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Pompano
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Any further reports on the Baja Highway from the border to Mulege? From any routes south... Tecate, Otay, or Tijuana?
Vados and valleys flooded I see, some bridges may be damaged.. would appreciate updates on conditions day by day from highway flood areas.
We are gearing up for a push south to Mulege and BOC. So far we are on track for crossing a week from today..Jan 29th. Will write a road report by
Feb. 1st -or so- from Coyote Bay.
"Come hell or high water"...an apt expression here. 
We are a 4x4 Quadcab towing boat on trailer....and other assorted beer wagons in the caravan.
Thanks. Buen Viaje and Buena Suerte!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Russ
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There are 4 or 5 folks from PC that are heading down ASAP and would also like updates. Thankx
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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desandmarla
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Storm
We are still in Guerrero Negro. Federal Police have informed us that Laguna Chapala is a lake over the road, not passable. Both vados in Catavina
are flowing and not passable. Three bridges are closed south of Ensenada before San Quintin. If we try to move north tomorrow, we will keep you
posted on how it goes. If you don't hear from us then you know we are somewhere in between Guerrero Negro and Ensenada!! If anyone makes it through
these spots today, please advise. Thanks, Marla.
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rts551
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Those poor people at Rancho Chapala. They have to be under water. Guess I will try to take extra stuff next week
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
morning amigos...it was a long rough night. For the first time, I saw our roof lifting off....yikes...so we tied diving weights and dumbells onto the
joists in the middle...taped the windows and hoped for the best. It rained hard during the night and there were some puddles in the house this morning
but we still have a roof and all our windows.
The big fishing boats that sought refuge in the bay had a hard time dragging anchor and rockin and rollin in the big waves.
Gotta go pick up palm leaves....its' partly sunny right now and the swell is getting bigger...some spectacular splashes on our rocks out
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Shari---glad your roof stayed on! down in Abreojos I noticed quite a few houses have rebar hooks sunk into the foundation---when high
winds/hurricanes are imminent they tie ropes from the rebar over the roofs to hold them down.
Looks like its going to be a banner year for wildflowers all over the peninsula...
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rts551
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Or we bury tires in the ground as well
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Mexitron
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Wow---from the Weather Underground site:
The most powerful low pressure system in 140 years of record keeping swept through the Southwest U.S. yesterday, bringing deadly flooding, tornadoes,
hail, hurricane force winds, and blizzard conditions. We expect to get powerful winter storms affecting the Southwest U.S. during strong El Niño
events, but yesterday's storm was truly epic in its size and intensity. The storm set all-time low pressure records over roughly 10 - 15% of the
U.S.--over southern Oregon, and most of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Old records were broken by a wide margin in many locations, most
notably in Los Angeles, where the old record of 29.25" set January 17, 1988, was shattered by .18" (6 mb). Bakersfield broke its record by .30" (10
mb). The record-setting low spawned an extremely intense cold front that rumbled thought the Southwest, and winds ahead of the cold front reached
sustained speeds of hurricane force--74 mph--last night at one Arizona mountain location, Apache Junction, between Tucson and Phoenix. Wind gusts as
high as 94 mph were recorded in Ajo, Arizona, and a Personal Weather Station in Summerhaven (on top of Mt. Lemmon next to Tucson) recorded sustained
winds of 67 mph, gusting to 86 mph, before the power failed. Prescott recorded sustained winds at 52 mph, gusting to 67 as the cold front passed, and
high winds plunged visibility to zero in blowing dust on I-10 connecting Phoenix and Tucson. The storm spawned one possible tornado in Arizona, which
touched down at 8:32 pm MST in Phoenix near Desert Ridge Mall. No damage or injuries were reported. If verified, it would be only the 7th January
tornado in Arizona since record keeping began in 1950.
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rts551
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and another one hits Arizona tonight
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rts551
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| Quote: | Originally posted by desandmarla
We are still in Guerrero Negro. Federal Police have informed us that Laguna Chapala is a lake over the road, not passable. Both vados in Catavina
are flowing and not passable. Three bridges are closed south of Ensenada before San Quintin. If we try to move north tomorrow, we will keep you
posted on how it goes. If you don't hear from us then you know we are somewhere in between Guerrero Negro and Ensenada!! If anyone makes it through
these spots today, please advise. Thanks, Marla. |
Keep up the god reorts from the Federales
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lizard lips
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Power still out in Punta Banda and Nextel service has been interrupted in Ensenada. Still overcast and raining periodically.
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DanO
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Latest news is that Mex 1 south of Maneadero is closed just north of Ejido Uruapan. Only Uruapan residents are being allowed through. About 60 semis
are lined up southbound (my guess is that Juan at Acambaro is doing brisk business at his restaurant/store). A bridge south of the army checkpoint
has collapsed (not sure, but this may be the one you cross just before entering Santo Tomas southbound).
