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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.