Although the funnel is not apparent in the video, it was confirmed on radar by meteorologists. When wind is violently moving in one direction as we see in the palm trees blowing away from the person with the camera, and then the palm trees and debris suddenly shift towards the camera, these are not straight line winds, but most likely a rain-wrapped tornado or funnel cloud, which can vary in intensity. A quick search for tornadoes and California reveals we get at least one tornado about once per year on average. Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama can get up to 300 or 400 in a single year, and as I tell my friends back East every time they warn me of Earthquakes, in the past 150 years, over ten times more Americans have died in tornadoes than in all of our earthquakes combined. I used to be an amateur storm observer in Texas, but never saw a tornado there. Ironically it was in East L.A., near the 605 that I saw my first-and-only tornado, around 1998. It was small and weak, and behind an office building near my own. I told my secretary to come to the door and look at it, and she said: Oh thats just smoke from a chimney. But I explained to her that it couldnt be because the building had no chimney, and the so-called smoke was moving very quickly upward on one side, and very quickly downward on the other side. She was still in denial about it, and fortunately, it quickly desolved into a fast-moving cloud of dust that went along the side of the 605 nearby. On my way home to Hollywood, a DJ on my car radio announced that others had spotted it also, while driving on the 605.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:14:59 +0000
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