This rain is AWESOME

Its smokin' here in Petaluma. Heard big thunder when I RAN to get the paper. Now its warm fire, coffee , paper and RAIN. Yahoo! Onto the crappie hunt!

Crappie?! in this stuff?    get a hobby!

it did and it IS pouring over in the upper eastbay shoreline. I will get some pics at lunch of my local creeks and post em......since i got nutin else to do.

Let It Rain!!!   exceptFORthisWEEKEND!

This means big catfish in some of my favorite lakes. Ssshhh

Jedmo

This storm is shaping up to be just like the one in Jan 97.......were it was about 10 ft deep where my house sits right now.   

This storm is shaping up to be just like the one in Jan 97.......were it was about 10 ft deep where my house sits right now.   

I'll cross my fingers that it doesn't get there

The San Anselmo creek is totally raging here, dog and i just checked it- and it is DUMPING, seriously DUMPING...i'm betting since the thunder and lightning didn't wake the fam up, the flood sirens will. Hopefully, it'll be after about 6am
was at 96% at 10pm last night, and it hasn't really let up

no pics??  Here we go again    (Mods, please ban this user )

DUDE...it was fricking NIGHT out....

I brought my camera to work so i can take a pic on the way home

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?11460000

The San Lorenzo actually looks pretty tame right now outside my window. Yesterday it was not only raging, but I could see the wave pulses moving upstream (I'm about 3/4 of a mile from the mouth)

A few logs & strainers heading to the sea today, and the water looks like the coffee Ravensblack is sipping , but otherwise it doesn't look bad, for now......

Last night we had one redwood branch come down, about 20' long and 8" thick at the base. It landed square on the top of the breaker box for our water system. It could have landed anywhere, but no it had to smash the box & tear it off the post its on. All wiring is OK fortunately , so I just reset the switch & it was good. There will be some repair necessary when this all calms down though....

Hey Mike, check out this CDEC site. It tries to predict future flows/conditions: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/guidance_plots/HEA_gp.html
Could be useful. Next week or the following week….

.....you know it's rainning hard when you see your dog's poop floating on the backyard 

drove past one of the SJ feeder rivers on the way to work, definitely on the rise and muddy as heck. won't be catching any bluegills in there for a while for sure.  the rain doesn't bother me, its the darned wind that kept me off the water for the entire three day weekend.  howling. 

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ

As of now the snowpack is 91% of normal.  This system will probably push us up to above normal.

here is my local creek that feeds to SanPabloBay.....usually a trickle in summer.

pic1&2~ 1 mile up & right down the street from me.
pic3&4~ 1/2 mi.

Let's just hope a warm storm doesn't come in early spring and melt it all at once.

-Brian  G