ASTRONOMICAL is the coolest word
I just had the time of my freakin' life. God is AWESOME! I will try to post about it soon. It's 12:48 right now though, and I'm looking forward to not getting up by alarm for the first time in at least a week. Yay :)
Right now I'm just thinking about the weather... after coming pretty close to being caught in that "catastrophic" mudslide in La Conchita yesterday with Jaclyn and Jacqlyn I'm just a little shaken up by the weather... or at least my mind is. It's THE top story on Yahoo and me and my friends were RIGHT THERE! I can't believe it. It's like THE catastrophy of the world right now, like the tsunami last week, and I was there. I just wish I could have stayed to help out in some way.
In addition to several flood warnings, here's the severe weather alert:
COASTAL WATERS FROM SAN MATEO POINT TO THE MEXICAN BORDER AND OUT
30 NM-
WATERS FROM SAN MATEO POINT TO THE MEXICAN BORDER EXTENDING 30 TO
60 NM OUT INCLUDING SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND-
ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
900 PM PST TUE JAN 11 2005
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE
OUTER WATERS...
...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT...
...MORNING ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDES OF 7 FEET OR GREATER COULD BRING
MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
STRONG ONSHORE FLOW IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE GUSTY
WINDS TO 25 KT IN THE OUTER WATERS TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCAL WIND
GUSTS OVER 30 KNOTS...WATERSPOUTS OR SMALL HAIL.
WEDNESDAY MORNING ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDES OF 7 FEET OR MORE WILL
CONTINUE...WITH MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW POSSIBLE IN LOW LYING COASTAL
AREAS.
FORECASTED MORNING HIGH TIDES AT SAN DIEGO BROADWAY PIER...
WEDNESDAY... 7.1 FEET AT 956 AM
THURSDAY.... 6.4 FEET AT 1045 AM
I just can't believe this. It is so sad.
The National Weather Service said that downtown Los Angeles had recorded its wettest 15 consecutive days since record-keeping began in 1877, with a total of 17 inches of rain falling in the period ending Monday.
"Wallet, the man who spent the night digging for his wife and kids, was briefly handcuffed and detained after trying to run past a barricade.
"I have to get my kid! I have to get my kid!" Wallet screamed before he was taken into a command post and then allowed to return to the mound.
Wallet had gone to pick up ice cream when the mudslide hit. Emerging from a store, he watched the dirt curve toward his block. He sprinted to his home, but it was buried under the muck.
Wallet's story is one of several harrowing ordeals from the storms in Southern California: A man's body was found wedged in a tree in a canyon; an 18-year-old woman was killed when her car hit a fallen tree; a 79-year-old woman was run over and killed by her husband, who could not see her in the downpour."
Watch these:
Calif. Continues Confronting Wet Winter Weather
(AP Video)
Rain Keeps Falling on Soaked Southern California