Holy Shite - look at those mud slides in California

[malaise]

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-heavy-rains-trigger-m/53003181

[postulater]

1. Did it rain or something?

[malaise]

4. Record rain

Six inches an hour in some LA neighborhoods -plus the absence of shrubs, trees as a result of the drought.

[Hortensis]

7. Right. Plus, the soils on those mountains wouldn't be there if they

normally got the kind of rain the east does. That's why just a few days of ordinary storms saturating the soils will start it sliding somewhere. But 4-6 inches an hour! We lived there for years and camped and fished in those mountains very often. It's hard to imagine sitting in 4 feet of mud on the I-5!

[Auggie]

2. That should teach people not to try driving through

[malaise]

5. Apparently most folks were caught by suprise n/t

[abelenkpe]

3. It wasnt even much rain

What will happen if El Niño happens this year

[malaise]

6. It is happening n/t