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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DanO
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Here's a pic from you know who's site of some flooding, which my sources tell me is somewhere between San Vicente and San Quintin.
[Edited on 1-22-2010 by DanO]
[Edited on 1-22-2010 by DanO]
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Wow---from the Weather Underground site:
The most powerful low pressure system in 140 years of record keeping swept through the Southwest U.S. yesterday, bringing deadly flooding, tornadoes,
hail, hurricane force winds, and blizzard conditions. We expect to get powerful winter storms affecting the Southwest U.S. during strong El Niño
events, but yesterday's storm was truly epic in its size and intensity. The storm set all-time low pressure records over roughly 10 - 15% of the
U.S.--over southern Oregon, and most of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Old records were broken by a wide margin in many locations, most
notably in Los Angeles, where the old record of 29.25" set January 17, 1988, was shattered by .18" (6 mb). Bakersfield broke its record by .30" (10
mb). The record-setting low spawned an extremely intense cold front that rumbled thought the Southwest, and winds ahead of the cold front reached
sustained speeds of hurricane force--74 mph--last night at one Arizona mountain location, Apache Junction, between Tucson and Phoenix. Wind gusts as
high as 94 mph were recorded in Ajo, Arizona, and a Personal Weather Station in Summerhaven (on top of Mt. Lemmon next to Tucson) recorded sustained
winds of 67 mph, gusting to 86 mph, before the power failed. Prescott recorded sustained winds at 52 mph, gusting to 67 as the cold front passed, and
high winds plunged visibility to zero in blowing dust on I-10 connecting Phoenix and Tucson. The storm spawned one possible tornado in Arizona, which
touched down at 8:32 pm MST in Phoenix near Desert Ridge Mall. No damage or injuries were reported. If verified, it would be only the 7th January
tornado in Arizona since record keeping began in 1950. |
will give us a nice spring wild flower show in the deserts of SW and Baja.
perhaps nature is running amuck due to all the green house gas emitted during Bush years? 
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BajaNaranja
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Wow, desandmarla, that sounds pretty grim.
I know of a few campers who have surely been hunkered down for a week of fierce winds and rain - sounds like they aren't going anywhere any time soon.
Be safe, best of luck, and keep the updates coming please.
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Bajaboy
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Tuna for the taking in Imperial Beach
By Ed Zieralski, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/22/beachcomber-g...
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 12:20 p.m.
Kevin Carlson shows off one of the bluefin tuna he was able to pull from the surf.
IMPERIAL BEACH— Beachcomber Kevin Carlson says he never knows what the Pacific Ocean will deliver after a big storm, but Friday morning he encountered
his most unusual discovery in more than 20 years of walking beaches.
Carlson found several bluefin tuna in the 35- to 50-pound class struggling in the surf line off Imperial Beach. He was just north of the Imperial
Beach Pier and north of the first jetty when he spotted them. Carlson theorizes the tuna escaped from one of the tuna pens floating off the coast of
northern Baja. Perhaps the recent storms tore open one of the pens.
“There were a lot of them out there,” he said. “More than a dozen, but a couple of them were fresh dead fish and a few others were struggling to get
out of the shallow surf. Once they got into the surf line, they couldn’t get out.”
Carlson waded in and gathered up 35- and 50-pound bluefin and let the ocean have the rest.
“The Pacific Ocean has been wonderful and bountiful for me over the years,” Carlson said. “But in 20 years of beachcombing, I’ve never found anything
like this. I’ve found lobster traps with lobsters in them, you name it. You just never know what the Pacific Ocean is going to give up.”
Carlson, who works on the sport boat The Long Run out of Marina Cortez on Harbor Island, said he plans to eat the tuna and save the carcasses for his
hoop nets. He also hoop nets for lobsters.
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msteve1014
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
Or we bury tires in the ground as well |
My house has tires buried around it also. I was told what they were for after I bought the place.
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rts551
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Did you use them last night?
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msteve1014
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I'm not there (La Bocana), I'm here (Oxnard, Ca.). No tires around this house.
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bajabass
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Some of the blackest clouds I have ever seen are rolling across the 57 fwy in Orange right now. If this stuff hits the house in La Mision, I will have
a lot of work on my hands next weekend! Any current reports from that area?
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toneart
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When you get that experience behind you, then you will fit right in with us in The Orhard in Mulege.  
On a serious note, I wish you the best of luck with your clean up, and that there is not a lot of damage.
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabass
Some of the blackest clouds I have ever seen are rolling across the 57 fwy in Orange right now. If this stuff hits the house in La Mision, I will have
a lot of work on my hands next weekend! Any current reports from that area? |
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