Big Bada Bomb Cyclone

[Nutty4Guns]

I just drove down to Crescent City California today for work. Looking out the hotel restaurant window at the ocean, as I eat dinner. It's scary as hell right now! Light breeze and rain.

 

[Jay Walk]

View: https://youtu.be/VMJFWiZ-bOc?si=smL37Of2vwtwIZKX

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

View: https://youtu.be/VMJFWiZ-bOc?si=smL37Of2vwtwIZKX

Love the song and movie!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Ehh...just another winterr storm....Don't mean nothin'.
Not sure what all the fuss is about.
Andy

 

[foxmeadow]

Still waiting for it to get serious or scary or somethin'...

But's only a little after 1900, so...

 

[spookshack]

View: https://youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE?si=n6yQru1Q5pOiEISS

 

[Knobgoblin]

I just drove down to Crescent City California today for work. Looking out the hotel restaurant window at the ocean, as I eat dinner. It's scary as hell right now! Light breeze and rain.

Are the homeless abandoning the beach yet?
Because that would truly be force majure

 

[RVTECH]

Had some pretty good wind gusts earlier here in LaPine but mellowing out now.

 

[Jade Falcon]

I remember the December 12th Windstorm in 1995. I was 12 at the time. I watched a large dead snag fall on to our neighbors house from my bedroom window and told my father about it. He ran across the cul-de-sac to check up on the neighbor lady, who was home with her child and two dogs (her husband was at work). She was hysterical but unharmed. The trunk actually landed in their backyard and didn't cause any significant structural damage, but it did put two very large branches through their roof and into the upper floor. Not sure if it stopped in their attic or went into a bedroom. Her husband was very grateful for our help.

Fun times. That was one of the worst storms I've ever lived through. We had tall pine trees in our backyard that swayed like crazy, but thankfully didn't come down.

A couple years ago we had a brief but very violent hail storm here in Sweet Home. Marble-sized hail. Biggest hail and the most violent hail storm I've ever seen in my life. Put a couple of nicks on my windshield but thankfully nothing significant.

 

[Ducati_Meister]

I always wonder what's next in the weather terminology they'll make up. Bomb Cyclone, Atmospheric River, Rain Activity etc. What happened to rain, snow, wind etc? Keep it simple I say and spare the fluff.

 

[Nosferatu]

Nice little breeze going up here in the Cascade foothills/Puget Sound convergence zone right now.

I have a feeling the chainsaw might be seeing some action tomorrow.

 

[Nutty4Guns]

It's still not very windy here in Crescent City, but the power went out for some reason. Emergency generator kicked on immediately, and I'm back to watching Rick and Morty. I think I like this hotel, lol

 

[Caveman Jim]

Kinda miss seeing salmon swim across a roadway. Roadkill salmon, yummy! Where's my crackers?

My truck was seen on TV crossing the Skokomish river bridge while the salmon were migrating on the asphalt stream bed.

 

[albin25]

I'm all set to go
fishing whenever that "atmospheric river" shows up.

 

[arakboss]

Should I call in to work or just tell them the phones were down too

 

[Old Dog]

Not sure what all the fuss is about.

Yep. Keep fuel on hand for your generator, have a good stock of fresh water and munchies (and bourbon), you should be GTG.

I lived for a bit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I've seen real winters...and I've been to North Dakota and northern Minnesota in February. I swear, some folks in the PNW really obsess about the prospect of a little rain, snow, ice or high winds.

 

[titsonritz]

It ain't gonna be that bad and if it is I got plenty of ammo.

 

[oremike]

Yep. Keep fuel on hand for your generator, have a good stock of fresh water and munchies (and bourbon), you should be GTG.

I lived for a bit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I've seen real winters...and I've been to North Dakota and northern Minnesota in February. I swear, some folks in the PNW really obsess about the prospect of a little rain, snow, ice or high winds.

I did a winter at Great Mistakes and that was enough of that boo ship for me thanks. I'll stick with our nice mild NW winters from here on out.

 

[OrPackrat]

Drove to the coast tonight, got a call, family could not get home and her Husband who would normally take care of the issue, out of state taking care of some business.

Chainsaw, headlamps, and I cheated by grabbing the excavator to make moving all the chunks nice and easy...

Apparently, half hour after I left the power went out if it's still out by tomorrow, I'll head back and setup the generators...

 

[gmerkt]

Well, hereabouts it was a day late getting here and wasn't the worst I've been through over the years. We had some flickers in the lights, one outage of about two minutes, then thankfully the power came back on. The cable service fouled for about half an hour. This was all around 7:00 PM. Now it's pretty calm outside. There will be the usual mess of tree debris to clean up tomorrow. It probably won't be dry enough to get my driveway squeaky clean.

We've been dealing with our PC being out for a couple of days. It went bad Sunday. I took it over to my son's place Monday, he's our IT guy. He diagnosed a bad hard drive; he ordered one on Amazon, and they delivered it same day. Today he brought the machine back over here, re-rigged it to work with the printer and scanner, etc. The hard drive was not completely bad; it would work for about three minutes until it self diagnosed and shut down. So kept rebooting the drive, using those brief spells to copy data and he got it all. He's pretty good at these things, considering it isn't his "real" job. He can diagnose components, but he can't pinpoint one single, tiny bad chip in a board.

This PC has two hard drives. One small SSD, very light. The other is the typical larger heavy brick. Which in this case wasn't even in use. It was the SSD that went bad. My son replaced it with a higher quality, greater capacity unit.