09/29/2026
We pulled the old papers. 🗞️
1983: 36 dead, $1.2 billion in damage, double the normal rain.
1998: a year of rain in a single month.
This winter: forecasters say the strongest El Niño since then is already forming, and California is where it lands hardest.
Everyone's talking about the rain. Nobody's talking about what actually hurts people in a storm season:
→ First rain. Six months of oil lifts off the road in the first hour.
→ The wet floor the store didn't cone.
→ The roofer, the lineman, the sandbag crew.
→ The drain the city knew about and ignored.
Here's the part that matters: rain isn't a defense. Too fast for conditions is still too fast. "It was raining" doesn't cover a store that didn't mop. And if a city, county, or Caltrans failure hurt you, you don't have two years. You have six months.
One insurance fact before it rains: homeowners excludes flood and mudslide, unless the mud came off a recent burn scar. And flood insurance takes 30 days to kick in. Buy it now, not in January.
📌 Save this. You'll want it the first wet week.
📩 Send it to someone who drives the 5 to work.
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