Friday, February 28, 2014

[Volcano_Vista_HS] VVHS Announcements--Friday, February 28, 2014



Best Buddies will meet today during lunch. Stop by to enjoy some pizza! New members always welcome!

Next week is World Languages Week. Stay tuned for all the upcoming events.

STUDENTS: Do you have a friend? Are you a friend? Do you need a friend? What does friendship look like on our campus? Take a picture and enter it in the "That's Called Friendship!" photo contest. Entries will be displayed here on campus to remind all of us that NO HAWK STANDS ALONE. The winning photo will receive a prize to share with a friend. Submit your photo entry to the Activities Office by March 7th.

Attention staff and students, sign up in the Activities Office during lunch to participate in the  ping-pong tournament next week. The singles bracket is $1.  The doubles bracket is $2 per team.  Brackets will be posted near the vending machines on Monday, March 3 in the morning.  (Coach Thiebaut & Coach Wallin think they are unbeatable!)

Do you want to be a student body officer next year? Sign-ups begin next Tuesday in the Activities Office. Stop by Tuesday at lunch to pick up your application. Students wishing to run must have a 2.5 GPA.

COUNSELING:

  • A practice ACT will be given on Saturday March 1st   with  a follow-up teachback on March 6.   Sign up in the Career Center, Rm E224

  • Do you need help applying to CNM?  A representative will be on campus Tuesday, March 4, during lunch to help you complete the online application. Please sign up in the Career Center. 

ATHLETICS:

  • G. Basketball plays at CHS on Saturday at 7 for the district championship

  • B. Basketball :  They play Saturday at 5:30PM in the Ring of Fire.

During lunch today please remember to throw your trash away. Thanks for keeping Volcano Beautiful!

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Re: [californiadisasters] Unbuilt Highways: San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway

Love that the Embarcadero Freeway is no longer there. It has made the port area less industrial and more people friendly! It makes a great extension to the Market Street business and tourist corridor. I usually take BART and get off at Market Street with my family where we go to the Ferry Building for lunch and back towards Market St for shopping.
It is rather unfortunate that an earthquake had to decide the fate of the freeway but it turns out for the better.
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Re: [Geology2] Salt Domes



They're more interesting than I thought!


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote:
 


Salt Domes

Columns of low-density salt that rise through overlying rock units

salt domes of the East Texas Basin
This cross-section shows rocks of the East Texas Basin between the Oklahoma-Texas border (on the left) and the Gulf of Mexico coastline (on the right). The purple rock unit is the Middle Jurassic salt, a low-density rock that has the ability to flow slowly under pressure. The salt is overlain by higher density rock units, making it buoyant. The salt has erupted up through the overlying rocks like streams of high-viscosity oil moving up through a layer of water above. The salt columns and smaller mounds are called "salt domes." USGS image [1].

What is a Salt Dome?

A salt dome is a mound or column of salt that has risen toward the surface because it has a density that is lower than the rock above it. The salt behaves like a stream of high-viscosity oil ascending in slow motion through a thick layer of water above.

In the illustration above, the purple rock unit (Js) was originally a layer of salt. Now you can see several columns of salt penetrating the overlying rock units in their rise to the surface, and several small mounds that might develop into columns over time.

Why Do Salt Domes Form?

Rock salt (the mineral halite) has two properties that enable it to form salt domes: 1) when salt is buried to depths greater than a few thousand feet, it will have a density that is much lower than most other sedimentary rocks; and, 2) salt has the ability to deform and flow like a high-viscosity fluid when it is under pressure.

When a layer of salt is deposited on the floor of an evaporating body of water, it has a specific gravity of about 2.2. Other sedimentary rocks such as shale and limestone have lower specific gravities when they are deposited because the mud that they form from contains a significant amount of water.

As the depth of burial increases, the specific gravity of salt remains about the same, but the specific gravity of shale and limestone increases as the water is squeezed from their pore spaces. Eventually they might have a specific gravity of 2.4 to 2.7, which is significantly higher than the salt. That creates an unstable situation where a lower specific gravity material that is capable of behaving like a fluid is overlain by materials with a higher specific gravity.

