Thunder, scattered storms and hail strike Southern California. In Orange County, lightning sets fire to several trees and power lines.
A week of desert-hot temperatures turned Miami-moody Friday morning as commuters awoke to a mix of lightning, thunder, scattered storms and even hail, marking the start of the year's rainy season.
"For rainless Angelenos, this definitely was a shocker," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
But aside from rattled nerves and some pre-weekend excitement, the weather caused little or no major damage across Southern California.
Much of the impact was felt in north Orange County, where lightning set fire to several trees and power lines. More than 106,000 Southern California Edison customers in cities including Fullerton, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Brea were without power, said spokesman Charles Coleman. By noon, electricity had been restored to more than half of those homes.
Fullerton Community College also shut down because of a power outage.
In Fontana, fire dispatchers said a man was taken to a hospital after lightning struck a crane he was touching. The unidentified man was injured at 9:42 a.m. at Sierra Avenue and Valley Boulevard, near Kaiser Medical Center, said Regional Dispatch Supervisor Donna Mueller.
Paramedics found him conscious and breathing, and he was able to stand, Mueller said.
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