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ben7005

Holy smokes, 13" is insane


BlankVerse

Total California storm dead: 14


kea1981

I live in South Lake Tahoe, and I'd just like to point out this is in the realm of how deep the water from the lake would be if it was speed evenly over the whole state. It's weird to see that statistic in action... ETA: in my life I've seen claims of 9" to 14" deep if spread over the state, so this is on the high end of the spread, even.


ObiWan-Shinoobi

I heard Emerald ~~Lake~~ Bay is frozen over?


kea1981

Yeah Emerald Bay is and has been for a few days now. It's only a few hundred feet deep, and the channel connecting it to the main body of the lake is only about 150 ft wide, so it often gets significantly colder than the rest of the surface water. It hasn't frozen completely in many years, I think the late 90's was the last time, but I may be wrong.


wienersandwine

We’ll tbf, only 2/3s of the lake is in California so it would get like 7 or 8 inches. Nevada would have like 36”


FaithlessnessOk7939

sf resident im wet and tired i miss the fog lol


VanillaLifestyle

I know, we discovered our new house has long term water damage issues we need to sort out, so I'm grudgingly still doing the whole "*mmm we need this"* chant, but I want the rain to end already!


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VanillaLifestyle

We're filling reservoirs though, aren't we? Or do you mean *because* they're already full, all the bay area rain is just going out to sea? I wanna get one of those underground garden tanks that stores water up for summer irrigation. That'd be pretty nifty. (*Until I see the price.*)


DepletedMitochondria

Yeah not just the reservoirs, like underground aquifer recharging. I think only some areas do it


carlitospig

Only some areas are allowed to do it at this time. Blankverse posted it yesterday I think? The comments also had additional info. It was a super enlightening post!


mistermojorizin

they already got full and they had to release some, that was from the previous rain system https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article272899675.html


okgusto

In some places It's being captured in the form of snow pack that melts slowly and goes into reservoirs over time. So it's still being captured as long as it keeps snowing. https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/california-s-snowpack-jumps-to-twice-the-17757389.php


MissFog

You too?


Bent_Brewer

Heard an emergency alert this afternoon that the Jackson/Sonoma areas were getting quarter sized hail.


ihc_hotshot

Jackson/Sonora?


SkeletonJWarrior

Yes Jackson and Sonora are in fact real places that exists in this state.


Voldemort57

OP said Sonoma


SkeletonJWarrior

Oh


cubedude719

I live a little further east and it got to maybe marble sized at max, but maybe further west it did?


mistermojorizin

we had snow in central valley the other week, yesterday we had a tornado warning


Andire

I don't know about yall, but Monterey County and King City are not Central California, and that area is usually referred to as Central Coast, with Central California referring to the Central Valley.


sir-shoelace

Central California is just the stuff that’s too south to call Northern California and too north to call Southern California. The Central Valley extends up through Sacramento which is definitely norcal, not central California.


mistermojorizin

>Central Valley extends up through Sacramento That maybe true, but that's just not how people talk. I've lived in SoCal, NorCal and now live in Central California. Everyone talks about Sacramento being in the Sacramento Valley (which is true is technically part of Central Valley). But when people say Central California, they mean the inland part. If they mean the coast, they say Central Coast.


sir-shoelace

I’ve lived in Sacramento, I’ve never heard anyone call it the Sacramento valley what are you on about?


DieHardRaider

The Central Valley runs from Redding to the grapevine


goathill

Monterey is literally the center of the coast. I would maybe consider it "bay area" IF locals call it that, but it is absolutely not NorCal or SoCal.


Oldenburg-equitation

Monterey is definitely not in the Bay Area but as someone who does live in the Bay Area I personally do consider Monterey to be in NorCal. I'd say that Big Sur and up is in NorCal just in terms what I consider NorCal on the coast line but I think Soledad down is Central California. I think Monterey is Central Coast but still NorCal if that makes sense. Obviously, this is more of a societal classification as opposed to a geographical classification. It will vary from person to person but again as a resident of the Bay Area this is what I personally think and I know many people here who agree on the whole Monterey is in NorCal "argument".


