[pct-l] Crisis in CA

[Stephen Adams]

i'll second that.  And your comments run along the lines of what I've said a few times about folks thinking to do the PCt because it's there and popular, and should thereby be something other than it really is, like a walk a easy access National Park.  Perhaps it should be called the "Pacific Crest- Built For Fair Weather and Not Everyone Should Do It- National Scenic Trail.  Same goes even more so for the JMT.  But God Bless 'em just the same.  You should see the idiots on the freeways down here let alone when it rains and such.  Unfortunately the San Gabriel Mtns are really easy access for anyone.  Even way down here on the LA Harbor in San Pedro I don't think it's even an hour to get to Angeles Crest Highway.  And there's a couple million folks living a lot closer than me.  We even have what's called the Foothill freeway that parallels the range on its flanks.  So in those couple millions or so there is perhaps a one or two knuckleheads.  
I've been hearing the emergency broadcast system's flash flood warnings for the Station Fire area for a few hours now about every half hour.  It's still raining steady but lightly here to the south on the harbor, but it was dumping earlier and that's probably the cell that hit the area and caused the mud.  But it was already saturated as it didn't just start raining today.  And I don't think they'll get much snow locally as it has warmed up quite a bit since yesterday and a lot since the cold front a few days back that could have brought snow down to two thousand feet as it was in the thirties even here by the ocean.     
But 
i bet they are getting good snow up in the Sierra !              
On Dec 12, 2009, at 6:24 PM, ed faubert wrote:

> Heres an update.............
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> 90 cars got stuck in the mud today on Angles crest road with the mud coming down over the highway.... Excuse me but what kind of idiot would be driving on these mt roads with the rainfall we are getting today..... Its 6 20 pm and the rain is pounding on my roof here and my swimming pool is almost ready to overflow.....
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> Amazing how stupid people can be but even in the hiking world on the PCT we see these same idiots out there evert year.....
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> yes i do feel sorry for lots of folks who will lose their homes this coming few days but not for the folks who drove up to play in the snow....................-
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> -- On Sat, 12/12/09, Wes Rose <wb104475 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> From: Wes Rose <wb104475 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Crisis in CA
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 9:57 AM
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> We may have a major emergency on our hands here in So Cal.  For the past several hours
> now *water* has been falling *from the sky*.  Everything is wet. Even the soil is a darker shade 
> of brown.  This strange phenomenon appears to be occurring throughout most of So Cal, and 
> I am getting rather nervous about it.  Any advice would be appreciated, as long as it doesn't 
> involve bare feet.  Thank you.
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