Superfluous and Butte, check in Please

[Otter]

Just been looking at the BBC coverage of the weather in SoCal. Mudslides, sinkholes and 90mph winds. Are you guys OK?

 

[Superfluous]

Just been looking at the BBC coverage of the weather in SoCal. Mudslides, sinkholes and 90mph winds. Are you guys OK?

Thanks for your concern Otter! While its wet and windy, my family and I are all fine.

 

[Otter]

Glad to hear that. While heavy rain and 90mph wind is a bad winter storm here you guys just don't get that kind of weather. At least it will help with your drought problems.

 

[Worf]

Ah glad to hear you folks are Okay out there... Kudos to you as well Otter for askin'.

Worf

 

[Fanch]

Hope all of our S CA members are OK. Otter, when I was in N Scotland last July, one of our tour guides described 100 mph winds with rain and ice coming in from right angles rather than from overhead. He said often this time of year that Scots need to stay indoors since a shingle from a roof can be blown off and decapitate someone.

 

[Otter]

Yup. So windy at times that the sheep have to hang on to the grass by their teeth !
We had a storm about 5 years ago, 120 mph gust speeds. A hundred foot pine tree cane down parallel to my back wall, about 30 ft from the house. We never even heard it over the wind noise, just saw it when we opened the curtains.

 

[ButteMT61]

Thanks guys! Yeah, crazy. Friends down the road got evacuated. Dad was here from wine country but just bailed as his wife is alone at their ranch and another huge storm incoming.
Crazy place SoCal. We got destroyed in the '94 Northridge quake so I guess I'm overdue for some carnage.
As of today, we're good but wet!!!
Cheers friends. Means a lot that anyone gives a damn.

 

[willyto]

I'm glad everyone is OK.

While you are at it, Superfluous you should use this wet weather to break in all your jackets. Just be sure they don't fly away

 

[Monitor]

I've no clue what happened but I'm glad everyone's okay.

 

[Fanch]

Thanks guys! Yeah, crazy. Friends down the road got evacuated. Dad was here from wine country but just bailed add is wife is Skinner at their ranch and another huge storm incoming.
Crazy place SoCal. We got destroyed in the 94 Northridge quake so I guess I'm overdue for some carnage.
As of today, we're good but wet!!!
Cheers friends. Means a lot that anyone gives a damn.

Glad you're OK too Scott. You guys in SoCal have it all: Torrential rainfall, mudslides, earthquakes, raging forest fires, scorching heat, etc. During the one year we lived in LA (Malibu), I experienced all of the things I just listed. In November 1973 while I was in Chicago being examined by the American Board of Otolaryngology, my wife and kids had to evacuate our house due to a raging forest fire. Overall though, one of the best years of my life!

 

[Otter]

L.A. didn't do it for me when we visited. Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Morro Bay and points North were much more to our tastes. Sorry Los Angelinos.

 

[ButteMT61]

L.A. didn't do it for me when we visited. Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Morro Bay and points North were much more to our tastes. Sorry Los Angelinos.

Don't be sorry. That's why my dad and his wife moved up north. Much nicer, IMHO. But I'm here for now...until I get get my wife to leave LA. Sadly, both of us have work here - she's in "the industry" so options are limited - although she may be going to Aussie land soon...

 

[Fanch]

The key to success if living in the LA basin is to live walking distance from the beach where it is cooler and you don't have to see the air you breathe. Still earthquakes and mudslides though, as well as traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway from Malibu to 3rd and Alvarado.

 

[Peacoat]

The key to success if living in the LA basin is to live walking distance from the beach where it is cooler and you don't have to see the air you breathe. Still earthquakes and mudslides though, as well as traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway from Malibu to 3rd and Alvarado.

Yes, the traffic there is what kills it for me. We usually plan our departures from LAX for Sunday morning when the traffic is manageable, and the Ventura Freeway coming from 1000 Oaks/West Lake Village isn't backed up.

 

[Otter]

We left at 6am on a Sunday to head North, still nose to tail 70mph traffic !

 

[handymike]

Hey now....

 

[Peacoat]

Glad you're OK too Scott. You guys in SoCal have it all: Torrential rainfall, mudslides, earthquakes, raging forest fires, scorching heat, etc. During the one year we lived in LA (Malibu), I experienced all of the things I just listed. In November 1973 while I was in Chicago being examined by the American Board of Otolaryngology, my wife and kids had to evacuate our house due to a raging forest fire. Overall though, one of the best years of my life!

Hey Doctor, I have this growth under my tongue; could you take a look at it?

 

[dudewuttheheck]

socal as well here. Pretty sure everything is over now. I did have to drive around a few trees on the way home from work yesterday

 

[Fanch]

Hey Doctor, I have this growth under my tongue; could you take a look at it?

It's a ranula, caused by prolonged, excessive vibration from a combination of helicopters and motorcycles.

 

[nick123]

Mainly mudslides and sinkholes.