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(Some Guy) Followup LA hit with "once in a generation windstorm". We knew Twilight sucked but damn   (losangeles.cbslocal.com) divider line 43
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ultraholland
2011-12-02 04:40:35 PM
She's gone from suck to blow!
 
fusillade762
2011-12-02 05:36:24 PM
He urged residents to stay in their homes if possible and to drive cautiously if driving is unavoidable.

But... I HAVE AN AUDITION!!!
 
Tillmaster
2011-12-02 05:40:54 PM
100 mph winds in Northern LA?
That's well to one side of the bell curve, surely.
 
Maynotlast
2011-12-02 05:43:39 PM
I saw seven nannies get swept away with their umbrellas.
 
Kwality Assurance
2011-12-02 05:48:53 PM
It was windy as hell at my place in the foothills of S OC yesterday but today there's nothing so I was busy with the 'Meet Jackie' sideshow on the left. Anybody else notice that when she started on channel 9 doing the weather she had huge fake tits. About a year later she got a Huge rock on her finger. Then about a year later she downsized the chest. And a few months later the ring was gone. Coincidence?
 
ultraholland
2011-12-02 05:49:56 PM
just noticed this:

December 1, 2011 6:58 PM

a little behind are we?
 
Snargi
2011-12-02 05:52:27 PM
Let's see how all those fair-weather SoCal prep QB's throw the ball in their championship games this weekend.
 
Tillmaster
2011-12-02 05:55:00 PM
ultraholland: just noticed this:

December 1, 2011 6:58 PM

a little behind are we?

You mean like the case where a butcher's infant son sat on the bacon slicer, and he got a little behind in his work/
 
Ed Willy
2011-12-02 05:55:01 PM
ultraholland: just noticed this:

December 1, 2011 6:58 PM

a little behind are we?

The wind blew Subby's link into the next day.
 
Solid State Vittles
2011-12-02 06:00:03 PM
When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

Wish I was joking.
 
ultraholland
2011-12-02 06:01:27 PM
Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

NEVAR FORGET
 
tinyarena
2011-12-02 06:09:24 PM
Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

Yeah, this is kind of embarrassing. Sure it got a little windy around here yesterday and 140 mph winds in the mountains around Big Bear were dangerous but, come on, people in Joplin, people in New Orleans must be laughing at us.
 
Lunchlady
2011-12-02 06:12:34 PM
My drive to work takes me through Bel Air where I now drive around a positively massive tree that went down and mangled 3 houses fences and blocked a guy in.

In other news the Schaudenfraude has been wonderful this winter in southern California.
 
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2011-12-02 06:16:14 PM
ultraholland: Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

NEVAR FORGET

bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com
 
ultraholland
2011-12-02 06:16:21 PM
Lunchlady: My drive to work takes me through Bel Air where I now drive around a positively massive tree that went down and mangled 3 houses fences and blocked a guy in.

that was actually the result of Uncle Phil going on a rampage because Jazzy Jeff pissed him off
 
Kahabut
2011-12-02 06:17:52 PM
Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

Wish I was joking.

It was windy last night here on the peninsula, but nothing to get excited about. But then, I'm not from here, so I know what real weather looks like.
 
justtray
2011-12-02 06:19:41 PM
The wind was scary. Losing power was scarier. It was like a tornado/hurricane outside. Not cool.
 
MrSteve007
2011-12-02 06:36:43 PM
Directly related to this so-cal windstorm, Seattle set an *all-time* high pressure record yesterday too.
Link (new window)
Link2 (new window)
 
arcsecond
2011-12-02 06:36:46 PM
The wind itself wasn't too much of a problem for me from LAX up to the valley, it was the idiots who didn't secure their loads on their pickup trucks. There was furniture and bags of leaves blowing all over the 405. I did get to see a transformer explode too, I guess some powerlines were blown into each other. Big blue flash with sparks trailing away and then a block of lights went out.
 
Osomatic [TotalFark]
2011-12-02 06:39:39 PM
Yeah, this is a bit of old news, it happened Thursday night, but it really was somewhat serious. It was pretty much a dry hurricane. 60-80 mph winds with a top gust of 97 up in the hills.

The San Gabriel Valley was hardest hit - I work in Pasadena and most of the streetlights were out, many of the roads and streets were impassable, and about 40 apartment buildings across the valley were red-tagged as too damaged to occupy. Something like 10-15% of the entire LA area lost power that first night, quite a few of them still have no electricity.

It was no Katrina, but still, quite an event in a town that rarely has to deal with serious weather. I was born and raised here and I've never seen anything like it.
 
jaybeezey
2011-12-02 06:40:47 PM
Clearly the result of Global Blowing.

Electric cars now!
 
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh
2011-12-02 06:43:13 PM
tinyarena: Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

Yeah, this is kind of embarrassing. Sure it got a little windy around here yesterday and 140 mph winds in the mountains around Big Bear were dangerous but, come on, people in Joplin, people in New Orleans must be laughing at us.

Maybe, but the people just a bit farther north up the west coast definitely are.

