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From: Mark Olson on 2 Dec 2009 06:32
S'mee wrote:
> On Dec 1, 8:26 pm, "CS" <donts...(a)sears.com> wrote:
>> Better hurry. It's supposed to rain next week!
>
> How is THAT (rain) a problem? Sheesh it's just rain...it's not like
> it'll strip the flesh from your bones like a hydrochloric acid bath...

I don't think they're worried about getting wet, to be honest.
Probably more worried that the road will be covered under a
few million tons of rock and mud.
From: 卍卍卍卍卍卍卍卍 = Good Luck! on 2 Dec 2009 07:33
On Dec 2, 3:32 am, Mark Olson <ols...(a)tiny.invalid> wrote:

> I don't think they're worried about getting wet, to be honest.
> Probably more worried that the road will be covered under a
> few million tons of rock and mud.

I can ride up to Newcombs Ranch on a bright and sunny Christmas day or
New Year's Day two years out of three.

The *real* rainy season in southern California starts in February and
sometimes I sit indoors in April wondering if it is ever going to stop
raining so I can ride the Crest.

However...

The typical pattern of dry years to wet years in California has been 3
to 1 for the last 50 years, leading to a decline in reservoir levels,
while at the same time,
immigration from other states (and foreign countries) causes an
increased demand for water for non-agricultural purposes.

But the majority of water used by southern California comes via
aqueduct from northern California or Colorado anyway.

When we do get heavy rains on the Angeles National Forest, the runoff
goes down the canyons, carrying rocks and mud and trees and enters the
concrete-lined Los Angeles River and rushes uselessly out to the
ocean, instead of being
saved in reservoirs.

Movies of the Great Flood of 1938 show houses being washed down the
Los Angeles river to the sea. But that was before the river was lined
with concrete.

From: Thumper on 2 Dec 2009 12:33

"Twibil" <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c1c052ef-19a6-406c-b669-f408bd81c32b(a)e27g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 1, 10:39 am, "Thumper" <roadworshi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2009/11/30/news/lnws-ach1203.txt

Yay! (And it looks as if I'm geeting a new bike to celebrate, too!)

I know *just* the place to break her in...


Why don't you guys drop me a line and we'll ride it together?

Thumper


From: Twibil on 2 Dec 2009 14:55
On Dec 1, 7:34 pm, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Better hurry.  It's supposed to rain next week!
>
> How is THAT (rain) a problem? Sheesh it's just rain...it's not like
> it'll strip the flesh from your bones like a hydrochloric acid bath...

It's not the rain per-se: it's the fact that there was a really nasty
forest fire up there last month that totally stripped the hills of
their upholstery, and as soon as we get a healty rain those
precipitous hillsides will turn into several billion tons of mud and
decend on the road, bringing along everything from sand to boulders
the size of bungalows.

I met a rain-provoked slide up in those mountains a couple of years
ago, and while it was interesting to watch, and I threaded through it
with no damage, it isn't the sort of thing you want to do on an
everyday basis.
From: Twibil on 2 Dec 2009 15:00
On Dec 2, 9:33 am, "Thumper" <roadworshi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yay!  (And it looks as if I'm geeting a new bike to celebrate, too!)
>
> I know *just* the place to break her in...
>
> Why don't you guys drop me a line and we'll ride it together?

Hey! Look at me, Ma!

I'm plural!

(But maybe as soon as the weather clears up...)
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