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Torchwood Miracle Day Teaser: I hear my voice in the teaser & I’m excited for the 7/8/11 premiere on STARZ
I hear my voice in the teaser:) “NO FATALITIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED” :) We shot this months ago. The exciting Premiere is Friday, July 8th at 10 PM ET/PT on STARZ, The Series Will Feature Series Alums John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Kai Owen; New Cast Members Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman, Alexa Havins, Arlene Tur. I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE IT.
New York, May 17, 2011 — Imagine a day when nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies.
I still love to tumble & I missed my calling when I see the Yeah 3X video. Jim Castillo
Flash flooding continues for the island of Oahu in Honolulu County 5/8/11
PIC OF LIGHTNING OVER HONOLULU MAY 7TH, 2011
WATERSPOUTS OFF HONOLULU MAY 2011
HONOLULU COUNTY- 1051 AM HST SUN MAY 8 2011 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLAND OF OAHU IN HONOLULU COUNTY UNTIL 100 PM HST... RAIN CONTINUES TO FORM OVER THE KOOLAU MOUNTAIN RANGE AND TRAVEL NORTH. RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR...AND SEVERAL RAIN GAGES HAVE REPORTED RAINFALL RATES JUST UNDER 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THE NORTH HALAWA...MANOA AND KIPAPA STREAM GAGES HAVE ALL REPORTED AN INCREASE IN WATER LEVELS OVER THE LAST HOUR. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WAIKANE... SCHOFIELD BARRACKS...PUNALUU...WAIALUA...WAHIAWA...LAIE...KAHUKU... HAUULA AND HALEIWA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN STREAMS...ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. DO NOT CROSS FAST FLOWING OR RISING WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE OR ON FOOT. TURN AROUND...DON/T DROWN.
My hometown EF4 Tornado track 4/22/11 Good Friday. We are blessed that there were no deaths.
A tornadic supercell crossed the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area with many reports of large hail and damage from New Melle in St. Charles County to Granite City in Madison County, Illinois. My aunt Marilyn & the family were already in the basement & I called my father in Florissant to get into his. Some of the most intense damage occurred in St. Louis County across Maryland Heights where my Aunt used to live, Bridgeton, St. Ann, Edmundson, Lambert St. Louis International Airport, Berkeley, and Ferguson where my Granny and Grandpa George used to live and in Madison County near Granite City. Several people were injured by flying debris and glass at the main terminal of the airport, but remarkably there were no fatalities. Two tornadoes were confirmed so far from this event. The first was near New Melle and was rated EF1, the other was a long-track tornado that was rated EF4 and affected St. Louis and Madison Counties.
The EF4 tornado is the strongest tornado that has occurred in St. Louis County for 44 years. You have to go back to January 24th 1967 (my father’s birthday & my mother was pregnant) to find a tornado that was as strong. In fact, the tornado paths are very similar.
Back to the evening of Friday April 22, 2011, an intense supercell thunderstorm produced a long-track tornado which tore a path of destruction from west to east across the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. The tornado reached a maximum intensity of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale as it tracked through the community of Bridgeton, just west of Lambert St. Louis International Airport. The total path length was 22 miles, with a width of up to 0.4 miles.
The tornado initially touched down along the northern edge of Creve Coeur Lake at approximately 755 pm. It tracked nearly due east at about 40 mph, and intensified as it entered Maryland Heights. There it produced up to EF3 damage to many homes and businesses with a damage swath of 200 to 400 yards wide. Damage continued eastward in an unbroken track, crossing I-270 about 1 mile south of I-70. The tornado reached peak intensity of EF4 as it devastated the community of Bridgton along Old St. Charles Rock Road. From there the tornado paralleled Interstate 70 through the community of St. Ann, then took aim directly on Lambert St. Louis International Airport. Many of the large windows in the main terminal building were blown out or damaged by flying debris and a large section of roof was peeled from Concourse C. Although the vast majority of people were evacuated to lower levels and to interior rooms before the tornado hit, 5 people were treated and released from area hospitals for injuries due to flying debris. The airport was closed due to the extensive damage.
