vines … I had a relative who lived on Mercer Island before it got so developed, and when we visited her when I was a kid, I loved wandering through the brambles and picking berries. It was an adventure - once I almost stepped on a snake, another time I saw a spider web as big as I was!
How does the kid compare to a banana (not in general, but for scale,
) ?
@phendrick Well lets see… bananas are 7-8" long for the most part. Kids that look about the age of the one in the photo are on the lower end of the 5’ range… lets say 5’2"… so 7.75 - 8.85 bananas tall. Thus 7-8 bananas, of which one has a bite out of it. The rest of my answer in not indented so showme works.
/showme a kid 8 bananas tall
@mediocrebot that is a fail!!!
@phendrick Here you go (Looks like they are assuming 8" bananas). You are welcome. (Google the land of all answers, correct or not LOL). I don’t think I want to eat my height in bananas in one sitting.
@Kidsandliz I’d rather eat my height in bananas than my weight!
@phendrick True
I am sorry you guys out in CA and elsewhere on the west coast have so much rain. Hopefully the up side will be helping raise your water table so less drought effects and fewer forest fires this year.