Life imitates art

[cjsmith]

Did y'all see the tornado warning for Los Angeles this weekend? (It was later retracted. I can just imagine the guys at the National Weather Service. "Uh, we're rebooting everything, sorry folks.")

Somebody's been watching too many movies.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Heee :)

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Tornadoes do, and have happened here in Los Angeles... movies or no.. it just takes a particular warm thing mixing with a cold thing..

Now true, SoCal isn't exactly "Tornado Alley" or anything like that.. I'll have to look for some statistics but I swear somewhere I read that California in general gets a lot more tornadoes than people realize though we are "known" for our earthquakes. ;) Rare though they are..

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Tornadoes do, and have happened here in Los Angeles

Sure. They can happen anywhere. But this weekend was very untornadolike! I suspect Los Angeles in August is not tornado season. I wonder what glitch caused that report in the first place.

We get a few funnel clouds up here in the Bay area every winter. Most don't touch, though.

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Well.. Saturday morning (I was up about 10 or so watching something Tivoed from 8 or so) and there were some pretty nasty clouds in the sky. I'll admit, nasty clouds do not a tornado make.. and I was amused at seeing the Tornado Warning for LA County on the screen...

Sunday was perfect of course! ;)