The tornado exited Lambert St. Louis International Airport crossing near the McDonnell Boulevard/Harmon Lane intersection. It then moved into Berkeley where it crossed Interstate 170 between Airport Road and Scudder Avenue. Extensive damage was noted along Fourth Avenue, especially at the Garfield Avenue and Hancock Avenue intersections where a vacant house and several homes lost their entire roof structure. The greatest damage in this neighborhood was rated EF2. The tornado continued to the northeast through neighborhoods south of Airport Road producing significant tree damage including many large trees falling on homes. The tornado then crossed Airport Road near Abston Avenue. The tornado crossed North Florissant Road where it caused extensive roof damage to the Newer Materials building and the First Baptist Church of Ferguson. Across the road, a Little Caesars Restaurant lost its entire roof. Damage to these structures was rated EF1. The tornado then continued through neighborhoods along and just the north of Hereford Avenue/Chambers Road where it continued to cause extensive tree damage as well as additional partial roof damage to homes along the path toward West Florissant Road. Also along this part of its path, it partially removed the roof at the Griffith Elementary School which was rated as EF1. This is also where the tornado widened to one quarter of a mile with damage noted to trees and some homes on both sides of Chambers Road. Along the entire path from Berkeley to Dellwood, damage varied in intensity from EF1 to low end EF2 with a maximum estimated wind speed of 120 mph, and included numerous snapped power poles in addition to the extensive number of snapped and downed trees.
The tornadic damage continued southeast of the intersection of Chambers and Florissant Roads and traveled eastward south of Chambers road, crossing the Mississippi River approximately 2 miles south of Interstate 270. The majority of the damage was rated EF1 due to fallen trees. Some of these trees fell on homes while a few others fell through homes causing damage not directly relating to the intensity of the wind within the tornado.
EF2 damage was uncovered at three different locations east of Dellwood. One area was located one quarter mile south of Chambers Road on Halls Ferry Road where four large utility poles were snapped. The second area of EF2 damage was located 0.25 mile south of Chambers Road along Bellefontaine Road where significant tree damage occurred. The last area of damage was located in Bellefontaine Neighbors just south of Chambers Road on Ra Roux Court. Roofs were removed from three homes at this location, while other homes sustained varying degrees of damage.
The width of the damage area varies from 100 yards to 0.4 mile with the widest area of damage west of Halls Ferry and south of Chambers Road. The tornado entered Illinois about 1.5 miles south of the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The tornado continued east to 0.5 mile north of the intersection of Highway 203 and Pontoon Road. Damage east of this intersection included uprooted and snapped trees and three homes had roofs removed. At least one hundred homes were damaged in the area. The maximum damage found was in a neighborhood along Bern and Dawn Streets. The tornadic damage then curved southeast and ended near the intersection of Alton Street and Pontoon Road. Damage width over this area varied from 50 to 150 yards. The damage east of Highway 203 was rated low-end EF2. The highest wind speeds associated with the EF2 damage were approximately 120 mph.
