Ok, I realize that I already posted an entry about Storm Watch 2004 earlier this year, but I’m just going to assume that most of you skim my entries anyway and don’t realize that I’m repeating titles/topics.

Anyway, this storm watch gets a mention because it’s been raining for 5 days. Not 24/7 or anything, but enough to get some notice. For most of the day there will be light little sprinkles, but then there are the times when the sky just opens up and pours water down on us. I just looked on some weather pages and see that the massive storm front is now over LA, but I hear that another one is supposed to hit SB today.

Santa Barbara, not wanting to tarnish its image as a mildly-temperatured, sunny paradise, did not create adequate drainage here. As a result, whenever it rains, it floods! The water has nowhere to go except rise up to the level of sidewalks. The flooding has subsided a bit since it hasn’t rained much for at least a few hours, but give it 20 minutes of hard rain and it’ll be back.

Sorta reminds me of New Orleans that way….

Posted at 9:37 AM |