URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
901 PM PST WED JAN 19 2011
...STRONG SANTA ANA WINDS DEVELOPING TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE GREAT BASIN WILL TIGHTEN
THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS ACROSS SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA. THIS
WILL PRODUCE A STRONG SANTA ANA EVENT FOR MOST OF LOS ANGELES AND
VENTURA COUNTIES TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.
Red Wind by Raymond Chandler
2 comments:
I always loved that paragraph.
I'm going to sharpen my knife in your honor, Your Honor.
(Although the only things I'm likely to be cutting with the ol' 9" cook are vegetables.)
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(Although the only things I'm likely to be cutting with the ol' 9" cook are vegetables.)
Ri-i-i-i-ght!
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