OT- Tornado in Montebello, CA, Everyone OK? |
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OT- Tornado in Montebello, CA, Everyone OK? |
ClayPerrine |
Mar 23 2023, 12:56 PM
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Life's been good to me so far..... Group: Admin Posts: 15,436 Joined: 11-September 03 From: Hurst, TX. Member No.: 1,143 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
I just saw on the news there was a EF1 tornado in Montebello, CA.
I know y'all aren't used to tornados, so I wanted to check on you. Even baby tornadoes like this can be scary if you have never seen one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) Seriously, is everyone OK? |
914_teener |
Mar 23 2023, 01:06 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,197 Joined: 31-August 08 From: So. Cal Member No.: 9,489 Region Association: Southern California |
I just saw on the news there was a EF1 tornado in Montebello, CA. I know y'all aren't used to tornados, so I wanted to check on you. Even baby tornadoes like this can be scary if you have never seen one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) Seriously, is everyone OK? That area is mostly industrial and while not trivial....an industrial area. The person hurt was not serious. It has been a helluva year here...in So Cal and also in parts of AZ depending on the area there as well. While all the water is welcomed....there is more rain on the way next week. Last night it rained pretty hard. Pushing 35 inches of rain on my gauge here in Glendora CA and in AZ....well over 7 ft. of snow over the Winter. Mammoth mountain will set an all time record since records are kept while Tahoe is over 56 feet...not since the Donner party. Spring melt hasn't even started yet. So...good news in that regard. Bad News: We had a trip to Yosemite planned late this Summer....they are now closed indefinately on the valley floor. Potential flooding. |
mgphoto |
Mar 23 2023, 01:06 PM
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"If there is a mistake it will find me" Group: Members Posts: 1,338 Joined: 1-April 09 From: Los Angeles, CA Member No.: 10,225 Region Association: Southern California |
I just saw on the news there was a EF1 tornado in Montebello, CA. I know y'all aren't used to tornados, so I wanted to check on you. Even baby tornadoes like this can be scary if you have never seen one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) Seriously, is everyone OK? That’s close to Oscar’s neck of the woods. |
76-914 |
Mar 23 2023, 02:45 PM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,494 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California |
If you can see one your OK because it ain't too close. If you're in one you can't see it. I've been in 2 of them and by the time I realized either was a tornado it was a 1/2 block down the street.
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Dave_Darling |
Mar 24 2023, 02:58 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,982 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
We had several in one day in Sunnyvale about ... I think 25 years ago? It was really weird looking out the window from work and seeing the sky like that. "Gee, if I were back in IL, I would head for the basement--but we're in CA and we don't get tornadoes."
Found out on the news that night that there were, in fact, tornadoes. --DD |
Maltese Falcon |
Mar 24 2023, 08:29 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,637 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None |
My friend Dorian that runs his specialty sports/race car service in Montebello says that it left about a ½ mile of debris in the area. His shop was 1 block down the street from where it touched down; lots of roofs damaged and flying debris. His shop guys just shaken nerves, concrete tilt-up building held up well.
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campbellcj |
Mar 24 2023, 04:58 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,543 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California |
We got a tornado warning alert here for Calabasas/Agoura Hills. I literally jumped out of my chair when our alarm system panel started freaking out for the first time ever due to that. No actual tornado was observed locally but the wind was vicious for a bit.
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wonkipop |
Apr 4 2023, 05:02 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,264 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
we get them here. but not USA scale.
i knew i had a set of photos on file. found them. back in 2015. up at one of my jobs. it was attempting to form. didn't go full funnel and hit the ground. but it was spinning up. went very dark mid morning. went outside as i wondered what was going on. fortunately it was tracking laterally and not coming at the house. up in northern victorian in an area of australia very similar to the midwest. a couple of years before the late construction stages of the project a funnel hit the ground only a couple of miles from here and did a lot of damage. i joked with my client that he lives in tornado alley. the strongest ones here are recorded at F3. don't get close to the size of monster storms of mid west USA. still can kill you if it happens to go right over you. its virtually impossible to engineer anything to resist the wind forces of these things. even the less powerful ones. |
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