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Tom_Doak

Where are all the California guys today?
« on: January 10, 2005, 01:08:27 AM »
I've been in LA / Palm Desert since Friday, and could not resist taking a dig at the California contingent who always remind us northeasterners what perfect golf weather they have during the winter.  

It's raining cats and dogs here; I should have gone to Bandon to play some golf!
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Mike Benham

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 01:50:48 AM »
We are all waterlogged and I spend a portion of the morning unblocking rain gutters ...

The LA basin is at 439% of normal rainfall and there is still a few more months of the rainy season to go ... how has Rustic survived?

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Don_Mahaffey

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2005, 09:43:21 AM »
Tom
To give you an idea of how unusuall rain like that is in Palm Desert, the last 4 winters I spent there we didn't lose a single golfing day to weather!
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THuckaby2

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 10:12:54 AM »
Hell, I say GO AHEAD AND POUR!  If I can't play, screw the rest of you guys.

 ;)

In any case, please remember that SOUTHERN California is where these horrendous storms are occurring.  Up here in the proper part of the state, oh it has been raining off and on, but hell my tournament group played yesterday (and quite enjoyed calling to tell me all about it).  Today it's gonna be 60 degrees and clear.  Another storm comes tonight apparently.  But golf can get played, and does.

TH
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Marty Bonnar

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2005, 10:15:55 AM »
...I'm beginning to wonder if all this weather isn't Tsunami-originated.
It's been persisting it down in Scotland for about a week now with Gale-force winds to match...

FBD.
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ed_getka

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2005, 10:34:04 AM »
I don't know how Rustic is this week, but we played there on 12/30 and it was fine. Granted we had a small window, as it began to rain right after we finished. Jeff Hicks seems to be getting a handle on the wash as it goes by #7, so it has held up well thus far this year.
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Craig Sweet

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2005, 10:43:59 AM »
Rain?  How about 10 below zero, 20 mile an hour winds and horizontal snow?

There is no golf in Montana this week. :)
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JakaB

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2005, 10:48:07 AM »
I'm getting a kick watching the national news as California tries to get their rain storms on the "stage"....The poor bastards can't even get the lead with over 150,000 dead from the tsunami.   If there was ever a more bizarre silver lining to a true tragedy I can't remember...
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Mike Benham

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2005, 11:58:02 AM »
Quote from: John B. Kavanaugh on January 10, 2005, 10:48:07 AM
I'm getting a kick watching the national news ...

John -

There's your problem, watching the national news and assuming that it is pertinent ... the tsunami was last week's news ... in NorCal, there is concern that the rainy weather may effect the Crosby (re: AT&T) in February ...

I suspect that the lead story later this week will be the Big Wiesy at the Sony in Hawaii ... and if she makes the cut, someone will make the tasteless reference to the "Wie Tsunami" taking the PGA by storm ... ;)
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ed_getka

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2005, 12:14:28 PM »
Tom,
   Isn't this a perfect time to get a handle on the drainage situation? 8)
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Steve Lang

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2005, 12:27:15 PM »
 8)

Wishing they were in SE TX were we know how to handle drainage..

It was mild 65-70 over the weekend, Sunday was shorts weather and today is going to high 70's.. and I'm heading out to golf this afternoon and tomorrow.. before it cools down again
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Mike_Golden

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2005, 12:30:34 PM »
Laugh all you want, guys, but by next week it will probably be sunny and 70 here while many of you are waiting for the next snow storm.
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DMoriarty

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2005, 01:49:08 PM »
While it is by no means a disaster, I think this would qualify as real weather even if it weren't Southern California.  By the time this storm passes tomorrow some foothill areas will have received between 2 and 3 feet of rain since Friday.    

I am not sure how RC is fairing, but given the burn conditions in the valley above it I'll be glad if there is still a course there come Wednesday.    Looking at the stream flowing into the back of my garage and out the front I will be glad if all my house is here too.  



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Tom_Doak

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2005, 09:36:50 AM »
It's not a disaster, but there is going to be a lot of damage from this storm.

We are renting a small house in Monterey Country Club while we're building Stone Eagle.  The course crosses that big drainage channel a couple of times, and last night there was about five feet of water in the channel flowing 20 mph, with huge silt banks on both sides.  If you've got a tee time at Monterey CC this week or next, better start looking for somewhere else to play.

Ed G:  With 250 feet of elevation change from top to bottom, Stone Eagle doesn't have many drainage problems, other than getting the water to slow down enough to go into a grate!
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Michael Wharton-Palmer

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2005, 09:43:57 AM »
Tom, Where exactly is Stone Eagle, excuse me for my ignorance, but I have not heard of this project.
Thank you
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Dan Kelly

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2005, 10:15:14 AM »
Today's book recommendation -- if all of the libraries and bookstores haven't been washed away:

"The Control of Nature," by John McPhee.
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C. Sturges

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2005, 03:08:18 PM »
The weather is great here in Bandon ;D
Nice and sunny and the courses are playing great.
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Dan Herrmann

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2005, 04:27:49 PM »
I think we NE'ers better not brag too much.  It was sleeting today here near West Chester (not Westchester) PA.

But it is supposed to be 65 later this week   8)
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Mike_Cirba

Re:Where are all the California guys today?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2005, 10:02:59 PM »
Up here in the Pennsylvania January, I walked 18 yesterday and it was perfect Scottish golf weather...about 50 degrees, a nice 20mph wind, changeable skies.

It was heavenly.   ;D
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