Thursday, March 23, 2023

Tornado hits Los Angeles (video)

KTLA News Channel 5, 3/22/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Skyline of downtown Los Angeles with snow-capped mountains in the county's Angeles Forest

Damage caused by tornado in Montebello, east of Los Angeles
(KTLA 5) March 22, 2023. Montebello residents reported a tornado blew through the area, causing damage to several roofs Wednesday. Rich Prickett reports from Sky5 for the KTLA 5 News at 12:00 on March 22, 2023. Get Los Angeles breaking news, entertainment, weather, traffic, and sports from L.A.'s very own KTLA 5 News, keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947. Online: ktla.com.

(KTLA) A rare weather event caused extensive damage in Montebello Wed.
Kareen Wynter reports for the KTLA 5 News at 1 on 3/22/23 (KTLA).

COMMENTARY
(WQ) Montebello (Spanish, Italian, and/or some derivative of Latin for "Beautiful Mountain") is a semi-industrialized suburb in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, east of the main city center, just a few miles from DTLA and its world-famous skyline. Who would have imagined an Arctic blast, a Pineapple Express, relentless rains and floods, mudslides, hail, and record snow as spring begins in this dusty Mediterranean climate region which is not a desert? Los Angeles is a basin full of surprises, alpine regions and beaches, hills and meadows, and more asphalt and concrete than the mind can comfortably imagine. Now tornadoes, too? Angelenos have always had "rain spouts" out by the Santa Monica Bay that don't quite touch down but leave Venice Beach tourists in awe. Now with the great white sharks swimming under surfers in search of sea mammals, it's getting too dangerous to live in these parts. This tornado was the leading story on weather.com on the days it happened, as there seem to have been two that touched down.

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