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Some photos of storm damage in Wrightwood. Hopefully it’s not too extensive.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Heavy rains led to ‘nightmare before Christmas’ with flooding, mudslides as risks persist
On Christmas Day, rain continued to fall across L.A. County and beyond. The precipitation has been less intense, but risks of flooding and mudslides remain in some areas.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-25/la-got-break-from-rains-during-christmas-day-but-flooding-risks-remain
about 11 hours ago
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Just here to get my Grokcare
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Jeff Yang
about 12 hours ago
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Should we talk about how we’ve had three enormous storms this year separated by weeks of hot dry weather?
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about 11 hours ago
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Transverse Dreams
about 11 hours ago
Here’s how 2025’s climate change fueled winter is going at SoCal ski areas (Snow Summit, Bear, Snow Valley, Mt High)
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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
2 days ago
The only true way is the Canadian way (As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)
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Metric is obviously the correct answer for science but I would very much like to cast doubt on it “making sense” for ordinary life that the essential unit of the system is based on it being 10000km from the North Pole to the equator.
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about 13 hours ago
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In the 80s my parents had a car that we called “the uh oh car” because it broke down so much, culminating in the dashboard smoking up. We had another car where the floor rusted out.
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You can be on this side or with the dinosaurs
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cait (and adonis)
about 15 hours ago
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington
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Another union that’s going to vote for an obvious anti labor candidate… as we were saying…
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about 14 hours ago
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Sam
3 days ago
I wrote about this exact policy on my substack months ago and it is very nice to see it get the press it deserves in the NYT there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo
bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...
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Robert Cruickshank
1 day ago
This is the way. Shame these people for as long as they live.
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The American Planning Association: No Fun Allowed (TM)
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The American Planning Association: No Fun Allowed (TM)
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Alessandro Rigolon
1 day ago
Zoning for pickleball… I guess we need to focus on the issues of our times, but this is indicative of a complain-oriented way of planning
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#Bestof2025
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Dave Andress
2 days ago
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
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Faine Greenwood
2 days ago
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Coach Finstock
3 days ago
I love that he's explaining the housing crisis from the landlord perspective
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SMBC Comics
4 days ago
Accidentally drew Ricardo like an aging Superman. Will substantiate with backstory later. COMIC ◆
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/compar...
PATREON ◆
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STORE ◆
smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Sherry Affogato
2 days ago
For the love of God, Montresor!
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Darrell Owens
2 days ago
I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us.
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Beauty of the East Bay
Americanism is facing its biggest challenge from extremism. The people of the Bay Area show why its worth fighting for.
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-american-beauty-of-the-east-bay
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Louis Mirante
2 days ago
Selling pardons is ineffably corrupt. Just complete contempt for a rule of law. If this isn’t a high crime or misdemeanor, nothing is.
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Further afield Death Valley is again completely cut off from the outside world. This feels like something that has measurably changed in the last 20 years- Death Valley NP gets so many flash floods now that the parks road network is just slowly degrading away.
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Evac orders for San Bernardino County areas around Sheep Creek (Desert Front, Piñon Hills, Wildhorse Canyon, parts of Phelan). Though given current state of roads I’m not quite sure how you’d do it.
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2 days ago
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Even though the atmospheric river has moved off to San Diego County, the air is still very moist and the Transverse Ranges continue to squeeze moisture out.
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Here’s how things are going for Caltrans in the Cajon Pass area
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Transverse Dreams
2 days ago
Statement from Mountain High CEO as Wrightwood is under shelter in place order and multiple roads are closed. Crystal Lake hit 8” of rain at 1:30p and Wrightwood had 7” as of 12:30p; it’s likely the area has seen 10” of rain by now. Heavy precipitation should be ending within the hour.
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As of 12:30pm Lytle creek now at almost 9” and Wrightwood over 7”. Mormon Rocks, not exactly a place you think of as getting a lot of rain, over 6”. I think the slight SSE tilt of the atmospheric river is juicing things at the far eastern end of the San Gabriels where this aligns with topography.
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Wrightwood now under a shelter in place
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Transverse Dreams
2 days ago
If you’re a SoCal skier looking for some hopium, NWS LA’s avalanche guidance for Mountain High (yes that’s a real product they issue) has snow levels crashing to 7500’ this afternoon and 6500’ tomorrow morning with enough QPF to generate some decent snow. BP to Throop above 8000’… fingers crossed.
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All of LA and Ventura Counties, and most of Santa Barbara County, under flash flood warnings.
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Crystal Lake and Lytle Creek have past 6” and there’s still a lot of rain to come. Wrightwood past 4” as of 9am already. Seems like the eastern San Gabriels will be north of 10” no problem from this storm.
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Honestly we are already seeing this in rising delinquency for auto loans which is going to be a drag on the financing operations of many auto makers. They are surely separate corporate entities from the manufacturing side but the whole model is in jeopardy.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
3 days ago
It already happened in Britain. You have a bunch of companies making obsolete stuff that can't compete and they end up getting broken up and sold off. Being a historic brand doesn't count for much.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
3 days ago
GM global sales are already down 40% in the last 10 years. We are into the final years of the US motor car industry.
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American labor reliably chooses to really fuck themselves in the future to save a few jobs today.
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mtsw
3 days ago
Americans will spend the next 20 years paying the price - a market of last resort for Trump's petrostate oligarch allies whose oil reserves would otherwise go stranded.
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Transverse Dreams
3 days ago
Flash flood warning for Sheep Creek in Wrightwood- this is the center and most rugged of the three prominent landslides above Wrightwood. Likely that all roads crossing it, including the 2, the 138, and the 18 are affected. I saw a massive debris flow here in summer 2023 during the tropical storm.
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Geology is climate. Here you can see the Transverse Ranges as a solid bar of yellow/red intense precipitation, as the east-west trending mountains intercept moist wind from the south. Even in a storm with no dynamics (internal mojo, if you will), the mountains force the air up and create rain/snow.
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Crystal Lake hit 1.30” of rain at 4:30am and the main event hasn’t even started
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Flash flood warning for the entire Transverse Ranges except San Bernardino Mtns…
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Jens von Bergmann
3 days ago
To add insult to injury, in many cases the bedroom closets are required to be sprinklered. Unless the builder already builds it out as a functional wardrobe which works if it's a custom-built SFH where the builder understands idiosyncratic owner tastes, but is hard in an apartment setting.
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Jens von Bergmann
3 days ago
Having a nice extra room that can be used flexibly, be as a third bedroom, guest room, study, additional lounge area, hobby room, play room, etc is great! The use can adapt to changing needs and preferences. (This implies we aren't in a severe housing shortage where bedroom becomes the default use.)
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Are built in closets actually required here?
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Jens von Bergmann
3 days ago
Great building and unit layout. A couple other distinction between living in Europe vs North America I can't help but notice. 🧵
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It’s really kind of wild we just exist on a thin skin of congealed rock between a molten ball of radioactive heat and an almost infinite vacuum
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3 days ago
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What if we do a poll that shows the majority of voters want democratic pundits to stop listening to polls so much
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