Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Daryl Zero wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I actually do have earthquake insurance. My insurance agent thought it would be more valuable than flood insurance.

I would like to sell you some comet insurance. I can include asteroids. Exclusion for terrorist comets and asteroids. Only pays if there is an extinction event.

It made sense to me because, being from California, I just couldn't imagine a world without earthquakes. I moved here and was woken up by an earthquake shaking my apartment in 2008, so I was convinced.

And yet you live next to a creek and were somehow talked out of flood insurance......

Yeah, everyone including the insurance guy explained that it's the safest place to be because we're next to a drain. The opposite of a floodplain or flood zone. And as it turned out, the usual suspects got flooded again and we didn't.

Longhorned wrote:Spent today cleaning everything up, throwing stuff away, and assembling nursery furniture while watching the very swift moving creek level rise all the way to the top. It kept rising and rising and I basically lost hope. It didn’t overflow the banks, but if it had, crap, hard to imagine.

It felt absurd to be putting our house together while not knowing whether the whole thing would be in ruin anyway tonight. Surreal and very stressful.

In the end, I think we got away with spending a ton of money and losing a bunch of stuff and damaging baseboards and things like that, but otherwise fine. That new airtight floor we put in downstairs seems to have held it all in check. Glad I didn’t do that job myself.

I"m so sorry J. Last person a disaster like that should happen to. And at a really bad time.

Keep us informed.

Thanks, George. Hey I think we're okay now. JMark has me worried about my February trip to Eugene, Oregon, though.

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:And yet you live next to a creek and were somehow talked out of flood insurance......

Yeah, everyone including the insurance guy explained that it's the safest place to be because we're next to a drain. The opposite of a floodplain or flood zone. And as it turned out, the usual suspects got flooded again and we didn't.

As my neighbor can attest, drains can get blocked or back up. In fact, we looked long and hard at buying their house but when looking at ours one day in the fall we noticed they had about two feet of standing water in their backyard. The builder assured us that they would fix the problem but two years later it happened again and they got about a foot of water in their newly finished basement.

Unfortunately the Feds have determined that we are not in a flood zone so we can't get flood insurance. This despite the fact that a sizable creek runs through our subdivision and that it was built basically on a swamp which needed to be drained into five good size retention ponds. So far we've had at least five homes (out of 70) experience flood damage. Still no opportunity to get insurance though.

I live in Tucson a mile from an empty river bed that only has water in it for about 2 weeks a year and I was forced to get flood insurance since I was in a "floodplain"

That's the problem with flood insurance. The Army Corp of Engineers surveys an area and determines that it's either a flood plain or it isn't. Then every once in a while they'll be surprised by some massive flooding (like what happened to my Wildcat buddy just outside Nashville) and they'll call it a "thousand year flood plain" - as in, "How could we have known it would flood like this? Probably hasn't happened in like . . . a thousand years or something. Sorry all your stuff got ruined and your current insurance won't cover it. Here's a FEMA trailer."

I have flood insurance in Tucson and I live about 2 miles from the Rillito.

According to the radar it is currently snowing west of Tucson and even reaching into parts of the Northwest side of town like Marana.

The same storm system that brought unusually strong tornadoes to Texas in December is now bringing its oddities to the North Pole, where the temperature hit a balmy 43 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday — 10 degrees above freezing and about 60 warmer than usual, according to temperature averages.

The news has so far prompted a flurry of doomsday-sounding news reports and for good reason: when the storm system centers itself over Iceland, a region shrouded in inky, 24-hour darkness in the winter months, it could bring the temperature above freezing for only the second time on record there. Generally, the dead of winter in the globe's northern cap passes with temperatures around 20 degrees below zero

http://www.attn.com/stories/4935/north- ... n=internal" target="_blank


Tucson records set in 2015:

http://tucson.com/news/local/article_81 ... &id=201408" target="_blank

New records set in 2015

Highest daily high for the date

March 30: 93 degrees

March 28: 93 degrees

March 29: 92 degrees

Aug. 14: 107 degrees

Aug. 15: 110 degrees

Lowest daily high for the date

Jan. 1: 41 degrees

Highest daily low for the date

Jan. 29: 52 degrees

Feb. 13: 53 degrees

Feb.: 59 degrees

Feb. 22: 61 degrees

March 12: 60 degrees

March 16: 58 degrees

March 29: 59 degrees

June 21: 83 degrees

June 23: 80 degrees

June 25: 83 degrees

July 16: 84 degrees

Oct. 15: 68 degrees

Oct. 25: 66 degrees

Most daily precipitation for the date:

