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[4thgenFolsomite]

hey if you could send those pics I would appreciate it!

Sac State is in an emergency flood zone - In '86 they were 30 minutes away from blowing the gates on a levee that would have flooded the school but saved the levees. I'm not sure where exactly it was but I am told it went up to the train tracks somewhere.

John, they were slides, but a friend just loaned me his slide scanner the other week. Maybe I should break it out and see how it works..... If I get some digital images, I'll shoot them to you.

[cw68]

I agree - the red cells look like they went north and south of us. Lots of snow though, and lots in the Oroville area (Lake Oroville needs it more than us), which is good.

This is just wave 2 and there's more on the way this week. Then a 1-2 day break probably Saturday and Sunday and it will start again.

I'm riding down the 80 now from Tahoe. It's pretty icky. Stay off the roads if you don't know how to drive in snow. The idiots are what makes it so dangerous. We watched a minivan driver try to pull a uturn on a S curve, steep grade and slide sideways and backward down Highway 40. He was so lucky not to hit anybody-us included!

[Bill Z]

Storms so far have been pretty Wimpy - were is the MAJOR in all of this ?

I got hit at work with some pretty good down pours. Weather map showed almost red where I work. But the real nasty isn't due until Wed from what I've read.

Oops, sounds like another cell is moving overhead again, and I didn't bring a raincoat to work.

[4thgenFolsomite]

in the meantime, here are some links with images from the 1986 flood...

http://thestormking...._disaster_.html

http://www.safca.org...bout_image2.jpg
Bridge near CSUS

http://images.google...t...en&ie=UTF-8

collapse of the coffer dam at the north entrance to Folsom Lake

[Bill Z]

http://images.google...t...en&ie=UTF-8

collapse of the coffer dam at the north entrance to Folsom Lake

Thanks for the links, I remember being told how high the water was under rainbow bridge and I drove across it to see for myself, but I don't think at the time I ever knew the high releases from Folsom Dam was caused by the coffer dam failure. I knew the high releases were to prevent the Folsom dam from being topped, I just didn't know about the coffer dam being the root cause.

[eVader]

I got hit at work with some pretty good down pours. Weather map showed almost red where I work. But the real nasty isn't due until Wed from what I've read.

Oops, sounds like another cell is moving overhead again, and I didn't bring a raincoat to work.

I think I drove through that. We came down from Tahoe passing Shingle Springs, Cameron Park around 2pm...wow that was a windy downpour! Light rain then bam torrential downpour from Cambridge to EDH Blvd.

As far as Lake Tahoe this storm is a powder puff because Sunday afternoon to this morning South Tahoe got a whopping 1.5"! It looked promising out on Hwy 88 while snowmobiling Sunday when visibility was low. Today however the storms are reaching Tahoe and this evening there is a good 6-7".

Here's a picture @ 12:22pm at the base of Echo Summit when the storms Folsom saw rolled in. Co-pilot took the picture.

[cw68]

We were a little behind you. This was taken about 2pm yesterday on old Highway 40 by Sugarbowl.

[legofamily]

The wind out there is crazy. I really hope the sections of fence I haven't replaced yet don't fall down.

[Bill Z]

The wind out there is crazy. I really hope the sections of fence I haven't replaced yet don't fall down.

Me two,

I just finished replacing one section of fence during the Xmas holidays.

[eVader]

Looks like a winter wonderland

View of Tahoe Keys home owners lagoons as of a few minutes ago from a remote cam.