L.A.'s blowing away ...

[Marc Chevalier]

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... but at least there's no smog today!


As I write, there is a POWERFUL windstorm shrieking its way through Los Angeles. The power goes out and then back in. Roof tiles are flying around. Trees are almost horizontal.


Fellow Angelenos, have you been blown away yet?


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[Miss Neecerie]

ahh...I am currently behind the Orange curtain for work....doesn't look all that windy outside here though....

 

[Marc Chevalier]

You wouldn't BELIEVE what I'm seeing and hearing. I've lived through decades of the Santa Ana winds, and this beats them all.

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[Marc Chevalier]

I just saw Happyfilmluvguy fly by my office window. Grab a palm tree, Happy!

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[Marc Chevalier]

The wind sounds like a jet plane taking off. This is ridiculous!

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[Sunny]

Marc, I'm curious. What are the steady and gusting mphs?

We had a wind about a month ago that gusted over 50 mph. It started way out west (hundreds-1000 miles) and brought with it a duststorm visible from space.

Sunny,
succumbing to the inner meteorology nerd within

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The Weather Channel website says it's gusting to over 35 MPH. Feels like more than that, though. And it's cold!


In the distance, I can hear sheet metal stuff falling down from construction sites.

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[Sunny]

Yeah, that's a pretty good wind. Congratulations! :eusa_clap And stay warm! Those high-speed gusting windows go right through you.

Progression pictures of the dust storm on Feb 24, if anyone's interested:

This is the color the whole sky started at.

To the WNW, at 2 o'clock.

To the WNW, at 2:30.

To the WNW, at 2:55.

That red light effect the rest of the day was the weirdest thing ever. At least this wind was relatively warm; I think it was in the 60s or low 70s that day.

 

[Haversack]

Its been windier than normal the past couple of days up here in the Bay Area as well. Rather knife-like in its coldness too. I haven't heard any debris blowing around although there has been plenty of eucalyptus spoor on the ground on my morning walk to work.

Haversack.

 

[Snookie]

I walked two blocks to the P.O. earlier today. I was scared to cross the street because I was sure the light signal was going to topple down any second. That, and because I saw Happyfilmluvguy fly by on his broomstick.

We haven't had too much damage here, probably because a windstorm a couple weeks ago already busted the main gate. [huh]

 

[Hemingway Jones]

We're in the midst of a good Ol' Fashioned Nor'Easter. Parts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are getting up to 8" of snow.

Here is Boston, we have torrential rain.

So, I sympathize with you all. Use your wind-cords.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Use your wind-cords.

Are there wind-cords to keep one's head from flying off? Because it's coming to that!

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[Hemingway Jones]

Are there windcords to keep one's head from flying off? Because it's coming to that!

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Just look out for Miss Gulch.

 

[Shearer]

ahh...I am currently behind the Orange curtain for work....doesn't look all that windy outside here though....

I'm in South OC for work. I think we just disconnected from the rest of Cali and are hovering somewhere over Baja

Not a good day for long, curly hair. And man, is the surf choppy and ugly.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Very Easy solution...

Marc...stop going outside.


And since you are posting non stop.....unless you are outside at Starbucks on wireless...you arnt outside anyhow...


geez....

*serves cheese to go with the Whine*

 

[Marc Chevalier]

...unless you are outside at Starbucks on wireless...you arnt outside anyhow...

It's been WiFi for while now, though not at Starbuck$$$. The problem is that I have gone outside ... though not for long! (Brrrr...)

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[Tomasso]

it's gusting to over 35 MPH. And it's cold!


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lol What is it, 65? Spend a Winter in Chicago when it's 0 with 35MPH.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Ha, dude! Shows how much you know! It's 64. lol

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[Miss Neecerie]

It could be argued...

That if it all did blow away.....

it would be an improvement.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

35MPH? That's nuthin,...

A good storm in my neck of the woods often brings 50 to 60 MPH winds, winter or summer.
The winter storms that come over the lake from Canada are the best! lol