On my father’s birthday while my mother was pregnant, January 24th 1967, a violent F4 tornado ripped a 21 mile long path of destruction across St. Louis County, they used to talk about it all of the time. It ranks as the fourth worst tornado in history to hit the St. Louis Metropolitan Area and is the last F4 tornado to affect St. Louis. The tornado initially touched down around 6:55 p.m. in western St. Louis County at Olive Street Road near the Howard Bend Pumping Station where damage was reported to the Chesterfield Manor Nursing Home. The tornado moved northeast at 40 mph striking the small community of Lake, the luxury homes at River Bend Estates and Old Farm Estates valued between $25,000 and $33,000 (1967 dollars), Creve Coeur Meadows and Glenwood Subdivisions, and the heavily populated communities of Maryland Heights, Bridgeton, St. Ann, Edmundson, Woodson Terrace, Berkeley, Ferguson, Dellwood, the Hathaway Manor Subdivision, and Spanish Lake. The tornado apparently dissipated or weakened as it crossed the Mississippi River, as there is no record of significant damage in Illinois. The damage path ranged from 50 to 200 yards wide and the tornado was on the ground for approximately 35 minutes. Remarkably only 3 fatalities were reported while 216 people suffered injuries. Damage included 168 homes destroyed, 258 with major damage, and 1485 with minor damage. At least 600 businesses were damaged or destroyed. The total damage was estimated to be around 15 million dollars. The tornado was given a F4 rating on the Fujita Tornado Ranking Scale. The F4 occurrence was likely small in aerial coverage with the majority of the severe damage being classified as either F2 or F3. Eight other tornadoes struck Missouri that day with 32 tornadoes in all occurring from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. The Wisconsin tornado is believed to be the farthest north tornado ever recorded in January. Many people will remember that the bad weather continued across Missouri January 25th and 26th with freezing rain and snow following this historic winter tornado outbreak.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS AMAZING. THE VIOLENT TORNADO MOVES OVER LAMBERT ST. LOUIS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO GO QUICKLY COVER IN BAGGAGE CLAIM.
THE C CONCOURSE WAS BADLY DAMAGED WITH MOST OF THE WINDOWS BLOWING OUT.
THE PEOPLE IN THE OTHER CONCOURSES WERE VERY LUCKY AS YOU WATCH BELOW.
I POST MY FAVORITE WEATHER VIDEOS BELOW:
RECORD HIGH IN LOS ANGELES OF 92 ON 3/31/11(OLD 90 1966)
3/31/11 WAS OPENING DAY FOR THE DODGERS & A HOT DAY IN LOS ANGELES.
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS SET @ DOWNTOWN LA
BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET BACK IN 1966. THE LAST TIME WE WERE
THIS WARM WAS THE 3RD & 4TH OF NOVEMBER 2010. DON’T FORGET OUR
ALL TIME RECORD HIGH BACK ON SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2010 OF 113. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE
CAUSING THE SINKING AIR OVER THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES AND
THE OFFSHORE WIND FLOW FROM THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS
OUT OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN WILL WEAKEN A BIT ON FRIDAY WITH HIGHS
COOLING INTO THE 80′s INLAND AND 70′s AT THE COAST AS THE ONSHORE WIND
STRENGTHENS AND COOLS THINGS BACK A BIT. THE ONSHORE WIND FLOW FROM
THE PACIFIC OCEAN INLAND INTO SOCAL WILL BE STRONG ON SATURDAY WITH HIGHS
BACK IN THE 60′s @ THE COAST AND NEAR 70 IN LOS ANGELES. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
LONG BEACH 89 (OLD RECORD WAS 87 IN 1989)
CAMARILLO 85 (OLD RECORD WAS 84 IN 1955)
SANTA MARIA 88 (OLD RECORD WAS 86 IN 1931)
RIVERSIDE 97 (TIED 1966)
FULLERTON 91 (TIED 1966)
ESCONDIDO 90 (OLD RECORD 89 1966)
ELSINORE 95 (OLD RECORD 92 1966)
Welcome to Spring in Southern California, I posted some things about our powerful late season Winter Storm!
I woke up at 5 am and noticed some lightning still around so I thought I would post something. 3/20/11, the arrival of Spring in Los Angeles & Marathon Day, we had 2.42″ of rain, a daily record. Santa Barbara yesterday was had the wettest day on record with 5.23″, LAX had 2.36″, the 3rd wettest March Day on Record. Camarillo 4.91″, the wettest day ever recorded in March & the 2nd wettest day on record. Jan. 26th, 1956 5.96″ was the wettest. Palmdale had 1.29″ & that was the wettest March Day ever recorded.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF DAILY RECORDS WHICH WERE SET YESTERDAY
MARCH 20TH…THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR THE DATE…AND THE YEAR IN
WHICH IT OCCURRED.
