They ignored the South flooding out earlier this fall, and NOW they WON'T TELL ME the MIDWEST is UNDER SNOW and that it is SNOWING in HAWAII!!!
Also see: Cold Night in New England
I guess you could call this out of the frying pan and into the pool?
"Calif. storm prompts debris flow concerns
LOS ANGELES – Residents across California braced for possible flash floods and mudslides Tuesday as a Pacific storm began showering foothill areas devastated by wildfires.
Not a good mix. Not a good mix at all.
Sandbagging and other preparations were being made in neighborhoods under threat, while heavy rains caused more than 260,000 power outages and dozens of voluntary evacuations in parts of central and Northern California....
People living around burn areas near the 250-square-mile Station Fire in Angeles National Forest were warned to brace for possible flows of mud, ash and debris with rainfall of up to 4 inches. Los Angeles County's average rainfall for October is less than half an inch.
The storm was expected to drop 3 to 6 inches of rain in Santa Barbara County, where an 8,700-acre fire burned in May, before it moves on to the San Gabriel Mountains, where the U.S. Geological Survey recently warned of massive debris flows near the areas burned in September....
So if your house isn't a burned-out shell, the mud and soot will take it away.
By midday Tuesday, more than 6 inches of rain had fallen in parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and more than 4 inches in parts of Marin County, according to the National Weather Service....
National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson: "With it being the first significant system of the rain season, drains are backed up, oil and other materials are starting to rise on the streets. It's just ugly out there."
*************State fire spokeswoman Colleen Baxter said the biggest concern was if the rainfall increases, mud and debris will slip down the hillsides made bare from the summer fire. "The ground was left unprotected," she said. "That instability combined with the rain, you worry about slippage."
The American Red Cross set up an evacuation center nearby....
--more--"You know what that link meant, right, readers?
I'm tired of the censorship, rewrites, and updates.
I wonder if this will turn into a one-day wonder like Washington.
"Landslide forces evacuations in Wash." by Associated Press | October 12, 2009
NACHES, Wash. - A massive landslide in central Washington state yesterday blocked a highway, diverted a river, and heavily damaged a home. No injuries were reported, but authorities told the Yakima Herald-Republic that residents near the community of Nile were being evacuated because of flooding fears....
And that is the last I saw of it in my printed paper, and I get one nearly every day.
And for those who think I'm too critical,, that there is too much news and they must select "news," take a look at the National Briefs they offered today:
- Boy, 6, may get reprieve over knife (Associated Press)
- Woman to be tried for 9-year-old’s death (Associated Press)
- 5 charged with setting Fla. teen on fire (Associated Press)
- Family electrocuted while erecting antenna (Associated Press)
- Man denies Nazi crimes in deportation case (Associated Press)
I guess these items were more important(?):
- Kin of Ahmadinejad adviser seeks asylum (Associated Press)
- France calls for better language teaching (Associated Press)
- Panel rejects Karadzic immunity claim (Associated Press)
- Stalin’s grandson loses libel suit
The FACT IS if the NEWSPAPERS were DOING THEIR JOB instead of SHOVELING S***, I wouldn't need to BE HERE ANALYZING and EXPOSING THIS!!
Related: Forgotten Fires and Floods
Seems to be a PATTERN, doesn't it?