Salt movement can be triggered if the rock sequence is subjected to tectonic forces. Compression will produce folding, and salt domes might erupt through the crests of anticlines. Extension will produce thinning and normal faulting, which might create weaknesses that the salt will exploit. Shear can produce faults or weaknesses that might be exploited by the unstable salt.

How Large Are Salt Domes?

Salt domes can be very large structures. The salt cores range from ½ mile to 5 miles across. The parent rock units that serve as a source of salt are usually several hundred to a few thousand feet thick. The salt domes ascend from depths of between 500 and 6000 feet (or more) below the surface [2]. They usually do not reach the surface. If they do a salt glacier might form.

The First Salt Dome Oil Discovery

Salt domes were almost unknown until an exploratory oil well was drilled on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas in 1900 and completed in 1901. Spindletop was a low hill with a relief of about 15 feet where a visitor could find sulfur springs and natural gas seeps.

At a depth of about 1000 feet, the well penetrated a pressurized oil reservoir that blew the drilling tools out of the well and showered the surrounding land with crude oil until the well could be brought under control. The initial production from the well was over 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day - a greater yield than any previous well had ever produced.

The Spindletop discovery ignited a drilling spree on similar structures across the Gulf Coast area. Some of these wells struck oil. Those discoveries motivated geologists to learn about the structures below that held such vast amounts of oil [3].

Careful subsurface mapping of well data, and later the use of seismic surveys, enabled geologists to discover the shape of salt domes, develop hypotheses about how they form, and understand their role in petroleum exploration.

Economic Importance of Salt Domes

Salt domes serve as oil and natural gas reservoirs, sources of sulfur, sources of salt, underground storage sites for oil and natural gas, and disposal sites for hazardous waste.


OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVOIRS

Salt domes are very important to the petroleum industry. As a salt dome grows, the cap rock above it is arched upwards. This cap rock can serve as an oil or natural gas reservoir.

As a dome grows the rocks that it penetrates are arched upwards along the sides of the dome (see both illustrations at the top of this page). This upward arch allows oil and natural gas to migrate toward the salt dome where it can accumulate in a structural trap.

The rising salt can also cause faulting. Sometimes these faults allow a permeable rock unit to be sealed against an impermeable rock unit. This structure can also serve as an oil and gas reservoir. A single salt dome can have many associated reservoirs at a variety of depths and locations around the dome.


A SOURCE OF SULFUR

Salt domes are sometimes overlain by a cap rock that contains significant amounts of elemental sulfur. The sulfur occurs as a crystalline material filling fractures, intergranular pores, and in some cases replacing the cap rock. The sulfur is thought to have formed from anhydrite and gypsum associated with the salt by bacterial activity.

Some salt domes have enough sulfur in the cap rock that it can be economically recovered. It is recovered by drilling a well into the sulfur and pumping superheated water and air down the well. The superheated water is hot enough to melt the sulfur. The hot air converts the molten sulfur into a froth that is buoyant enough to rise up a well to the surface.

Today most sulfur is produced as a byproduct from crude oil refining and natural gas processing. The production of sulfur from salt domes is generally not cost competitive with sulfur produced from oil and natural gas.

SALT PRODUCTION

Some salt domes have been exploited by underground mining. These mines produce salt that is used as a raw material by the chemical industry and as salt for treating snow-covered highways.

A few salt domes have been mined by solution. Hot water is pumped down a well into the salt. The water dissolves the salt and is brought back to the surface through production wells. At the surface the water is evaporated to recover the salt, or the salty water is used in a chemical process.

UNDERGROUND STORAGE RESERVOIRS

Some of the mines developed in salt domes have been carefully sealed and then used as storage sites for oil, natural gas, and hydrogen.

Salt domes in the United States and Russia also serve as national repositories for government reserves of helium gas. Salt is the only type of rock that has a permeability so low that it can hold the tiny helium atoms.

WASTE DISPOSAL

Salt is an impermeable rock that has the ability to flow and seal fractures that might develop within it. For this reason salt domes have been used as disposal sites for hazardous waste. Man-made caverns in salt domes have been used as repositories for oil field drilling waste and other types of hazardous waste in the United States and other countries. They have also been considered for high-level nuclear waste disposal, but no site in the United States has received that type of waste.

