I'm in the high desert 50 mile est. of L.A. The brunt of the storm is just beginning

to pass through and it is starting out with the strongest coldest winds out of the

ten yrs I have lived here. I just had to rescue a trash can from blowing out into the

street and causing an accident. Pulling it into the garage was a fight that left me

breathing hard and red faced, from the freezing wind. They were saying this storm

wasn't going to be anything nice. So far I think they may be right. The wind feels

like it's blowing over ice before it gets here. I know it is gusting up to 60 mph.

This is just the beginning? Yikes! Anybody east of us here, heads up!

A big heads up to truckers.

[edit on 7-12-2009 by randyvs]

Well that storm moved through quick.

Apple Valley eh? I had a friend from up that way. Every time I went to South Lake Tahoe I had to stop there for the apple cider--great stuff. I think you might be mistaken about the storm being the worst in 10 years. If you remember not 3 or 4 years back the snow storm that put like 15 feet of snow in a few days? Maybe you just were inside or it wasn't that bad in Apple Valley. I can't imagine it could be worse than that storm from a few years back.

I'm just down the hill from Apple Valley & those winds were just insane earlier tonight.
Haven't seen anything like that since I lived in the mid-west. More later this week it looks like.