Posted on 01/19/2010 10:14:40 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A Huntington Beach police officer checks out an SUV that winds blew onto its side in the parking lot of Peter's Landing Marina in Huntington Harbour. No one was in the vehicle when it tipped over. (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times / January 19, 2010)
The second of four rainstorms forecast for Southern California pummeled the coast this afternoon, with gale-force winds and at least one tornado lifting boats in Orange County 30 to 50 feet, causing serious flooding across the region and promoting a new round of evacuations.
But forecasters said the worst is yet to come, in the form of a stronger, colder storm set to hit the L.A. area Wednesday evening. Authorities plan to evacuate 489 homes in the mudslide-prone foothill areas including La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday morning in advance of the storm. Those evacuations are expected to remain in place until Monday.
"With the first two storms, we got lucky," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. "Wednesday could be horrendous. Monday we got the right jab. Tuesday we got the left jab. Wednesday we could get the haymaker to the chin."
Two fatalities have been blamed on the series of storms so far. An El Cajon woman was fatally crushed this afternoon when the passing storm uprooted a tree, which fell on her. On Monday night, a 100-foot tree crashed to the ground, crushing a Frazier Park man and his home.
Today's storm was brief and intense, pummeling coastal areas with hail, ice, thunder, lightning and powerful winds for about two hours before giving way to sunshine and rainbows.
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Wow... didn’t know about a tornado in Goleta! Daughter lives in Santa Barbara area...
Light rain right now in Eagle Rock.
I thought they were evacuating the entire town of Acton...but it seems to me they are talking about the houses East of the wash.
lol.. I setup twitter and have never used it since.
Good luck down there. That is a lot of rain..
Cloudy down here and I hear some wind howling a bit...
What are you getting out that way this late morning.?
That cell might have passed right over my head .
AccuWeather.com Radar Center Los Angeles
Looks like rain will happen shortly...but Lainie will see it heavier than us.
It has stopped raining for the moment but we know that is just a trick to lure us out to lament a soggy garden and when we’re not looking it pours on us again. We have had 2.9” in the 72 hours ending at 7AM and another .3” since and it is ominously black across Humboldt Bay to the west. We are still about 1.5” short of normal yearly rainfall...
really? nah.. those yellows and reds always break up trying to get over the mountains and/or through the ... Escondido? pass. Whatever the 14 goes through.
Twitterers are saying the Station Fire burn area is to expect severe weather at 2:30 PM PST
I-5 at the Grapevine is now closed.
I heard a broadcast go out on LA County Fire saying the same thing...strong band of showers at 230pm in Station Fire burn area...
now they cancelled 230pm and issued 500pm....
they are looking at some type of weather box.....so....they are guessing..
maybe they hired Ontario Weather Service dude...
1.6 last 24 hours, grand total since sunday.. 4.3 or so..
the area we live in is usually the lowest or gets the least rainfall so we done good so far..
We are getting some lighting, wind wind and more wind and the skys are black but no rain. The temp is dropping, the hills around us are covered in snow.
How about you?
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