Palomar Mountain News

We woke up totally enveloped in clouds this morning but opened up a bit about 9am.

Neighbor, Jim Hamerly shared that he got 5.68″ of rain and clocked 31 mph wind with our total rainfall to 61.4 inches for the year. Apparently, the last time a hurricane touched down in San Diego County, it was 165 years ago they didn’t have any notice. We did, so many of us had sand bags ready and waiting by the time ours was down-graded to a Tropical Storm. However, because we had so much rain within just a few minutes, those bags were helpful.

Ann Sowards posted about a big tree down on property that borders Cabin Fever, owned by our son. I decided to cruise around and check on that tree, some up-coming listings and see how the neighborhoods faired. Driving up Fern Meadow I saw the rain really had some fun there with new ruts. With that little adventure, I decided not to venture off other dirt roads and let them dry out a bit.

A couple downed branches and trees were reported and cleared along the main roads. There are leaves, a few pine cones and some fruit that blew off trees. So, from what I could see, everything looked like a typical winter storm… but in August!

Coming down from Crestline and across State Park Road, you can see the flatlands were opening up and now it feels like the sun is trying to come out.

Those fall colors -on-the-way should be even more beautiful this year!

Bonnie Phelps