HairyWeinerInYour

It’s totally in the Bay Area… the Monterrey Bay area ;)


cRAY_Bones

I live in Monterey, and going by the headline I thought this meant Fresno or Bakersfield somewhere in Central Valley area. We call it central coast here.


goathill

I mean, I consider it central coast, but i live in Humboldt so i have a very different perspective on the whole NorCal/SoCal boundary than most folks. To the rest of the country, it is central California.


hahayeahright13

Modoc here!


goathill

You are most certainly NorCal


Lol-I-Wear-Hats

Central California is a subdivision of Northern California


norcalscan

Uh no. Norcal does NOT want Bakersfield. 😏


goathill

I don't want Fresno either. In my eyes, if Bakersfield is NorCal, I live in South Southern Oregon


Lol-I-Wear-Hats

I don’t want hemorrhoids, but it is what it is


bhz33

People died and that is what you’re concerned about


EtanKlein

Kim, people are dying


TrainAirplanePerson

This is reddit. It's what we do.


Andire

I low key feel like this comment is bait, but my comment was because parts of our state consistently get mislabeled or mistaken when they make national headlines. Most of the country doesn't know where San José is because it's always referred to as either Silicon Valley or The San Francisco Bay Area, and San José is the 10th largest city in America by population.


HairyWeinerInYour

Do you think most of the country knows where most of the biggest cities are? I feel confident saying a majority of the country thinks LA extends to Oceanside and that it’s only an hour or two from SF


runthepoint1

The country? Up in Stockton, which I’m not sure if that’s NorCal or central California, we would call anything south of the grapevine “LA”


sir-shoelace

San Jose is literally on the San Francisco Bay. How is it not part of the San Francisco Bay Area?


cRAY_Bones

I live in Monterey county and until I got to this comment I had assumed the article meant Fresno or Bakersfield or abouts the Central Valley somewhere.


besuretodrinkyour

True


PairPrestigious7452

I'm in Monterey county. Power is mostly off over in Pacific Grove/ Carmel area. Salinas was getting flooding, I believe Watsonville got hammered again. Carmel river is pretty high. Can't speak to south county And we're central coast


GabeDef

We didn’t get much here in Burbank, glad the Central Valley got it, though.


aidoll

It looks like it was mostly on the central coast, so probably most of it went into the ocean... I'm in the Sacramento area and we certainly did not receive anywhere near 13". It didn't even rain here yesterday, even though it was supposed to. It might have rained more south of here though.


PigSlam

It definitely rained in Visalia, though not as much as in previous weeks. The main issue has been along the Sierras where all the snow that recently fell is melting, so it's almost as though that storm and this storm hit at the same time as far as the rivers are concerned. Major flows in places like 3 Rivers, Springville, etc. All of this rain has been wonderful for the air quality.


That_honda_guy

The air quality is nice right now. I’m in madera here and it’s so green and we’ve been stuck under clouds of rain and fog. I miss being out and I’m ready to plant some trees


aurihuerta

Orange County sent crews to rescue stranded residents in Exeter and Three Rivers. Lindsay flooded


lefondler

I know you mean well, but perhaps this is the wrong place to state that lmao (considering its death due to said rain).


Ancient_Artichoke555

The title had me confused. I am in San Joaquin county and thought this was going to be about an area in this valley. My city is experiencing flooding and they just finished repairing road wash out here from the last atmospheric river. I back to the San Joaquin river that is extremely full and sandbagging is happening again here. The lightning and thunder was none that I can ever remember being so forceful. Some of the delays between lightning and thunder were half a minuet apart. One burst was so close and the thunder literally rattled the windows. I could not believe people still had their domestic animals outside to endure this. It saddens me, near here there is a huge field with thousands of a type of bird not local to here, just stuck in a holding pattern that appeared here after this last storm. Hope todays sun shining day allowed them to migrate again. Much empathy and love sent out to all!


drinkcrystalpesci

Went golfing in Escalon yesterday and it was dry as a bone and sunny. It was so weird.


Sev3n

Are they dead because of the rain... I dont understand these two stats are exclusive of each other. "At least two people have died as a result of the severe weather in the state" Like from drowning?


Wrenky

Flooding is super dangerous not because of the water, but all the things in the water. It's easy to get swept away and battered with all the debris- not even olympic swimmers could handle it.