"insurance crisis: DeSantis says ‘knock on wood’ during hurricane season
Insurers will return to Florida after hurricane season, DeSantis says"
Damn, I wish I knew this years ago. Knocking on wood is way easy and doesn't cost anything. Ice lost tens of thousands over the past 10 years, 50 years, however it's figured.
... The storm resulted in the death of 93 people; 45 died in flooding on land and another 48 were lost at sea, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The storm brought the greatest September rainfall ever to Southern California, with Los Angeles receiving 5.42 inches in 24 hours, and Mount Wilson 11.6 inches, the National Weather Service said.
The flooded streets of Long Beach in 1939 as Hurricane El Cordonazo hits the West Coast and becomes a tropical storm moving inland.
... Temperatures dropped so low during the storm that snow and sleet reportedly fell in the Big Bear area days after the storm had passed, the U.S. Weather Bureau reported....
People walking around in water up to their knees in desert city Palm Springs
Interstate 8 Closed Due To Rockslide
The California Department of Transportation is advising motorists traveling on certain parts of Interstate 8 in Southern California to find an alternate route. The eastbound section of the road is closed due to a rockslide at the San Diego - Imperial County line.
It's usually rocks that slide. This is truly a rock slide. We're gonna need a bigger truck.
-11.74 inches: Mount San Jacinto, California
-11.73 inches: Raywood Flat, California
-9.67 inches: Heart Bar Campground, San Bernardino National Forest, California
(7:30 a.m. ET) Some Notables Out Of Southern California And Elsewhere
-Up to 2.89 inches of rain fell in parts of Death Valley National Park yesterday at Stovepipe Wells. That’s more than the park’s average annual rain of 2.2 inches. High temperature was just 82 degrees, which is more on par with the average in early November.
"... This is catastrophic for (Death Valley)! Nothing like this ever in their history."
The coming Death Valley bloom will be historic.
-For a time late yesterday, the center of Hilary was directly over Los Angeles.
-L.A. picked up 2.38 inches in their driest month of August, which averages 0.00 inches of rain.
-Southern California had its first tropical storm warning ever.
-While Southern California saw flooding, Yuma, Arizona, had blowing dust and wind gusts over 60 mph.
-Hilary is preliminarily the wettest tropical cyclone or remnant on record in Nevada.
(6:55 a.m. ET) 26 Years? 84 Years? Explaining the Nuance
It turns out Hilary didn't make landfall in California, so it wasn't quite the extreme rarity it was thought to be. Weather.com senior meteorologist Chris Dolce explains:
Hilary made landfall in Mexico’s northern Baja California Peninsula late Sunday morning. Landfall happens when the center of a tropical storm’s low-pressure system crosses a point over land from the ocean.
The storm’s center then tracked northward while inland over Mexico and across the Southern California border later Sunday. That means it's the first Eastern Pacific system to track into California while still categorized as a tropical storm in almost 26 years, since the former Hurricane Nora tracked near the Colorado River in California as a tropical storm in September 1997.
Since Hilary didn’t technically make landfall in California, the September 1939 tropical storm in the Los Angeles Basin remains as most recent storm to landfall in the state. Its center tracked directly into Southern California from the ocean....
(5:05 a.m. ET) Over A Dozen Rescued In San Diego
San Diego Fire-Rescue crews pulled 13 people from knee-deep water in a homeless encampment Sunday night along the rising San Diego River.
No one was taken to a hospital, but a few people received medical attention at the site, according to SDFD. No other injuries were reported as of Sunday night.
Getting to miss history like that is one of the best reasons to have a motor home. Last winter was the wettest on record, too. Good thing there's no climate change.
That photo of the orange guy and the umbrella reminds me of when trump tried to close an umbrella to get inside a plane. He couldn't shut the thing and just dropped it at the doorway. sick turd
That photo of the orange guy and the umbrella reminds me of when trump tried to close an umbrella to get inside a plane. He couldn't shut the thing and just dropped it at the doorway. sick turd
So many asshole moves like that, it's a mystery why his cultists never caught on.
Early yet, but at the moment looks like a Cat 2 landfall near Cedar Key on Wed morning after bruising western Cuba. Tallahassee and Jacksonville will be impacted. Okefenokee, too.
Now a Cat 3 predicted. I knew that was going to happen. And, it's going to track along the GA, SC and NC coasts as a TS.
Not yet a hurricane, but Idalia has been churning off the Yucatan for days. The satellite view gives a better sense of how this must be messing with Cancun and the Cayman Islands.
Now a Cat 3 predicted. I knew that was going to happen. And, it's going to track along the GA, SC and NC coasts as a TS.
Not yet a hurricane, but Idalia has been churning off the Yucatan for days. The satellite view gives a better sense of how this must be messing with Cancun and the Cayman Islands.
Really warm water in the Big Bend area.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Now a Cat 3 predicted. I knew that was going to happen. And, it's going to track along the GA, SC and NC coasts as a TS.
Not yet a hurricane, but Idalia has been churning off the Yucatan for days. The satellite view gives a better sense of how this must be messing with Cancun and the Cayman Islands.
Really warm water in the Big Bend area.
Same temp it was when they started off predicting it would hit FL as a Cat 1. Seems they do that a lot only to revise upwards later.
It's usually rocks that slide. This is truly a rock slide.
. 
