Wow, a hurricane headed our way!
15Well, it won’t be a hurricane when it hits, but this is a first for a lot of San Diegans.
The outer red lines are the outer edge of the path. The blue line up the middle is the center. That orange arrow is where I live.
Yeah! Some not boring hot weather!
I’m not worried about the rain, what makes me nervous is the wind. We have those super tall pine trees and a liquid amber (sugar gum?). The liquid amber is what I’m most worried about.
There’s still some blue sky, but the clouds are building up.
We have plenty of food (for humans, cats and dawg), batteries and water.
Batteries are charged.
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The food you have for humans is cats and dawgs?
As for the trees, unless you have been over watering your trees to cause them to have a shallow root base (a common issue here in hurricane prone Florida) then your trees will probably do just fine.
@yakkoTDI In much of S Fla, there’s only a foot or two (sometimes less) of topsoil over the top of fossil coral reef. The shallow root systems are often due to there being nothing down in the coral that the trees want, since the water table is so close to the surface that they get enough without drilling down.
Gumbo limbo trees typically have a large disc of root mat around the trunk, and runners that go out to as much as four times the height of the crown. When one of them blows over, a dozen or more will come up from the severed roots, and you get a dense thicket of them where there was just one before. Buttressed that way, they don’t blow over.
With that much time over land before it reaches you, I doubt that you’ll have much of an issue with wind. Rain could be a different matter.
My best friend lives just north of you. Fortunately if there is a lot of rain she is not in a low lying area. She has a ton of vintage tangerine trees. I wonder how many tangerines will end up on the ground (of course that season could be past. I have no idea when in the year you pick them there).
Hope the lights stay on, the pets stay safe, and your trees remain upright.
Yeah I’ve been watching it too. I’m quite a bit further north of that now but heading down to Oxnard which is still always North of San Diego but still. Going tomorrow and going earlier than I planned just to be safe. I know people even Inland and North of San Diego are taking extra precautions. Back in my old land of Redlands which are moving back to yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
@Cerridwyn
I got up this morning and something in my brain said no you’re not going anywhere today. And I actually managed to get a refund on a prepaid Hotel because there is an emergency declared which made me feel much better. Stay safe at all you folk down there
Rain/thunderstorms and some winds expected my way, but that should be about it. I’ll be fueling my car up and will do a quick Costco run, at least.
Gave up on Costco but made a run to Aldi instead. Much much much less crowded!
Stay safe and please keep us updated
If the rain predictions are correct, the Salton Sea could gain a foot or more of depth.
Just make sure you keep your batteries in the fridge so they’re nice and fresh for when you need them (if you need them, and I hope you won’t)…
Good luck, hopefully it won’t hit you hard.
Crazy! I’m glad you’ve been preparing, though, you can never be too careful these days. I’m not sure if it’s the same where you are, but here in New England, aside from dead, hollow trees, we tend to have the most problems with pines blowing over in high winds when the ground is saturated from a lot of rain, because they tend to get really tall, like yours, & normally have shallow root systems. I’m not sure if yours out there are similar, but I’m hoping you haven’t gotten enough rain to saturate the soil, considering the drought that’s been going on. In any case, all the best to you & yours, but I’m sure you’ll be okay!
@ircon96 Don’t know if New England has a lot of rock under the soil near the surface but when I worked in NW Ontario the granite is so close to the surface that the trees struggle to have any deep roots at all. That doesn’t help the situation.
@Kidsandliz While we do have our share of granite cliffs & mountains, I’m not sure whether there’s a lot of solid rock near the surface to block tree roots, but we tend to have solid, compacted soil, rather than loose & sandy, so that’s probably why we have a lot of maples, pines, oaks, etc, since they do well with wide, shallow root systems.
I think the biggest problem here has always been the endless supply of loose rocks & boulders in the soil, deposited by glaciers during the last ice age. IIRC, there’s an old joke, something l about rocks being local farmers’ best bumper crops. That’s why we have so many thousands of miles of stone walls, the rocks were dug up by farmers plowing & clearing their fields, then the next time they plowed, they would find that frost heaves had pushed up a whole new batch. Talk about a Sisyphean job, i don’t know how they keep their sanity! Some would say they don’t…
I would love to get some of that rain around here, but at least from the predicted path it looks like it will miss us here in NW Oregon.
Add a 5-ish earthquake up in the Ojai area.
@narfcake Yeah my cousin just told me that (he lives in LA on the more eastern side). He said 5.1
/giphy raining in an earthquake
@narfcake - well not what I was looking for but I guess cat in an earthquake is close enough
@narfcake Actually looking carefully the cat is on a vibrator thing so that is a total giphy fail except of course. Cats.
@Kidsandliz
/giphy fail
@Kidsandliz @narfcake I think that’s a pretty successful acrobatic trick, really! Now perfectly positioned for tummy rubs!
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh Yeah, but belly rubs …
@Kyeh @narfcake
@narfcake We didn’t feel it down here, too far south. I have to laugh at the “Hurriquake” jokes…
Well, there was rain, there was heavy rain, there was a lull, there was wind, there was more rain, but nothing to write home about.
