The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco — Mark Twain
This week an atmospheric river struck California. SoCal was the most affected, what with a lot of rain falling there, often the equivalent of an area’s entire annual rainfall amount fell in a mere twenty-four hours. Flooding was pervasive. The rest of California was also affected. The Sierras saw snowfall measured in feet.
My Dad and brother Chris were also affected. On Monday, high winds knocked out their power. They also knocked out a window. The old photo above shows the western side of the house. The window that blew out (not in) is the skylight pictured on the upper right side, the master bedroom. They got a man out to put up plastic over the opening right away. The window was double paned and one of the panes fell without breaking. This will aid fabricating a new one.
Most of this week’s drama revolved around the power outage, which was not restored until yesterday, after four days. I have included the Mark Twain quote, even though my family lives in Monterey and not San Francisco, because both locales share similar weather. February in not summertime either. Without power, the house got very cold. It was a trial, but they persevered and rode out the storm’s aftereffects. All of neighboring Pebble Beach is still without power.
I heard that California was hit very hard, glad they are all okay
Thanks
Wow sorry for all that saw destruction on this latest storm and what is my son racing to in Tahoe each day snow, lots of snow he needs to get a real job.
Sounds fun though
Yes he seems to live for it 🙂
My Bro has a lodge at Tahoe. He goes up there to snowboard or at least he used to until he had hip replacement surgery.
It is gorgeous up there but after trucking that area it is also sketchy as well.
The bears break in every winter too
The black bear here has yet to bust into my place in NH but always introduce their cubs 🙁
There are grizzly bears in Tahoe
Yes, I know I see them number them in the Teton area of WY 🙂