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[SusieQ_2]

Here's my take on rain in So Cal. 

When it rains for less than a half hour it's a sprinkle. After a half hour it becomes a light rain. After it rains for an hour it's a storm and more than an hour is a downpour. Once it lasts for more than an hour we see STORMWATCH on the local news and where the latest rock and mudslides have taken place. 

Yesterday was surely a nice change of pace and the rain continued for hours. I felt like one of those movie characters whose spaceship lands and they step out to see their new environment. That's how foreign rain has become here!

I hope the rain helped contain the fire in the Cajon Pass that jumped the freeway and caught multiple cars on fire. I haven't been watching the news much this weekend but that looked really scary on Friday. Hundreds of people evacuated from their cars and taken down the mountain. I've never seen anything like it. Normally they close the freeway ahead of the fire but this one was fast! 

[evelyner]

No rain today, just hot and humid,

[hennypenny]

Raven, that must have been so exciting! 

Yesterday, we had our ten minute shower and then went to a French festival in the park where it was in the nineties. There is a creek in the middle of the park and the festival was on both sides. when we crossed the creek it was as dry as a bone.

We are getting a tiny breeze off the ocean, but it feels like Mexico city at 4pm before it rains each day in the summer.

I keep checking the radar and hoping to see something coming our way. 

I am so happy that some people are getting a good dose.

[Say Nay]

Our thunder and lightening happened midday. Lightening strikes caused a bunch of blackouts. I think we had about an inch and a quarter of rain. Last night was quiet. Now it's raining again. Strange weather in San Diego. 

[Tinkrbl44]

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@evelyner wrote:

No rain today, just hot and humid,

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Ditto over here ....  Tink

[raven-blackbird]

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@hennypenny wrote:

Raven, that must have been so exciting! 

Yesterday, we had our ten minute shower and then went to a French festival in the park where it was in the nineties. There is a creek in the middle of the park and the festival was on both sides. when we crossed the creek it was as dry as a bone.

We are getting a tiny breeze off the ocean, but it feels like Mexico city at 4pm before it rains each day in the summer.

I keep checking the radar and hoping to see something coming our way. 

I am so happy that some people are getting a good dose.

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it was pretty.........lite up the whole night sky..........we got a warning on the televsion that we have more on the way and will go through the 19th.............as long as it brings water, I'm good with it..........................raven

[hennypenny]

It looks like there might be some weather coming our way. On the radar it looks like it is approaching Oxnard and we are starting to get winds up here. Have my fingers crossed! It is getting quite dark and cloudy too. looked at my post and it says spoiler, but dont know why????

Spoiler

Spoiler

[hennypenny]

It is raining!!!!!!!!

[raven-blackbird]

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@hennypenny wrote:

It is raining!!!!!!!!

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woooooooooohooooooooooo you got rain.......that means it's headed my way...........................raven

[september]

From 5:30 am...we had almost 3 hours of thunder, lightening, rain...in other words...serious weather!  Then some intermittent rain since then, which may continure for a while.

I love it...all the dust has been washed away, and it smells so fresh and clean.