Hilary is Pissed Off

[Tin Can]

I sure hope nobody decides

to go Mojave

Flash floods can come faster than most think

Good time to visit Idlewild

[Sal Santamaura]

...Good time to visit Idlewild

I'm not so sure about that. Sunday forecast there is the same as here in San Clemente: heavy rain, one inch during the day and another one to one and a half inches at night. The kind of thing that, in sarcastic southern California terms, tends to get real estate moving. Good time to stay home.

[Drew Wiley]

We'll know in a few days. If the flashflooding in Death Valley is even worse than three years ago, and elsewhere in the desert, it will be remarkable. They're barely catching up on road repairs from the prior event. It's not just the Mohave, but potentially all the way from Baja north to the Ruby Mtns in NE Nevada, on eastern slopes.
And the warning includes the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, especially above Owens Valley, where a number of unpaved roads and trail already washed out due to a flash flood a few weeks ago, above the desert that is, not over the crest. Palm Springs and Vegas are also under warning. Even the LA area should be on guard, especially around burned slopes subject to landslides.

[BrianShaw]

I'm getting my roof repaired today... just in time for verification/validation testing.

[Drew Wiley]

Well, I just dropped off my 4WD truck at the tire shop. Not going to gamble on any photo trips out that direction with all these weird storms going on. Want decent tread.
Roof is a different story. Got all the suspect areas patched after the exceptional windstorm last autumn. But all the roofing is old; so I sure hope that event wasn't symptomatic of things to come. I have serious roofing equipment; but at my age, I'm never going up and doiwn tall extension ladders again, and sooner or later will need to pay someone else to do it.

[Ironage]

Maybe the Salton Sea will be replenished. Obviously in times past there was more rainfall in those valleys. Mono Lake as well…


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[Drew Wiley]

Doubt it. If anything is predictable in the West, it's that water theft is even more active than storms and hurricanes. The Salton Sea itself is the result of a break in LA's siphon hose, so to speak. It hasn't been a natural lake since the close of the Ice Age.

[Mark Sampson]

Maybe the edge of the storm will reach Tucson. Rain would come in handy (famous last words).

[Drew Bedo]

Stay out of the slot canyons for a few days!

[Drew Wiley]

I wouldn't worry about entering slot canyons. They'll be so clogged with motorhomes, giant boulders, and deep mud, and maybe bodies too, that there won't even be an entrance. But that could just as well apply to Interstate underpasses, if you throw in a dozen homes, several semi-trucks, and a swept-away Burger franchise too.

All the NP's and NM's in that part of the world are just plain closed at the moment, prohibiting any kind of entry. And people are advised not to drive ANYWHERE until this storm is over; and even then, who knows how many roads will have been outright mauled and might takes months to repair? They've just recently reopened the paved roads into Death Valley after the flash flooding of two years ago, and now it's predicted to be even worse this time around.