Nice of you to ask; matter of fact..

Sonoma 'Creek' is sounding a bit like Niagara - not heard in 15+ years.
And yep - the warnings are out for, now, a roster of Counties from Sacramento into the Valley + Coast. 1.5" here between 1 pm and 7.

(And I just finished a note to cohort who was here for that first one) {chortle} which lasted > a week. Then, we got one of the last generators from rental place, yada.. So much for "100 Year" floods (that was supposed to be) - Hah! Statisticians Suck. 'Course we've trashed the planet a bit more, since then.

Long as the power stays, it's just a matter of basement pumps online.
(What fool would put a basement in a place 100' or so from Water?)
Or is the larger fool the one who bought it anyway.. No regrets.

Necessity/Invention/Muthah story:
the first time, I spent several hours cobbling together a 'float switch' to operate a small pump - fitting into a suitable hole at basement entry area, foot of stairs.

Problem: how to make that switch, on a level-change of <\ufffd" if possible ??

Used one of those (now vanishing) Mercury light switches + bent rod, some genuine aluminum-foil tape over a guesstimated piece of styrofoam; section of square gutter drain pipe, on a base. Little weights to fine-tune it to turn Off! ..as well as On. (Good physics fun - think 'stiction' in shock absorbers. :-)

Still haven't found a superior replacement. Put a red lamp in parallel with pump power, so I can look out & down to see it functioning. Love. It. We so rarely get to make Important Stuff out of that overfilled junk box.

'Course if a tree takes out the local power ... Oh Well. Nothing like Katrina, though.

>> Luck to all those out there, with something really to Worry about <<

Cheers,
moi, des oiseaux aquatiques

Dunno how much press this-all is getting elsewhere, but it's a pretty big deal in more than just my County. Verbal descriptions are so often dry, but -

Total of 7.0" Fri + Sat (5" from 7pm-6am today.) Barometer at 29.4, amidst.
Peak of de Nile came ~ daybreak (could hear freight train all night. then: video with the sound! right about at its zenith. Boffo!) After an hour's nap, had to go see, soon as I could see. Hmmm - there just may be a use for one of those million candlepower thingies, but I wasn't sure I Wanted to know if the soundscape was because it was so-CLOSE? .. or just LOTS of 'it'.

Saw:
Rapids ~ 2/3 of the way from top of normal vee creek bank, to a big walnut tree near house. Instead of a modest creek, surface ~15' down from bank, it was a torrent filling the cut and at least 3x the normal bank-bank width.

Clearly aces out the earlier event. A fitting marker for a year of soggy bafflegab and wet-nosed fuck-ups.
Seems best to love the Cosmic Humor; too damp to light that proverbial candle, anyway.

Then a bit later .. rain just stopped. Like a cel-fone er, cell. Pumps could about match the percolation rate from various strata. Windows open / fans on, yada. But since it'll be Baaack, no point in swabbing the deck and rearranging the doilies.

Peanutbutter, near-resident miniature horse came by next, with her "staff"/owner - seems that her pad had about 6' of water in it, so neighbor had to do some late-night improvising, too. Earth(men) Abides the megaton-hours of Kinetic Energy! One more time.

Tomorrow, folks a few miles North (Russian River, Guerneville area) are due for 14' over flood stage, coinciding with high tide - so I have no complaints. A couple of line-voltage dips in the night; the rhythm of clearing an overload: you count 1 ... 2 ... and hope not for 3, because then the sucker stays OFF until the load drain is fixed. So do your pumps. Lucky, lucky.

May your year-end events all be ... vicarious.

(Snow is probably more fun)

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