Board 8 > Literally a hurricane threatening Southern California.

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But you know, everything is perfectly fucking normal.

im here in orange county wondering how insane it will be

Well, you all wanted water. You're gonna get some.

guess I better take down the wind chimes

My bad. I brought the weather with me when I moved apparently.

It's only called a typhoon if it's in asia north pacific.

UltimaterializerX posted...

I thought if it was in the Pacific it was called a typhoon and spun the other way?

Southern Hemisphere they're called cyclones and spin the other way

Hurricane is just a dumb American way to say Typhoon so since it's hitting the US it's a Hurricane

RikkuAlmighty posted...

im here in orange county wondering how insane it will be

Same, I've heard legit everything from "It's going to be a bunch of rain nbd" to "Telephone poles will be flying like darts" so uh, interested to see what tomorrow brings.

For winds it won't be too big of a problem because the colder waters off California's coast are going to weaken it substantially as it goes north. The real potential hazard is going to be runoff on mountains and flooding into rivers, since dry soil does not absorb water very readily.

Never thought I'd have to worry about my house in Vegas flooding from tropical storms.

Also hurricane isn't a dumb word since it's just another name for the same tropical phenomenon. It's adapted from Spanish who themselves adapted it from the Taino language and people, so a judgment of one being more legitimate than another is kind of silly.

The very rare cyclone that affects South America also gets called a hurricane. Brazil has seen a few in recent years.

East had wildfires. Now west gets hurricanes.

Next, east will get the worst earthquakes, and west will get the worst blizzards.

https://www.mediamatters.org/media-matters-studies-climate-change-coverage/only-5-national-tv-news-segments-record-shattering

And most major news networks failed to mention climate change at all.

_Blur_ posted...

https://www.mediamatters.org/media-matters-studies-climate-change-coverage/only-5-national-tv-news-segments-record-shattering

And most major news networks failed to mention climate change at all.

When Maui was still on fire CNN ran an article about how it wasn't climate change but man made conditions in an unusually dry season.

Pretty much par for the course.

mnk posted...

Never thought I'd have to worry about my house in Vegas flooding from tropical storms.

Henderson here. At least I can work from home while all this is going down.

I was very confused when my coworker in Oregon started talking about a hurricane impact

just rain so far here in irvine

some parts of the West will get as much rain from this storm as they get all year. This might be one of those Katrina type of events where the storm itself is not nearly as bad as the flooding that follows.

So this whole thing pretty much felt like a no-show here in OC. Had some light to medium rain yesterday and today is basically a perfect summer day. The rain we had this last winter was way crazier than this was. Any other SoCal B8ers see anything wildly different?

I remember living through a hurricane once in VA and it didn't seem that bad. No disrespect to those who actually suffer though, maybe my town just took precautions.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

So this whole thing pretty much felt like a no-show here in OC. Had some light to medium rain yesterday and today is basically a perfect summer day. The rain we had this last winter was way crazier than this was. Any other SoCal B8ers see anything wildly different?

The humidity and the rain more towards LA was pretty bad. It was a good comstant rain from what I heard.

But the worst of it definitely stayed east.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

So this whole thing pretty much felt like a no-show here in OC. Had some light to medium rain yesterday and today is basically a perfect summer day. The rain we had this last winter was way crazier than this was. Any other SoCal B8ers see anything wildly different?

Yeah, seems like most of this area got pretty lucky. It swung to the east, so LA only got some rain on and off throughout the day. Not nearly as heavy as recent rains. And now the sun's out bright and shining again.

I guess it feels silly to have made a big deal about it, but it was good to be prepared regardless. If the storm hadn't changed direction it could have been a lot worse.

Grand_Kirby posted...

I guess it feels silly to have made a big deal about it, but it was good to be prepared regardless.

I think it's much better to be overprepared in these situations.

Good to be prepared but don't get into a car crash flooring it to walmart to buy 20 extra rolls of TP