Hurricane warnings in Oregon! Kool-Aid!

[BlueIris]

Wish us luck, DU.

And by us, I mean civilization.

Bring on the global climate catastrophe, I guess.

[kineneb]

1. and a wind advisory for NorCal

not exactly a hurricane, but very blustery...

From NOAA's "lips" to our shell-like ears:


Wind Advisory

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
923 PM PST SUN DEC 2 2007

NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY-
MOUNTAINS SOUTHWESTERN SHASTA COUNTY TO NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-
CLEAR LAKE/SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-
NORTHEAST FOOTHILLS/SACRAMENTO VALLEY-
WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-
923 PM PST SUN DEC 2 2007

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM PST MONDAY FOR THE
NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND SURROUNDING MOUNTAINS.

GUSTY WINDS OVER THE NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND SURROUNDING
MOUNTAINS THIS EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. SOUTH WINDS
20 TO 30 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND SURROUNDING FOOTHILLS THROUGH
MONDAY MORNING.

WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONGER IN THE MOUNTAINS...ESPECIALLY
OVER THE PEAKS AND RIDGES. LOCAL WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE OVER THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS AND RIDGES THROUGH MONDAY
MORNING.

[L. Coyote]

3. Excellent storm watching on the Oregon Coast. Triple digit gusts. Big waves!

[bananas]

2. Good luck. nt

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. Eugene is fine.

With the rain brings warmth.

[sandnsea]

7. Yup

It's about the same as it's been all day, over here in Florence, I wouldn't worry about this too much. I'm sure some people will have trees go down, but I think we should count ourselves lucky if that's the worst we get.

[BlueIris]

10. Ew.

This post explains so...so much.

Yuck.

[countryjake]

5. Twas cold as hell up here in NorthWest wa...got five inches of snow this morning...

now a warm wind has blown like the devil all evening, pouring buckets of rain, so of course we're on flood watch. Forecast says tomorrow bad wind coming, but our power blinked out twice already, can't see it getting much worse with steady 40 mph blowing.

[sandnsea]

6. It's okay here

I haven't noticed anything much more than a typical "gale force" wind storm, like we get every now and again. I really don't know where that hurricane warning came from. I heard that Friday and never did figure out what it was about.

We had snow this morning. Only about 10 minutes - but it was snow!

[gratuitous]

8. Yup, windy and rainy

Looks like the standard November/December fare, weather-wise. I'll be getting to work via Tri-Met and the backstroke.

[countryjake]

9. Cascadia is slip-slidin' away...oozing into the sea today

Hope all west coasters are hunkered down right now...washington is under a deluge of the nth degree...wind a bit earlier nearly took this trailer over...we have landslides that nobody is even available to tend to, a road buried in mud with only one measly blinking sign warning drivers to stop, other roads covered in FEET of water...rainwater, not river or stream...just standing water. Power is blowing down all over the state and linemen are in serious danger trying to keep up. This pineapple express or whatever the hell is happening (the dregs of two Pacific typhoons, they say) is hitting with the force of Pele herself!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Hurricane force winds... on the coast.

"Hurricane" is media sensationalism at it's silliest.

This is a big, bad storm, but not that unheard of.

Now if it were an actual typhoon, like the Columbus day storm...