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[ZoWie]

Same volcano, new vent.

The town was already evacuated, which is good. Some property has been destroyed, which is not good.

It's more than just another disaster somewhere because there's a major airport and a large US military comm station in the area.

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In the words of Shemar Moore The Streak Is Over.

Snow drought over: NYC, DC blanketed by biggest storm in 2 years

Snow shovels have been gathering dust since 2022 in many cities along the Interstate 95 corridor, but the snowless streak has finally come to an end at the expense of travel delays and school cancellations.

"The streak has ended!" the National Weather Service (NWS) office in New York City said on Tuesday morning, when an inch of snow accumulated for the first time in 700 days, dating back to Feb. 13, 2022. As of 10 a.m. EST, there were more than 300 flight cancellations and over 700 delays between Laguardia, Newark Liberty and John F. Kennedy airports, all located in the New York City area.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-w ... rs/1613439

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3 dead from electrocution in Portland as winter storm death toll climbs

Three people died in Northeast Portland Wednesday morning after a falling branch brought a power line down onto the vehicle they occupied

The line came down just before noon, near Northeast 122nd Avenue and Northeast Siskiyou Street.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/17/ ... ter-storm/

[ZoWie]

It's the biggest storm in two years, but when that period had very little measurable snow at all, that doesn't mean much. It's like when LA had its second rainiest year ever measured last year, but still that would be a normal year in most other places. It's just that Southern California gets it all in a 3 month period.

This year we're back to normal. Normal in LA means you run the sprinklers and pay awesome water bills all "winter."

Mostly I noticed a difference when I started watching the NYC airport landing patterns on ADS-B Exchange during the snow storm, and seeing essentially chaos. Lots of aborted landings, go-arounds, and diversions to Newark. It was certainly enough to disrupt air travel, but then everything disrupts air travel.

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At least 45 deaths blamed on winter storms in past two weeks

At least 45 people have died in the past two weeks after storms have hit much of the U.S. with rain, snow, wind and bitter cold temperatures.

The storms have turned roads into ice and people have frozen to death, as another round of storms is expected to hit both coasts Friday, The Associated Press reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... two-weeks/

[ZoWie]

There is water falling from the sky in Los Angeles. That's always newsworthy.

[Glennfs]

There is water falling from the sky in Los Angeles. That's always newsworthy.

That is pretty funny I must be rubbing off you.

[Number6]

There is water falling from the sky in Los Angeles. That's always newsworthy.

We're due to start getting rain in San Diego from the same storm in the next couple of minutes. I've decided to remain indoors and recondition one of my primary bowling balls.

[Number6]

We've had heavy rain in San Diego. I was expected to inches or more for the next day or so. There's the usual flooding and certain areas of the city along the coast.

I'm currently at the bowling alley on Navy Base San Diego. We've had so much rain that the two main gates to the base are closed because of flooding. They've opened up an additional side gate, but the traffic to get out is horrendous so I'll be stuck here, probably for the next half hour, 45 minutes until the traffic clears.

Update: The Navy opened a side gate and all traffic on the base tried to use it at once. I saw the long lines of cars at the intersection of the side gate and decided to wait until it cleared up a bit. After about 45 minutes, the Navy opened another gate just to the south of the side gate so I decided to leave. It took about 15 minutes to go 4/10s of a mile. It took another five minutes at the signal to turn left because the 4-way stop was congested and cars were blocking the intersection. Once I turned left anther five minutes to go about a quarter of a mile where there was a fire truck blocking the street so I had to take a side street. The side street had been flooded and there was an ambulance and emergency vehicles causing another detour. I was using WAZE to guide me and each turn was into a street that was flooded or closed because of the rain. I did a U-turn and went as far as I could and turned left. I took a number of street until finally I was on a street that took me to the freeway and the Coronado Bridge. When I got on the entrance ramp to the freeway, part of it was flooded at the bottom but CALTRANS had dumped a bunch of dirt next to the left-side curb so cars could merge onto the freeway. Once past there I was able to access the bridge and get home about five minutes later. From the time I left the bowling center until I got home was 65 minutes for what was normally a 15 minute trip.

So after bowling instead of being home around 12:10 pm I arrived home at 2:30. I' staying put for the rest of the day..

