The wind was really loud last night. It woke me up, so I checked weather.com, and it said that the wind was 25 mph out of the northeast, with gusts up to 45 mph.

Well, there’s some furniture in the side yard next to my apartment, and all night this furniture (which is not mine) was banging up against my bedroom wall because of the high speed gusts. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep very well, and when I did, I dreamt about furniture banging into my bedroom wall.

The damage from the wind was really apparent on the freeway today. Several of the exit signs on the side of the 73 had been destroyed by the wind. Generally these were two-post signs, and the wind had blown too strongly on the sign, thus dislodging one of the posts and consequently bending the sign.

The wind was still very strong this morning, and traveling down Fairview, I noticed that the street signs hanging from the signal poles were hanging horizontally instead of vertically.

What’s up with this wacky weather? First it was really cold (for Southern California), and then all of a sudden it got really hot, and now it’s extremely windy. I would like to remind the National Weather Service (which, we all know, creates the weather), that we in California pay a lot of money to have beautiful weather at all times, and we do not approve of these shenanigans.