This picture was taken last night in Compton, CA.

[BurtWorm]

LA DUers! That cold white stuff is not snow, but it's close enough.

[Tripper11]

1. Ok, I'll bite...

call me slow..but it's cold and white and NOT snow...so what is it then?

[BurtWorm]

3. Hail.

Lots and lots of hail. Something like two inches fell in a matter of minutes, from what I understand.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Hail..LA got 5 inches of rain last night in a very short time combined

with hail..right on time for rush hour.

[slinkerwink]

5. hahaha, ouch....

looks like California is going kaput with the Gropenator in power.....

[BurtWorm]

6. Where were you when the skies opened up?

Did it hurt? I'll bet getting home was a lot of fun!

[henslee]

2. oh, a car jacking. LOL

[Shakespeare]

7. That was....

....the weirdest fucking storm I have EVER seen!!

People were having to dig their cars out of piles of hail--looked like about a foot of it on the ground in Compton. And then there were the bizarre flash floods. And the thunder and lightning.

They said on the news this morning that a couple of places in south LA got NINE INCHES of rain in two and a half hours.

Channel 7, to their credit, also had a lovely picture of that breathtaking rainbow that preceded the weirdness yesterday.

[BurtWorm]

8. A rainbow preceded the weirdness?

Talk about weird! I just found out about this because I happened to decide to check my LA Times link. This is what I saw:



Residents on Bellhaven Street in South Los Angeles dig out from under a blanket of snow-like hail. The storm also flooded streets and disrupted air travel.

(Don Kelsen / LAT)

[Emboldened Chimp]

9. They showed Watts on the news

people were have a hail fight (think snowball fight, but much smaller). The weird thing is, here I am in Santa Monica and it's dry as a bone. Very weird.