freaky weather!
My internet mysteriously broke yesterday. Very frustrating. It's embarrassing to admit but I get cranky when I can't get on the net. It all seems to be working now though. *knocks on wood*
Flight to Chicago is booked! I shall be landing at 1pm and am hopeful I'll reach the hotel at a reasonable time thereafter.
We had freaky weather here Wednesday. I was driving when I heard the emergency broadcast signal. I thought it would be a severe thunderstorm warning as we'd been having rain all day and the clouds were looking mighty mean that afternoon. To my amazement it was a tornado warning! California doesn't get those very often; the geography is all wrong, but on occasion they do happen.
I arrived at my destination safely. No tornado spotted there but I was probably 1-2 miles where one actually touched down in an almond orchard! The entire orchard is a total loss! - 100 acres, 1600 trees. Homes and buildings were damaged. No one was killed, thankfully. It was an F1 on the tornado scale, a baby in caparison to the tornado in Joplin, MO and other places in the Midwest. I think in total, there were 4 tornadoes spotted in the north valley that evening.
It rained so hard and so much the streets were flooded. And it hailed so much it covered the ground and looked like snow. When it was over, a double rainbow made an appearance.
KCRA news coverage won't let me inbed, but here's the link --> http://youtu.be/jxLj1M7SNRY
Flight to Chicago is booked! I shall be landing at 1pm and am hopeful I'll reach the hotel at a reasonable time thereafter.
We had freaky weather here Wednesday. I was driving when I heard the emergency broadcast signal. I thought it would be a severe thunderstorm warning as we'd been having rain all day and the clouds were looking mighty mean that afternoon. To my amazement it was a tornado warning! California doesn't get those very often; the geography is all wrong, but on occasion they do happen.
I arrived at my destination safely. No tornado spotted there but I was probably 1-2 miles where one actually touched down in an almond orchard! The entire orchard is a total loss! - 100 acres, 1600 trees. Homes and buildings were damaged. No one was killed, thankfully. It was an F1 on the tornado scale, a baby in caparison to the tornado in Joplin, MO and other places in the Midwest. I think in total, there were 4 tornadoes spotted in the north valley that evening.
It rained so hard and so much the streets were flooded. And it hailed so much it covered the ground and looked like snow. When it was over, a double rainbow made an appearance.
KCRA news coverage won't let me inbed, but here's the link --> http://youtu.be/jxLj1M7SNRY