I have to say I'm glad to be getting this as well. I hope Central and Southern California get a nice soaking rain, without landslide-inducing deluges, and we can make up for some of the low rainfall down there over the past few years.

I just came back from Hawaii yesterday. It was the first time I'd ever been there, we went to Maui. It was really an amazing Island, with so much climate diversity. The night before and the day of our flight they got pounded by high winds and heavy rain, knocking down trees and knocking the power out at our friends' house. Still, everyone seemed to be taking it with little concern.

--Ron

It's raining in Southern California too, for the second time this season. Perhaps this winter won't be as dry as everyone had feared. Wouldn't that be the greatest Christmas present?

Ingrid

What does the song say? "It never rains in California, but girl, let me warn ya, it pours, oh it pours!" Congratulations on your rain and have a happy holiday as a result. We can sense your greening up all the way in the north and are smiling more as we clear the river off the highway. Now if only we could send it down around Camarillo...

Sue

Alas! In the end, SoCal got about what I thought we might get.
Less than 0.25-inch. :-(
It served to do not much more than wash off the foliage, and -- now -- the wind is gusting hard from the West, as the front slides on East.
From the weather maps, the substantial rain got not much further South than Fresno.

Jeri

Have any of you put up rain barrels? Even with 1/4 of rain, you can collect quite a bit of run off. I've managed to keep my sensitive plants watered this fall with just the water collected from the few rains we've had.

I'm delighted you have rain! Please send some to us :-)

Carol

I am glad that it is suppose to be coming to Arkansas. I think we are about 10 inches behind for the year. The neighors all look at me funny when I water dead looking plants and it is barely above freezing outside.

Hi Gregg, yes Rosefolly has it right. "Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more, cause I got those deep river blues...WAHOOOOOOO!"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, what a glorious feeling, I'm happy again tra la la la la. Hope you get yours, I love every squishy step, every muddy footprint, every gluey bud and drooping bloom. Which just goes to show that you can get some satisfaction! (Cartwheels).
la

All my rain barrels are full. We got about .45" here, for which I am very thankful. I did think about installing a 10K cistern when we moved in, under the driveway. When I mentioned it, the landscape architect looked at me like I had antlers growing out of my forehead. Should have gotten a better landscape architect.

Just never, never, never put your plumbing under your driveway nor your cables. :)

Somewhere recently I've seen pictures of the homes in Austrailia with cisterns at the corner of every house to catch and save the precious rain. Why not us?
In Europe the dishwashers use 5 gallons of water. Ours use 17 and a half. How many gazillions would that save us???
la

Tom and I talk about putting in a 10K cistern too, perhaps even a larger one. We should have done it when we remodeled six years ago. It would have been less expensive to do it then. I'm not sure rain barrels are useful in a climate like ours where all the rain comes in the winter. We need to store water to use six months later. The Australians have it right.

Anyway, the rain is over for now. I'm not sure how much we got because the website I used to check faithfully has been taken down. I do miss it. Weather.com tells me we are likely to have more rain next weekend. I hope that is true.

(Patricia, something tells me you speak from experience.)

Rosefolly

I'm glad to hear that it rained while we were gone. The pond isn't full yet but it's come up. There was no lack of rain in London or Paris(we really didn't mind)

We bought a new dishwasher, Bosch, which is European made.It uses 9 gallons for a full wash. It was expensive, but no more so than the other high-end dishwashers.