STATION RAINFALL ON PREVIOUS YEAR
MARCH 20 2011 RECORD
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 2.42 INCHES 1.48 INCHES 1943
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT 2.36 INCHES 1.04 INCHES 1992
BURBANK AIRPORT 3.85 INCHES 1.15 INCHES 1973
PALMDALE AIRPORT 1.29 INCHES 0.50 INCHES 1973
LANCASTER AIRPORT 1.48 INCHES 0.74 INCHES 1992
SANDBERG 3.29 INCHES 1.33 INCHES 1992
SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT 5.23 INCHES 0.90 INCHES 1991
CAMARILLO AIRPORT 4.91 INCHES 2.26 INCHES 1954
OXNARD NWS 4.63 INCHES 2.26 INCHES 1954
SANTA MARIA AIRPORT 3.46 INCHES 0.74 INCHES 1958
PASO ROBLES AIRPORT 2.02 INCHES 0.77 INCHES 1992
GO SKIING OR AND SNOWBOARDING!!! WE HAD UP TO 2 FEET OF SNOW ABOVE 5,000′ AND 3′ ABOVE 7,000′. The Grapevine up the 5 had to be closed do to ice and snow.
THE HIGH IN LA ON MARATHON SUNDAY WAS 56 DEGREES AND THE AVERAGE IS 70.
HIGHEST WIND GUSTS FOR 20 MAR 2011 THROUGH 10 PM
STATION SPEED HOUR OF
(MPH) OCCURRENCE
LUCERNE VALLEY 115 11 AM
BURNS CANYON 110 11 AM
HESPERIA SOUTH 65 2 PM
BIG PINE 61 10 AM
HUNTINGTON BEACH 60 3 PM
TORO PEAK 57 9 PM
DEHESA 54 8 PM
TALEGA SAN CLEMENTE 54 7 PM
MEANS LAKE 53 8 PM
FREMONT CANYON 52 7 PM
DESERT HOT SPRINGS 52 8 PM
BALDWIN LAKE 51 5 PM
ROCK CAMP 48 3 AM
MOUNT WOODSON 47 6 PM
POINT LOMA 46 9 PM
MOUNT LAGUNA 46 9 PM
I Help Explain The Tsunami of 3/11/11.
THE LARGEST QUAKE IN JAPAN’S RECORDED HISTORY STRUCK AT 2:46PM ON 3/11/11.
THE 8.9 QUAKE WAS CENTERED 15 MILES UNDER THE OCEAN FLOOR OFF OF THE
NORTHERN COAST OF JAPAN. A LARGE TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED.
THE ENTIRE PACIFIC BASIN SAW SOME KIND OF DAMAGE FROM
MAUI TO CALIFORNIA TO CHILE. TOKYO SKYSCRAPERS SWAYED AND
AS OF 3/13/11 THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN OVER 260 AFTERSHOCKS.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS OF THE TSUNAMI WAVE SURGES. UNREAL!
TOKYO, JAPAN SKYSCRAPERS SWAY IN THE 8.9 QUAKE. TRUELY AMAZING VIDEO OF THIS BELOW.
Doris Roberts & Jim Castillo @ Victors Restaurant in Hollywood 2/28/11
Doris Roberts is so wonderful! I would love to see her on Saturday Night Live:)
She has quite the schedule the week of 2/28/11. She does a fist fight scene with Betty White on “Hot in Cleveland”, she’s on
Grey’s Anatomy and soon after, she heads off to a far away destination for a speaking engagement.
FUN FACT: Both of us were born in St. Louis.
As our snow level drops, here is a list of historical snowfall in the Los Angeles Area from the NWS:)
Historical Snowfall in the Los Angeles Area from the NWS.