Stronger winds with Santa Anas and we got more rain in one day earlier this year (January and March had some heavy rain days). In the 24 hours of this storm, we got 1.97 inches.
Other places got it a lot worse than us, but that’s topography for you. At least we were ready and the trees got watered. No avocado loss! Yay!
@lisaviolet Avocado trees? Nice. Glad you made it through.
@sammydog01 Yes, they held up well.
This is the time of the season when they’re doing their fruit drop because they can’t sustain the amount of fruit on them. I don’t like seeing avocados on the ground, never to grow up and become food. lol
@lisaviolet My friend in Vista and cousin in East LA area both said what went on there was more a media event than anything else, rain was gentle enough that it all soaked into the ground and gave a really good watering to the trees (my friend also has an avacado tree and a bunch of heritage orange/mandarin/tangerine type trees).
@Kidsandliz Exactly.
@Kidsandliz @lisaviolet Geologic ages ago, one of the national network news programs sent a team out to get the story as Hurricane Betsy hit Florida. They filed their live outdoor coverage from Miami, talking about how brutally the storm was bashing the area. Betsy missed Miami entirely; what they were in wasn’t even a very energetic thunderstorm, and you could see that in the footage.
@lisaviolet @werehatrack I loved the one where Dan Rather (at least I think it was him) was theoretically covering a hurricane on location. The green screen showed a ton of high wind and rain. He was allegedly outside under a porch and his clothes and hair weren’t even moving.
@Kidsandliz @lisaviolet @werehatrack Then there was this guy:
@callow @lisaviolet @werehatrack Yeah I had seen that. Hysterical when you notice the women in the background.
I was reading about Eisenhower hospital at in Rancho Mirage and that’s really a sad thing I mean the ER flooded. And it looked really nasty. It was because of a pond of some sort that overflowed and then overflowed into the ER. I could see some houses out there with pools having similar things happening when the flooding damage is not directly from the store but indirectly from the storm. Glad so far everybody has stayed relatively safe
Can Texas have some if your spare rain, please?
/giphy “spare rain”
@f00l Come and get it!
@lisaviolet
Are the residents there called Los Cajones?
(I had to ask.)
Native Floridian here…
A buddy told me he had a Cat-1 storm headed his way in Southern Cali. My words were “Just rain and wind, you’ll be fine”.
I get a text over the weekend that said “Tropical Storm Earthquake” and my only response was WTF Mother Nature?!
[insert Jesus Christ kid meme]
Just saw photos of the aftermath. So sorry about the devastation.
https://babylonbee.com/news/check-out-these-devastating-pictures-of-hurricane-hilarys-aftermath
@Weboh Yeah, it’s kind of a bummer when things don’t turn out with Lahaina-level damage/death tolls. But seriously, while it’s a relief when storms aren’t as devastating as predicted, Hilary sure left a mess in some areas, & I’m sure people in those neighborhoods aren’t exactly overjoyed. Also, I’m sure the warnings kept many people at home and not out on the streets, putting first responders in danger when they find themselves needing rescue.
@ircon96 We aren’t allowed to laugh any more? The tone of the article wasn’t “I wish it were worse,” it’s “we mainly got a little water and Californians don’t know how to handle it lol” (most of the staff at Babylon Bee is SoCal based, btw).
Real talk: I grew up in Florida, and I distinctly remember one time as a kid being mad that a hurricane wasn’t worse: “We spent all this time getting our house ready, packing up and heading to the hurricane shelter, and now we don’t even get to have fun camping out here for awhile and have even more work undoing everything”
After the last near miss we had, I remembered that and laughed about it. It eased the annoyance of having done all that work “for nothing” and brought a new perspective. I wonder how many Californians that were more affected by the hurricane needed a laugh and/or change of perspective…
@Weboh I’ve laughed at those jokes, especially in the distant past when i first heard them, during times when they’ve gotten normal rain storms out there. Those jokes have been around forever. It just seemed a little more mean-spirited this time in light of recent events, along with the fact that this was their first tropical storm warning ever, and many people did suffer more than the usual inconveniences that regular rain storms bring to that area. That’s all i meant. I’m a big proponent of gallows humor, but at least be original with it!
It was known that if it followed the predicted path, and it did, that the heaviest rain would be inland, and it was. The inland desert areas are shielded from most storms, because the storms are moving east, and lose much of their moisture in the mountains, then reach the inland valleys and trickle out a little water.
The streets, drains, and even natural waterways aren’t capable of draining that much water at once.
So all the people on the coast are like “hey, it was no big deal” while many of those inland saw more rain in a single day than ever before.
For pretty much the entirety of San Diego County, it was overblown (pun intended). I live in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, and we got about 3 1/2 inches.
The local news was pretty right on with their prediction. It was the national media that whipped it all into a frenzy, causing yet another insipidly stupid run on toilet paper.
@haydesigner It’s well-recognized that TPing someone’s trees is much more an effective statement right before it rains.