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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

We get those flash floods here all the time. Just changw Loma Linda to Bellevue. Lots of good size rivers and creeks is the reason. So my place is up on a hill about 1300 feet above ground.

[Frank Cox]

Interesting that the California DMV is now texting its enforcement notices from a cellphone number in The Philippines!

While that is a scam, now that so much stuff is outsourced you can't just assume that stuff that comes from far away places isn't legitimate. Warner Bros uses some payment service provided by Capgemini, and I have the impression that the woman I send "I paid this one" notices to is in the Philippines as well.

[Leo Enticknap]

We get those flash floods here all the time. Just changw Loma Linda to Bellevue.

We sometimes get them here, but only after several days of what Michael Fish infamously called "organized rain" have overwhelmed the storm drains and runoff channels. On the day that screenshot was taken, there hadn't been any rain locally for some time, and Apple Weather's second prediction was also bang on the nail in that all we eventually got was a couple of hours of light, on and off drizzle (and at almost exactly the time it predicted that we would get it): nothing like what would be needed to cause a flash flood. I guess the warning must have been caused by a glitch in their forecasting models.

While that is a scam, now that so much stuff is outsourced you can't just assume that stuff that comes from far away places isn't legitimate.

True, but I've never had it come from a phone number in the foreign country: international call centers are usually reached by calling a domestic number, and if they call or text you, it appears to come from a domestic number, too. I also had another text with almost identical wording from a number in India.