Life-threatening & destructive windstorm headed to So Cal

Stay safe all!

The even more crazy part is because of the low moving over to sit near New Mexico, my local mountains might see snow.

We are really having an odd winter. It needs to get cold and rain/snow.

I am over these darn mosquitoes!!

I think I'll keep our snow storms and hurricanes.

STAY SAFE OUT THERE!!

Well it definitely woke me up at 4am. Looks like the 30+ mph will be starting this afternoon.

Blizzard conditions in my local mountains due to the snow and high winds.

We’re going to see more and more of incidents like this, aren’t we? 😒

Anyway, I hope everyone is safe.

Same for us in north San Diego County. Usually we pack up/cover the patio cushions by the end of October and didn't put things back out until June last year because of the rain. It is all still sitting out this year. 

Good luck! It looks like you and pantsonfire are going to get hit much harder than us. No school closures even in the East part of the county which always gets hit hardest with Santa Anas through the mountain passes.

We are not going to get more than 25-30 mph gusts at the most this afternoon, so other than closing the outdoor umbrella, I don't have to prepare much. If the winds were going to be higher, we lay the umbrella down so we can pick where it falls instead of nature taking out a few planters, etc.

 

Majority of us have power lines up between poles.

We have power shut off warnings in surrounding cities. Our line isn't attached to any in the hills or mountains, it runs off a different line thankfully. But along the foothills and mountains, the cities have zoned emergency power shut off for events like today.

We had 1 fire in the Santa Ana River bed but it was quickly contained thank goodness.

Older and rural areas are more likely to have above ground power lines. Newer areas are underground. There is definitely a move to bury the lines as power companies have been found liable for wind/downed line triggered wild fires. Now power companies turn off power in high risk areas ahead of the winds.


It's annoying to wake up to obviously wet cushions and puddles around the yard while our weather report shows 0 precipitation. 

Here we go...

The app is Watch Duty. You can hone in on a county or area. I have it set up for my area within 20 miles but you can move around CA to see where other fires are. When you click the fire symbol, it gives up to date fire info like acres, sometimes units working, evac centers, etc

Sunset Fire is about 1 miles from center of West Hollywood. From the Hollywood Hills camera at the sign it looks like the smoke is blowing west so it shouldn't affect you. But these Santa Ana seem to change and that could change quickly. Seems they have a handle on it. 20 units called

The Palisades one is taking off at 200 acres

We are sitting at about 18 MPH and had some gusts at 30 MPH. Visability is getting low due to clouds as well as dust and crap coming off the mountains from the bad fire we had in September

We are in an area that can have emergency power shutoffs, but not this time. And we are at the end of a line of electric cables that go through the foothills/mountains.  As a result we've lost power due to wildfires quite far from here.