Family and friends who live in places where winter is spelled with a capital "W" and the TV weatherman doesn't interrupt scheduled programming with " Storm Watch 200x" breaking news stories every time the streets get wet from natural causes will have already experienced real winter weather this season. However, when the same kind of wild weather happens in normally sunny Southern California, it really is newsworthy. This past week's storms not only gave students in St. George Utah a once-in-a-decade snow day and more snow in Las Vegas than has been seen in nearly 30 years (shutting down the McCarran International Airport in the process), but also brought cold temperatures and snow to Southern California residents who make monthly in$tallment$ on overpriced real estate that is supposed to be immune to such weather.
http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008812190344 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hY3CyI2aVDaPaLMJu7CTUEeK5ECA
The accumulations of snow in the high desert community of Palmdale (one of the hotter So. Cal cities during the summer) looked more like northern Utah than Southern California. http://www.ocregister.com/photos/county-areas-rain-2258934-officials-orange/pid2259694
Even Orange County residents awoke to several inches of snow in the local foothills and several feet of snow in the local mountains. Those who are interested can view this slide show of beautiful photos of the effect of the recent storms in Orange County. http://www.ocregister.com/photos/highway-california-snow-2260116-freeway-chp/pid2260152
Our church youth group was scheduled to attend the first night of the 100th annual Newport Harbor Boat Parade on Wednesday night, but the activity and the event was cancelled due to miserable weather and a small craft advisory. We were fortunate to grab a last minute reservation cancellation for the following evening and a smaller than usual group of us (15 or so) were able to enjoy the boat parade aboard a 54' sailboat that motored right alongside the decorated boats in the parade. Here is a link to a news story and photos of similar Orance County harbor boat parades.
http://www.ocregister.com/photos/dec-parade-year-2243918-boat-harbor/pid2243922
Zachary and his traveling companions threaded the needle in between storms and safely made the trip down from BYU, spending the night at the home of a friend's grandmother in St. George when various sections of the I-15 freeway in Nevada and Southern California were closed due to snow and black ice. Wasn't somebody with an enormous personal carbon "footprint" saying something about problems with man made global warming? http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CNN_weatherman_applauds_global_warming_skepticism_1004.html http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081218205953.aspx
http://www.globalwarminghoaxblog.com/
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