WICKED WEATHER USA... (Photos)

cruselits | Jan. 13, 2004 | cruselits

[NRA2BFree]

WoW! Awesome pictures! The weather has really been wicked. That guy in the silver SUV has really got problems. I wonder if he was washed away. Those are some big waves getting ready to go over the SUV. I had seen some of the pics on TV, before but not with such detail.

[crushelits]

Don't be silly!

[RckyRaCoCo]

Here in Mich it's 55... wait, 50, wait, 40...wait...

here comes the cold front(and reality)

[EQAndyBuzz]

New York. 50's and wet. Ecccch... I want 24" of clean white snow this weekend. I want to wake up tomorrow morning, look out the window, see how bad it is outside and light a fire and relax in front of it.

Then I send the kids out to shovel.

[coloradan]

Great pix. With all that ice and snow, why, it's got Global Warming written all over it.

[areafiftyone]

NY has had a pretty mild winter so far. Not like last year. But its still early yet.

[ctdonath2]

Living in a blizzard zone, I must differ.

I'd rather have 12 feet of snow make me stay home, than a known-hurricane for which I can prepare to lose my home.

[Bikers4Bush]

Ice fog? Does it have to be salt water with those kind of temps?

I hear great things about Alaska, I'd like to take a trip there someday.

[colorado tanker]

Well, SUV's and red states must also get some of the blame to be PC about it. Of course, women and children are worst hit.

[stevio]

Why would you say that?

[Bikers4Bush]

Lol! I can't wait. I've got my thermometer up on the pc and am waiting for the temp to start dropping.

Oddly enough it just went up a degree to 66.

[NRA2BFree]

WoW! Awesome pictures! The weather has really been wicked. That guy in the silver SUV has really got problems. I wonder if he was washed away. Those are some big waves getting ready to go over the SUV. I had seen some of the pics on TV, before but not with such detail.

[WestCoastGal]

That one is La Conchita between Ventura and Santa Barbara. They are still digging for people.

This happened there in the same place about 10 years ago.

[curlewbird]

Yeah, it's coming all right! It is currently 2 degrees here with a NW wind at about 30 mph! THANKS CANADA!!

[Rebelbase]

[Abigail Adams]

I wouldn't live in California if you paid me a million dollars! (Well, maybe for a week or so.) Mudslides, wildfires, smog, etc.

It's about 0 degrees in MN today with a winchill of around -20. And it's going to get colder this weekend!

[Chummy]

"Durn gummint. Was no sign sayin' th' durn road was flooded. C'mon, maw."

[crushelits]

Frantic Search Ends In Grief
Calif. Man Loses His Family in Mudslide

LA CONCHITA, Calif. -- Jimmie Wallet went out for ice cream, and when he got back, everyone and everything he had left behind were gone.
On Wednesday, he identified the bodies of his wife and three of his daughters, pulled from a tangle of homes smashed by a mudslide.

No one lost more than Wallet in Monday's mudslide, which has killed at least 10 people in this oceanside community. And, driven by the frantic hope of finding his family, no one was as quick to claw through the debris and help pull out survivors.

Wallet dug for hours in the rain around where he thought the family might be. He helped rescue two people before he stopped and waited, smoking cigarettes as friends stopped by to embrace him. Early Wednesday, after 36 hours, his wait ended. <> His wife, Mechelle, was the first to be found. Around 2 a.m., firefighters and several of Wallet's friends carried her to the makeshift morgue at the town's gas station. Wallet went in and identified her, then returned to the porch of a peach stucco house where he had been staying, put up his feet and sat without a word. more...

Jimmie Wallet, center, shares happier times with his wife and daughters in this undated family photo. His teenage daughter Jasmine, right, survived but his other three daughters and his wife were killed in the Calif. mudslides.

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[GOP_1900AD]

Plus, nearly 20 feet of snow in Truckee, the most I've seen in years.

[Alberta's Child]

Looks like Michael Moore took a dump in the middle of the road.