Sun 18 Nov 2012
Silver Lake Stormwatch: November 17
Posted by Will under weather
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Now that’s a storm! No weaksauce zero-point-zero-one-nuthin’ rainfall total this time. Just a good, old-fashioned one-and-a-half-plus inches dropped until it stopped sometime between last night and this Sunday morning.
November 17: 1.68″
Year To Date: 2.31″
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Been following your site for a while. Came across it while searching for bike stuff on google. Anyway keep up the storm watch stuff.
Also, want to know if you guys have set up a cistern to catch stormwater and use it to water your plants.
Thanks for checking in, Kristen! A few years ago the City of LA set up a stormwater capture program, which I signed up for, but I guess it was targeted at specific regions of the city other than mine because my application was rejected. One of these days I’m going to go DIY and outfit one of our rain drains with one, but at least for the last couple years (and on a much smaller scale) I’ve set up a bucket that recaptures the water that our central A/C unit ejects and I reuse that — up to about a gallon a day during the summer — to do some plant watering.
That was indeed the first good, solid storm of the season. I need to find online a USGS map of slide zones in this part of Echo Park; my walks throughout the neighborhood have revealed a lot of hillsides with evidence of past sliding, particularly on Riverside and Allesandro.
What a difference a neighborhood makes. In Los Feliz we measured a 1/2 an inch for the same rain storm.
Betsy, you’re not alone. I follow the Corralitas Red Car Property blog that’s about the same distance to the northeast from me as Los Feliz is to the northwest and the same thing happens; it rains cats and dogs here, but only about a half to two-thirds less there. Strange.
One career I delved into, during this young life, was environmental impact report writing. We landslide and other seismic hazards during our report research. Anyway, check this out:
http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/LSIM/lsim_maps.htm
There are some USGS quadrangles that show areas that are prone to landslides. You should also look at the seismic hazards map–alquist-priolo maps.
Cheers!
Kristen