Sentinel Multimedia

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• tempest // Jan 4, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  We can reach the moon but can’t put electric cables underground. I hope electricity comes back soon!

• chugnut // Jan 4, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  Earthquake country doesnt do well with underground cables maybe?

• Mary Montonye // Jan 4, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  We live on Opal Cliff Dr., near Capitola…we are spending time in Tucson and we were wondering how the storm has affected Capitola area.

  thanks

• Kathy // Jan 4, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  Hi, Can someone tell me how Boulder Creek and Brookdale are doing? We are in Los Angeles and wonder what is happening- Is Hwy 9 OK? Are the homes on the Hwy OK?

• Critic // Jan 4, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  Lots of amazing storm images out there, but I’m sure glad I took the time to look at people leaning into the wind or walking down the street. How could you not get footage of the carnage that blew through this morning. Good god………….

• jetcougar // Jan 4, 2008 at 7:12 pm

  I agree with critic…lets not keep the lens cap clear, film people walking and not of the nature of the beast…the storm itself…the floods, disasters, slides that shut roads down…new cameramen please! shoot I can do it better, in fact contact me! lol! anyways…the storms suck but we can predict weather as we did for this and we in the 21st centiry still cant create a better infastructure…look at katrina’s mess. imagine another ‘89…nothing has improoved…besides highway one 17 is our artery into civilization…it needs to be better armed for disasters from car wrecks, traffic, storms, and quakes! k…im done…hope all is safe and avoid unneccesary trips out there.

• Marvin // Jan 4, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  Most pointless footage I have ever seen. Why are we watching trucks in the rain? Why are we watching some guy standing at the wharf in the rain? Was this accidental footage?

• kevin // Jan 4, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  overall, it was pretty wimpy compared to storms of the past. a few hardships for commuters but we’ll get over it pretty quickly.

• the cow says: MOOOO! // Jan 4, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  Bill Lovejoy is an amateur and this kind of video should NOT be online wasting our time. There are a lot of talented film artists in this area and this is the best we get?

  This video doesn’t show anything about how the storm really treated this area. We had power lines down all over the place, trees and debris everywhere, gusty winds and flooding on Highway 1 southbound, power outages in every town, Highway 17 was blocked in BOTH directions for a while, and stupid motorists were driving without their headlights on and they were running lights that had no power, which are supposed to be treated as stop signs.

  How hard is it to get some footage of what was really happening rather than some wet-lensed footage of a guy walking, a girl playing, and an ugly vehicle driving in the rain?

  I’m more upset that i actually wasted my time following the link and watching the video. Sentinel, next time post something WORTHWHILE, or don’t post anything at all.

• Lynn // Jan 5, 2008 at 1:07 am

  I have to agree with the other posters about the filmed coverage of the storm…it looks like a fun little storm not a really damaging one…I live in the pacific NW where we had hurricane strength winds in October and November, we lost our electricity three times in less than two months…But it’s a regular winter event in the South Sound…Oh and last month we had the flooding and the winds, Interstate 5 was under water, terrible damage and flooding, landslides, for miles and miles. Farmers lost their entire farms, herds of milk cows, whole organic farms, and Fema came in, but the help is like a band aide over a gashing wound…People are still hurting around here it’s will take months to recover, if ever for some…And I noticed that our area was barely mentioned on the news, when there where Katrina scenes for miles, people being plucked off of roofs, people in boats trying to find others who were stuck in or on top of flooded homes…One lady was stuck inside of her water filled house for 2 days with her dogs…Hope the storm subsides soon for you all, and you get your electric back soon…We have had 40mph plus winds and rain tonight too, but oddly enough the lights are still on here at least, and people here are so use to this weather, it’s said we have web feet, and it’s true! I think there are still some videos in the user submitted section on the local enews paper of the floods…the best pictures seem to be gone from this source but epapers like the King 5 News or Seattle Times, might have some or the Centralia news papers…The Olympian has a user submitted section and a blog, during the floods, so people could communicate with one another, because many were stuck, roads blocked or flooded, and we live in a very simular area, surrounded by mountains, our port is the end of the Puget Sound though… www.theolympian.com

• Suz // Jan 5, 2008 at 9:03 am

  I heard from the police that they closed the Esplanade last night… flooding, and the waves were almost going over the wharfhouse.

• Shirley // Jan 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  Bill Lovejoy, You missed your calling. You should be a writer!!!! Love your stills, though,

• amy // Jan 5, 2008 at 1:11 pm

  Hi there. I live in Santa Cruz. I was looking for some good coverage of the storm but came upon this video. It looks as if they were unable to film during the worst parts of the storm, because it was definitely much worse than what the video shows. On my street the rain was blowing in hard and sideways and I heard sirens on a regular basis. Our power went out for a while and power was out through most of the County.

  As far as I know, Capitola and the Santa Cruz Mountains are fine. No problems that I’ve heard of but then again I haven’t specifically checked.

  It’s true that Californians are a bit wimpy when it comes to storms. But this one was actually quite a sight.