Funny comment on a local rain watch thread

[tabatha]

"Just which city employees were going to come out in this to hand you a free sandbag? The ones that are blasted almost every day on this site because of their bloated paychecks, stratospheric pensions, and general laziness? The ones that you told to stay home for the holidays because you do not need them? Why don't you just go to the Home Depot, you cheapskate, and buy a sandbag with the money you saved by the furlough? Also, in VietNam we brushed the ants off a roll before taking a bite. People were shooting at us, so what harm could an ant do?"

The last sentence refers to all the posted remedies for ants taking shelter in people's homes from the rain.

Central coast weather - radar

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?num=6&delay=15&scale=1.00&noclutter=0&ID=VBX&type=N0R&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&showstorms=0&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0

10" has fallen in 24 hours in some places.

[msongs]

1. riverside only 1.5 in since thursday by the ol tin can in the backyard method lol nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Better save that tin can. :)

Just say'n :shrug: Riverside one of the high testing cities.

[pinboy3niner]

10. "You're gonna need a bigger tin can"

We're all in for a lot more. LAT reports that "three more powerful storms will target Los Angeles before Thursday"--and Riverside is pretty much in the same boat (so to speak).

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-weather-20101220,0,4668966.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

:hi:

[lonestarnot]

11. Damn.

:hi:

[pinboy3niner]

3. L.A. County 3.12 inches in 24 hours...

Precipitation<ed. to show L.A. County only>

24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 3.12
Season total (since July 1) 5.58
Last season (July 1 to date) 4.81
Season norm (July 1 to date) 2.91
Humidity (high/low) 97/90

Source: L.A. Times, 12/20/10, page AA8

[tabatha]

7. There was a correction to the 10"

"Someone below says that Tecolote Canyon had twenty inches in 48 hrs. - that is NOT correct. It has had 20 inches this season, and just over 10 during this storm."

[SoCalDem]

4. Years ago, in Michigan City, IN..Lake Michigan was "acting up"

and gobbling up bazillionaires' lake front mansions.

The shoreline was public, but the homeowners did everything in their power to keep people from getting TO the shoreline.

They had "posted-stay out" signs, "private" signs, "No trespassing", and some even "chained" the rickety access steps down to the shore.. They blocked what precious little parking there was, with saw horses, linked together with chain...all so the poor folks would not clutter up their view..

anyway.. when they were in danger of losing their homes to the lake, one of them sent in a "tear-stained" letter to the editor, begging for lumber & help to repair their seawall..

you should have seen the responses.. the best one suggested that they gather up all their hateful signs & use them to shore up those seawalls:rofl:

[tabatha]

6. LOL

[tabatha]

5. Here is the latest rain map - the plume is still strong

http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/loopsat.php?wfo=lox&area=hurrpac&type=ir&size=8

[tabatha]

12. That one stopped working.

Here is another:

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeswestpacusir.html

[1monster]

8. Years ago, I lived in an apartment house that I swear was built on an ant hill,

little black sugar ants.

I tried everything to keep them out, but nothing worked.

Until, someone suggested that I wipe down all the window sills, and any other place ants got into, with Clorex. Beleive it or not, it worked. For three days each time I rubbed Clorex on the sills. It seems that Clorex or any chlorine bleach will play havoc with an ant's scent finder and they cannot follow each other to the nice dry home.

Hope it works for you.

[SoCalDem]

9. We used windex:)

Had to keep the kitties safe.. windex worked pretty well:)

[1monster]

13. The kind with amonia in it or with vinegar? Florida ants are really tough little

buggers!

[SoCalDem]

14. It was blue.. not sure what was in it

:)