[Number6]

Zowie, how bad was the rain in the L.A. area? We had flooding throughout the county down here and it was the 4th wettest day in San Diego history. We had flooding in Coronado and one section of the city, the Country Club area, the pumping station had to be closed and people there were told not to use flush their toilets or use their sinks and drains for 24 hours.

[JoeMemphis]

We've had heavy rain in San Diego. I was expected to inches or more for the next day or so. There's the usual flooding and certain areas of the city along the coast.

I'm currently at the bowling alley on Navy Base San Diego. We've had so much rain that the two main gates to the base are closed because of flooding. They've opened up an additional side gate, but the traffic to get out is horrendous so I'll be stuck here, probably for the next half hour, 45 minutes until the traffic clears.

Update: The Navy opened a side gate and all traffic on the base tried to use it at once. I saw the long lines of cars at the intersection of the side gate and decided to wait until it cleared up a bit. After about 45 minutes, the Navy opened another gate just to the south of the side gate so I decided to leave. It took about 15 minutes to go 4/10s of a mile. It took another five minutes at the signal to turn left because the 4-way stop was congested and cars were blocking the intersection. Once I turned left anther five minutes to go about a quarter of a mile where there was a fire truck blocking the street so I had to take a side street. The side street had been flooded and there was an ambulance and emergency vehicles causing another detour. I was using WAZE to guide me and each turn was into a street that was flooded or closed because of the rain. I did a U-turn and went as far as I could and turned left. I took a number of street until finally I was on a street that took me to the freeway and the Coronado Bridge. When I got on the entrance ramp to the freeway, part of it was flooded at the bottom but CALTRANS had dumped a bunch of dirt next to the left-side curb so cars could merge onto the freeway. Once past there I was able to access the bridge and get home about five minutes later. From the time I left the bowling center until I got home was 65 minutes for what was normally a 15 minute trip.

So after bowling instead of being home around 12:10 pm I arrived home at 2:30. I' staying put for the rest of the day..

But the question is “How well did you bowl?”

Glad you made it home okay.

[Number6]

But the question is “How well did you bowl?”

Glad you made it home okay.

Thanks, Idid well. I was subbing on a team I've subbed on for the last two years and I was five pins over average for the day. We won all our games. I'm subbing tomorrow for the same guy I subbed for on Monday. Afterwards, I'll be be practicing with a couple friends. I want a new bowling ball last Thursday night at bowling so I'm having to drill. It'll be ready tomorrow for me to practice with.

[Glennfs]

Thanks, Idid well. I was subbing on a team I've subbed on for the last two years and I was five pins over average for the day. We won all our games. I'm subbing tomorrow for the same guy I subbed for on Monday. Afterwards, I'll be be practicing with a couple friends. I want a new bowling ball last Thursday night at bowling so I'm having to drill. It'll be ready tomorrow for me to practice with.

5 pins over your average
Do they call you Bagger Sand Bagger shaken not stirred

[Number6]

5 pins over your average
Do they call you Bagger Sand Bagger shaken not stirred

Nope! Five pins above average isn't unusual for a bowler. In that league I have a 185 average but it should be closer to my 192 average in other leagues. I've had some good years and some bad years for averages. I'm going to a tournament in Las Vegas in March and they're using my 199 average from last year. On December 1st, I shot a 707 series for a 235 average and that's rare for me to shoot above 700. I've had a lot of 600 series (200 average) this year and I expect more of them to come.

When I've subbed, I've had people jokingly call me a "ringer" and I respond with "I ain't no ringer. Do you see me with any bells?" Other times they'll ask me how much the team is paying me to sub and I'll answer "They told me the pay was peanuts and I ain't seen no peanuts yet!" It's all in fun and part of the social aspect of the game.

[Glennfs]

Nope! Five pins above average isn't unusual for a bowler. In that league I have a 185 average but it should be closer to my 192 average in other leagues. I've had some good years and some bad years for averages. I'm going to a tournament in Las Vegas in March and they're using my 199 average from last year. On December 1st, I shot a 707 series for a 235 average and that's rare for me to shoot above 700. I've had a lot of 600 series (200 average) this year and I expect more of them to come.

