If a tree falls.....

[RICHARD]

On a man in the Valley would it make any noise?

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14216709

Today the wind was ferocious-rain was falling sideways at times!

[blue]

If the man was a Republican no one would here a thing.

[RICHARD]

If the man was a Republican no one would here a thing.

Seriously?

That part of the valley is Dem...Really!

[blue]

You quoted my typo, I must hang my head in the shamefull way of my people.

So the dems would have a bonfire with the fallen tree if it was felled on a member of the GOP?

[RICHARD]

You quoted my typo, I must hang my head in the shamefull way of my people.

So the dems would have a bonfire with the fallen tree if it was felled on a member of the GOP?

I'll share the blame, I was a newspaper proofreader for the hi-school rag once.

It was crazy weather today, if they could have lit a match? More power to them!

[Karen]

Today the wind was ferocious-rain was falling sideways at times!

Oh, Richard, you are so sheltered, weatherwise! We often have sideways rain, but even better is snow falling up! Yup, when the wind hits a building, the updraft will swing the snow up! It's easier to see snow, so you can notice it falling down, blowing sideways, or heading up instead of down!

[RICHARD]

Oh, Richard, you are so sheltered, weatherwise! We often have sideways rain, but even better is snow falling up!

That's a low blow-everyone knows palm trees don't do well in the low to mid 30's!

LOL, this was crazy weather.

The wind usually blows from north to south, it was reversed,with rain today.
This is end-of-the-world stuff to me.

[moosmom]

SIDEWAYS rain??? Am I missing something here??

[pomtzu]

SIDEWAYS rain??? Am I missing something here??

Good grief girl!! You've never seen sideways rain?? - it's just the wind blowing the falling rain - just like snow blows sideways a lot in a heavy snow storm.

You need to get out more.........

[RICHARD]

The thread starts with a man being hurt by a falling tree and turns into a thread where everyone is hyping the bad weather in their part of 'town'.

[pomtzu]

The thread starts with a man being hurt by a falling tree and turns into a thread where everyone is hyping the bad weather in their part of 'town'.

You started it big boy!!! You're the one who mentioned rain falling sideways! Na-nana-na-na (sing-songy of course).

[RICHARD]

You started it big boy!!! You're the one who mentioned rain falling sideways! Na-nana-na-na (sing-songy of course).

I did!

I love civic pride and find that people are very protective of their home town/state.

It's like finding a silver lining to that cloud!

[kokopup]

Riichard, the weather reports coming out of your area show the hills sliding sideways too. I guess that's what happens when you get a lot of sideways rain and all of your trees have burned from your sideway forest fires. Do trees really fall in California.

[caseysmom]

We are having 3 back to back storms here in northern california, the bad thing is people here really don't know how to drive in these snow storms, there are cars flipping over and hitting snowbanks, etc.

Good news is the snowboarding will be great this weekend for my kid!

[RICHARD]

Riichard, the weather reports coming out of your area show the hills sliding sideways too. I guess that's what happens when you get a lot of sideways rain and all of your trees have burned from your sideway forest fires. Do trees really fall in California.

Trees grow in the summer, burn in the fall, fall over with the winter rains and just add the the confustion out here.

I live about 10 minutes from the Flintridge/Tujunga areas. Those town butt up against the Angeles National Forest, where most of the tree burnt.

In between is a dam/catch basin area that channels the water runoff to the L.A. river, then to the sea.

There is also a network of concrete channels that cross the valley floor that are about 10 foot deep. When you cross them on a bridge and see them two feet from running over the top you have to compare that to when you see them empty.

We are in for some thunder storms tody. We don't get enough of those!