Bay Area DU'ers: Severe Thunderstorm Warning SF, SM and Marin

[Taverner]

Wind at up to 60mph...possibly worse...

Fellow bay area-ites, take care and take cover!

[AlCzervik]

1. i have to pick my husband at SFO at 5:00pm, i'm dreading the trip in.

[Taverner]

3. Plan an extra hour

Then again, flights might just be delayed...whatever you do though, drive SAFELY!!!

YOu know as well as I do that Californians have no clue how to drive rain...

[AlCzervik]

4. i know, left lane is fast people and get off the damn phone!

i just checked his flight and it's already delayed, now it's coming in at 5:50pm. My plan was to go in early and take my daughter to lunch but the weather is so crappy and i'm sure there will be a brazillion people around pier 39 so now i'm onto to plan B, just leaving here at 3:00 and going straight to SFO.

[gardenista]

28. See if you can double check the arrival time online.

I bet things are delayed like mad.

[gardenista]

29. oops, looks like you've got that covered!

By the way, there is some not-bad food available now in the international terminal, in case you decide to lunch there.

[AlCzervik]

31. it's delayed, now coming in at 5:52 but i'm still leaving in a few minutes

it's on the internationial side and that one is always a little crazy then the domestic side.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. A cell just passed in Marin. It lasted for about an hour an a half or so.

[musette_sf]

5. Getting some heavy rain off and on in the East Bay

But I gotta say, I've been out here for 8 years now, and I still say these "severe t-storms" don't hold a candle to Houston or New Orleans.

On one of my first jobs out here, someone got all freaked because it was "flooding in the parking lot". I ran to the door to see water not even up to the wheel covers. Big whoop. Try driving to Hobby Airport with the water almost up to the freaking door handle. THAT'S "flooding".

[AlCzervik]

6. i used to live in spring, a little of Houston proper and we used to get

wicked tstorms in the summer, the black clouds of doom, it looked like the world was ending.

[musette_sf]

11. What used to really freak me out

Were the *green* sky and clouds. Then you knew something REALLY bad was coming.

I used to live in Shit Creek*, excuse me, Sugar Land, and I moved to the Inner Loop just before a tornado came through and took out the side of the Foley's in the SL Mall.

Recently, the spouse took a TerraServer look at my old apt complex in SL. It looks like part of the building I used to live in is gone. Don't know if it was tornado or fire.

If I'm somewhere uncool when the Big One comes, oh well, it still beats living in Gulf Coast weather which will definitely hammer you, year in and year out.

* nomenclature taken from Top Ten Conservative Idiots, where DeLay's affiliation is usually listed as "R - Shit Creek".

[Taverner]

20. Ahhh but the big difference is that Houston is prepared...

for this sort of thing. So they have all kinds of equipment to pump out the water, levees, gizmos that go ping, etc...

In SF we get flooding and we panic. We have no clue what to do and we drive like idiots. That's why its dangerous.

[Moochy]

30. yup

That's why it's 10 x more dangerous here, we think our cars magically transform into speedboats ala chitty chitty bang bang. It's ridiculous!! slow down, think you bay area freakazoids!! I have to go somewhere this afternoon!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Another cell is moving into San Rafael.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. It just passed.

[Moochy]

16. Thats what just hit Richmond

Ok, start rounding up the animals 2 by 2!! The Floods a coming!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

17. It only lasted for 20 minutes or so.

[bridgit]

8. it's been completely, blustery storming here in sacto all night long...

we're just now going out to see how many trees came down

[Shine]

9. I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains and it's been wild, lemme tell ya!!

:woohoo:

I LOVE a good storm!! The wilder, the better, in my book! :thumbsup:

We're cozy, inside, though. I wouldn't want to be out and about it, unless absolutely necessary.

:hi:

[Taverner]

21. I had to drive through that last night on 17

Holiday Lights train with Tavernertoddler tho, so it was worth it.

[Shine]

22. Cool. Glad you thought it was worth it.

Me? I'm happy to be cozy inside, hangin' at the homestead, procrastinating on administrative household tasks like laundry and paying the bills. Boooring.

A nice winter's nap is sounding pretty darn good about now! :thumbsup:

Jeez, we're getting incredible winds......... !!!!!

[sakabatou]

12. Yeah, yeah...

-_- stupid cold...

Why do I have to be ill on bad weather days?

[architect359]

13. Windy in the Outer Sunset but rains have stopped n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. There're two big willow trees in my back yard

Gonna have to go out later and see what's left of 'em and how much hackin' and hewin' I'm lookin' at. :grr:

Gonna be a mess o' leaf-rakin' in any case.

[Moochy]

15. It's Raining Sideways!

Ack save us! We Bay Area people are not used to this thing you call "weather"

[AlCzervik]

18. i'm all the way up in elk grove and we are having thunder and hail!!!

sheets of rain, my neighbor has water going through her garage and she didn't clean out her gutters, the one on her front porch is bowing.

[bridgit]

19. yup, there it is...

x(

[NMDemDist2]

23. i went to hi school in Elk Grove, back in the 60s-70s

:hi:

[democracyindanger]

24. It's raining Portland in San Francisco.

I kinda like it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

25. Santa Clara County's flooded all over the place

I was driving down San Tomas Expressway earlier today and observed the cars ahead of me. Great sheets of water shot up on both sides of the vehicles, sometimes taller than the cars themselves. Pools and pools of standing water everywhere. Dangerous stuff, but people are still doing a good 5-10 mph over the speed limit.

[Radio_Lady]

26. UPDATE: 2:30 PM PT -- Sugary snow falling in Beaverton, Oregon!

I'll take it! The weatherpeople predicted icy rain at 6 PM! So much for ACCUWEATHER!

Winter is my favorite time of year!

[gardenista]

27. Well the lights just came back on here in Marin.

The heater wasn't working, so we dove back into bed at noon. Good excuse for a nice Sunday nap.

Things seem to have calmed down here a bit.