Heavy Rain

I got out reasonably early today and got the weekly groceries and Sunday morning breakfast before it got too wet. That didn’t last long.

We’re fine. Up here on the hill we worry a tiny bit about mudslides and power outages, but all of the rain just runs down the hill to be someone else’s problem. (Not being snarky – that’s why there’s a big flood control basin down there which starts Bell Canyon Creek, which in turn becomes the headwaters of the Los Angeles River about a half-mile downstream.)

We have a couple of spots with some ponding of an inch or so, but then it goes into a drain. As long as I keep those drains clear, we’re golden!

Other parts of California are not so lucky. Locally we’ve have had a lot of local street flooding, and some canyon areas are being evacuated, particularly those below brushfire burn areas.

The expected rain totals for the whole five or six day storm have been upped from 6-7 inches here to 8-9 inches, with most other areas also getting an increase in the estimates. We’re a desert, our drainage system just isn’t designed to handle that much rain that fast.

Stay dry out there!