When I've subbed, I've had people jokingly call me a "ringer" and I respond with "I ain't no ringer. Do you see me with any bells?" Other times they'll ask me how much the team is paying me to sub and I'll answer "They told me the pay was peanuts and I ain't seen no peanuts yet!" It's all in fun and part of the social aspect of the game.

I know while I am a terrible bowler at one time my big brother had over a 200 average at the same time in three different leagues in three different houses.
When I was 16 I used to show uo to watch him bowl in Kent Ohio. It was in 74 and bowling was huge. I would wait until someone put down an empty beer. Then walk in the bar and say I'll take another.
Worked every time. Until his idiot wife blurted out how did you buy that you are only 16.
How I miss those days.

[Number6]

I know while I am a terrible bowler at one time my big brother had over a 200 average at the same time in three different leagues in three different houses.
When I was 16 I used to show uo to watch him bowl in Kent Ohio. It was in 74 and bowling was huge. I would wait until someone put down an empty beer. Then walk in the bar and say I'll take another.
Worked every time. Until his idiot wife blurted out how did you buy that you are only 16.
How I miss those days.

Your brother would probably do better today with the new bowling ball technology available. As I said in an earlier post, last Thursday I won a new bowling ball, released last September, and it's being drilled so I can practice with it tomorrow after league bowling. I studied the specs of the ball as well as the possible drill pattern layout and told the pro shop how I wanted it drilled. Hopefully, the ball will do what I want it to do which is to go long and then snap more at the end than my other bowling balls. Of course, that all depends upon if I correctly release the ball from my hand, hitting my target on the lane, and get the speed, angle, and rotation right on the ball.

In the early 80s, I was on our hospital squadron's bowling team and carried a 175 average which was pretty good and above average for men back then. When I transferred to Germany and was in-processing through the squadron I keep getting comments like "So, your the hotshot bowler." It turns out I was stationed with the base surgeon, who was on my hospital squadron team at my previous base and he was telling everyone who bowled about me.

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Historic California rain could foreshadow more extreme rainfall in coming weeks

Southern California may have just experienced a historic amount of rainfall, but more extreme precipitation is headed toward the region.

More than a month's worth of rain fell in a span of three hours in San Diego on Monday, according to the National Weather Service. The city saw its wettest January day on record and wettest overall day in nearly 100 years on Monday with 2.73 inches of rain on Monday. Typically, San Diego sees an average 1.98 inches of rain in the entire month of January, records dating back to 1850 show.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/historic-cali ... =106643363

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Preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near San Bernardino

A preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck near San Bernardino, California Wednesday night.

It happened at about 7:43 p.m., about 1.87 miles away from the Inland Empire city. It had a depth of about 9.63 miles. Dr. Lucy Jones, considered the public voice of earthquake safety in California, said the epicenter was close to the San Jacinto fault. She added that another quake happened on the same fault, but they did not seem to have an obvious correlation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news ... ernardino/

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Aftershocks Continue In China After 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck western China on Tuesday, killing at least three people, and aftershocks are continuing to shake buildings.

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/ ... earthquake

[ZoWie]

If it's the way I remember San Diego, they have so many microclimates there that the situation is like Ventura and Santa Barbara counties where some truly awesome floods can happen pretty much every year in extremely limited areas. The camera sees selectively, but the brain thinks that an entire region is under water, when in reality only a few roads or canyons are.

Don't forget that Moses parted the Red Sea in a parking lot at Paramount.

Last year of course we had the famous viral clip of the boat speeding down the 405 Freeway in LA. That was a deepfake, and a very old one at that. "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet." --Abraham Lincoln. (Sorry, professor.)

#6 would know more than I do. Most of what I noticed is that the Hotel Del Coronado has stopped showing the beach on its webcam. There were some erosion problems there, which are related to sea level rise and high tides, and they had put up a berm. Maybe it just didn't look very inviting.

[Number6]

If it's the way I remember San Diego, they have so many microclimates there that the situation is like Ventura and Santa Barbara counties where some truly awesome floods can happen pretty much every year in extremely limited areas. The camera sees selectively, but the brain thinks that an entire region is under water, when in reality only a few roads or canyons are.

