Posted: 5/22/2008 5:09:19 PM EDT
 I can't remember the last storm here in May ... freaking George Bush and his out of control weather machine. We had a pretty heavy bit of hail come down but the stones weren't too big. The lighting is pounding the hillside above me. We had a tornado sighted at March Air Force base though I don't know if they really meant a funnel cloud or if it touched the ground becoming a tornado. So much lighting that I've disconnected my amateur radio antennas. The gutters are full with the down pour. My poor dog is freaked out because she's about 90% deaf but apparently she can still hear the thunder. |
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Yup I was right in the middle of the whole thing. I was driving down 215 and saw the overturned truck blocking 3 lanes, then the tornado, then drove through hail Photo of the tornado http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/news/digest/2008/05/your-photos-tornado-sighted-ov.html  and a CHP officer's recount www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/news/digest/2008/05/just-in-chp-officer-recounts-s.html 
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The thing about SoCal is you can have bad weather all around you but you can never tell where it's going to strike. It was weird getting severe thunderstorm and flood alerts breaking in on TV and looking outside at typical SoCal sunny May weather. Later in the afternoon I thought my kid's Little League game would get rained out. It was dark and drizzling at 4:30PM, a half hour before the game started. But we barely got wet, the sky cleared and the sun came out. It looked like the worst weather went around us. |
I understand you took some damage to your deck - got that picture? |
| 2 days ago, I was in the San Gabriel Valley(10 miles east of Los Angeles) city of Arcadia, and it hailed so much that I couldn't see out my windshield, I had to pull over for 5-10 minutes before the HAIL would let up enough for me to proceed. Extremely unusual weather for this area for this time of the year. |
I think I lost it during one of the upgrades. |