Sunday eve and oh myG Its raining again, pounding, fl;ash flood type raining

Oh wow, I can only imagine the pain of all that hard work now ruined.:( As for the hiker, well some people do like to hike whether it is warm or cold. Myself I prefer warm weather only because I hate the cold...lol

I can relate because though I don't paint, I have made banners and flags and one time the puppies got into my wardrobe where I kept them. Fortunately my husband was the one to find it and clean it up, not letting me know what fabrics got ruined. It would have upset me terribly if I had known and it has been a long time since I did anything with it, by now I had forgotten what I had..

I feel for the artists there in Laguna Beach it must be awful to see all your hard work ruined by the flooding and I cannot imagine how you could retrieve water damaged painting. I know there are s teps the libraries t ake if books get water damaged but paintings that sounds sort of iffy. I am also one who likes to be warm too and the idea of hiking in a snowstorm would scare the bejabbers out of me. for one thing I was b orn and raised in South D akota and I was taught the dangers of going anywhere on foot in blinding snow storms. You can get lost so easily then just walk in circles until You drop from exhaustion.We were always advised to have extra clo thing, water, and now cellphones in our cars. stay with your vehicle in a blizzard do not try to walk for help. I am just glad to be out of South Dakota winters are too harsh for me.

yes indeed but here about all we got was a bit of flooding on some streets in 'Garden Grove. ten miles away on th Pacific Laguna Beach is a disaster area the whgole downtown was flooded and a lot of homes and businesses also hwa mud slided into their homes and their' art businesses.Our governor has asked for federal aid as its in the miullions there. I imagine some homes on the beacch also had some damage from extra high tides of the Pacfic. this w eek has stopped raining and its been sunny and cool here but we are d rying out. alas rain is again predicted for tomorow night. hope its just a gentle rain not one of those we have had before.

well, back to burn bans around here, honestly, we'd take a few days of rain! Its probably headed this way anyway!

hi elicbxn yes I really hope you do get some good rains. we were like that last year and we did have some wild fires in the fall too., s adly most were set by arsonists.

hi Elic not this rain its cold and flash flooding for awhile it was so noisy it was scary. I do wish it would worm up as I have my little space heater on all night. its been just above freeZing here at night but warms up to fifty still cold u gh.

hi dawn love it you are a poet and don't know , thats what my' husband used to say. Wish it would work lol. its cloudy and dismal outside here and more rain is forecast. right now hurrah its mot raining. I am staying in where its warm and dry anyway my umbrella is in storage and also its freezing out there. Sunny California? now I have a part of some song zipping around in my head, On the road to Mandalay where the flying fishes play, Mow where on earth did that come from, just a song or a song from some old Bob Hope movie? lol thanks a lot Dawn

hi dawn I am pretty sure it was and one of those road to movies ' they made.

Ah, but in this case I did know it. Wasn't that Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?

hi celtieagle okay well so as I have always loved Idaho so will omcde sailing out there and drop in.lol that reminds me in my home state where I w as raised South Dakota in the black Hills there is one tourist accomadation named Dew Drop Inn. lol lol. I always said it would have been more fun to have called it DO Drop Inn. lol.

hi celtic the last few days have been dry and sunny but according to the weather people its supposed to rain tomorrow Friday night but they claim it will not be heavy. sure hope not as the ground is so soggy it will just run off now. I am so glad we are on solid ground here. I have seen pictures of those slides and the damage they caused.Some homes were not completely destroyed but I just wonder how on earth they can get all that mud out of the home and still have intact floors and walls

It is amazing what the cleaners can do. I think it is fate too that you and your son were not in an apartment yet too. It could be all full of mud and yuck now. Well, I think when it rains again you need to make yourself a little boat(doesn't have to be fancy or anything) and float on out to Idaho and visit me for a few days. No snow, no rain, its dry and the sun is there but you have to look. Hehe

hi fwidman yes indeed you do not have to shovel water but Laguna b each is a total diaster area as almos all of downtown was flooded and a lot of homes were destroyed with mudslides too so its just not funny any more at all.It has now quit pounding quite so hard. we have now got some leaks dow nstairs in Gold Crest. lol

Nope, they are shoveling mud. It is awful. East of here they had tornadoes last week. I hope our friends in Missouri and Arkansas are safe as the damage there is awful as well. Totally unusual weather.

hi garden gerty yes they have had mudslides and houses torn apart here too. but I should feel more sorry for them but some of the same people persisted in rebuilding on unstable hillside dirt and again hafe lost their homes. Whey do that? I know the views are magnificent but is it worth losing your home twice? I would rather put a home on solid ground myself. oh my I have cousins in Missouri so hope they t oo are alright. what weird weather we are having all over.

hi Tina yes it does make you wonder and think and also this may be a sign of global warming and again maybe global warming may be a sign of something else. I really do not know but it makes one pause.