/100MPH winds? Typical late fall/ early winter storm on the Washington coast, good for knocking dead leaves off the trees and flushing visiting urbanites out of the area.
//Pacific Northwest coastal storms scare NOAA hurricane hunters (new window)
 
Smeggy Smurf
2011-12-02 06:44:55 PM
A blow job in LA made the news? I know, this is Fark but sheesh.
 
Wert789
2011-12-02 06:55:23 PM
I live in Fontana CA, just south of the Cajon Pass. What La La land sees as a once a generation wind storm is two or three times a year thing for us.
 
lacrossestar83
2011-12-02 07:03:32 PM
Kwality Assurance: It was windy as hell at my place in the foothills of S OC yesterday but today there's nothing so I was busy with the 'Meet Jackie' sideshow on the left. Anybody else notice that when she started on channel 9 doing the weather she had huge fake tits. About a year later she got a Huge rock on her finger. Then about a year later she downsized the chest. And a few months later the ring was gone. Coincidence?

i620.photobucket.com
 
bhcompy
2011-12-02 07:11:40 PM
Kwality Assurance: It was windy as hell at my place in the foothills of S OC yesterday but today there's nothing so I was busy with the 'Meet Jackie' sideshow on the left. Anybody else notice that when she started on channel 9 doing the weather she had huge fake tits. About a year later she got a Huge rock on her finger. Then about a year later she downsized the chest. And a few months later the ring was gone. Coincidence?

Channel 9 has all the newsbabes. That said, she's no Sharon Tay
 
Osomatic [TotalFark]
2011-12-02 08:01:07 PM
A tree squashed a Lambo, too:

Link (new window)

Dammit, won't somebody please think of the expensive Italian sports cars?!?!?!?!
 
Osomatic [TotalFark]
2011-12-02 08:02:49 PM
Argh, let's try that link one more time.
 
mark12A
2011-12-02 08:15:02 PM
GLOBAL WARMZ!!! !LOLOLOL! !! 1 1 1
 
Why Yes I Am A Wizard
2011-12-02 08:30:26 PM
Is Rush Limbaugh visiting So. Cal?
 
Lorelle [TotalFark]
2011-12-02 09:02:12 PM
Wert789: I live in Fontana Fontucky CA, just south of the Cajon Pass.

FTFY

/going back to the Valley tonight
//hopes the power's back on
 
phelixcubed
2011-12-02 09:44:05 PM
Osomatic: Yeah, this is a bit of old news, it happened Thursday night, but it really was somewhat serious. It was pretty much a dry hurricane. 60-80 mph winds with a top gust of 97 up in the hills.

The San Gabriel Valley was hardest hit - I work in Pasadena and most of the streetlights were out, many of the roads and streets were impassable, and about 40 apartment buildings across the valley were red-tagged as too damaged to occupy. Something like 10-15% of the entire LA area lost power that first night, quite a few of them still have no electricity.

It was no Katrina, but still, quite an event in a town that rarely has to deal with serious weather. I was born and raised here and I've never seen anything like it.

I live up in the hills (Eagle Rock, between Pasadena and Glendale) and the wind was blowing something fierce - for most of the night it sounded like we were in a wind tunnel. Power went out 4 separate times (the last time, it went out for eighteen hours before it was restored), woke up around 1:30 AM when a tree on my property decided to snap in half and demolish part of my patio, woke up again around 3:30 AM to the sounds of the wind tearing off the remainder of my patio roof and scattering it in my backyard. Been living here all my life (early 40's now) and I've never heard the wind sound anything remotely like it did that night. They said they clocked the winds at a high of 97 miles per hour - doubt it got that high where I live, but I have no doubts it was blowing at least 50-60 mph where I lived.

/Neighbor's filled trashcans were scattered in my front yard
//He lives 200 yards away
 
Chevello
2011-12-02 11:07:35 PM
MrSteve007: Directly related to this so-cal windstorm, Seattle set an *all-time* high pressure record yesterday too.
Link (new window)
Link2 (new window)

So THAT was the Eagles' problem. I knew it couldn't POSSIBLY have been Andy Reid (AGAIN)
 
El Pelon
2011-12-03 01:21:04 AM
Wert789: Thank you. I grew up in Fontana and there is some serious wind that comes down from the pass. This is nothing new. I can remember as a kid standing at at least a 45 degree angle for a few minutes talking to my friends while the wind held up all up and kept us from falling. Crazy wind in that area all the time.

Once in a generation?! Pfft!
 
Osomatic [TotalFark]
2011-12-03 01:33:46 AM
phelixcubed: Osomatic: Yeah, this is a bit of old news, it happened Thursday night, but it really was somewhat serious. It was pretty much a dry hurricane. 60-80 mph winds with a top gust of 97 up in the hills.

The San Gabriel Valley was hardest hit - I work in Pasadena and most of the streetlights were out, many of the roads and streets were impassable, and about 40 apartment buildings across the valley were red-tagged as too damaged to occupy. Something like 10-15% of the entire LA area lost power that first night, quite a few of them still have no electricity.

It was no Katrina, but still, quite an event in a town that rarely has to deal with serious weather. I was born and raised here and I've never seen anything like it.

