A Storm in the Night

(photo by Yessenia Toscano on KPCC site)

 Wednesday night was loud and noisy, the wind blowing and howling outside as we tried to sleep. The electricity went on and off but for the most part stayed on. In the morning, I walked to my car and marveled at the amount of palm branches littering the sidewalk. Still, it wasn't that bad. I drove in to work and took my normal exit and gasped. My trees! The magnolias and pine trees and eucylyptus...they were snapped in two and lying in the road. In fact, there were few trees that had not been affected by the storm. It was really sad. There is a hedge of bamboo on the edge of the L.A. Arboretium that is always kept so pristinely that I've run under a hundred times; that hedge was leaning heavily over the sidewalk and onto the road. Wow. The wind is a powerful creature...