Looks Like the Left Coast Is Gonna Get It

[Scotty C-M]

All day today (Wednesday) the weather has been overcast but calm. The surf is large (10" faces at Pleasure Point) with bumpy but ridable waves. Expecting the front to hit tonight. It should be nasty tomorrow with three contributing factors. The wind is forecast to gust to 50 MPH. The swell is large. The tide is high all morning with the high tide of about 4 feet at noon. Lots of water moving around and piling up. Capitola (a low-lying beach town) is getting the sand bags out.

The Santa Cruz Harbor has send out voice mails and e-mails to boat owners to check their boats for proper bilge pumps and cockpit drains. Extra fenders and dock lines are advised. I also took down my Christmas lights. I elected to leave the jib furled up, put took the precaution of wrapping the spinnaker halyard around the jib to keep it from unfurling.

I'll go down tomorrow and see how it looks.

 

[Chief RA]

Strong rains up here with not much wind. 2300' in Cascade mtns east of Lake Oroville Ca. Chief

 

[Allan12210]

Nothing in San Jose. Its splitting and going on both sides of us right now.

 

[Chief RA]

Rained good all night with mild rain now. No real problems up here. Chief

Update: 0452, just heard and felt big wind gusts. More noises outside just now. Its still dark but will go see what I can. All seems OK out there but the winds are high up in the tops of the trees accompanied with mild rain. I am down in a dense forest so the wind is not so high at the house but gusting on occasion. Later, Chief

 

[Chief RA]

Update: Winds howling up above us in the trees! Prime situation for power loss. House has complete backup generator system. Chief

 

[Chief RA]

5" of rain hitting Shasta Lake(Redding area) right now. Shasta Lake is the largest lake in California with about 360 miles of shoreline when full. Gusts to 50, winds 40 in valley and up here is much milder than that right now. TV reporting major storm hit for us at about 1000 this morning. Still have power!
My son is Pacific Gas & Electrics Engineering Planner for this area so he is probably out there somewhere in this storm trying to keep the power lines up! (I was an Electronic Engineer for PG&E as well)
Later, Chief

 

[Chief RA]

Shasta Lake has received 5.5" of rain for a 24 hr period! Raining strong here as well. Chief

 

[Mark Maulden]

Calm before the storm north of Seattle. Saw moon/stars around 3:00 am..

 

[Chief RA]

Coming down heavily now. Chief

 

[Stu Jackson]

Just roared through about an hour ago. Yikes! Batten down, Chief, high winds at the front edge of the main line of the storm. Winds die down after, but the rain continues. Blizzard warnings for the Sierras.

 

[Chief RA]

Yep Stu, got the winds and now buckets of water! Bet I could go down to the lake and watch it rise! Chief

 

[Brian D]

Us SoCal guys are now getting hit. Heavy winds with really strong gusts. My big concern is fallen trees. No rain yet, that should be here in a couple of hours. Radar showing a really saturated front just off shore. Should be fun. LOL

 

[Ron20324]

You Westerners are getting coverage on the East Coast newscasts. Our thoughts are with you. Reminds me of the hurricanes we get. Good luck.

 

[seadaddler]

Rain

I sure hope the terrible weather is helping with the drought and some times bad things turn into good things.
Like when Hurricane Charlie destroyed Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte and they rebuilt everything and soooooooo much better now and added new buildings and new landscaping.
Nick

 

[Brian D]

Think about it this way; West Coast storms move east and create more storms (snow and ice). So we get it for a short time then pay it forward. LOL

Raining like hell right now. Still worried about the trees.

 

[Chief RA]

Our major lakes have come up around +10' over the last couple days. Rain has finally stopped up here but came down heavy since yesterday morning. 32* this morning.
Chief

 

[CloudDiver]

Wasn't raining when I left my house in the South Bay at 0630, but by the time I got near downtown it was pouring. I work on Coronado, raining pretty hard, streets starting to flood, and winds are strong but not gale force yet. I imagine its much stronger out on the water.

 

[Terry Cox]

PNW Weather

Our house sits on the hillside in Mukilteo with lots of trees around. Rained hard yesterday morning then stopped. Last night the winds arrived and howled through here. Some gusts to 70MPH reported in Naselle near here. Higher winds (90+) in the mountains.

Early morning reports said there were 130,000 plus people without power. Ours went out three times for a few minutes, then back on. Lots of downed trees, limbs, etc., which is common for a wind storm. Washaway, WA over on the coast had some homes washed away into the surf from the storm surge.

I'll check on the boat this weekend, but no calls from the Wharfinger. Belle-Vie must have hunkered down and held her own.

 

[Chief RA]

Mild rains. Chief

 

[Mark Maulden]

Howling winds in Anacortes last night but no hard rain. Lost power for couple hrs. Will check boat later but should be OK. I always double lines in winter..I hear the Marina lost some dock cleats in the last blow. Some boats cleated off very tight...