I live up in the hills (Eagle Rock, between Pasadena and Glendale) and the wind was blowing something fierce - for most of the night it sounded like we were in a wind tunnel. Power went out 4 separate times (the last time, it went out for eighteen hours before it was restored), woke up around 1:30 AM when a tree on my property decided to snap in half and demolish part of my patio, woke up again around 3:30 AM to the sounds of the wind tearing off the remainder of my patio roof and scattering it in my backyard. Been living here all my life (early 40's now) and I've never heard the wind sound anything remotely like it did that night. They said they clocked the winds at a high of 97 miles per hour - doubt it got that high where I live, but I have no doubts it was blowing at least 50-60 mph where I lived.

/Neighbor's filled trashcans were scattered in my front yard
//He lives 200 yards away

Down here near Hollywood/Larchmont, it wasn't that bad, but it was still pretty bad. Our street was literally covered in palm fronds. I would have gotten up early and helped out whoever the extremely kind souls who pushed them all off to the side were, but I was up until 3:30 AM looking at the two giant 60-foot pine trees in front of our house, either of which could easily destroy our house or other houses were they to fall over. Not for nothing, today my wife was driving on Los Feliz and saw one identical to ours, lying on its side. Yikes.

Everything seems to be more or less okay now, so please, if you're in Eagle Rock, tomorrow go have lunch at Spitz or at Oinkster or Tommy's and enjoy! This can be a good place to live, and Eagle Rock is totally cool and one of the reasons why. :)

/I was born in Glendale but my parents lived in Eagle Rock when I was born, and for the next couple years, then things apparently got crazy
//my childhood was scattered around SoCal until I was 6, then settled and raised in Glendale until I moved out on my own
///anyway that's why I say I was "born and raised in Glendale" because pretty much for all I remember, I was
////I don't really understand what the slashes are for, but I enjoy using them
 
K.B.O. Winston [TotalFark]
2011-12-03 02:21:14 AM
Its bark was worse than its bite, but the bark was impressive. It was like trying to sleep inside a Scooby Doo episode.
 
DigitalDirt
2011-12-03 02:28:05 AM
Osomatic:
Everything seems to be more or less okay now, so please, if you're in Eagle Rock, tomorrow go have lunch at Spitz or at Oinkster or Tommy's and enjoy!

I am glad you lived to eat Tommy's another day. I need some chili cheese fries right now!
mmm-yoso.typepad.com
 
Osomatic [TotalFark]
2011-12-03 03:00:31 AM
DigitalDirt: Osomatic:
Everything seems to be more or less okay now, so please, if you're in Eagle Rock, tomorrow go have lunch at Spitz or at Oinkster or Tommy's and enjoy!

I am glad you lived to eat Tommy's another day. I need some chili cheese fries right now!
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DigitalDirt: Osomatic:
Everything seems to be more or less okay now, so please, if you're in Eagle Rock, tomorrow go have lunch at Spitz or at Oinkster or Tommy's and enjoy!

I am glad you lived to eat Tommy's another day. I need some chili cheese fries right now!
[mmm-yoso.typepad.com image 350x327]

OM NOM NOM
 
RyCam
2011-12-03 04:34:13 AM
At our building in Century City, they spent two days assembling the stage and other crap for the annual free Christmas concert, then they just took that shiat down yesterday without ever having the concert cuz the wind was so crazy.
 
Baloo Uriza
2011-12-03 10:14:23 PM
Sapulpa Herald in Oklahoma went with the headline "Los Angeles destroyed by moderately blustery day."
 
Baloo Uriza
2011-12-03 10:17:48 PM
tinyarena: Solid State Vittles: When reporting on the huge winds that hit the Bay Area, the local news showed a picture of a trampoline in Marin County that had been knocked over.

Yeah, this is kind of embarrassing. Sure it got a little windy around here yesterday and 140 mph winds in the mountains around Big Bear were dangerous but, come on, people in Joplin, people in New Orleans must be laughing at us.

Heck, Portlanders do, too. The Columbia River Gorge is the lowest point (basically sea level) in a mountain range with 10,000+ foot high peaks. When it's hot in the desert and cool in the Willamette Valley, it's not uncommon to see winds E 30-50 G70+ and a calm day in the gorge would be winds E or W 15-35 G 40+. Wind surfing capital of the world as a result.
 
Baloo Uriza
2011-12-03 10:18:54 PM
Lunchlady: My drive to work takes me through Bel Air where I now drive around a positively massive tree that went down and mangled 3 houses fences and blocked a guy in.

In other news the Schaudenfraude has been wonderful this winter in southern California.

Not possible. If you're posting from "southern" California, odds are you meant "Western" california because eastern California doesn't have people. Western California doesn't have seasons.
 
bhcompy
2011-12-03 10:19:02 PM
Baloo Uriza: Sapulpa Herald in Oklahoma went with the headline "Los Angeles destroyed by moderately blustery day."

It's cool, we'll laugh when New Madrid ruptures and the Sapulpa Herald is destroyed by a moderately blustery earthquake
 
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