To my week of flooded basement, broken sump pump & no hot water: H/T @effinbirds #BayAreaRain #Rain #BayArea

Always keep the receipts (or data).

Our city dropped the ball managing the NYE storm, and almost immediately people wanted to write excuses by calling it "historic" rainfall.

The trouble is that it wasn't historic. Just in the time I've lived here & owned a weather station, I've recorded almost 1.5" more rain (than Saturday) in a day, without citywide flooding (4.95" on Dec 11, 2014).

Calling 3.57" "record" rainfall doesn't hold water.

#SanMateo #SFBay #SFBA #BayAreaRain #BayAreaWeather

It's damp out there, and we have a 2-foot-deep stream in our back yard where a four-inch-deep gutter normally carries all the water away.

3.44 inches of rain since midnight and it's still coming down. People are out clearing storm drains themselves. I took a look from a distance at the new pump station at the end of the very-full Poplar Creek and confirmed that it IS pumping water into the Bay.

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Hope you like rain, Bay Area.

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