We haven't had any rain here all day, we did have rain all day Friday.

I visit Fresno often and have many good friends there.
It's like another world compared to the hills, where I have lived for 7 years. This storm is the worst in a very long time.
The power lines run through some rough terrain.

Lived in the bay area some 30 years.

Everyone was blown away. Still a lot on the ground.

He said they got 6" of snow on Thursday when we were at 60F in Indianapolis. It was seriously backwards!

Toward King's Canyon? I still have friends in Squaw Valley.

If the electricity goes off your pipes might freeze.

of water to prevent freezing. If water freezes in the pipes, the pipes could burst.

This poster is not at home.

I had to use that trick 2 nights ago.
I captured some of the water and gave it to my plants. 😊

Some winters we get some pretty damned cold spells.

Otherwise, the pressure fizzles unless you have gravity feed.

Life ain’t simple.

For reasons I never found out, in the county, everyone has a 2000 gallon tank. I suspect for firefighters. There’s also one of those big hose fittings on each one, AFAICT.

have their 220 volt well pump direct fill the tank, then a slave 120 volt pump to fill the compression tank. With a float switch inside the 2500 tank the well doesn’t have to start up as often saving electricity but mostly extending the life of the well pump by not having to torque up as often.

Furnace set to low. Not shut off.
Fridge is the only other main load.
All pipes at the well and entering the home have heat tapes. They go on at 39 degrees F.
Still crossing my fingers.
Temps in the area rarely go below 32.
In fact, most snowstorms melt away the next day.
This one is a once in a (fill in the blank) occurrence.
At least 10 years. Perhaps a lot more.

Thanks for your concern!

Sounds like you will be ok.

Some people use heat lamps with thermostatic plugs, in their pump houses, but lamp filaments fail. I recommended the neighbor use two lamps or get the heat tape. The only thing to remember is to have the thermostat “button” touch the pipe, to get an accurate temperature reading, before securing the heat tape down and wrapping it with insulation.

Slightly off-topic. Any cold-weather city that replaced traffic lights with LED’s discovered (or will discover) that they don’t melt snow!

Practically the whole state, hell, the whole west coast has been slammed. We had 4” in a place that gets a dusting every 5 years or so. We got decade-worst flooding from that atmospheric river right around the first of the year. And remember that heatwave late summer?

These radical events are the new normal, so you really got to do whatever it is you got to do to get through, and be ready to do it again.

northern air flows?

The slowdown of the Atlantic Conveyer has got to affect the Pacific in some way.

The Mono Wind event of Jan 19th 2021 was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Two tall trees, two houses, both partly crushed.

Right into our bedroom at 2:30am while we were laying there listening to hurricane force winds. Really weird.

Glad you got out ahead of ghe storm!

We just had our internet/cable restored tonight, it was out since last night. We live on Orange County, where lots of streets are still flooded.

Hopefully things will dry out tomorrow a bit, since no rain is forecast for tomorrow in So Cal.

mile gravel road as far as I could but started sliding sideways on an incline and then almost got stuck, again. Ouch!

This was after our renter/neighbor and I had to chainsaw a 30” old oak that fallen across our road up closer to the top where I am. I’m super glad that tree is down now but doing the cutting and removal in all of the snow was a chore. I was always worried about it falling while walking or driving underneath it. We’ll miss its shade on summer walks though.

Lots of broken manzanita and oak tree branches from the weight of the snow. The pines, cedars and maples seem to have held up fine so far, fortunately.

PGE electric is still out, have the generator wired to the utility pole powering both houses on the property.

Yah, I hear Hwy 49 is a mess.

I posted this for my 4000th post. Nice

Oakland, SF and TWO bridges.
Ducks and geese seem happy.