When you drove to
Sacramento, across the Yolo Causeway (normally dry) looked like you were
driving the highway across Lake Ponchatrain.

There was an "El Nino" year like that around '93-'94... can't remember. I do
remember driving across that caseway though... wild sight.

--Mike

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:43:15 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

You guys just need more imaginative nomenclature. Out this way we get
winter storms that blow in from Hawaii. We call the phenomenon "The
Pineapple Express". They are tropical windstorms because they
originate in the tropics.

I'll be darned. I always thought they came from the Gulf of Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands. Have they started wearing grass skirts up
that way when no one was looking? If so, I'm now a believer in global
warming.

The cold storms come from the North. The ones that cause floods are "The
Pineapple Express". Lots of warm rains that can melt the snowpack in 3-4
days. 1953 was one like that. Flooded most of the Central valley. Yuba
City was under about 6' of water. Another in 1964. When you drove to
Sacramento, across the Yolo Causeway (normally dry) looked like you were
driving the highway across Lake Ponchatrain.