If you have ever been in a tropical downpour often the rain drops are one or two inches across so rivers of water come off a roof and completely overwhelm gutters and downspouts.
This is what I experienced for several hours tonight likely from Midnight until almost 2 am. Finally the flashes of light from the lightning and all the noise finally woke me up completely and I looked out the double door windows leading out to our deck and backyard. I turned the outside lights on and hadn't seen anything like this in years and years.
I worried less for myself and my house than for others. Though my front road to my house is likely a river now for awhile I worried about other people who don't have the advantages I do of living on the side of a hill so that at least I'm not in a flood plain by any stretch of the imagination. I thought of the 7 feet of snow falling in the Sierras tonight and was very glad I wasn't there. I talked to a friend in Mt. Shasta who already had 2 to 3 feet at his house yesterday afternoon on his 2 1/2 acres of land and home and wondered if he kept driving his 4 wheel drive vehicle out his road so he wouldn't be landlocked overnight tonight but instead kept pushing the snow with his vehicle so he didn't get stuck at his land. Another friend had a knee replacement surgery and his snow blower gave out recently and told me he was trying to clear his road with a shovel and wondered if he was now snowed in as remote as he is way out in the forest.
So, I'm fine. But, I know many people in California likely won't be after what I saw tonight it was so intense.
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