Where Do Salt Domes Occur?

Salt domes can occur in sedimentary basins where thick salt deposits have been buried by at least 500 feet of other types of sediment. One of the world's largest salt dome regions is the Gulf of Mexico. Over 500 salt domes have been discovered onshore and under the Gulf of Mexico seafloor. They originate from the Louann Salt, a subsurface rock unit that is laterally persistent throughout the area. A map in the right column of this page shows the location of bedded salt deposits in the United States and three salt dome fields. Large fields of salt domes have also been discovered in Angola, Brazil, Canada, Gabon, Germany, Iran and Iraq.


Contributor:


Salt Dome Information

[1] Geologic Models and Evaluation of Undiscovered Conventional and Continuous Oil and Gas Resources: Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, U.S. Gulf Coast; Krystal Pearson, United States Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5159, 2012.

[2] Salt Caverns and Their Use for Disposal of Oil Field Wastes: brochure produced by The National Petroleum Technology Office, Argonne National Laboratory, 1999.

[3] Spindletop: The Original Salt Dome: Michel T. Halbouty, article published on the WorldEnergySource.com website, 2009.

[4] Salt Domes on Melville Island: Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, Image of the Day for August 27, 2006.

[5] Sir Bani Yas Island, United Arab Emirates: Astronaut photograph from the International Space Station, NASA Earth Observatory, Image of the Day for March 15, 2010.


http://geology.com/stories/13/salt-domes/


















growth of a salt dome
Cartoon of a salt dome showing piercement through two rock units and deformation of the rock unit immediately above. Growth of the dome is accomplished by migration of salt into the dome from surrounding areas. The salt migrates into the dome because it is compressed by the weight of overlying sediments.




salt map
Location of bedded salt deposits and salt dome basins in the United States. The large continuous deposit along the Gulf Coast that contains the three salt dome basins is underlain by the Louann Salt. Map by Geology.com with locational data from Argonne National Laboratory [2].


Salt domes erupted to the surface of Melville Island in northern Canada
A satellite image of two salt domes that erupted to the surface of Melville Island, northern Canada. The domes are the round white features surrounded by gray rock. They are each about 2 miles across. The island is surrounded by sea ice. Image by NASA [4]. Enlarge image.


seismic section of a salt dome
An early seismic profile of a salt dome acquired from a shipboard survey. It shows a central salt core about 1-1/2 miles wide and rock layers that were deformed by the upward motion of the salt. Seismic image modified after Parke D. Snavely, United States Geological Survey.


A Google satellite image of Sir Bani Yas Island in the Persian Gulf on the western coast of the United Arab Emirates. The island is a mound pushed up by a rising salt dome. The dome has broken through the surface of the island and the round core of the dome can be seen in the center of the island [5]. View Larger Map.


salt domes on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
A relief map of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off the southeastern coast of Louisiana. Red and orange colors represent shallow water; blue represents deeper water. The round flat-top structures are the surface expression of subsurface salt domes. Image from the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program. Enlarge image.













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[Geology2] Salt Domes




Salt Domes

Columns of low-density salt that rise through overlying rock units

salt domes of the East Texas Basin
This cross-section shows rocks of the East Texas Basin between the Oklahoma-Texas border (on the left) and the Gulf of Mexico coastline (on the right). The purple rock unit is the Middle Jurassic salt, a low-density rock that has the ability to flow slowly under pressure. The salt is overlain by higher density rock units, making it buoyant. The salt has erupted up through the overlying rocks like streams of high-viscosity oil moving up through a layer of water above. The salt columns and smaller mounds are called "salt domes." USGS image [1].

What is a Salt Dome?

A salt dome is a mound or column of salt that has risen toward the surface because it has a density that is lower than the rock above it. The salt behaves like a stream of high-viscosity oil ascending in slow motion through a thick layer of water above.

In the illustration above, the purple rock unit (Js) was originally a layer of salt. Now you can see several columns of salt penetrating the overlying rock units in their rise to the surface, and several small mounds that might develop into columns over time.

