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Oct 21, 2007 16:44

Record Santa Ana winds today, up to 100mph in places. The entire damn world is on fire, or at least Castaic is, 30 or 40 miles north of here. Malibu is burning, too, but since the wind is out of the north we don't see the smoke. It's raining ash again.

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marliese October 22 2007, 01:51:35 UTC

you're living in hell?

droidicus October 22 2007, 04:05:15 UTC

"It's raining ash again."

This is one thing I like about New England... the lack of REALLY BAD natural disasters... Sure we have snow (but that melts away), an occasional category 3 hurricane (every 100 years or so), and very few tornadoes. But we don't have massive forest fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, locust plagues, super massive hail, etc, etc, etc.

~Droid

gemrepus October 22 2007, 17:24:26 UTC

Irvine, too. Adam has photos of that.

And you know what Matt? Earthquakes are infrequent, and pretty much it's perfect all the time. I don't think we have hail here as much as New England does. Also, if New England had an earthquake, you'd be in a whale of a lot of trouble. I 've also never seen volanic eruptions in California... Although the forest fires do a similar thing to the sky.

bistromath October 22 2007, 18:13:30 UTC

California is built up on an actively subsiding fault (the San Andreas), meaning volcanism is actually very active here. Just not in our lifetimes. Mammoth Mountain, and actually much of the Sierra range, extending all the way up to Washington via the Cascades, are volcanic in origin. There are still hot springs in the Sierras and eruptions will doubtless happen again, although not very soon.

We don't get hail in LA, as a rule, mostly because we never get the major thunderstorms required to produce hail (very strong updrafts are required, which are only found in large thunderheads).

New England does get earthquakes here and there but it's a very stable place far from major active faults so they're never very strong. The last damaging earthquake in New England was in 1755.

zylfnogard October 23 2007, 12:00:30 UTC

When we were in Napa our tour people kept mentioning the dormant volcanoes. Key word being dormant, but still- they are there! :)

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