hi mstickle this week has been super, dry now and sun most of the day too, and no nore rain. I was reading how some people in spite of all the flood alerts saying do not drive in deeply flooded streets still did jus that and how many rescue teams were sent out to get people out of stalled cars and some that were on the verge of entire submersion. How dopey can people be? I am both high,live on the second floor and dry too. lol.

hi catching up time mar.20th yes that was really so different from our usual small rains. it did a lotof damage and some people lost their'homes completely as mudslides have a lot of borce behind and so the houses were broken up as they slid.I never did hear whether that one man who was hiking in the mountsins whej that storm hit was ever found. myhow time has flown now.

hi quita I am fine but Laguna beach which is about ten milesfrom here is really low and close to the Pacific. they had fire damage last fall on the hills behind a lot of the downtown homes and all the water loosened unstable earth and send mudsliding down into businesses and home too,. Si it became a real disaster area. we justhad a little local flooding here.

hi I too am not used to these nights of forty and thirty degreee lows. brr. these buildings are not built for cold winters. at least all this week so far its been sunny and in the upper fifties and low sixties so thats good and sunshine. More rain is forecast for Friday night. hope its just light rain this time. lol.

hi macfish yes I know that feeling the sun is shining bright so I go outside to sit and warm myself only to feel its cold enough to'freeze my fingers. This cold weather is really unusual for California , when it gets down to freezing its really unusual. My hands are cold and my fingers are clumsy right now. but its warming up slowly in my room.' the housekeeper had unplugged my space heater and I just now got up and plugged it back in. Its just sprinkling now outside and there was a whole bunch of little birds out there pecking around in the debris from the dumpsters. our room faces the rear of some vietnamese stores. oddley I am in the center of Little Saigon here in Garden Grove California. These are the boat people who fled here from Vietnam and they really make lovely names, very courteous,intelligent and peaceful and very mindful of their elders too.

ONE more thing,I should appreciate those people who service us citizens,and dutiful to public welfares/associations,we should say thanks

After the heavy rains Sunday night we have had dry days with sun so we should be drying out. but more rain is predicted for tomoorow Friday night.I do hope its just a mild rain not a cloud burst. I hope too that Laguna Beach, which is ten miles from here, is going to be left alone so the home and business areas can begin to clearup all the destruction. It has been deemed a disaster area.

This whole week has been dry now and cold but some days did get up to 60 and 70 so we a re now getting someof our normal weather back again. I have been so sheltered here working on getting caught up on mylot I have not stuck my nose outside. steve on of my table mates chides me, Exercize is good for you, he says and i nod and agree with him, poor man he has that kind of arthritis where the spine makes him bent over so he is alway looking at the ground.He seems to be a really nice guy. He is 83 but no grey in his hair.wow mine is all white now lol.

hi zandi the whole downtown area of Laguna beach was flooded out an millions of dollars in damages. there is a huge art colony there and they are now trying to salvage any of their paintings. some had mudslides that destroyed their homes. our governor is now asking f or Obama to declare southern California a disaster area to get federal help. right now its overcast but not raining. but it rained two dayw worth of rain last night, it was so hard it was noisy.

hi dragon 54u yes this means now that we are not nearly as likely to have those devasatating wild fires this coming fall as we have looked to with dread in other years. One good thing last night it was raining so hard if anyone had a structure fire'started it would soon go out. So the firefighters probably had a peaceful' night unless some dopey person went out in his care into flooded streets and got stranded.Our fire department also contains the paramedics so often when a fire alarem goes out an ambulance with para medics comes along with them..

hi bunny yes we have now lucked into some nice sunny dry days but sadly rain is predicterd again tomorrow night but it could be just normal rain or even just showers. I am concerned for my best friend Nelda They live in a mobile home with an elderly roof that now has decided to leak ' with a vengeance. She is the only one working as her son was just laid off and so far has not got another job. so money is the problem in repairing the roof. she says since she did get credit with Lowes she is going to go ahead' and order the supplies from Lowes and have her son fix the roof. I worry for him as he is overweight and he already had one scare when his foot and leg went through the ceiling close to Nelda's bedroom.she is in her mid seventies and did so want to retire then her son lost his job so back to one paycheck.

hi ifa thanks no not funny at all. the homes in Laguna beach were oh flooded out but also had damages from the mudslides too. Here in Garden Grove I had not heard of any real damage although some street did flood during the rain.We were really lucky that it was not like in other parts of the country where there were real mudslides. i

this week so far has started to dry out but more rain is predicted for friday night. perhaps it will be more like a normal rain without wind and heavy downpour.Sunday night was really scary. However the next one might not be anything but a light drizzle I hope. lol the nights here are much colder than usual.

hi yspmyl i am so longing for sunshine again, this weather is so unusual its hard to believe. I hate that kind of torrential rain like we had last night as it flooded and was just almost freezing too. there was some heavy winds behind it too.Right now its not raining but more is forecast.a We do not really need any more rain now but its sure not up to me. lol. I am glad to be here mylotting in a warm dry room. lol lol