I just saw the news and the main story was the storm. There possibly was a tornado overnight in the LA area, which ripped the roof off of a house, etc. They're not sure if it was a tornado or just really high straight winds like everyone else had.

Lots of flooding all over the place.

There's a 30 foot sinkhole in the middle of a street in Sun Valley. Trees down everywhere. Near Chrispiss' house a retaining wall at an apartment complex collapsed. A carport was attached to it, and it fell...crushing all the cars underneath.

Downtown LA has gotten almost 7" of rain since monday night. Mountain areas have gotten over a foot of rain, which is bad. A lot of those areas were severely burned last year in massive wildfires, so the ground can't hold any rain.

:eek3:

 

IBthinkingofthedayaftertomorrow :eek3:

 

Haha... well, there was an article that came out today definitively showing that the permafrost worldwide is melting right now :ugh:





But yeah, my coworkers saw a water sprite on the way here to work this morning, and I was fording some small rivers this morning myself... lotsa rain...

 

Yes, the hell with this weather.

This is the time when all the WRX/EVO guys come out and act like they're Superman.

 

Water sprite? Do you mean water spout?

:eh:

 

I passed one of them on the freeway last night.

:grinpimp:

 

and lose control and crash? :chuckles:

 

yeah, rain was pretty bad, as was the wind like everybody has said. was driving down the freeway on the 27th at night going to/from 24 hour and the winds were rocking the car around (97' maxima /w 4 peeps in it). pretty intense! this has got to be one of the most rainy winters we've had in awhile.

 

:dunno:


That's what I've always called them myself, but he (my coworker) called it a "water sprite" twice in a row, so I just assumed I was wrong h:

 

Were they pulled over?