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Spring training at Petco Park

That was yesterday. This is today.

Mikey wrote:Spring training at Petco Park

That's a switch from the Q....

I don't know about the Murph, but Mission Valley was pretty much under water last night.

Raccoons in there?

Dinsdale wrote:Raccoons in there?

I put humane traps out for racoons that were tearing up my eaves-troughs...
...AND I GOT 28 YEARS IN JAIL! 28 DAMN YEARS!

Haven't had any in my pool since I started flying the confederate flag.

Yup, coons don't much care for the stars and bars.

Haven't seen any good mudslide stories from socal this winter. I would think you'd have quite a good run of them. Or has everything that is prone to sliding already slid?

This is from today. Near Escondido.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/M ... 18233.html

This one closed Highway 17 (the main route from San Jose to Santa Cruz) a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/M ... o-12331918

I15 (Cajon Pass)





SR138 (near Victorville)

Amtrak was closed for awhile in MS's neighborhood due to a mudslide.

There no doubt were a few in Malibu but they don't even talk about those anymore

Highway 152

Hwy 41 just outside Yosemite's south entrance is closed both ways.

Hwy 120 on west side of Yosemite is closed as well.

Hwy 140 is the only highway currently open to get in or out of the national park.

Highway 41 near its western terminus.

Moving Sale wrote:Highway 41 near its western terminus.

That's not the closure I was referring to.

The one I was referring to was near Fish Camp. That looks like it's south of Coursegold.

That is between Atascadero and Morro Bay.

Moving Sale wrote:Highway 41 near its western terminus.

Been through there a few times.

Moving Sale wrote:Highway 152

Pacheco Pass

I assumed most of the mud slides were post fire issues. But in half of those photos there is plenty of green matter. Is the soil just that unstable?

I don't think any of those are Fire related. Just too much water on the road cuts.

Do they do any soil retention prevention on road cuts or is the cost too much for what is gained?

We've had 18 buhzillionteen seventy thousand slides around here.

I-5 in SW Washington was closed a few days ago. A couple of the main routes from the West Side into Portland have had major slides. None due to fire. When the soil gets saturated, certain spots where the water drains cut loose. Just the way it is. Get the geologists to take a look, bust out some bulldozers, dump it somewhere, and we all move on.

Here, where there's an unstable slope that doesn't let go, they wait until the dry season, then dig a bigass trench at the bottom of the hill, then take a bunch of the scree, put it in these funny chain-link boxes, and use it for a barrier between the trench and the road. Gives the slide a place to go. They're all over the place.

Left Seater wrote:Do they do any soil retention prevention on road cuts or is the cost too much for what is gained?

They build concrete retaining walls here... except in the sticks. Then they do the big ditch thing.

These hatches got completely barrened.



That is a house two doors down from mine. It was a little breezy last night.

Dinsdale wrote:

Left Seater wrote:Do they do any soil retention prevention on road cuts or is the cost too much for what is gained?

They build concrete retaining walls here... except in the sticks. Then they do the big ditch thing.

They do that rocks in a cage thing around here sometimes, usually at the base of a rocky vertical cut.

KC Scott wrote:I was in LA this week. Stayed out in Newport Beach - had to drive 405/605 to Baldwin Wed for a meeting.

With the downtime, went out to Balboa island and also Cornoa Del Mar Beach (which is now the nicest CA beach I've seen)

Didn't see any traces of the flood any of those places

Did you see any bad hombres?

KC Scott wrote:I was in LA this week. Stayed out in Newport Beach - had to drive 405/605 to Baldwin Wed for a meeting.

With the downtime, went out to Balboa island and also Cornoa Del Mar Beach (which is now the nicest CA beach I've seen)

Didn't see any traces of the flood any of those places

CDM and La Jolla Shores are the two nicest beaches in SoCal. Both are in very high bucks areas. My best friend in college grew up in CDM and we used to hang out there a lot back in the 70s. It was a lot less crowded back then.

Mikey wrote:

KC Scott wrote:I was in LA this week. Stayed out in Newport Beach - had to drive 405/605 to Baldwin Wed for a meeting.

With the downtime, went out to Balboa island and also Cornoa Del Mar Beach (which is now the nicest CA beach I've seen)

Didn't see any traces of the flood any of those places

CDM and La Jolla Shores are the two nicest beaches in SoCal. Both are in very high bucks areas. My best friend in college grew up in CDM and we used to hang out there a lot back in the 70s. It was a lot less crowded back then.

Now it's not only more crowded, but they charge for parking there, too.

BSmack wrote:

"Meh. Fukken poseurs."

Sincerely,

Papa Willie wrote:Well Mikey - y'all needed the rain, so...

Absofuckinglutely.

Probably closer to 10 than 4.

I'm guessing double that 4 mil. Is that Malibu?

No that is OC.

Where in OC?

Those houses are on ocean blv in corona del mar and upon further review those houses are closer to 15 than 4.

Can't find that exact spot, but a group of homes overlooking the beach in Corona Del Mar run $11-22 million.

It's just south of the jetty.

My friend's parents' house is up the hill a couple of blocks east of PCH. Built in the 60s and not nearly as spectacular as those mansions on the beach but still has basically 180 degree ocean view. Not a bad investment at the time for a college professor.