Why Do Salt Domes Form?

Rock salt (the mineral halite) has two properties that enable it to form salt domes: 1) when salt is buried to depths greater than a few thousand feet, it will have a density that is much lower than most other sedimentary rocks; and, 2) salt has the ability to deform and flow like a high-viscosity fluid when it is under pressure.

When a layer of salt is deposited on the floor of an evaporating body of water, it has a specific gravity of about 2.2. Other sedimentary rocks such as shale and limestone have lower specific gravities when they are deposited because the mud that they form from contains a significant amount of water.

As the depth of burial increases, the specific gravity of salt remains about the same, but the specific gravity of shale and limestone increases as the water is squeezed from their pore spaces. Eventually they might have a specific gravity of 2.4 to 2.7, which is significantly higher than the salt. That creates an unstable situation where a lower specific gravity material that is capable of behaving like a fluid is overlain by materials with a higher specific gravity.

Salt movement can be triggered if the rock sequence is subjected to tectonic forces. Compression will produce folding, and salt domes might erupt through the crests of anticlines. Extension will produce thinning and normal faulting, which might create weaknesses that the salt will exploit. Shear can produce faults or weaknesses that might be exploited by the unstable salt.

How Large Are Salt Domes?

Salt domes can be very large structures. The salt cores range from ½ mile to 5 miles across. The parent rock units that serve as a source of salt are usually several hundred to a few thousand feet thick. The salt domes ascend from depths of between 500 and 6000 feet (or more) below the surface [2]. They usually do not reach the surface. If they do a salt glacier might form.

The First Salt Dome Oil Discovery

Salt domes were almost unknown until an exploratory oil well was drilled on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas in 1900 and completed in 1901. Spindletop was a low hill with a relief of about 15 feet where a visitor could find sulfur springs and natural gas seeps.

At a depth of about 1000 feet, the well penetrated a pressurized oil reservoir that blew the drilling tools out of the well and showered the surrounding land with crude oil until the well could be brought under control. The initial production from the well was over 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day - a greater yield than any previous well had ever produced.

The Spindletop discovery ignited a drilling spree on similar structures across the Gulf Coast area. Some of these wells struck oil. Those discoveries motivated geologists to learn about the structures below that held such vast amounts of oil [3].

Careful subsurface mapping of well data, and later the use of seismic surveys, enabled geologists to discover the shape of salt domes, develop hypotheses about how they form, and understand their role in petroleum exploration.

Economic Importance of Salt Domes

Salt domes serve as oil and natural gas reservoirs, sources of sulfur, sources of salt, underground storage sites for oil and natural gas, and disposal sites for hazardous waste.


OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVOIRS

Salt domes are very important to the petroleum industry. As a salt dome grows, the cap rock above it is arched upwards. This cap rock can serve as an oil or natural gas reservoir.

As a dome grows the rocks that it penetrates are arched upwards along the sides of the dome (see both illustrations at the top of this page). This upward arch allows oil and natural gas to migrate toward the salt dome where it can accumulate in a structural trap.

The rising salt can also cause faulting. Sometimes these faults allow a permeable rock unit to be sealed against an impermeable rock unit. This structure can also serve as an oil and gas reservoir. A single salt dome can have many associated reservoirs at a variety of depths and locations around the dome.


A SOURCE OF SULFUR

Salt domes are sometimes overlain by a cap rock that contains significant amounts of elemental sulfur. The sulfur occurs as a crystalline material filling fractures, intergranular pores, and in some cases replacing the cap rock. The sulfur is thought to have formed from anhydrite and gypsum associated with the salt by bacterial activity.

Some salt domes have enough sulfur in the cap rock that it can be economically recovered. It is recovered by drilling a well into the sulfur and pumping superheated water and air down the well. The superheated water is hot enough to melt the sulfur. The hot air converts the molten sulfur into a froth that is buoyant enough to rise up a well to the surface.

Today most sulfur is produced as a byproduct from crude oil refining and natural gas processing. The production of sulfur from salt domes is generally not cost competitive with sulfur produced from oil and natural gas.

