I couldn't sleep until 4 am last night because of the huge storm hitting where I live here on the coast of northern California

After raining lightly all day Sunday the full force of the storm hit with 30 to 50 mile per hour winds constant with gusts above that to 60 miles per hour. First thing I noticed was many back yard chairs had blow down in the extreme winds. Next thing I noticed was that 6 foot strips of eucalyptus bark were raining down into our back yard from a 100 foot tall eucalyptus tree from Australia living next door to us in the adjoining back yard. I heard a tree go down between 2 or 3 am so I went out in rain gear because it was coming down in buckets of rain and has continued ever since and now it's 3pm Monday. So, it's been raining really hard now for at least 12 hours straight (which is very unusual for California but then again there is nothing that is not unusual regarding California the last 20 years or so of extreme climate changes.

So, getting used to ALMOST anything is what people are doing all over earth every day now.

Today I went out in my 4 wheel drive truck to make sure we could still get to stores and gas stations. Trees haven't fallen across roads yet because the ground isn't saturated enough with water generally speaking yet. But, within a few days this could all change if we keep getting this much rain.

The most impressive thing I saw while walking my dog in rain gear along the beach carefully looking for sneaker waves that might grab you and pull you out to sea was a place that was completely dry 3 days ago now was a raging river 10 to 35 feet wide with rapids so fast you likely could get a good ride on a kayak for about a block before you hit the ocean where it grew to 35 feet wide. And once again this torrent was dry 3 days ago to show you just how flooded and flooding we presently are here on the Northern California coast of California.

Like other atmospheric rivers this is going to dump about 5 to 7 feet of snow below 8000 feet and up to 13 feet of snow above that here in California in the Sierras. It might do something similar when it moves to Southern California and Baja in Mexico too.