So much for JPL’s prediction earlier this fall for a La Nina winter punctuated with colder and dryer than usual conditions. The rain that started on Friday has already dumped nearly 9 inches of rain on my corner of LA in the Foothills and looks to be worse. The Folks at the National Weather Service via the good folks at Accuweather has issued a flash flood watch until Thursday morning. Its been reported there that we can expect more rain this week than we have received any other week in recent years. How’s that for a La Nina?
In the brief lull from the rain this morning I took a walk along the San Gabriel River near Duarte. The river is the highest its been in years and appears to be cutting a new channel not unlike what it did after the heavy rains in ’05. The only critters out this morning were families of ducks in two large ponds that have formed in the river.
Where are your favorite places to enjoy the rain here in the LA area? What’s your favorite rainy day song? Enjoy my favorite after the last image.
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“The Rain” by Oran “Juice” Jones isn’t my favorite rainy-day song, but as a child of the ’80s it always comes to mind — and coincidentally is probably my favorite way of enjoying the stuff.
Now get on outta here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao
Those creaky old bridges over the L.A. River make me nervous during these big deluges.
The Blue Nile have a wonderful rainy day song: Tinseltown in the Rain
been up on the east fork am going there now water was 150 across noticed the flood lights on ,all over the san gabriel damn this flood is higher then the n2005 probably worried about breaches ,u got that air raid siren they installed a few years ago just for that purpose to get out ,washing gold out and exposing more so gotta go and get some more