SALT PRODUCTION

Some salt domes have been exploited by underground mining. These mines produce salt that is used as a raw material by the chemical industry and as salt for treating snow-covered highways.

A few salt domes have been mined by solution. Hot water is pumped down a well into the salt. The water dissolves the salt and is brought back to the surface through production wells. At the surface the water is evaporated to recover the salt, or the salty water is used in a chemical process.

UNDERGROUND STORAGE RESERVOIRS

Some of the mines developed in salt domes have been carefully sealed and then used as storage sites for oil, natural gas, and hydrogen.

Salt domes in the United States and Russia also serve as national repositories for government reserves of helium gas. Salt is the only type of rock that has a permeability so low that it can hold the tiny helium atoms.

WASTE DISPOSAL

Salt is an impermeable rock that has the ability to flow and seal fractures that might develop within it. For this reason salt domes have been used as disposal sites for hazardous waste. Man-made caverns in salt domes have been used as repositories for oil field drilling waste and other types of hazardous waste in the United States and other countries. They have also been considered for high-level nuclear waste disposal, but no site in the United States has received that type of waste.

Where Do Salt Domes Occur?

Salt domes can occur in sedimentary basins where thick salt deposits have been buried by at least 500 feet of other types of sediment. One of the world's largest salt dome regions is the Gulf of Mexico. Over 500 salt domes have been discovered onshore and under the Gulf of Mexico seafloor. They originate from the Louann Salt, a subsurface rock unit that is laterally persistent throughout the area. A map in the right column of this page shows the location of bedded salt deposits in the United States and three salt dome fields. Large fields of salt domes have also been discovered in Angola, Brazil, Canada, Gabon, Germany, Iran and Iraq.


Contributor:


Salt Dome Information

[1] Geologic Models and Evaluation of Undiscovered Conventional and Continuous Oil and Gas Resources: Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, U.S. Gulf Coast; Krystal Pearson, United States Geological Survey, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5159, 2012.

[2] Salt Caverns and Their Use for Disposal of Oil Field Wastes: brochure produced by The National Petroleum Technology Office, Argonne National Laboratory, 1999.

[3] Spindletop: The Original Salt Dome: Michel T. Halbouty, article published on the WorldEnergySource.com website, 2009.

[4] Salt Domes on Melville Island: Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, Image of the Day for August 27, 2006.

[5] Sir Bani Yas Island, United Arab Emirates: Astronaut photograph from the International Space Station, NASA Earth Observatory, Image of the Day for March 15, 2010.


http://geology.com/stories/13/salt-domes/


















growth of a salt dome
Cartoon of a salt dome showing piercement through two rock units and deformation of the rock unit immediately above. Growth of the dome is accomplished by migration of salt into the dome from surrounding areas. The salt migrates into the dome because it is compressed by the weight of overlying sediments.




salt map
Location of bedded salt deposits and salt dome basins in the United States. The large continuous deposit along the Gulf Coast that contains the three salt dome basins is underlain by the Louann Salt. Map by Geology.com with locational data from Argonne National Laboratory [2].


Salt domes erupted to the surface of Melville Island in northern Canada
A satellite image of two salt domes that erupted to the surface of Melville Island, northern Canada. The domes are the round white features surrounded by gray rock. They are each about 2 miles across. The island is surrounded by sea ice. Image by NASA [4]. Enlarge image.


seismic section of a salt dome
An early seismic profile of a salt dome acquired from a shipboard survey. It shows a central salt core about 1-1/2 miles wide and rock layers that were deformed by the upward motion of the salt. Seismic image modified after Parke D. Snavely, United States Geological Survey.


A Google satellite image of Sir Bani Yas Island in the Persian Gulf on the western coast of the United Arab Emirates. The island is a mound pushed up by a rising salt dome. The dome has broken through the surface of the island and the round core of the dome can be seen in the center of the island [5]. View Larger Map.


salt domes on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
A relief map of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off the southeastern coast of Louisiana. Red and orange colors represent shallow water; blue represents deeper water. The round flat-top structures are the surface expression of subsurface salt domes. Image from the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program. Enlarge image.













