22 February 05
Our Secret Kansas
Yesterday’s pendulous thunderclouds did produce a couple of tornados, it turns out. One of these touched down in the North Sacramento area shortly before two in the afternoon, causing light damage to an apartment complex. Here is a slideshow of some photographs of this tornado.
At the time, we were far away, comfortably ensconsed in the art store in Palo Alto. By the time we got home it was dry, but there were impressive thunderclouds to the west of us, including the storm we had just passed through. At left is a view of the Vaca Mountains from our house at about 5:15 in the afternoon; later on we’d see lightning flashes from those clouds.
(The title of this post is lifted from a chapter of Mike Davis’ book Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster: it turns out tornados hit the Los Angeles area much more often than people realize.)
- Interesting…I’d never thought of tornadoes happening in California. Hmmm, that means you Left Coasters have to deal with tornadoes and earthquakes? Yikes!— Lorianne 23. February 2005, 01:04 Link
- Amazing slideshow. I’m glad there wasn’t more damage. We’ve had some good storms over here too – damage has been mostly caused by hailstones.— jenny 25. February 2005, 19:34 Link
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