The Storm: She Is Here
Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory in effect until 11 a.m., at which point the gusts of 60 to 70 m.p.h. should subside and leave us with just mildly unbearable wind and rain through tomorrow. The 280-101 connection at 6th Streetis closed due to flooding. PG&E is already out there fixing power lines, Pacifica is bracing for wind damage, and Santa Cruz is bracing for mudslides in recently burned areas.
The kicker, at the risk of getting all sensational and apocalyptic: THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
Please see this little weather discussion from KRON4 discussing the *major* El Nino year we're (most probably) in store for, the likes of which we haven't faced since the winter of '97-'98.