Heavy Rain and Wind hits Bay Area

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 12:29am

I just turned on the radio and they said 250,000 people in the SF Bay Area have lost power. Its not raining too hard right now at my house but its really windy. I can hear the wind whistling through all the windows.

Of course at times like this too many Californians think its okay to drive at normal freeway speeds.

The radio also just said the San Mateo Bay Bridge lost power and has no lights. Thats a pretty scary drive.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-08 12:37am

Yeah. I was driving tonight and I saw an accident, saw an ambulance rushing, saw a fire engine rushing, and heard sirens twice when I got home. Crazy.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 12:40am

I saw a big flash of lightning on the way home. Northbound 880 near Dixon Landing Road. I didnt see any accidents but there are leaves and pine cones and turned over garbage cans all over where I was working today.

Its a fricking mess.

* For those of you not from the bay area, lightning is rare enough to elicit notice when it does happen.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-08 12:43am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I saw a big flash of lightning on the way home. Northbound 880 near Dixon Landing Road. I didnt see any accidents but there are leaves and pine cones and turned over garbage cans all over where I was working today.

Its a fricking mess.

* For those of you not from the bay area, lightning is rare enough to elicit notice when it does happen.

True. And there's supposed to be more tomorrow.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-08 12:47am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I saw a big flash of lightning on the way home. Northbound 880 near Dixon Landing Road. I didnt see any accidents but there are leaves and pine cones and turned over garbage cans all over where I was working today.

Its a fricking mess.

* For those of you not from the bay area, lightning is rare enough to elicit notice when it does happen.

Really? I didn't realize lightning was rare in the Bay Area. Where I am, it's a relatively rare summer day that doesn't have lightning (Central Florida). My mother's been ground-struck by lightning (the bolt hit nearby while she was riding a bike, traveled through water on the ground and jumped to the bike). We usually don't get wind like that, though. Not unless we get a tropical storm or hurricane coming through, but even most of them aren't too bad.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 12:51am

Its really rare here. We usually get 1-2 thunderstorms a year. So when you see lighting here its makes you go oooh and aaah.

Hail is pretty rare here too, same thing 1-2 times a year.

The other weird thing about the bay area is we have so many "micro-climates".

Fremont is windy every afternoon, but just 20 miles south where I used to live in San Jose, its much hotter and little wind.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-08 01:25am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Its really rare here. We usually get 1-2 thunderstorms a year. So when you see lighting here its makes you go oooh and aaah.

Hail is pretty rare here too, same thing 1-2 times a year.

The other weird thing about the bay area is we have so many "micro-climates".

Fremont is windy every afternoon, but just 20 miles south where I used to live in San Jose, its much hotter and little wind.

Hey, I lived in San Jose too. Now I'm in Berkeley.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-11-08 01:32am

I live in Hayward. I noticed that the weather was unusually wet and windy today, but I didn't think it was that big a deal. Thunderstorms (not that this is a thunderstorm) are pretty common where I came from.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-08 01:33am

My friend online just said that there's a lot of power outage. *pout* I haven't chatted with him in a while.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 01:49am

Lived in San Jose from 92-02
Lived all over the bay area.
Went to HS in Union City.

Weather is funny. When I went to Vancouver BC I saw construction guys working in rain that would idle crews down here. For them its no big deal.

Just like someone posted about snow in Buffalo is no big deal either.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-11-08 11:16am

I live in Concord. We lost power several times for a few seconds, but fortunately it did not go out completely.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 12:46pm

Traffic was pretty bad this morning. I saw someone that spun off the road and his car sank halfway up the tires into the mud. Hahahah.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-11-08 03:22pm

It's raining in Sacramento too.

Over at Davis there is an on ramp that was completely flooded last night. I mean it seriously had 6 in. of water over the roadway. and then a bit farther up at the junction w/ I-80, another huge pond... My car went from 60 to 30 in nothing flat. And then I had to drive home along this long causeway thingy, that is completely open for miles around. So wet roads, and gusty.

When I finally got home... the parking lot was flooded. again, around 6 in. of water sitting over the drain. I recall seeing at least one accident on my way home...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 04:37pm

The sun if finally coming out. I went to my old work to help out with some IT work, but I also went on the roof to find leaks. That black roofing stuff STINKS!

A Canadian Air cargo building had its roof torn off by the winds last night at SFO.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-11-08 05:47pm

In PA, you never get weather like that. Instead of one night of heavy wind and rain, the same percipiattion is dragged out over 10 days, making it depressing and utterly boring.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-08 07:53pm

Normally we get storms in waves. A day or two of heavy rain then sunny.

Unless we have a bad El Nino. Then we get rain almost everyday for 4-6 months in a row.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-11-08 10:47pm

it was raining pretty hard yesterday. What sucked was that I was outside when the lightning struck, but I was facing the wrong way. It let up a bit today, though.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-09 12:26am

hmmmm...nice avatar Yoshi.

They said we might get more thunder tomorrow. Its rarely a big storm like in the midwest, but mabye you will get lucky.