3 feet of rain predicted for northern CA

[Bugnatr]

Starting today (Wednesday) through Sunday this week the weatherman predicts part of Northern Calif. around Mt Shasta and the Feather river Canyon will get up to 36 inches of rain in the next 5 days with a large portion of that on Saturday and Sunday.

Uffda, that's a lot of rain Ole.

I have heard numbers between 18-22 inches for our Grass Valley area. I remember in the mid 80's we had 29 inches in 4 days with floods down the hill in outside of Marysville.

Our heavy red clay soil is good to soak up big rain but won't be able to keep up with this much so fast. I suspect the creeks and rivers will be rising as the week progresses.

Since Katrina the Corps of Engineers have been building up the levees between Sacramento and Marysville where the Yuba, Feather and Sacramento rivers converge. Let's trust the boys knew what they were doing as this could be a real test for the levee system of Northern Sacramento Valley.

The state is concerned about the Feather River canyon. There was a big fire up there this summer and plenty of debris will be washing off the steep mountains in the canyon. With a series of smaller dams along the river this has the potential to be a real mess.

Well at least fire season is over. Perhaps I should test the hippo in the rain, not.

 

[wheatonFJR]

You all be safe up there in NorCal!

That is NOT good news.

 

[CAJW]

Dugger,

Would this be what your rain prepped Hippo looks like, wearing hip boots?

 

[Tyler]

Hmmmmmm....

 

[SacramentoMike]

Dugger,

Would this be what your rain prepped Hippo looks like, wearing hip boots?

Hippo boots. And Hippo Hands.

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble: And now, with the sports, here's Vic . . .

 

[wheatonFJR]

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble:

Sounds like you need a ride on Tyler's Ark, SacMike.

Wonder what you'll need to give her just to get on that ride...

 

[Bugnatr]

Dugger,

Would this be what your rain prepped Hippo looks like, wearing hip boots?

Oh Yeah John, add some traxxion suspenders and we have a match!

Hmmmmmm....

If it gets that deep we are all in trouble

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble: And now, with the sports, here's Vic . . .

Close, 2,850 at my house. Gravity sucks, eh? At least this came in the fall when the ground is dryer and the dams are low. Stay dry my friend.

Wonder what you'll need to give her just to get on that ride...

Everybody loves pie! :lol:

 

[airboss]

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble: And now, with the sports, here's Vic . . .

47 feet?

These might be a good investment.

 

[wheatonFJR]

 

[beemerdons]

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble:

Sounds like you need a ride on Tyler's Ark, SacMike.

Wonder what you'll need to give her just to get on that ride...

Wheatie if you don't already know the exact answer to that question beforehand, then Dude you aren't even in the running! jes' sayin' and nuff' said!

 

[exskibum]

You're at 2,700 feet, Doug. I'm at 47. Nice. :dribble: And now, with the sports, here's Vic . . .

Close, 2,850 at my house. Gravity sucks, eh? At least this came in the fall when the ground is dryer and the dams are low. Stay dry my friend.

Well, 2 miles north of you and 130 feet higher, this storm is sure coming in waves. It's a blizzard of wind and rain driven falling leaves and pine needles, or it's a lull. Like now. Given the predictions for rain and wind, this next week may give me the chance to run the whole house on that big propane fired Kohler generator the previous owner installed.

I'm with you on the storm timing and reservoir levels. We're also lucky that there's not a lot of snowpack yet to be melted by rain due to the predicted high snow level. Fingers crossed that the snow level drops to around 6,000 feet and we get a metric shitload of it (instead of rain).

Stay dry down there in the river bottoms, Mike (and the rest of you valley lowlanders). Let's pray all the levees hold if the weather forecasters are right about the upcoming weekend.

 

[gregory]

With any luck, Shasta Lake will be full by Monday!

 

[Fred W]

Call me: Doubting Tom...

Three feet of rain? Really? :blink:

Do you realize what three feet of rain would be like?

Every inch of rainfall typically raises the water level in ground water (rivers lakes and streams) by about a foot.

It would be the precipitation equivalent of 30 feet of snow.

Has three feet of rain ever fallen in one location in one storm? Not in the absence of a cyclone or hurricane.

Thomas logging out.

 

[wheatonFJR]

All I know is that 16 inches of rain in the late 90s around here was 24 hours of driving rain...and huge disaster levels of flooding in these flatlands...I can't even imagine what 36" of rain would be like in the mountains!

 

[Auburn]

Call me: Doubting Tom...

Three feet of rain? Really? :blink:

Do you realize what three feet of rain would be like?

Every inch of rainfall typically raises the water level in ground water (rivers lakes and streams) by about a foot.

It would be the precipitation equivalent of 30 feet of snow.

Has three feet of rain ever fallen in one location in one storm? Not in the absence of a cyclone or hurricane.

Thomas logging out.

it was a storm like that in the 1978 that triggered a massive avalanch that wiped out that shasta ski area - something like 30-40 feet of snow over 2-3 days. Not unheard of for that area. Basically line up a pineapple express with the jet stream and bring a shitload of moisture up from the Hawaiian Island area and dump it on Northern California and you can get a lot of rain really fast.

When the pineapple express lines up and hits Washington you get can get up to 7 inches of rain in one day. These usually happen in the winter time about this time of year.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Three feet of rain? Really? :blink:

Do you realize what three feet of rain would be like?

Has three feet of rain ever fallen in one location in one storm? Not in the absence of a cyclone or hurricane.

That is a heckuva bunch of rain. I checked on the two worst hurricanes to hit my area in recent memory and neither of them comes close to that.

Hurricane Katrina is listed as 10+ inches. Of course, it destroyed everything that was capable of measuring total rainfall. :blink:

Hurricane Gustav dumped a maximum of 21 inches in one relatively small area. The majority of Louisiana got less than 10 inches of rain. This is the storm that knocked an oak tree into my home.

I sure wish you folks the best, I thought I could relate to that kind of rain, but my history research tells me otherwise. Best of luck to you all.

Of course, if your weather men guessers are as good as ours, there is no telling what might happen over there.

 

[Bugnatr]

Call me: Doubting Tom...

Three feet of rain? Really? :blink:

Do you realize what three feet of rain would be like?

Every inch of rainfall typically raises the water level in ground water (rivers lakes and streams) by about a foot.

It would be the precipitation equivalent of 30 feet of snow.

Has three feet of rain ever fallen in one location in one storm? Not in the absence of a cyclone or hurricane.

Thomas logging out.

Oh ye of little faith, I certainly hope the forecasters are wrong but if these mega monster pacific storms stall over the mountains it can rain like you would not believe. Not one single storm but but a series of storms over the next 5 days.

As I stated we had 29 inches over 4 days back in the 80's so after that I believe it can happen. I do remember in the winter of 82-83 when Sugarbowl ski resort west of Lake Tahoe had over 850 total inches of snow.

 

[Twinrivers]

When I lived in ME we had 19 inches over three days and I've seen 12+ a couple of times here in NH. But 36"?? Wholly crap man. Take care and I hope things are not that bad for you. Give us updates when you can.

 

[Twinrivers]

Hmmmmmm....

I am curious as to what those signs say on each side and above the door. And speaking of door...how that hell do they plan to seal that huge whole??