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12/02/2011 03:36:07 PM · #1 |
| Here's a story about the recent crazy winds in LA; the accompanying picture is in front of our house!!! |
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12/02/2011 03:45:56 PM · #2 |
| wow, johanna! (you should take better care of your palm trees) |
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12/02/2011 04:24:05 PM · #3 |
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12/02/2011 04:47:47 PM · #4 |
Alas, beyond the power of Photoshop to clean up...:-(
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12/02/2011 04:58:49 PM · #5 |
| Nothing like that here in the sterile OC. I did move our cars out from under the reach of the trees. Good luck! |
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12/02/2011 07:58:25 PM · #6 |
@ Mae - LOL!!! If only :-)
@ Lev - yeah, we should, but.... |
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12/03/2011 12:48:13 PM · #7 |
Wow, some serious wind damage there. Over here in NO we call those hurricane force winds.
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12/03/2011 01:15:20 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by crik:
Wow, some serious wind damage there. Over here in NO we call those hurricane force winds. |
Some areas experience 100 mph winds, but I don't think it got that high here. What's the minimum speed for winds to be considered hurricane force? |
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12/03/2011 01:17:32 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
Originally posted by crik:
Wow, some serious wind damage there. Over here in NO we call those hurricane force winds. |
Some areas experience 100 mph winds, but I don't think it got that high here. What's the minimum speed for winds to be considered hurricane force? |
73 mph, according tot he Beaufort Scale.
R.
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12/04/2011 09:25:08 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by tanguera:
Originally posted by crik:
Wow, some serious wind damage there. Over here in NO we call those hurricane force winds. |
Some areas experience 100 mph winds, but I don't think it got that high here. What's the minimum speed for winds to be considered hurricane force? |
73 mph, according tot he Beaufort Scale.
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The hurricane winds are rated on the basis of being sustained at a certain speed, so as Robert said, 73 is the minimum. The ratings for all the categories are:
Category One Hurricane (Sustained winds 74-95 mph
Category Two Hurricane (Sustained winds 96-110 mph
Category Three Hurricane (Sustained winds 111-130 mph
Category Four Hurricane (Sustained winds 131-155 mph
Category Five Hurricane (Sustained winds greater than 155 mph
Hope all the power is back up and things are getting back to normal for you. |
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12/04/2011 09:28:38 AM · #11 |
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12/04/2011 11:29:44 AM · #12 |
| You're too slow, Slippy. The other nuts with chainsaws showed up overnight and it's all gone! |
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12/04/2011 11:44:26 AM · #13 |
| The odd thing is that here near San Diego, we were supposed to get very strong winds, too. All the TV stations had people stationed out around the county to show the devastation! The winds never showed up, and here in Ramona, we got nothing more than a gentle breeze. I'm not sure why we didn't get the winds, but maybe the jet stream didn't loop down far enough south to affect us. As I understand it, this was a low pressure system, and not the typical high pressure system over the four corners area that brings us Santa Ana winds. I've seen winds here with gusts to 90 mph, and hope never to see that again! At least we've had enough rain to pretty much kill the fire season. |
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