Rain day

"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw) 02/17/2017 at 11:48 • Filed to: None

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May have to do some oversteers.

So much water on the road and in the fields, I haven’t seen it like this in over 10 years. The ground is saturated so drainage isn’t as good. All eyes on Oroville, then.

Roadster Man > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 11:51

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Just be careful:

EL_ULY > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 11:52

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RallyWrench > Roadster Man 02/17/2017 at 11:55

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Always, I never hoon without a safety margin.

RallyWrench > EL_ULY 02/17/2017 at 11:56

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My street is a Willy Wonka dream when it rains hard, I’m at the bottom of a hill so all the runoff runs down my street, and crosses it at my driveway. There’s literally a sandbar behind the cars in the driveway.

carzcarzcarz > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 12:00

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Ha ha, yes that’s exactly what I think too. Hmm, crappy rainy day, not riding the bike, but that means mad skidz in the car, so either way is a good day.

Jobjoris > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 12:20

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Hey, did you move over to the Netherlands or Schotland?

I thought that danger at Oroville passed a bit but with rain like this I can imagine it all starting again. It’s not that close to San Luis O., right?

RallyWrench > carzcarzcarz 02/17/2017 at 12:34

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Except for the work part, yeah. I just want to do skids all day.

RallyWrench > Jobjoris 02/17/2017 at 12:45

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I sometimes wish I have!

Oroville isn’t out of the woods yet, the state is getting hammered with rain for days and they’ve drained it as much as possible, but the spillways are now only protected by rocks they’ve laid in so they’re still vulnerable. Once they can fire up the hydroelectric plant again that’s good to release water too, so fingers are crossed. Nowhere near us, they’re about 7 hours away but that watershed runs well down into the valley for agriculture.

carzcarzcarz > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 13:36

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What model wagon is that? 3 or 5 series?

Jobjoris > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 13:47

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Let’s hope it all ends well. We don’t want to see...

RallyWrench > carzcarzcarz 02/17/2017 at 13:50

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It’s a 325, con manuel.

RallyWrench > Jobjoris 02/17/2017 at 14:00

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Jesus... beautiful picture, but tragic cause. Where was that?

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 14:13

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Dude, this rain is so crazy, and the wind!

RallyWrench > CaptDale - is secretly British 02/17/2017 at 14:14

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It’s nuts! I need to check the creek, if it hits the bridge at the Marsh onramp we’re fucked.

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 14:43

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Will it flood your shop?

RallyWrench > CaptDale - is secretly British 02/17/2017 at 14:56

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Yup, happened before. Last we were r eally worried about it was ‘98, we sandbagged the doors. The place flooded last in 1995 I think, just before my time. It was rain after rain like this, with saturated ground. All it takes is a tree, cow, or something like that to float down the creek and block the underpass at high water and it’ll go over. At one point in the 70's, cars floated down the creek.

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 15:24

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That’s wild. LOVR will food enough that we either can’t get into work or leave work cause cars can’t make it through.

RallyWrench > CaptDale - is secretly British 02/17/2017 at 15:36

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And so will South Bay boulevard either side of the bridge if it’s bad enough. I’ve seen water halfway across the road on LOVR and Foothill, but they never closed it as far as I know.

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 15:38

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Yeah last rain I was sitting at that intersection watching cars fly though this YYYUUUGGEEE lake of water. It was wild.

Jobjoris > RallyWrench 02/17/2017 at 15:46

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That’s in Geamna, Romania. Thanks to Ceausescu and his government a village was abandoned and flooded into an artificial lake so they could dump all kinds of chemical waist from a Copper mine nearby. Don’t swim in it.

We’ve got several of these sunken towns actually in Europe. The one from lake Resia (Italy) is fairly known for the usage in Les Revenants . If you haven’t seen that series do your self a favor and start watching it. Not the US-remake(s), this one is da bomba!

Nauraushaun > RallyWrench 02/20/2017 at 06:36

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Oppo all the rain days

We had a doozey down under just yesterdi. Much fun were had