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[Geology2] Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico): surge in activity destroys existing lava dome and leaves new crater



Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico): surge in activity destroys existing lava dome and leaves new crater

Thursday Feb 27, 2014 | BY: T

Aerial view of Popocatépetl's summit with the new pit crater (image: CENAPRED)
Aerial view of Popocatépetl's summit with the new pit crater (image: CENAPRED; click for detail)
The volcano's activity increased yesterday. CENAPRED counted no less than 544 small to moderate emissions during the 24 hours between 25-26 Feb.
An overflight with the support of the Navy yesterday afternoon showed that the most recent lava dome (number 48) had been destroyed by this activity. At its place, a new funnel shaped pit, approx 80 m deep was seen. At the bottom of this crater, a new lava dome of 20-30 m diameter already made its appearance.
The elevated activity had been preceded by volcano-tectonic earthquakes of magnitude 2.6 and 1.6 yesterday and the day before. The volcano's alert level remains unchanged at "Yellow phase 2."


http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/popocatepetl/news/42931/Popocatpetl-volcano-Mexico-surge-in-activity-destroys-existing-lava-dome-and-leaves-new-crater.html
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[californiadisasters] Special WX Statement - San Joaquin Valley (2/28/14-12:06PM)



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A    SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...    WESTERN TULARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    EASTERN MADERA COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    EAST CENTRAL MARIPOSA COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    NORTHWESTERN KERN COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    CENTRAL FRESNO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    EASTERN KINGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA    UNTIL 100 PM PST    AT 1206 PM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE EXTENDING  FROM ABOUT CORCORAN NORTHEASTWARD TOWARDS OAKHURST! THE LINE IS  NEARLY STATIONARY...HOWEVER INDIVIDUAL CELLS WITHIN THE LINE WERE  MOVING NORTH NORTHEASTWARD AT 40 MPH.    HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE  EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS MOVING  OVER THE SAME AREAS WILL CREATE ROAD PONDING AND MINOR FLOODING.    LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...     REEDLEY...OAKHURST...AUBERRY...FANCHER  CREEK...DINUBA...VISALIA...TULARE...AND CORCORAN.    IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A  STURDY BUILDING.

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[californiadisasters] Severe T-Storm Warning - Fresno/King Co's (2/28/14-12:36PM)



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD CA HAS ISSUED A    * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...    CENTRAL FRESNO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...    EXTREME NORTHEASTERN KINGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...    NORTHWESTERN TULARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...    * UNTIL 115 PM PST    * AT 1236 PM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A    SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND    DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7    MILES SOUTH OF DINUBA...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF VISALIA...AND    MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.    * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS NORTH OF GOSHEN MOVING TOWARDS DINUBA    REEDLY AND ORANGE COVE AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT 45 MINUTES.      PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...    DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.  WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A  TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A  STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.    THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE  IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD  TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...  PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  
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[californiadisasters] Thousands Without Power as Storm Pounds Southern California



Thousands Without Power as Storm Pounds Southern California

By Andrew Lopez | KNBC-TV Los Angeles
|  Friday, Feb 28, 2014  |  Updated 11:59 AM PST

Around 24,000 people were without power Friday morning as a strong winter storm system slammed Southern California.

Heavy rainfall was causing outages from Winnetka to Bel Air to Echo Park, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Crews were working to get the power working, but a restoration time was unavailable.
The areas and neighborhoods with the highest number of customers without power as of 10 a.m.:

  • East Hollywood: 3,190
  • Vermont Vista: 2,798
  • Sawtelle: 2,198
  • Echo Park: 1,612
  • Canoga Park: 1,536
  • Encino: 864
  • South Central: 739
  • Northridge: 615
  • Bel Air: 510
  • Valley Glen: 400
  • Hyde Park: 398
  • Winnetka: 197

About 10,000 Southern California Edison customers also were without power as of 10 a.m. 

Natural gas services were not being affected by the storm, but Southern California Gas Company officials warned residents not to proactively turn gas meters off.  Customers who smell gas odor or suspect a leak were told to call 911.

