Over at Slate: the impending SoCal weather apocalypse!
In which this:
There could be some waterspouts or weak tornadoes over coastal areas on Friday into Saturday.
is amplified into:
Yep, full-out tornadoes in Los Angeles (minus the sharks, of course). They aren’t unprecedented: On March 1, 1983, one hit the convention center, injuring about 30 people.
Yeah, "weak tornadoes" = "full-out tornadoes." Little whirlywinds that break a few trees are just the same as the monsters that tear up entire towns. Because name.
And SoCal doesn't deal with them well. That outbreak in '83? The timing is about right... while I was at UCSD, there was a tornado alert. The school was closed, and evacuated... so, instead of sitting around in a big sturdy concrete building, I had to go stand around in the open and wait for a bus. In a torrential downpour. With a tornado warning. Brilliant!
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