In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Congrats! Sounds like one person had most of the luck, but at least you had some!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Managed 3rd place today at mah jong. Horrible morning for everyone except 1 lady who had 10,000 points in the first hand.
Sun is out now and burned off a portion of the fog. Have to see what happens later.
Usually when we have an inversion there's bad air quality to go with it. I hope that doesn't happen where you live.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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I mentioned a while back that after we got so much rain in such a short period of time I was wondering about the stability of the hill I live on.
And believe it or not, my yard is STILL wet. And I live near the top of the hill's ridge, not near the bottom. (The only people who live uphill from me are the houses across the street, which runs along the length of the ridge.)
Since my water main runs under that low side of the yard, I figured I'd check for water main and plumbing leaks by reading my meter and NOT using any water for 5 hours. And, no major leaks. If there's a leak keeping my yard wet, it's uphill from me.
Anyway, it was most certainly a very abnormal rain event! I got roughly 9" of rain - roughly 6" above normal, most of it over just a few days. In all my time here, I've never seen something like that. So this may be just unusual conditions because of an unusual event. So I'll just see how things are going forward.
The other thing I've been doing is shopping for a new mattress. My old one is SO old I'm embarrassed to say just how old it is. It's definitely time for a new one!
This graph is from a station that's not near me, it's in downtown Los Angeles. But it gives an idea just how extreme the atmospheric river was that came through.
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Hot week here. It was okay to start as I was at the beach but arrived home and the house was like a furnace. Sadly, I currently have no air con, waiting to be installed.
Then the storms hit again, flash flooding and loads of lightening and thunder, huge claps of thunger, sounded like a bomb going off.
It's still warm but much cooler and the humidity is high, which gives everything a tropical holiday feel.
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As much as I dislike the day-after-day unrelenting heat for most of the year here, right now your weather sounds warm and cozy. 
With your thunderstorm, where your clouds WAY up high and all the action WAY up there? Or was everything low and seriously threatening? Because I used to enjoy extreme weather until I had a (small) tornado pass low directly overhead. And that was truly frightening. So I'm curious what your t-storm was like.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
As much as I dislike the day-after-day unrelenting heat for most of the year here, right now your weather sounds warm and cozy.
With your thunderstorm, where your clouds WAY up high and all the action WAY up there? Or was everything low and seriously threatening? Because I used to enjoy extreme weather until I had a (small) tornado pass low directly overhead. And that was truly frightening. So I'm curious what your t-storm was like.
I appreciate our mild winters when I read the posts here, notwithstanding I love the snow, but want it when I am on holidays, at some resort, not navigating it in day to day life.
The heat wasn't cosy, it was oppressive but I understand where you are coming from.
I'm not sure about the clouds, I was actually in the office, first time this year as we are back to working from home. It got pitch black, then some enormous cracks of thunder and then the deluge. By the time I was driving home the rain had eased to something more gentle.
I'm glad I dont live where there are hurricanes or cyclones - too far south for that. Terrifying. We had massive wind storms mid last year which were the worst I could remember. Parts of the forest were annihalated - we are talking mountain ash here, enormous trees. Luckily and unbelievably really, no one was killed.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brenda, OMG you are having a foggy time of it!
We surely have been Kiki. Been beautiful this Friday. No fog at all. The sun is out and I can see the mountains again.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Congrats! Sounds like one person had most of the luck, but at least you had some!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Managed 3rd place today at mah jong. Horrible morning for everyone except 1 lady who had 10,000 points in the first hand.
Sun is out now and burned off a portion of the fog. Have to see what happens later.
Usually when we have an inversion there's bad air quality to go with it. I hope that doesn't happen where you live.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
That can happen with mah jong. Just one of those mornings.
I was surprised that I got 3rd.We got lucky SIG. No weather advisories.
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Back home from work. My boss's husband decided today to play around with the fireplace that is in the house. He had a fireplace company come by and talked to the guys in person then after they left, he lit it.
Well, long story short even after talking to the guys he still doesn't know what he is doing. He almost smoked out the living room. They were in 2 separate rooms not far from the living room but they couldn't smell the smoke. I had to TELL him what was happening.
The whole idea behind this is to use the fireplace in the winter as they have a pile of firewood in the yard. They brought it in about 3 winters ago. The last time he tried the fire place, he said he smoked out the living room and their guests had to leave.
ETA: I think I smell a bit like smoke.
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Quote:There is a lever-activated damper in the top of the fireplace. Normally it is closed to keep cold air from swooping down the flue. It needs to be opened to let the hot air and smoke rise and escape out the chimney. Sounds like he didn't open it.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back home from work. My boss's husband decided today to play around with the fireplace that is in the house. He had a fireplace company come by and talked to the guys in person then after they left, he lit it.
Well, long story short even after talking to the guys he still doesn't know what he is doing. He almost smoked out the living room. They were in 2 separate rooms not far from the living room but they couldn't smell the smoke. I had to TELL him what was happening.
The whole idea behind this is to use the fireplace in the winter as they have a pile of firewood in the yard. They brought it in about 3 winters ago. The last time he tried the fire place, he said he smoked out the living room and their guests had to leave.
ETA: I think I smell a bit like smoke.
Another possibility is that the flue is partially blocked with creosote. When a fire is started in the fireplace and wood begins to burn, the oils in the wood volatilize and rise up the flue, but then they meet the still-cold flue surface and condense there. It's like tar. It can create quite a plug! So either you have your flue cleaned or you build a hot enough fire to catch the creosote on fire, creating what is called a 'chimney fire' to burn off the creosote. Small chimney fires are goodvthings.
I did THAT once, accidentally, only it wasn't a small chimney fire, it was loud like a fast-moving freight train, and scary, with flames shooting out the top of the chimney and burning chunks of creosote landing on the roof! But by the time my sis and i got it under control, by god the flue was clean!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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We missed the 5"-6" that was supposed to hit us last night. My old man and Grandma/Aunt got it instead, so we're about even now for snowfall this year so far. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 to 15" so far.
That coming off of a record winter where we went longer than ever since they started keeping track without any snowfall.
They're saying next week that Midway (the airport, where they track these things) is supposed to get 21" to 25" inches!
That's not too far from me.
Right now the forecast is only showing around 6"-8" next week, with 5" of them on one day. If things don't change, my family back west is going to get slammed. If they do, I might be the one getting slammed.
I hate winter.
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