Originally Posted by
livedarklions
I lived on Matadero for several years. That creek could get pretty scary during rainy season.
Our house is 500 feet from Matadero Creek. Yes, it used to be scary when it was raining hard. But the city did a flood control upgrade with big retaining walls, and now the water never gets up very high. The price we paid was the loss of all the neighborhood toads, as they were no longer able to climb out of the creek. We used to get an invasion of tiny toads every year.
Originally Posted by
spelger
moffett, i think they flew blimps out from there. used to work in sunnyvale.
Yes, I worked at a building that faced the Moffett runway. Many years ago, blimps patrolled the waters off the coast, looking for enemy ships. Later, they launched P3 planes to search for Soviet submarines. All day and night. They stopped that program, thankfully. NASA Ames is there, too. We'd occasionally see a U2 or an SR-71 take off or land.
The Ames wind tunnel is something to see. It's the biggest in the world:
