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I was wrong about being more rain than last year.  Last year's total was 45.70", but we must be within a couple of inches of that now.  You folks in the mountains always have more rain than we.  We're at 500' elevation and can see the ocean.  Boulder Creek often has three times our rainfall.  Those mountains just act like a magnet for rain.  I hear that rain is to continue for at least 10 days, but that's the longest the weather forecasters will stick their necks out.  ;-))

Keep an eye out for those boulders!  And we'll keep an eye out for falling trees.  BTW, our normal average annual rainfall 40 years ago (for a 20-year period) was about 29".  Then it crept up to 32".  Now it must be considerably more, probably in the high 30s.

 

Barbara

Whose husband is the official weather recorder for Swanton for the past 50 years.

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From: Eric Drew

To: Barbara McCrary ; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; sandy.l.holder@xxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:52 PM

Subject: Re: [RC] Raining again. . .

I was wondering how you two were doing.... We are up to 58" of rain at my place...

 

lots of rock slides up here.  I just missed getting hit by a 4" tall boulder that fell on 35 right in front of me this morning.   Rainfall for today in the Santa Cruz Mts' is over 4 inches and they forecast this to continue through mid month

 

yikes

 

Stay safe everyone


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From: Barbara McCrary
Sent: Apr 4, 2006 2:44 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, sandy.l.holder@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Raining again. . .

More than that....I've read 10 days.  We're having mud slides, trees down, power outages in some parts of Swanton, and our water line...broken by a falling tree and gone...down the creek somewhere.  We have a 12,000 gallon full water tank that we will have to use carefully, as repair of the water line requires wading across the swollen creek.  We're grateful, too, that we live at 500' elevation, about 400' above the valley and the creeks.

 

Barbara

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From: sandy.l.holder@xxxxxxxxxx

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:42 PM

Subject: [RC] Raining again. . .

"40 days and 40 nights". . . my husband just asked me if I was to the point of choosing which 2 of each kind I was going to put in the arc!  I told him there was a reason why we bought property at 800 foot elevation in Gilroy. . .

4 more days of rain in the forecast. . .

Sandy and Tally (who's not appreciating being cooped up in the barn after his injury going to 20 Mule Team)
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