Orange County Prepares for El Niño

We could have massive flooding over the winter rainy season, or so they say.

At the Orange County Register, "Canyon country already busy preparing for winter storms":

Joanne Hubble, unofficial public information officer for Orange County’s canyon country, is in a field helping locals sort stacks of sandbags, bales of rice plants – not hay, mind you, because horses eat hay – and piles of rebar.

Why rebar? The steel bars go deep into the ground and, hopefully, will hold the makeshift dams when storms hit this winter.

That’s right, when – not if – storms hit, according to meteorologists. In an era of climate change, weather is weird.

While most of the county busies itself with drought, Hubble and her canyon neighbors prepare for an onslaught of rain. Even if you simply live near a slope, warn meteorologists, you should be ready for what some call mudslides...

Keep reading.

But see also, "Are we ready for El Niño?"