None in Dana Point, far as I know.

It started sprinkling at about noon, but it just started raining here in Simi Valley at 1:30. I just got in- this morning I got my lilies in the ground and some trenches dug around the chicken coop in the nick of time.

I didn't have time to tarp our roof. :]

Renee

It started sprinkling in Dana Point about 3:30 p.m. It's still coming down pretty light. I put all my epiphytic cacti and tillandsias out where they can enjoy some natural rainfall for a change. And I planted some bromeliads that I bought yesterday and placed some rocks on a slope that runs between two buildings. I hope that will curb the runoff a bit.

First storm total 1.9 inches for 25 hours. Half inch came in the last hour or so. Sun is shining now...

Yeah, that was quite the opening salvo. I was ready for the downpour, but those winds were brutal. Discovered a few broken branches, but can't see anything beyond that. Now I need to do some more staking before the next burst.

Well Dicot the winds are coming again with gusts to 45 today and 60 Wed and Wed night.
The 2nd storm is here and so is the wind.

Don't know about the wind... yet, but the rain announced itself with a flash and loud boom late morning.

We even got a tornado warning.

Tornado warning right now, but the storm center it just missed us, caught the edge of LB and looks set to smack Seal Beach and Anaheim. Hope everything there is okay.

Its been raining very hard last 2 hours here in south orange county. Getting constant downpour and thunder/lightening.

We just got one and a quarter inches here in Fullerton in about an hour of the hardest rain we have had in several years. I just spread 9 cubic yards of compost on my hillside and can see it flowing by my house in a river of fast moving rich brown colored water about two feet wide and an inch deep. I had built a series of mini dams out of compost and dirt and scrap wood, which held Sunday and Monday when we got an inch and three quarters of rain spread out over two days, but the sudden deluge of epic proportions today Tuesday was too much and I see I lost a couple of yards of compost, but what is worse is that rich brown colored water was manure tea which is about the best organic fertilizer one can get, and it is now on its way down the street on its way to the Pacific.

I wouldn't want to be driving the freeway now, especially not in a big truck. The winds are worse than yesterday, I think. The tornado warning just got extended to 2:39 p.m.

we have thunder and lightening up here in the bay area too. keep the faith, we don't have to start building the ark yet.
lol, remember we need to break the drought

Another .6 today total 2.5 and the sun even shined again.
It smells so fresh and clean like spring out there.
Tomorrow and thurs are the big storms and the ones I worry about for the burn areas. I hope no one looses their home.

Rain, rain rain...and some neighbors still have their sprinklers running. How can they be so wasteful and inattentive?

Oh socks12345 I know what you mean...just idiots. Report them! I call my city all the time and tell them about broken stuff.

As of 3:00 PM on Thursday I measured a total of 7 3/4 inches of rain for the five day period beginning Sunday at my location in Fullerton in north Orange County. This is a bit more than what the newspaper is reporting, maybe because I live on a hill. Looking at the satellite images it looks like the bulk of the storm has now passed but we may get sporadic showers for the rest of the day so may just make the 8 inches max predicted by the weather bureau. I had quite a bit of soil erosion from the runoff coming down the hill I live on.

We just had a downpour few minutes ago. Thought it was getting to point of light showers!! Guess not! The sprinklers may have come on by themselves, my neighbor heard water running & ran through the house looking for a faucet on. Finally she looked outside & the front sprinklers were on even tho timer on "off". She had just had the thing fixed & I think it may have shorted from rain if he didn't wrap the wires well.. She had to unplug the timer unit to get it to shut off.Lot of people just leave sprinklers on the timer all yr. long tho!

Total this week is 5.2 inches here. The sun is trying to shine. Everything is so clean and fresh.

I'd swear there wasn't a storm cell that came through that didn't have Torrance dead in it's sights and we were in the red every time I looked at the doppler, but I think the yard largely survived, even though it looks like it's been pounded harder than an abalone at a cookout. My condolences to my neighbors to the south in Harbor City/ Wilmington/San Pedro who didn't come out so lucky.

One of the strange aspects of this storm was the "pour during the day/clear at night" pattern, so I was able to bike in the evenings to see the flooded areas or to the beach to watch the waves explode. I stood on the Redondo pier yesterday at sunset and the wind was so intense my cheeks were flapping and it was tough to take a breath, then around the breakwater a crowd had collected as every pelican, cormorant and other seabird in the area was hunkering down against the rocks. They are going to have a tough time after the storm too, as that bay is going to be filthy for awhile now.

Definitely the strongest storm system I remember for this area, but it has a ways to go to match in rainfall that year when it rained 28 out of 31 days in Jan.

"Pounded harder than an abalone at a cookout." Tee hee.
We got 7.3 inches of rainfall this week. I'm surprised there isn't more damage. Only a few leaks, only a little flooding in the pantry where the floor is level with the ground outside.

Dicot, the cloudbursts seem to coincide with my leaving the house. Seabirds keep flying east from here. Where do they go? I will go over to Hermosa Pier tomorrow to get a look.

Total for this series of storms is 9 1/4 inches of rain here in Fullerton in North Orange County from Sunday through Friday. For once Fullerton gets more than its share of rain, usually we get shortchanged as the storms pass to the north or sometimes south of us. We even had some brief hailstorms last night and this afternoon.

As it is, indeed, an ill wind that blows no good, Spring should be absolutely gorgeous in SoCal this year. I remember the huge storms of January 1977 or 78 which knocked down over a 1000 trees in LB. Things bloomed that Spring like I had never seen them bloom before.