Strong winds rip through santa ana

High winds flipped over trees and trucks and knocked out power to more than 300,000 California customers before moving inland early Thursday, where schools in a Utah town closed because of 100 mph wind gusts.
Some of the worst Santa Ana winds in years blasted through California Wednesday and Thursday, sweeping down through canyons and creating gusts of up to 80 mph through the night, with a 97-mph gust recorded Wednesday night at Whitaker Peak in Los Angeles County. High gusts Thursday morning topped 60 mph.
The National Weather Service issued high wind warnings and wind advisories for parts of California, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming.
"What's driving this is a large, cold low-pressure system that's currently centered over Needles, Calif. The strong winds are wrapping around it," weather service forecaster Andrew Rorke said.
The system will sit and spin counter-clockwise over the area for the next day, although "it won't be quite as hellacious" as on Wednesday night, Rorke said.
The pressure front will then begin moving cross-country, eventually bringing blustery weather to Oklahoma, Missouri and Indiana, he said.
An estimated 300,000 customers in Southern California were without electricity Thursday morning and about 26,000 more in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California. San Francisco was spared any blackouts but thousands elsewhere in the Bay area were in the dark.
"We're making a dent in repairs, but we don't know what the winds will bring later this afternoon," Mark Hanson of SoCal Edison said, reported NBCLosAngeles.com.
In Southern California, high winds blew over at least six semitrailers before dawn on highways below the Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County, said California Highway Patrol Officer Mario Lopez. One trucker was taken to a hospital.

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[HaloGod153]

i was in calexico,122 miles east of san diego, and it wasnt that bad here it was like 35 mph

[1oftheonez]

@pumasporvida

kissing ones face is a metaphor for love of self or selfishness

[pumasporvida]

@1oftheonez amazing...I didn't think it would be possible to kiss your own face...wow..

[1oftheonez]

@FUCKPARKS

nah...

just a poem of a vision of our time from when I wrote in 1991.

[1oftheonez]

soon the wind will start its blow..bringin Hell,fire and strange snows..with all these things confusion will increase ..for all who have signed Illusions lease!  Am I mad ,that they wont listen?

cuz their own damn faces they be kissin ..let them run to life's great door..only to find they have the keys no more.

1991.. by me.

[grannygrunt1000]

I would NOT doubt for one moment h.a.r.p. is very likely responsible for this; must be lots of whistle-blowers in Cali.