They emailed at 9:00 pm Las Vegas time, saying things weren't at all bad there. Of course things may have gotten worse later, but they're 200 feet higher than the Strip and not in a flood prone location - those are all downhill, but they flood bad as there is no effective drainage system.

Here, the fairly heavy rain tapered off to medium by 11:00 pm and was gone by 6:00am this morning. The wind, probably no more than 10 mph, only lasted about an hour.

The Mojave Desert will be greatly effected. It usually just gets a few sudden "gully washers" with all the water draining off within minutes. This time it got at least 24 hours of steady rain, long enough to sink into the ground.

The earthquake was so weak here I thought what I was feeling was an earthquake, but couldn't be sure. My hanging pans were dead still. A bit later I went into my office and saw an "Earthquake Detected" warning on my cell phone,with instructions on surviving it. Nice of those folks to send this after the earthquake.

Well, it was up in Ojai, a ways from here. Also, the narrow valley I live in was created by a fault (dorment for a few million years) so things got pretty crushed up. The ground is shattered rotten granite, which doesn't propagate earthquake waves very well.

At the rather serious Sylmar earthquake, one family in there just grabbed some stuff and headed back to the Midwest, I think it was Cleveland. They figured they'd just send for their stuff. They settled into a motel - and then Cleveland had its first earthquake in a great many years. It was very mild (by California standards), but disturbed a lot of people there - and they knew who to blame for bringing it.