Tropical Storm Hilary Hits California and Southwest

We're bracing for the deluge. A years worth of rain is expected this weekend. When this happens in the desert, where the ground is hard & doesn't absorb water, and your city is shaped like a bowl, it means flash floods. Flash floods are deadly. 

In addition to deadly floods, flights may be canceled. Our grandbaby in another state is in the ICU with leukemia (again). His heart is beginning to fail. We are praying that he gets better. If things take a turn, we're afraid we won't be able to get a flight out. 

We were all warned that all of this was coming.   Fat cats in D.C. kept cashing thei checks from Big Oil abnd the like....they all cheered when their idol, Ronald Regan, deregulated eveything, and now the planet is giving them their come-uppance

This is happening because of the massive amounts of heat in the Pacific Ocean and  El Niño of unusual magnitude.  

Hot water powers Hurricanes.  

Could this just the first in ~80 years?

I'm going to (with any luck, correctly) assume that's the last hurricane (well, tropical storm) LA will be getting this season. Though it makes me nervous that a few weeks ago I joked about how living here has me worrying about everything except a blizzard. Hope I won't be eating my words this winter.

That said, yes, the oceans are warming up. So hurricanes are getting worse. This does not require opinion. It's the thing that's happening.

climate change is worsening ''huricane season'', making storms more sevear. expect worse huricanes, earthquakes, droubts, and food shortages.

Family is hunkering down and prepping for no power and getting sandbags. I'm more concerned for mom's old house in the desert. Because they don't have rainfall per se, they have no sewers for water runoff. The streets dip to turn them into rivers if need be instead. It's currently ground zero for the worst of the rain models. 🤞

A west coast hurricane is sooooo weird!

CAUSES ASKS: "How do you feel about the upcoming hurricane season?"  ME: Que sera sera.

Before Hurricane Hillary hit Southern California in NOAA National Weather Forecast, I was alert in quick thinking then I took on action by emailing my sister who is retired R.N. with his husband in Pioneertown, California, and my brother as the retired physician with his family in Palm Desert, California as I finally warned them that their residences were on the hurricane path. Both of Pioneertown, California and Palm Desert,California are located near the major area of Los Angeles, California in Southern California in a fact. They're well-pepared in case of disaster emergency. Later they emailed me so recently. Well, I advised to them to stay safe and alive by watching out about the latest & updates of NOAA National Weather Forecast.

Geoengineering is REAL and is the only cause of "man made climate change"! Find out who or what agency is controlling the weather to end climate change! 

Facts... ionospheric heaters exist all over the world and they have the power to steer storms into land and make storms stronger or weaker, create droughts and take away droughts, basically playing God. Been happening for decades! 

Weather warfare is real!

H.A.A.R.P. Is real. 

Geoengineering happens everyday, just look up... those aren't contrails! Contrails are like automobile exhaust pipes when it's cold out side you can't see water vapor and it dissipates almost immediately like a real contrail does, it doesn't line the streets and stay there for hours or more. Those lines in the skies are barium, strontium, and aluminum particles in a geoengineering attempt to either reflect the suns rays back into space to cool the planet. So what are the affects of these particles on the planet, people, animals, our food source and other foliage?

Makes sense that the scientific community investigates this rather than ignore this as a conspiracy theory... FACTS! 

Still denying climate change???

Oddly, and not predicted, it raining all day here as remnants from the hurricane. Summer rain is unheard of here, so very weird. 

My heart goes out to those in this storm's wake.  All I can do is pray that those who can get to higher ground can do so safely.  All those who can't, please know that my prayers are with you.  Mother Nature knows what she is doing and why.  She is uncontrollable and proof that you should never, never push her to her limits.  You just don't mess with Mother Nature.  Human beings are NOT GOD.

Hurricane season has occurred forever and cannot be controlled. 

We can control our own behavior and prepare as best as we can.  Don't live in vulnerable areas, stock emergency provisions for any natural disaster and prepare for loss of power, water, roads, etc, etc.......       

We will always live better than our ancesters..... regardless....

It's depressing how hot the oceans are getting.

We have one every year People should prepare 

There has been so much flooding in Missouri, as well as long-lasting droughts.  All of these extremes were predicted years ago by scientists.  We MUST stop the use of fossil fuels.  Please research and put laws in place to save the planet!! 

FEMA is short on funds, I read. Please beef up coffers as it might be a looooong season!??

I'm sure the upcoming hurricane season will be devastating as our weather systems are more destructive/severe as a result of climate change that we (humans) have brought on ourselves.

Upcoming season?! We're almost 3 full months into the hurricane season and it's been easy going so far. We farmers sure would like a good TS or Cat 1. It's been a really, really dry summer. 

It is weather... it cannot be changed by the actions of man.

I thought California wants to be a country of its own! I'm sure Newsom will now be asking the nation's taxpayers to help pay for the damage. It never fails, this pompous state isolates itself from the rest of the country until it needs money. California is broke! There's no way it can afford to recover without OUR MONEY. After they get the resources to clean up the mess, everything will go back to pre-Hilary status. Arrogant California.

       What's the story?
     Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 storm, is heading toward the Southwest and could bring a year's worth of rain to Arizona, California, and Nevada. Almost 26 million people in the region are under flood watches.
     The hurricane is expected to lose strength as it makes landfall, but the National Weather Service warned that it would result in "significant impacts." Officials have also issued hurricane watches and tropical storm warnings for Baja California and northwest Mexico.
How strong is Hilary?
     As of Friday morning, Hilary is a powerful Category 4 hurricane, with wind gusts of up to 145 mph, about 400 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Hilary strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane in just 24 hours, a rapid intensification.
     There is a chance that Hilary will become the first Category 5 hurricane of the season before it enters colder water and loses strength. Hilary is expected to weaken into a Category 3 hurricane by late afternoon Saturday and diminish into a tropical storm by Sunday.
     It is expected to make landfall on Saturday morning and fully hit the region by Sunday and into early next week. Hilary is more likely to make landfall in Mexico and cross into California.
     If it makes landfall in California as a tropical storm, it will be the first time this has occurred in the state since 1939. 

        (8.20.23)   SP