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malaise

(297,947 posts) Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:08 AM Oct 2015

Holy Shite - look at those mud slides in California

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

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Holy Shite - look at those mud slides in California (Original Post) malaise Oct 2015 OP

Did it rain or something? postulater Oct 2015 #1

Record rain malaise Oct 2015 #4

Right. Plus, the soils on those mountains wouldn't be there if they Hortensis Oct 2015 #7

That should teach people not to try driving through Auggie Oct 2015 #2

Apparently most folks were caught by suprise n/t malaise Oct 2015 #5

It wasnt even much rain abelenkpe Oct 2015 #3

It is happening n/t malaise Oct 2015 #6

postulater

(5,075 posts)

1. Did it rain or something?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:24 AM

Oct 2015

malaise

(297,947 posts)

4. Record rain

Reply to postulater (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:20 AM

Oct 2015

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

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

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

Reply to malaise (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:53 AM

Oct 2015

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

(33,315 posts)

2. That should teach people not to try driving through

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:24 AM

Oct 2015

malaise

(297,947 posts)

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

Reply to Auggie (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:22 AM

Oct 2015

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)

3. It wasnt even much rain

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:53 AM

Oct 2015

What will happen if El Niño happens this year

malaise

(297,947 posts)

6. It is happening n/t

Reply to abelenkpe (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:22 AM

Oct 2015

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