Source: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Thousands-Without-Power-as-Storm-Pounds-Southern-California-247858071.html



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[californiadisasters] Glendora Police: Evacuate Before It's Too Late



Police and fire officials urged residents below the fire-scarred hillsides above Glendora and Azusa to prepare for mudslides

By Toni Guinyard, Andrew Lopez and Jonathan Lloyd | KNBC-TV Los Angeles
|  Friday, Feb 28, 2014  |  Updated 12:24 PM PST

Mud and debris flows blocked intersections and forced road closures in parts of a Southern California foothill neighborhood under a mandatory evacuation as a strong winter storm slammed the region.

READ: 1,000 Homes Evacuated Ahead of Second Storm

Officers in the San Gabriel Valley foothill community of Glendora reported mudflow at North Ben Lomond Avenue and Hicrest Croad, just below a fire-scarred hillside that burned in January's Colby fire. Mud flowed down a couple hundred yards from Yucca Ridge down to Hicrest, a city engineer said.

Nearly two inches of rain fell in the area over a 24 hour period that ended Friday at mid-day.

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The threat of mudslides from rain-saturated hillsides that burned during the Colby fire prompted officials in Glendora and Azusa to declare mandatory evacuations. But not everybody elected to leave the area early Friday.

"Once that mud starts flowing, it can be too late to get out," said Glendora Police Chief Tim Staab. "There is nothing you can do once that mud starts flowing."

A resident living on Ridgeview Drive watched was still at his home on Friday morning as mud began flowing on his property.

"We're ready to leave," he said. "All of the mountain problem and the mud is coming down on this street here."

Significant flooding was closing eastbound traffic on Sierra Madre Avenue near the mudflow between McNeil Drive and Barranca Avenue, according to the Azusa Police Department. Mudflow onto residential properties also was reported in Azusa.

A tractor could be seen on the affected street scooping up water and mud from the flooding.

Flash flood warnings were in effect Friday as weather officials braced for periods of heavy rains and possible thunderstorms through Saturday night.

Mail delivery was suspended in the evacuated area, but residents are able to pick up mail at Glendora and Azusa Post Offices during normal business hours with valid photo identification.

NBC4's Jonathan Lloyd contributed to this report.

Source: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mud-Debris-Flows-Reported-in-Glendora--247820991.html



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[californiadisasters] Flash Flood Warning - O.C./San Diego Co. (2/28/14-11:07AM)



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A    * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...    SOUTHWESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...    EAST CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...    EXTREME NORTHWESTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...    * UNTIL NOON PST    * AT 1100 AM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED    FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANCHO  SANTA MARGARITA...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MISSION VIEJO. THE STORM  PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST.    * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE  FALLS FIRE BURN AREA INTO PARTS OF LAKE ELSINORE AND LAKELAND VILLAGE.    PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...    WATERSHEDS BURNED IN 2013 WITHIN THE FALLS BURN AREA ARE PARTICULARLY  SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODS AND DEBRIS FLOWS FROM THIS RAINSTORM.  STRUCTURES...ROADS...TRAILS...AND CAMPGROUNDS LOCATED ALONG DRAINAGES  WITHIN OR BELOW THE BURNED BASINS CAN BE IMPACTED BY FLASH FLOODS AND  DEBRIS FLOWS. THIS INCLUDES...BUT IS NOT RESTRICTED TO...THOSE NEAR  HIGHWAY 74...AND ALL HOMES...ROADS AND STRUCTURES LOCATED BELOW THE  BURN AREA ON BOTH SIDES OF GRAND AVENUE BETWEEN MACY STREET AND SANTA  ROSA DRIVE. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON POST-FIRE DEBRIS FLOWS AND WHAT  TO DO IF YOU LIVE NEAR A RECENTLY BURNED AREA...GO TO  LANDSLIDES.USGS.GOV/RESEARCH/WILDFIRE/    RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN AND BELOW RECENTLY BURNED AREAS SHOULD BE  ALERT TO HEAVY MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS WHICH MAY BLOCK ROADS AND  CULVERTS. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOODING AND PROPERTY LOSS COULD RESULT  IN AREAS WHERE RUNOFF IS RESTRICTED OR BLOCKED.

NWS LOS ANGLES/OXNARD
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