The Winds are Blowing...

[clara]

Ah the Santa Ana's...what fun to wake up in the middle of the night the sound of your window being pelted and coming off its hinges.

Anyone been through the worst of the Santa Ana's? I'm in Rancho Cucamonga so we get these winds bad. I think the worst was when boxes and plastic swings were FLYING down the street!

[Olympicnut]

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I could have so much fun with the title of this thread. But I wont :evil:

Yup, got awakened at 1am by the winds making the hot water heater container rattling. Had to go outside and fix it so that it wouldnt. I now have a minor wind induced headache. One positive - its absolutely GOURGEOUS outside.

[frecky]

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Yep, got up this morning and the wind was a blowin hard. Driving to work was fuuuuuuuuun.

[clara]

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Yep, got up this morning and the wind was a blowin hard. Driving to work was fuuuuuuuuun.

Driving in the winds are scary. I feel like my car is going to flip over and have to really try hard to control the car!

[Mac Daddy]

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Driving in the winds are scary. I feel like my car is going to flip over and have to really try hard to control the car!

Stay away from the big rigs on hwy 15 and the 60 in your area. If they aren't carrying a load in these winds, they go right over like a piece of cardboard.


I'm not sure how high they'll get, but I sure hope they used some fancy glue on all of those huge pumkins at the DLR. I can just imagine that giant mickey head rolling up Mainstreet!

[frecky]

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Driving in the winds are scary. I feel like my car is going to flip over and have to really try hard to control the car!

Theres a couple sections of the 118 that are pretty bad. I hope it dies down by the time I go home.

[TinkPink]

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This might sound weird, but I used to love Santa Anas! As a kid I would flip my jacket up like a sail and have them blow me over. I just love windy days.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the damage that can sometimes come with them.

I remember one year, it would have been 1998 I believe, that I had to drive up the 15 through Mira Loma and the sides of the freeway were literally lined with big rigs tipped over. I have never seen anything like that. All of the over passes were closed. It was a real bitch because I had to drive into L.A. that day. I remember it well, my engine blew on the way home and black smoke was blowing everywhere! :lol:

[mamabot]

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It is fairly windy at work today. The winds are calm at the moment, but I am sure they will get a little worse later on.

The worst is when the winds are blowing so hard that it is hard to breathe, much less walk.

As for beauty, my brother called me this morning and told me that the view as he was driving over Mulholland was breathtaking.

[NemoZorro]

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Gotta find a way to break that wind.....


Not being a Californian, I have a silly question. Do the winds help to clean up the smog from L.A., or do they just redistribute it? Seems like we see smog earlier now when we drive to DL than we used to (coming from AZ).

[frecky]

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Gotta find a way to break that wind.....


Not being a Californian, I have a silly question. Do the winds help to clean up the smog from L.A., or do they just redistribute it? Seems like we see smog earlier now when we drive to DL than we used to (coming from AZ).

Honestly, Ive never noticed a difference. Maybe Ill actually pay attention today.

[clara]

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Gotta find a way to break that wind.....


Not being a Californian, I have a silly question. Do the winds help to clean up the smog from L.A., or do they just redistribute it? Seems like we see smog earlier now when we drive to DL than we used to (coming from AZ).

This is a good question. Considering how clear and nice it is today after a nite of intense winds....I would say it just clears it up? Maybe just disintegrates it? But it doesn't matter after the winds stop the smog will be back within hours.

[DisneyFunGuy]

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I live in Anaheim, and when I woke up this morning at 5am, it was so calm, and cold. But when I left for lunch from work at 10am, it was BLOWIN' BIG TIME!!! Luckily, it doesn't seem to be a hot wind, but rather on the cool side, so that's nice.

I actually like it, cuz it'll blow all the smog out and show the stars more at night!

[Mac Daddy]

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Gotta find a way to break that wind.....


Not being a Californian, I have a silly question. Do the winds help to clean up the smog from L.A., or do they just redistribute it? Seems like we see smog earlier now when we drive to DL than we used to (coming from AZ).

The Santa Anas blow the smog waaaaaaaay out over the ocean as they come from the east/northeast. I don't know how many of you saw the satellite photos of the huge fires we had a couple years ago, but the satellite showed the smoke from those three huge fires blowing....maybe all the way out to Hawaii. Ok...maybe not that far, but maybe a good 150 miles or so out to sea.

[penguinsoda]

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I live in Anaheim, and when I woke up this morning at 5am, it was so calm, and cold. But when I left for lunch from work at 10am, it was BLOWIN' BIG TIME!!! Luckily, it doesn't seem to be a hot wind, but rather on the cool side, so that's nice.

I actually like it, cuz it'll blow all the smog out and show the stars more at night!

You have stars in Anahiem??? Geeze when my daughter lived down there when I would go to visit I don't think I ever saw a single star in the sky!!! Helicopters yes.. stars no...

And I hate the wind.... it wasn't to bad here this morning but its picking up now. I think our wind should be calming down by early afternoon from what reports I heard though.

[Olympicnut]

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Wind headache in full force now

Lip moisture completely eliminated.

UGH!

[frecky]

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It is now chapped lip weather.

[sir clinksalot]

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To answer the smog question ... yes. The wind get's it the heck out of here and makes it beautiful.

On the negative side, it also kicks up all the dust, the leaves are flying everywhere and anybody who has the slightest allergy get's bad allergy attacks.

At the moment it's not blowing here ... but it sure was earlier.

[pveticket]

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Gotta find a way to break that wind.....


Not being a Californian, I have a silly question. Do the winds help to clean up the smog from L.A., or do they just redistribute it? Seems like we see smog earlier now when we drive to DL than we used to (coming from AZ).

It definitley does help. I could see downtown LA from my house for the first time in a while. But the winds didn't really hit us here, its been a normal day

[NemoZorro]

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It definitley does help. I could see downtown LA from my house for the first time in a while. But the winds didn't really hit us here, its been a normal day

We live about an hour out of Phoenix, and the sky is SOOO clear at night! I would really miss the stars......nice that you get a bit of a smog break, though....

[clara]

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I remember when I was in High School, about 12 years ago we used to have alot of clear days and I lived right along the foothills. See the tops of the mountains was great.