[californiadisasters] Re: Batten Down The Hatches! - for jim

Should have done a little research before posting that. The one one I was talking about occurred in 1939, although it didn't technically qualify as a hurricane. Oddly, 1939 saw four near-misses with fading hurricanes bringing huge amounts of rain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes

vic

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, "jim rawls" <jazzpiano@...> wrote:
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> Wow Vic. I didn't know about that one. Shows how much I don't know. Smile. Jim
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> From: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com [mailto:californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Vic Pollard
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> They're usually only tropical storms with rain by the time they hit land. I think we've had only one hurricane make landfall in modern times, in the mid-1930s. It hit southern California really hard, My wife's father, who lived in Redlands at the time, remembered it washing a bulldozer down the Santa Ana River.
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> Kim, you got anything on this?
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> Vic
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> --- On Sat, 2/19/11, jim rawls <jazzpiano@...> wrote:
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> From: jim rawls <jazzpiano@...>
> Subject: RE: [californiadisasters] Re: Batten Down The Hatches! - for jim
> To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 9:23 AM
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> No. Sometimes you might get a remnant of a hurricane in lower California,
> but that is Mexican territory belonging to Mexico, so we really don't get
> it there like you do in Florida, or on the East Coast. Most of the time in
> California during the summer, there is very little rain, and just dry
> weather.
> Jim
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> Subject: [californiadisasters] Re: Batten Down The Hatches! - for jim
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> Do you get hurricane season in California :)
>
> Lynn WB7PTR
> New Orleans, LA.
>

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