Quite a bit as far as surface winds are concerned. However, the remnants of Pacific hurricanes with stron winds north of the Los Angeles basin are virtually non-existent.
So the night of the Landers earthquake I met some ladies escorting a bunch of young girls that were from New Orleans out to California for a dance thing. Recital? Contest? I don’t recall.
Anyway they were buying supplies to hit the road due to the earthquake. I 'splained that it was over, but they were having none of it. I offered my opinion that hurricanes were worse, but they insisted that earthquakes were much worse than any hurricane.
I wonder if they still feel that way?
Yeah smoke can be a bitch, but smoke won’t burn my house down.
To paraphrase Robert Benchley in Fair (Enough) Harvard (I think). For some reason statements like this infuriate me. Nobody could possible have been a little boy in the early '70’s. The years to be a little boy were the late '20’s. 
How about I rephrase it like so:
“In the early 1970s, when I was thankfully way too young to be drafted …”
