Pacific NW-News Service Since 1992

2007: Surf with highest sets to 18 feet struck the coast of San Diego County (10 feet in Orange County) on 12.5 and on this day.
Highway 101 in Cardiff was inundated with minor flooding.
The Imperial Beach Pier sustained minor damage.

1998: A thunderstorm in Los Alamitos and Garden Grove produced wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph and was called "almost a tornado."

1997: 14" of snow fell at Mammoth Lakes Ranger Station.

1997: 3.47" of rain fell in Santa Ana, the greatest daily amount on record for December, and the third greatest daily amount on record.
1.7" fell in Victorville, the greatest daily amount on record for December.

1992: An F1 tornado went through portions of Monterey County causing $250,000 in property damage.

1992: A big storm that started on 12.4 and ended on 12.7 brought rainfall from 0.5" at the coast to up to 6" of precipitation in the mountains.
1.65" fell in Coronado, 1.6" in Vista, 1.42" in Fallbrook, 1.32" in Escondido, and 1.15" in San Diego.
Flooding in Tijuana killed four and left hundreds homeless.
0.5 - 2 feet of snow fell in the mountains.
Local flooding, mud slides, standing water, and road closures resulted.

1989: It was 87° F in Borrego Springs, the highest temperature on record for December.
This also occurred the next two days on 12.7 and 12.8, and on 12.28.1980.

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1966: Heavy rain drenched the region, even the mountains, from 12.2 to 12.7.
Storm totals for the period: 27.79" in Lake Arrowhead (believed to be a 100 year rainfall), 23.73" in Palomar Mountain, 18.72" in Big Bear Lake, 17.85" in Idyllwild, 9.14" in San Bernardino, 7.63" in Redlands, 6.21" in Santa Ana, 5.19" in Riverside, 2.99" in San Diego, 2.73" in Palm Springs, but only 0.66" in Victorville and 0.28" in Barstow!
At least two homes were destroyed by floods and debris flows in Mill Creek Canyon.
Debris flows and floods damaged homes and roads in Wrightwood and Lytle Creek.
Homes and businesses were flooded in Redlands and Palm Springs.
Many roads across the region were flooded and washed out.
Scuba divers could not recover a Montclair man believed drowned in floodwaters.
Strong storm winds caused power outages.
On this day 9.43" of precipitation fell in Big Bear Lake, the greatest daily precipitation amount on record.
Incredibly, only 0.07" fell in Victorville on this day.

1966: A storm total of one to two inches of rain fell from December 5th through 6th causing rivers in the Valley to swell.
The Tule and Kern Rivers reached peak flows twice as great as the highest level ever measured up to this point.

1909: 10" of snow fell at Glenbrook, NV.

BobShannon

Here's a look at snowfall totals from the past several years:
2013- 0 inches
2012– 1 inch
2011- .40 inches
2010- 0 inches
2009- 0 inches
In 2008, Spokane had 20 inches on the ground on December 25th.

 WHO took this picture?

Ezell's Famous Chicken is a household name in the Seattle area, and now they're looking to do the same thing in Spokane.
The restaurant is one of several new businesses going into the Regal Plaza at Palouse on Spokane's South Hill. The managers of the new restaurant say they're bringing something to Spokane that the city has been missing, Ezell's Famous Chicken. “Its just good food, its not complicated, its not pretentious, its got a great atmosphere,” Krystianna Livernash with Ezell's said.
http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/ezells-famous-chicken-moving-into-spokane/30086838 

Both Pics Taken from RECORD Snow year 2008 Spokane

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This day doesn’t live in as much infamy as it used to.

Today is the 73rd anniversary of Japan’s sneak attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, which killed 2,403 people, wounded 1,178 and took out 21 Navy ships.

But fewer people remember — and there’s less pomp surrounding the occasion.

President Obama issued a proclamation — on Friday — declaring Sunday as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

“The men and women of the Greatest Generation went to war and braved hardships to make the world safer, freer, and more just,” the proclamation says.

But the president is not expected to attend any ceremonies Sunday and has no public schedule. He also had no public schedule last Dec. 7.

In New York, flags will be flown at half-staff at government facilities.

But the ceremonies held every year are getting smaller. At the USS Intrepid, this year’s ceremony will include a wreath laying and remarks by Pearl Harbor survivors.

 

Those Martians! What cards. First they turn on jets of lights, trot out bigfoot, lizards, faces of statues … but mocking us with a giant landform (geoglyph!) that looks like a cookie is too much.

What. Are they calling us fat or something?

Now if they’d just pop out of their caves and wave a three-fingered hand in front of NASA’s rover Curiosity, that’d be great. Then, we could all just get on with our lives knowing, finally, that there’s not only life on Mars, but life with a sense of humor. And that’d also take care of the question of extraterrestrial life, too.

It’s a win-win deal, if you as us.

MARS

GRAND FORKS, BC

 RonRattray

 It was a story of balance for the Eastern Washington University football team as the Eagles defeated Big Sky Conference rival Montana 37-20 in a second-round game in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs Saturday (Dec. 6) at Roos Field in Cheney, Wash.

Eastern advances to host fifth-seeded Illinois State next Saturday (Dec. 13) at 1 p.m. Pacific time in the quarterfinals at "The Inferno." Illinois State was a 41-21 winner over Northern Iowa in another second-round game. The Eagles defeated the Redbirds 51-35 in Cheney in 2012, also in the quarterfinals.

The Eagles won the turnover battle 3-1, and turned a pair of Grizzly turnovers into 10 points in the second half. Eastern also used a blocked punt by senior Ronnie Hamlin to help open a 7-0 lead early in the game, and led by as many as 17. The Eagles never trailed.

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