On Tuesday there was a tornado at some beach, and it flipped a Ford Explorer, and trees. There were alot of tornados, and water spouts, everywhere, all week long, just small ones. (They actually admit that they are tornados now, mostly because people catch them on film!)
A huge lightning bolt hit somewhere near my work, and knocked out the power to the signal and my building, but not much else! It happened at 2pm. There was a meeting scheduled and we couldn't call everyone so we just kept on going. I didn't get to go home early. Luckily there was no shortage of candles... The custodian reported that the power was eventually restored at 6:30 am.
The next day I went to the pier where I take all my pictures. None of the other piers were open. (The last time I took pictures there in a storm, it was raining and that was painful.) Luckily there was a dry spot, we got alot of dry spots in between the storm cells. No tornados, though. The most dramatic thing about the waves was not how tall each individual wave was, but just that the water was almost up to the end of the pier! It's usually a 30 foot drop. I guess that's why they call them "high seas."
This view is from the End of the pier, past Ruby's restaurant. The waves were not crashing onto the pier but almost.
The wind was 50mph and the air smelled worse than just salt. It smelled like a vaccuum cleaner bag.
After work that day I came home and there was part of my tree in my parking space. It's still there.
They just said on the news that Big Bear has gotten snow non-stop since Monday, and it's 7-8 feet.
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