/ Babylon sisterrrrrrrrrrrs SHAKE IT ...

Gonz: ... and we're sinking, deeper and deeper in that chilly California sand.

*tiny fist*

/Loves the Meat

Makin' headlines again...Santa Anna Winds.

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And all the damn tractor trailers turned over on my way to work. What part of "high profile vehicles- don't even try it" do they not understand?

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I really liked Cali. Except for those times when it was on fire, or shaking or sliding away in a mudslide, or blowing away in the Santa Ana winds, or burning while shaking and sliding away in mudslides with Santa Ana winds.

I remember trying to ride my bike in those winds.
Into the wind sucked serious ass, but with it at my back, I could easily pass up the cars on the road.

Strange, I was imagining Team Rocket being blown into the sky.

Shadow Blasko: timujin: If this were a horror movie, by today there'd be zombies.

You write pretty.


But fix that lightning thing.

And look up the definition of akimbo.
Second time I've seen it misused today.

Nasty_McFilth: Makin' headlines again...Santa Anna Winds.

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Dangit...*Ana.

/got trolled by the youtube video title.

Shadow Blasko: timujin: If this were a horror movie, by today there'd be zombies.

You write pretty.


But fix that lightning thing.

No static at all?

timujin: My next door neighbor had a 10'x30' canopy over his driveway, each corner chained to cinder blocks.

Yeah, that isn't going to do much. You need to properly secure it into the ground. Pour some concrete footings a few feet deep, set the anchor bolts while it's still wet, and then secure it when it is all dry. Same system you'd use for securing a deck.

There is a good chance that your neighbor is going to get dinged because his canopy wasn't up to code...

Did someone page me?

Okay, you win. Guess I'm grumpy today.

These are not Santa Ana winds.

Santa Ana winds are off-shore and blow east-to-west in So. Cal. These were from the north.

I'm in East LA and we lost power around 2am last night. I just checked SCE's website and it's the usual "crews are working to restore power but there's no ETA". The lights started flickering around 10:30pm last night so I shut down most of my stuff and the rest are on different UPS power devices. This is still better than several months ago when the below ground power line blew up and we lost power for 3 days.

And obviously not keeping up with how language is changing.

I'm in Pasadena, and there are two trees down within a block of me. Both eucalyptus, so yeah, not exactly unexpected. The one that fell into the road is really confusing people because it's blocking three of four lanes last I looked. On the corner, one of the three heinously tall palm trees is now stripped of all its dead fronds, which are scattered all over the ground below, pretty much hiding the sidewalk. The other two look untouched, even though they look like the same kind of palm.

And a public transit truck just drove by with a bus route sign in the back of it, heh. Either way, all the local gardening/tree companies must be busy.

/More curious about what the long blue plastic thing that's tangled in a tree nearby is from.

Live in Pasadena here. My roof now consists of plywood and a little tar paper, the rest is on Colorado Blvd. :(

Why Yes I Am A Wizard: These are not Santa Ana winds.

Santa Ana winds are off-shore and blow east-to-west in So. Cal. These were from the north.

Santa Anas are a downslope wind that originates on the high desert and is adiabatically heated (and thus dried) during descent. These qualify as that, although the driving force is stronger than usual: an "inside slider" low over the Great Basin plus a really serious high (1047 mb!) over the Pac NW... this is pretty much a statewide event. It's been blowing in Nor Cal since yesterday morning.

/have to drive thru Pacheco Pass this evening with a carload of kids, not looking forward to it.

Did I say statewide? How about the Sierras east of Sacramento... here's a snip from the forecast discussion up there:

MAIN DAMAGE REPORTS SO FAR HAVE BEEN IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF
AMADOR COUNTY WHERE SPOTTER AT 6700 FEET REPORTING MANY LARGE
TREES BROKEN AT TOP AND MANY 18"-24" TREES UPROOTED OR SNAPPED.

Im in Central California (about 4-5 hours away from SA). Winds are pretty heavy here too. Several roofs being stripped of their shingles. Trees down all over the place.

Anyone got a kite?

Another Pasadenan here. There's four full-grown trees down on my block alone, plus one that split in half onto one poor bastard's car. Pasadena has actually declared a state of emergency and closed the schools and libraries, plus the city buses aren't running. There's an unholy amount of debris in the streets and since the winds are still blowing they're worried more trees and power lines will come down. Last night I was hearing police and fire sirens nonstop for hours.

It's not by far the biggest natural disaster I've been through, but it's definitely not your normal everyday Santa Anas.

When we lived in Norco we had the neighbor's barn come flying across the street to land upside down on our fence. The Santa Ana winds were clocked at 100+ that night.

This is an event like that.

It's been nasty in Vegas too since this thing blew in although I realize we're just getting the leftovers from CA. It tends to get very windy here whenever storms come in but last night, for the first time, I actually felt the strong gusts shake my house a bit. I'm very thankful right now that it's a typical southwest-style construction; those roof tiles aren't going anywhere!

Funny that just last weekend, I was hiking in a tee shirt and marveling at how gorgeous the weather has been.

Another Pasadenean here. Finally got my internet back at like 8pm. The whole neighborhood is a disaster area treewise but luckily I live on a major street and they cleared it pretty quickly. The old oak tree in front of my house that's been there for like 50 years is gone.

We live on Fort Irwin and the winds were the worst I had seen since moving here. Trees were uprooted, windows were shattered, and I had to chase our trash can down the street at 630 this morning. That being said, I think it's a hoot to see birds try to fly in these winds.

Is there gas in the car?