El Nino or El Diablo...

[mynameismud]

forecast for around here is for 40 days of rain.

[clink]

Noahway!


Yes that was our rig.

[F4?]

And why I live in a town home in the suburbs. Electricity never goes out and no falling trees.

Hope you cut that tree up and burn it.

[JC w KC redux]

The wind gusts rolled through here a while ago with driving rain and shook the house.

I'd hate to be at clinks compound today 

[JC w KC redux]

This El Dingo crap has got to stop!
I drove up Old San Jose/Soquel Rd today to get to school and it was skeery
Good news is we should be back in a drought cycle after this season.

[JC w KC redux]

Made it around the Hill via 101 today.

Old San Jose Soquel closed again - I didn't even chance it with the steady rain.

Looking forward to the weekend 

[JC w KC redux]

Looking forward to the weekend  

Still looking forward to the sunshine the next couple days.
There was an inch of rain at Pinns in the last 24 hours - the preceding couple of days had virtually none.

I'll bet the waterfalls will be flowing nicely the next two days at Pinns.
I wouldn't be surprised if the trail past the Res is flooded - it was close a couple weeks ago.

Hwy 17 closed again today as the debris flow near Vine Hill Rd received more lubrication from the steady rain yesterday.

The news said Caltrans is going to try and construct a safety berm this time. You don't have to be an engineering geologist to realize this will only be a band aid. They had a barrier made of concrete dividers with some chain link fence on top that got creamed with the last downslope movement. A Caltrans worker said it was probably 100 dump truck loads of debris. The bummer is there is no way for them to retain that slope until it dries out - I'm envisioning construction all summer long. If it keeps raining - and it looks like more rain next week - I predict the slope will continue to fail and the road will be closed with each significant storm. Did anyone see the video of the last surge pushing a pickup truck over the center divider? Wild.


http://abc7news.com/weather/abc7-news-photographer-describes-terrifying-landslide-experience/1745220/

[F4?]

Well 20 yrs ago I used to commute to scotts valley from Cupertino.

Coming down the hill before scotts valley is saw a huge tree just fall across the highway.
Damn, less than a mile from work and I am stuck.

Until a landscaping work crew poped up from the side of the fence....with a chain saw!!!

A few cuts later me and a few others were on our way down the hill and I was that much  closer to getting coffee at Zannattos. Sucked for those going north as that was the side the tree fell from.

Ah the joys of commuting on 17, memories I'll never forget.

[mynameismud]

Thanks JC, after you wrote more rain I checked weather report.  Jeepers, more rain.  Hopefully we see some sun tomorrow.  Glad you all are getting some time to dry out, California is getting hit hard.  Heard that 35 is closed and 84 is partially closed until repairs can be made over the summer.  How many people saw this coming?

[F4?]

It's a right wing plot to punish the liberals for endorsing global warming.

The 1989 quake damage was even better

[JC w KC redux]

Looks like no climbing this weekend with rain predicted every day but Sunday starting tomorrow and ending mid week next week.
I guess that means the forum will either be a desert or a flood zone. Kinda like major parts of California and many other western states that simply would not be sustainable without the diversion and delivery of water.
Welcome to life in an artificially created and sustained paradise

[JC w KC redux]

Welcome to life in an artificially created and sustained paradise

Check out Mark Reisner's book Cadillac Desert

[JC w KC redux]

Looks like we all (except maybe Gavin and Alacia) missed a perfect round of Pinns days - 70's and sunshine the last 3 days.

It would have been nice to drive back and forth to Pinns every day rather than deal with the current commuting nightmare.

Unfortunately I have this 4 letter word that is keeping me tied up 4 out of 5 days. The last time I looked forward to Fridays this much was when I was a much younger man whose only focus was workin' for the weekend. Cue cheesy Lover Boy tune here
 

[JC w KC redux]

The park's rain gauge clicked over to 9.11 inches last hour.
There has been almost an inch of rainfall since it started falling at midnight last night.
Good weekend to be a duck or a kite - winds were predicted to be up to 50mph!
The gauge recorded a 50mph gust between 11:30 and 12:30 today - whoosh

[mynameismud]

It was supposed to rain here yesterday, but instead I woke to blue skies so I took a PTO day.  I did a bunch of cleaning around the house with the windows open, went for a two hour MTB ride, then as the sun was setting drove into the gym.  My ass hurts today and it is raining.

You guys seem to be getting hit hard by these storms.

[JC w KC redux]

My ass hurts today and it is raining.

 

[clink]

Buttrometer .

[JC w KC redux]

It was supposed to rain here yesterday, but instead I woke to blue skies so I took a PTO day.  I did a bunch of cleaning around the house with the windows open, went for a two hour MTB ride, then as the sun was setting drove into the gym.  My ass hurts today and it is raining.
You guys seem to be getting hit hard by these storms.

Good to hear you are taking time off to get out and have some fun.

I have a holiday off Monday from school but the weather is supposed to be shite.

[waldo]

Holmgren and I went out in the rain some years back to work on a new route on Squareblock Rock. I'd read in a Brit climbing book that Brown, Whillians and the lads wore wool socks over their climbing shoes to cope with wet rock. It doesn't work.

[JC w KC redux]

Holmgren and I went out in the rain some years back to work on a new route on Squareblock Rock. I'd read in a Brit climbing book that Brown, Whillians and the lads wore wool socks over their climbing shoes to cope with wet rock. It doesn't work.

clink and I looked at that route the first time we climbed together on January 25th, 2013.
Notice I said looked - and there was no sock hopping that day