Thursday, December 2, 2010

[californiadisasters] South Ops News & Notes Update (12/01/10-12PM)

Date	Time	News and Notes
12/01	1135	The USGS advised of seismic activity resulting in a earthquake at 11:31:34 AM at epicenter and registered as 3.3 magnitude given the location 34.017°N, 117.227°W with a depth 16.9 km (10.5 miles) 4 km (3 miles) SSE (148°) from Loma Linda, CA. There have been no reports of injuries or damage.
11/24	0730	The situation report will be completed every Thursday with all Federal agencies required to submit data prior to 1700 hours unless otherwise instructed. The Federal agencies will no longer be required to submit daily resource information as this report will no longer be posted until next Fire season or conditions warrant.
11/23	0700	OSC continues to transition to winter preparedness with some predicative service products discontinued until fire season of 2011

Source: http://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/predictive/intelligence/news_notes/index.htm

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (December 1)

On This Date In California Weather History....

2007: Heavy rain from cutoff low with a tropical connection produced up to six inches of rain at Palomar Mountain and Forest Falls on 11.30 and on this day.
A debris flow (including large trees) over the Poomacha Burn area buried a house in mud, and caused serious damage to several vehicles and highway 76.
The flow was estimated at 15 feet high
and 150 to 200 feet wide.

1986: Extremely high tides on this day and on 12.2 arrived at area beaches.
High tides were 7.7 feet at San Diego.
Minor flooding occurred at La Jolla Shores' parking lot and there were a few beach closures.
On 12.1 minor flooding (four inches of sea water) occurred along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach from rising tides and prompted lane closures.

1982: A big storm that started on 11.30 and ended on this day brought widespread record rains and strong winds that
knocked out power to 1.6 million homes.

1973: 22.0 inches of snow fell at Glenbrook, NV.

1973: A funnel cloud was sighted north of the Fresno Air Terminal.

1919: 16.0 inches of snow fell at Portola.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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AAR At any rate
AAR can also mean "After Action Report", used in emergency management fields
AAS Alive and smiling
ADN Any day now
AEAP As early as possible
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK Away from keyboard
AISB As it should be
AOTA All of the above
ASAP As soon as possible
AWOL Absent Without Leave
B4 Before
B4N Bye for now
BAK Back at keyboard
BAU Business as usual
BBIAF Be back in a few
BBIAM Be back in a minute
BBL Be back later
BC Because or variously, Battalion Chief
BCNU Be seein' you
BFN Bye for now
BOL Best of luck
BRB Be right back
BTA But then again
BTW By the way
CHAOS Chief Has Arrived On Scene
CMIIW Correct me if I'm wrong
CMON Come one
CT CalTrans (California Department of Transportation)
CU See you
CUA See you around
CUL See you later
CUL8R See you later
CWYL Chat with you later
CYO See you online
DC Division Chief
DEGT Don't even go there
DIKU Do I know you?
DQMOT Don't quote me on this
DTS Don't think so
EM Emergency Management
EMA E-mail address
EOM End of message
F2F Face to face
FISH First in, still here
FAMCL Falling of my chair laughing
FC Fire Captain
FD Fire Department
FITB Fill in the blank
FM Fire Marshall
FUBAR Fudged Up Beyond All Recognition
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
GA Go ahead
GAL Get a life
GB Goodbye
GFI Go for it
GG Gotta Go
GIAR Give it a rest
GMTA Great minds think alike
GOL Giggling out loud
GR&D Grinning, running and ducking
GTRM Going to read mail
HAGN Have a good night
HAGO Have a good one
HHIS Head hanging in shame
HRU How are you?
HTH Hope this helps
IAC In any case
IAP Incident Action Plan
IB I'm back
IC I see, or variously Incident Command
ICP Incident Command Post
ICBW It could be worse
ICS Incident Command System
ICT Incident Command Team (CALFIRE term)
IDK I don't know
IDTS I don't think so
IIRC If I remember correctly
ILU I love you
ILY I love you
IM Instant message
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
IMT Incident Management Team (USFS term)
INAL I'm not a lawyer
IOW In other words
IRMC I rest my case
ITA I totally agree
IUSS If you say so
IYKWIM If you know what I mean
IYO In your opinion
IYSS If you say so
JAC Just a sec
JIK Just in case
JJA Just joking around
JK Just kidding
KOTC Kiss on the cheek
KNIM Know what I mean?
L8R Later
LD Later, dude
LE Law Enforcement
LEO Law Enforcement Officer
LMAO Laughing my a** off
LOL Laughing out loud
LTM Laugh to myself
LTNS Long time no see
MorF Male or female?
MUSM Miss you so much
NBD No big deal
NIMBY Not in my back yard
NMH Not much here
NOYB None of your business
NN Night-Night
NP No problem
NRN No response necessary
NW No way
OIC Oh, I see
OEM Office Of Emergency Management
OES Office of Emergency Services
OMG Oh my God
OO Over and out
OOTD One of these days
OTOH On the other hand
OTTOMH Off the top of my head
PD Police Department
PDQ Pretty darn quick
PLMK Please let me know
PIMP Peeing in my pants
PMFI Pardon me for interrupting
PMFJI Pardon me for jumping in
POAHF Put on a happy face
PTL Praise the Lord
PXT Please explain that
PU That stinks!
RL Real life
RME Rolling my eyes
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
RSN Real soon now
SMHID Scratching my head in disbelief
SNAFU Situation Normal ~ All Fudged Up
SO Sheriff's Office
SOMY Sick of me yet?
SOS Same Old Shtuff
SOTMG Short of time, must go
SPST Same place, same time
SSDD Same stuff, different day
ST or S/T Strike Team
STW Search the Web
SUITM See you in the morning
SUL See you later
SUP What's up?
SYL See you later
TAFN That's all for now
TAM Tomorrow a.m.
TC Take care
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in advance
TLK2UL8R Talk to you later
TMI Too much information
TMWFI Take my word for it
TPM Tomorrow p.m.
TPTB The powers that be
TSDMF Tears streaming down my face
TTFN Ta ta for now
TTTT These things take time
TTYL Talk to you later
TTYS Talk to you soon
TU Thank you
TY Thank you
TYT Take your time
TYVM Thank you very much
UGTBK You've got to be kidding
UW You're welcome
WAM Wait a minute
WAYF Where are you from?
WB Welcome back
WIIFM What's in it for me?
WTC World Trade Center
WTG Way to go
WTH What the heck?
WU? What's up?
WUF? Where are you from?
WWJD What would Jesus do?
WWYC Write when you can
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get
YBS You'll be sorry
YGBKM You gotta be kidding me
YW You're welcome