July 28: 1.49 inches

April 26: 0.16 inches

Jan. 30: 1.39 inches

Dec. 12: 0.34 inches

Looks like it's going to cool down and get wet this week.

azgreg wrote:Looks like it's going to cool down and get wet this week.

Same out here in Cali, looks like El Nino is starting on schedule.

Yeah supposed to rain almost every day this week in Tucson.

cold and rainy all week out here

Had about a centimeter of snow today. Meh.

We're only a few degrees away from snow right now in Tucson. Been running errands all day and its been pouring since 11. 37 degrees according to my car thermometer currently.

scumdevils86 wrote:We're only a few degrees away from snow right now in Tucson. Been running errands all day and its been pouring since 11. 37 degrees according to my car thermometer currently.

It's 53° at my office here in Phoenix right now.

Just torrential downpours for a couple hours now. 6-7 degrees cooler and there would be a foot of snow on the ground

Webcam from the Mt. Lemmon fudge shop.

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scumdevils86 wrote:We're only a few degrees away from snow right now in Tucson. Been running errands all day and its been pouring since 11. 37 degrees according to my car thermometer currently.

It's 10 degrees warmer in Chicago. I'm out here with just a suit coat.

Down to 34 in some spots now...rain is just starting to freeze on the windshield

Any frogs coming down?

Rains stopping now. Got to about 37 in town.

Last Friday night

The past five days it's gone from -1 to 50 and now back down to -1.

My kid's school is on a two hour delay because wind chills are -20+.

I miss El Niño.

Low 70's here in Phoenix for the next 10 days plus.

Yea I am not seeing much of the El Niño in the upcoming forecast. We are going to have above average temps with no precipitation. Opposite of the El Niño effect predicted for AZ.

Highs 70-79 this week in Tuc.

Pretty sure I have seen that guy in the corner pouring tea for the snowman several years ago.

Merkin wrote:Pretty sure I have seen that guy in the corner pouring tea for the snowman several years ago.

More here: http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia ... ch-of-ksa/" target="_blank

Here 'tis from a year ago.

https://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" target="_blank

Snow has covered upland areas of Tabuk province near Saudi Arabia’s border with Jordan for the third consecutive year as cold weather swept across the Middle East. – Reuters, 12 January 2015

Great thing about this weather, is that there's no excuse not to grill as much as possible.

Better get your swamp coolers ready.

This is 2016 Merk, Tucsonans have AC now.

Windy, wet and temps currently in the low fifties.

Vintage Photos Show the Beauty (and Misery) of Winter in Boston

http://www.weather.com/travel/news/vint ... ton-winter" target="_blank

not sure what the best thread for this is.....

DC Issues $1 Million Worth of Parking Tickets After Blizzard

D.C.'s snow emergency will remain in effect through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., and the city wants drivers to know it's serious about enforcing the parking bans.
Since the blizzard began last Friday, the District has issued $1,078,000 worth of parking tickets and $65,600 in fines so far. It has towed 656 cars.



http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... 11341.html" target="_blank

Don't stand under trees in a thunderstorm.

Note to self...................

Our house got hit a while back during a monsoon thunderstorm. My wife was giving the kids a bath and sparks flew off the water spout. Lost our ac too. Good thing insurance covered a new one.

It is beautiful in Tucson today. Why can't every day be like today???

Hard to beat 70 degrees and partly cloudy with a breeze.

Working up in Catalina today, currently sleeting and snowing off and on. Was 80 yesterday and not a cloud in the sky. Is this the Midwest?

Only in Canada.