Yes, we have a lot of microclimates here. I can drive from Coronado's coastal microclimate and in 15 minutes be in an inland microclimate and in less than a hour in a mountain or desert microclimate. Even within some of these microclimates there are differences where one area will get rain and the other won't or it hotter in one area of colder in another.

Don't forget that Moses parted the Red Sea in a parking lot at Paramount.

Last year of course we had the famous viral clip of the boat speeding down the 405 Freeway in LA. That was a deepfake, and a very old one at that. "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet." --Abraham Lincoln. (Sorry, professor.)

Always be suspicious of what you see on the internet. First, it was Photoshop and now it's AI generating fakes.

#6 would know more than I do. Most of what I noticed is that the Hotel Del Coronado has stopped showing the beach on its webcam. There were some erosion problems there, which are related to sea level rise and high tides, and they had put up a berm. Maybe it just didn't look very inviting.

The Hotel del Coronado's webcam is still working. They used to have North Beach and South Beach webcams but now it's just the South Beach webcam. It does a panoramic view from the hotel's entrance to the beach and then to a wide shot looking west. The webcam stops for a about 10 seconds allowing you to look closer at the scene. The hotel put a 5 - 6 foot sand berm between the high tide line and the hotel and their new "condo" style units. That was done when we had the last King Tide and before this last storm. I don't think the storm was as dangerous to the beach as the King Tides were.

[ZoWie]

I know the webcam still works, but for several days after the rain storm down there, it was only showing the hotel building framed in a much closer shot, as opposed to their usual Cinerama-style slow pan across their scenic beach. We had noticed that their scenic beach wasn't as scenic in January, and it appeared that they were having the same problems with extreme winter tides and strong west swells that we get here. It makes for good surfing (wear a wet suit!) but not fun times for the kiddies playing in the sand.

[Number6]

I know the webcam still works, but for several days after the rain storm down there, it was only showing the hotel building framed in a much closer shot, as opposed to their usual Cinerama-style slow pan across their scenic beach. We had noticed that their scenic beach wasn't as scenic in January, and it appeared that they were having the same problems with extreme winter tides and strong west swells that we get here. It makes for good surfing (wear a wet suit!) but not fun times for the kiddies playing in the sand.

Until yesterday, I hadn't looked at that webcam in a couple of days. I've walked behind the hotel a couple of times this month and notice the berms and the tides. Really, not much has changed.
As for good surfing, we have two problem with ocean water quality. The first is pollutants, like car oil, on streets that runoff into the storm drains emptying into the ocean. After any rain, it's advised not going into the ocean or bay waters for at least 72 hours.

The second and main problem is sewer pollution from Tijuana's broken water treatment plants and sewer system. TJ's sewer lines break often and millions of gallons flow into the ocean polluting the ocean water from the border to Imperial Beach to Coronado, into San Diego Bay, and past Point Loma. A couple of years ago, the Navy built a new Navy Seal training mega-complex at the border of Imperial Beach and Coronado. The Seals have to training in those polluted waters. This month, TJ broke ground on a new waste treatment plant and our federal government has allotted over $300 million (hundreds of millions more will be needed) to help fix the problem. Mexico is also spending billions to repair their side of the border. Not much will change until the projects are completed around 2030.

[ZoWie]

LA has the same problem with street runoff. All manner of nasty germs go into the ocean. Also some people change their oil and dump the old stuff down the drains instead of taking it to be recycled, and it also then goes into the ocean all at once. Also you have the sewage plant which works great until it rains, then whatever goes down the sewers might or might not get treated. The result is that we have the same 72-hour period where you're supposed to stay out of the water. Some people surf in it anyway, which is a big health hazard.

In general, the climate problem which half the population insists is left wing propaganda, causes sea level rise, which makes all these other problems worse and is the reason that every winter now the beach becomes a battle zone.

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USGS: 5.1-magnitude earthquake recorded near Prague and felt from all over the state

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a preliminary 5.1-magnitude earthquake near Prague, Oklahoma.

It was recorded just before 11:30 p.m. on Friday. The USGS also recorded a series of aftershocks following the 5.1-magnitude quake.

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-e ... e/46632012