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

[Geology2] Paso Shook to its Historic Roots in ‘03

Paso shook to its historic roots in '03

By Phil Dirkx
San Luis Obispo Tribune

Published: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010

I was pleased late last week to notice Paso Robles' "Hole from Hell" was finally filled and paved over. It was a pit in the parking lot of our library and City Hall. It was 20 feet deep, 100 feet across and surrounded by tall fencing.

It dates back to Dec. 22, 2003, when a magnitude 6.5 earthquake violently bruised Paso Robles, damaging many buildings and killing two women.

It also awoke the dormant sulfur spring under the parking lot of the library.

I was there. I saw steaming, grayish water flowing over the parking lot. I smelled the sulfurous odor. People say sulfur water smells like rotten eggs. (I wonder how many of them these days have actually smelled rotten eggs.)

There wasn't any geyserlike eruption. I think the water was percolating up through the landscape island. Some people walked quickly, gingerly across the flooded pavement.

The hot, gray water overtopped their shoes. The water flowed off the parking lot, to the streets and then to the Salinas River.

But it wasn't the reawakened spring that made that big pit; it was men and machines looking for a broken pipe. They knew the parking lot was on the site of the city's first hot-spring bathhouse.

Paso Robles once had several flowing hot springs, but the one under the parking lot was the "Main Spring." It was the reason for the town. The town's first post office in 1867 was called Hot Springs.

The Main Spring stopped flowing in the early 1900s. I don't know why; neither did the people digging that pit. They just hoped to stop the flow, but there was nothing to cap.

The water came from a long crack in the earth. So they put a pump in the pit and a temporary 6-inch pipe under 10th Street to carry the sulfur water to the river.

The just-completed, permanent cure cost an estimated $2 million, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency paying a large share. Getting approvals from FEMA and environmental authorities took six years.

But now, there's some engineered apparatus under the restored parking lot. It collects the sulfur water and sends it to the river through a new 10-inch pipeline under newly rebuilt 10th Street.

I visited the restored parking area. I saw two small concrete squares in the new landscape island.

On each square, I saw a steel cap labeled "sulfur." I sniffed a mild whiff of sulfur in the air.

I hope it never leaves. It reminds me of Paso's roots and nature's power.

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[californiadisasters] Fire Danger Decreases, But Need For Care Remains

Fire danger decreases, but need for care remains, fire officials say

By Adam Foxman
Ventura County Star
Ventura County Star
Posted November 30, 2010 at 6:54 p.m.

The 2010 fire season is being called an aberration — and that's a good thing.

From 2006 to 2009, wild fires burned 100,000 to 286,000 acres each year in the Los Padres National Forest. In 2010, fires burned less than 3,000 acres in the forest.

"It was just an aberration," said Andrew Madsen, a spokesman for the Los Padres National Forest, of the 2010 fire season. "It was very unusual."

Madsen said it's hard to pin down any one cause for the quieter season. A little luck in the places where this year's fires occurred, above average rainfall, more success by firefighters and safer behavior by people could all have contributed, he said, adding that some of the region's recent wildfires were human-caused.

Temperatures have turned colder and 2 to 4 inches of rain accumulated in much of Ventura County since the beginning of October, more than the average, according to the county Watershed Protection District. Most parts of the county had slightly more rain than normal during the last water year, from October 2009 to this September.

As of last week, fuel moisture around the county was near the historical average and above critically dry levels, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.

As winter approaches and the risk of fast-moving brush fires continues to decrease, local fire departments have begun trimming back their seasonal focus on wildland blazes.

The Ventura County Fire Department this week lowered the amount of resources it sends to initial brush fire reports, just days after the U.S. Forest Service announced the reduction of fire restrictions in Los Padres National Forest, officials said. Both departments also dismissed seasonal firefighters who work during the peak of the fire season.

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VOLCANO MADNESS

Thursday, December 2, 2010

[californiadisasters] South Ops News & Notes Update (12/01/10-12PM)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (December 1)

[californiadisasters] File - California Disasters DISCUSSION GROUP

[californiadisasters] File - Too Many Messages?

[californiadisasters] File - Abbreviations & Meanings

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

[Geology2] Paso Shook to its Historic Roots in ‘03

Published: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010

[californiadisasters] Fire Danger Decreases, But Need For Care Remains

Fire danger decreases, but need for care remains, fire officials say

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