Living in SoCal all my life, I've heard it said "if you don't like the weather, just wait a until tomorrow, it will change". The past twenty-four hour time period was no exception.
As a fan of the Tonight Show for many years with Johnny Carson he joked that in CA we do have four seasons, flood, fire, earthquake and landslide. Well yesterday was one of those days in SoCal, seems to me like we had more than our fair share. 
Johnny was right but this time it we had it all in a 24 hour period of time! The morning (I was in my kitchen at the time) started with an earthquake. It was a 4.7 on the Richter Scale in a neighboring county, the City of Lake Elsinore. This is the same place where my client Leslie moved to about 3 weeks ago. I was in the kitchen when it hit, and I thought it could be a sonic boom from Edwards AFB. It didn't seem think things were shaking quite enough to be an earthquake. The last time I felt something like this was a morning the space shuttle landed after being re-directed to Southern Cal because of weather in FL. Most of us felt the experience, personally I loved it.
Next I heard about the forest fire in the community of Big Bear, our local mountains. Some of the roads up the mountain were closed. Big Bear has a beautiful lake for water skiing and fishing, in addition to trails for hiking. During the winter we have local snow skiing on the mountain. I've done all myself since I was a kid. We love it there.
Then a little while later I was on-line (with the TV in the background) our programming was interrupted with a flash-flood warning for the Northern areas of Los Angeles County. Yep, and we thought that was enough for one day, right?
After that, by mid-day we experienced excessive heat warnings, truthfully it was no big surprise. It was 108 degrees on my way to Costo in my area of Orange County, it felt like the desert. Not long afterwards, I called a relative who is a senior to see how she was doing. Like always Louise has the best attitude I could ever hope for. She was staying inside near the window a/c. God bless her!
So there you have it, and yes we do have four seasons, today it was fire, flood, heat and earthquake in good ole' SoCal. Oh on more thing, while reading this post I read about a heavy wind warning, whew, good thing that wasn't here, too north, maybe mid-coastal CA. But hey then again
they may have missed out on "our" SoCal earthquake.
* Update, just prior to posting, more of the same, another earthquake this morning, right next door in Yorba Linda, (3.something on the scale) yet quite a quick jolt! Two new fires, more heat and flood warnings.
What a place ...?
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