A Storm Is Coming
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:37 pm
Sierra travellers beware. (I get excited by weather so the enthusiasm might show thru.. a bit)
Sunday February 15th a big storm is gonna hit the central coast where I live.. when that happens y'all up there in the Sierras have about 6 hours before the Head of the Tempest reaches you.
I have a feeling about this one. The deer are milling about the dead tanoak I felled on the ranch not an hour ago.. strange, the ants are gone, the quail have taken to the deep bush.
Not to be alarmist, but I got that feeling in my bones that this might be a good one.
I don't have TV and the only satellite pictures I have seen on the net are attenuated to the west,(we lost GOES-east Sat and GOES-west is doing double duty). I know there is something brewing out there beyond the edge of the screen, over the horizon so to speak.
Having lived in the "mounthills" of Santa Cruz for seven years in the same place, I can tell when the wildlife is getting ready.. (kinda the way the deer were trying to tell me I was gonna get squished by snowmelt in Jackmans canyon in 2004!)
This will be the first big "blow" of the season for us here way out west and my chainsaws are sharpened, gassed, and oiled up.
I am only at 1500 feet but sometimes it might as well be the boondocks cause there is only one way in and one way out.. on a dirt road... lined with bettle killed and weakened trees.
This ain't gonna be like New Years Eve storm of years back(Thank God, the kitchen roof almost went!) But I think it will be a surprise to many.. including my new landlord who has never wintered here in the SC mountains.
It might not be Everest here, but it has it's own unique character, and it is not uncommon for us to get +75 MPH winds from storms particularly when the Low pressure system sends them pinwheeling towards us from the south.
Y'all up there in the Big Mountains; I wish you well and will post here after she comes ashore at mid morning Sunday.. if I still have phone and power that is.
I could be wrong or the dropping air pressure makes me high or something.
But I can't help the strange feeling that big a storm brings..And I got that felling and it is cool!
Brace For Impact Baby! Hetchy
Sunday February 15th a big storm is gonna hit the central coast where I live.. when that happens y'all up there in the Sierras have about 6 hours before the Head of the Tempest reaches you.
I have a feeling about this one. The deer are milling about the dead tanoak I felled on the ranch not an hour ago.. strange, the ants are gone, the quail have taken to the deep bush.
Not to be alarmist, but I got that feeling in my bones that this might be a good one.
I don't have TV and the only satellite pictures I have seen on the net are attenuated to the west,(we lost GOES-east Sat and GOES-west is doing double duty). I know there is something brewing out there beyond the edge of the screen, over the horizon so to speak.
Having lived in the "mounthills" of Santa Cruz for seven years in the same place, I can tell when the wildlife is getting ready.. (kinda the way the deer were trying to tell me I was gonna get squished by snowmelt in Jackmans canyon in 2004!)
This will be the first big "blow" of the season for us here way out west and my chainsaws are sharpened, gassed, and oiled up.
I am only at 1500 feet but sometimes it might as well be the boondocks cause there is only one way in and one way out.. on a dirt road... lined with bettle killed and weakened trees.
This ain't gonna be like New Years Eve storm of years back(Thank God, the kitchen roof almost went!) But I think it will be a surprise to many.. including my new landlord who has never wintered here in the SC mountains.
It might not be Everest here, but it has it's own unique character, and it is not uncommon for us to get +75 MPH winds from storms particularly when the Low pressure system sends them pinwheeling towards us from the south.
Y'all up there in the Big Mountains; I wish you well and will post here after she comes ashore at mid morning Sunday.. if I still have phone and power that is.
I could be wrong or the dropping air pressure makes me high or something.
But I can't help the strange feeling that big a storm brings..And I got that felling and it is cool!
Brace For Impact Baby! Hetchy