Wild weather as thunderstorms hit inland Calif.
Associated Press October 2, 2010 08:53 PM Copyright Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Thunderstorms bringing rain, hail and lightning moved over the Los Angeles and San Diego areas Saturday as a wild week of warm and humid weather went on for at least one more day in Southern California.
Inland communities including Redlands and Loma Linda were under a severe thunderstorm warning because of the possibility of quarter-sized hail and winds gusting at 60 mph, the National Weather Service said.
Rains in the Los Padres National Forest prompted the California Highway Patrol to shut down Highway 33 after at least one car was stranded.
Frazier Park and other communities in northern Los Angeles County near Interstate 5 were under flash flood warnings as heavy rains fell on the mountains.
Isolated thunderstorms passed over the Hollywood Hills and cities in eastern L.A. County, where more than 1,600 Southern California Edison customers lost power.
The city of West Covina was hardest hit — 519 customers lost power there.
To the south in San Diego County, less serious thunderstorms were expected, but hail and strong winds were still possible in Borrego Springs and Agua Caliente springs.
The storms continued a pattern of erratic weather that included extreme heat and thunderstorms in the region before cooler and more stable air was expected to move in Sunday.
One man was injured in a lightning strike, and tens of thousands utility customers lost power Friday.
In San Bernardino County, a 50-year-old man was injured by a lightning strike on a crane at a construction site next to a hospital in Fontana. He was expected to survive.
Firefighters were "chasing smokes" — small lightning fires — in the southern Sequoia National Forest while downpours sent water and rocks surging over Mountain Highway 99, said forest spokeswoman Cindy Thill. Thousands of acres were scorched in summer fires but it wasn't clear if the debris flow was runoff from burned areas.
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