Hilary is coming - there is going to be rain in California.

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Computer models and National Weather Service forecasts show Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah could receive between 2 to 10 inches of rain from a tropical system over the weekend. Hurricane Hilary has potential to bring significant wetness to the Baja Peninsula and parts of the southwestern United States this weekend and next.

Flash flood threats exist especially for east slopes of mountains into adjacent desert on Sunday night. If Hilary makes landfall in Southern California as a tropical storm, it'll be the first in 84 years. The last made landfall at Long Beach in 1939 when 12" of rain hit Mt. Wilson. link Six people caught on beaches drowned during the storm. At Belmont Shore, waves undermined ten homes before washing them away. LA was underwater at street level.

Rains washed away a 150-foot section of the Southern Pacific Railroad near Indio, and a stretch of the Santa Fe main line near Needles. Waters backing up from a storm drain under construction in the San Gabriel Valley blocked California State Route 60. The pier at Point Mugu was washed away. In Pasadena, 5000 people were left without electricity and 2000 telephones lost service. Communications throughout the affected area was disrupted or rendered impossible.

However - the tropical storm was credited with ending a vicious heat wave lasting for over a week which killed at least 90 people.

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Thaaar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, she blows............ Yo, Momma!

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In case you may just think....... nah.......... small potatoes.............

Hurricane Hilary could dump over a year’s worth of rain on parts of the Southwest in a weekend. CNN Breaking waves.

Beavis is online asking his good buddie to go surf................. 19 NEWS

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I bumped into This video. OMG........... I really hadn't understood.

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Life's a beach www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/mexico/baja-california-sur/cabo-san-lucas/sea-of-cortez.html

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This year, in the first week of August, the CDC noted a 14.3% upward trend in COVID-related hospitalizations. However, this uptick in cases and hospitalizations is much lower than in previous summers.

“These summer COVID-19 spikes have occurred for the past three years, most likely because more people are traveling,” says Dr. Roberts. This recent uptick is also likely due to the new variant, which has a greater ability to bypass people’s immune defenses, and the waning effectiveness of last fall’s booster shots.

The bottom line from Yale Med - www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-eg5-eris-latest-coronavirus-strain

I caught my first Covid a few weeks back and (unusually) isolated from..... Everything. A quiet 12 days until testing clear. I had improved immunity from jabs but find that things with me are not what they were and for the worse somewhat being in mid-sixties. Of course Covid hits the bottom line but my bum looks no bigger. Yet 🤠

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Live beachcam in Baja - winds picking up. Rain ON.

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DEFCON m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQZKiys7w7w

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It's remarkable how sensible the majority of you all, are. Pity about Beavis on the beach.......... but............ surfers are surfers I guess. Good Lord, that is a Great White flopping about.

So, have a look at 25 seconds into this video - 3KCRA - illustrating how water undermines stuff. Now imagine that you are on the 41st floor...........


2023 Pacific hurricane season The following list of names is being used for named storms that form in the North Pacific Ocean east of 140°W during 2023. This is the same list used in the 2017 season.

Irwin (unused)
Jova (unused)
Kenneth (unused)
Lidia (unused)
Max (unused)
Norma (unused)
Otis (unused)
Pilar (unused)
Ramon (unused)
Selma (unused)
Todd (unused)
Veronica (unused)
Wiley (unused)
Xina (unused)
York (unused)
Zelda (unused)

Hey.................. Cherry Valley earthquake hit - 5.1..............

As the wind speeds drop, the dump of rains increases. Sooner or later it takes out railways and that is trouble. Rail tracks or............ bridges. You know, that happened in Montana, way back, with a night-time service plunging into................ Custer Creek. No, not that one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Creek_train_wreck

As best I can figure out, one of THESE took the dive. Actual deat toll was never certain with bodies discovered as far downstream as Glendive. Which was a military supply depot and outpost in the 1870's.

Emergency rations.