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Los Angeles Area Hit With Powerful Santa Ana Winds

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A boy whose school was closed climbs fallen trees on Green Street after strong Santa Ana Winds that are cauing the worst local wind damage in decades on Dec. 1, 2011 in Pasadena.

Hold on to your hats, a 27-page report called the "Pasadena Windstorm Tree Failure Analysis" has been made public by the city's Urban Forestry Advisory Committee.

Prepared for the city's Department of Public Works, the study examines data on nearly 5,500 trees that were damaged in the historic windstorms -- with wind speeds reaching 100 miles per hour within the City of Pasadena -- on November 30 and December 1, 2011.

An analysis of tree failures by the Davey Resource Group showed the city’s urban forest suffered "severe losses" with approximately 9% of the trees damaged in the high winds. Costs to the city are projected to be in the tens of millions of dollars with hundreds of light poles and buildings also damaged in the storm.

The City of Pasadena maintains that it maintains about 57,500 trees in over 64,500 city locations. The report asserts that the "unpreventable wide variety of damage to the urban forest structure" was primarily caused by wind intensity and direction, and that the existing tree maintainence program prevented more damage from occuring.

Photo by Ken Lund via Flickr Creative Commons

The Golden State glows bright with the light of new bodies as California approaches a population of nearly 37.7 million humans.

According to estimates released Tuesday by the state Department of Finance, California added 250,000 residents in 2011, a moderate increase at less that 1 percent, same as 2010.

The growth rate of CA's state population shows itself, to some degree, in the state of the real estate industry. 198,000 homes were added to the landscape during a housing peak in 2005. In 2011, that number looks more like 35,500, says the finance department.

Large Los Angeles grew its city people presence by approximately half a percent last year, bringing the grandiose total to more than 3.8 million Angelenos. Greater LA County grew in the following increments:

LA COUNTY CITIES	POP 1/2011	POP 1/2012	PERCENT
Agoura Hills	20,371	20,413	0.2
Alhambra	83,366	83,661	0.4
Arcadia	56,486	56,546	0.1
Artesia	16,560	16,594	0.2
Avalon	3,768	3,780	0.3
Azusa	46,350	46,618	0.6
Baldwin Park	75,582	75,830	0.3
Bell	35,539	35,607	0.2
Bellflower	76,756	76,907	0.2
Bell Gardens	42,142	42,231	0.2
Beverly Hills	34,173	34,291	0.3
Bradbury	1,058	1,065	0.7
Burbank	104,193	104,427	0.2
Calabasas	23,109	23,683	2.5
Carson	91,455	91,828	0.4
Cerritos	49,128	49,223	0.2
Claremont	35,021	35,300	0.8
Commerce	12,846	12,871	0.2
Compton	96,820	97,058	0.2
Covina	47,880	48,038	0.3
Cudahy	23,847	23,893	0.2
Culver City	38,931	39,004	0.2
Diamond Bar	55,705	55,819	0.2
Downey	111,985	112,201	0.2
Duarte	21,358	21,411	0.2
El Monte	113,662	113,912	0.2
El Segundo	16,690	16,720	0.2
Gardena	58,946	59,124	0.3
Glendale	192,271	192,654	0.2
Glendora	50,207	50,361	0.3
Hawaiian Gardens	14,275	14,303	0.2
Hawthorne	84,762	85,047	0.3
Hermosa Beach	19,536	19,574	0.2
Hidden Hills	1,868	1,869	0.1
Huntington Park	58,216	58,329	0.2
Industry	439	436	-0.7
Inglewood	109,909	110,623	0.6
Irwindale	1,424	1,416	-0.6
La Canada Flintridge	20,279	20,335	0.3
La Habra Heights	5,334	5,352	0.3
Lakewood	80,172	80,378	0.3
La Mirada	48,608	48,697	0.2
Lancaster	157,629	157,826	0.1
La Puente	39,886	39,987	0.3
La Verne	31,122	31,461	1.1
Lawndale	32,824	32,887	0.2
Lomita	20,297	20,396	0.5
Long Beach	463,393	464,662	0.3
Los Angeles	3,806,411	3,825,297	0.5
Lynwood	69,506	69,897	0.6
Malibu	12,671	12,699	0.2
Manhattan Beach	35,209	35,239	0.1
Maywood	27,451	27,472	0.1
Monrovia	36,646	36,727	0.2
Montebello	62,723	62,857	0.2
Monterey Park	60,369	61,153	1.3
Norwalk	105,682	105,714	0.0
Palmdale	153,167	153,708	0.4
Palos Verdes Estates	13,465	13,516	0.4
Paramount	54,193	54,368	0.3
Pasadena	138,768	139,222	0.3
Pico Rivera	63,053	63,168	0.2
Pomona	149,452	149,950	0.3
Rancho Palos Verdes	41,721	41,897	0.4
Redondo Beach	66,895	67,007	0.2
Rolling Hills	1,866	1,875	0.5
Rolling Hills Estates	8,084	8,097	0.2
Rosemead	53,978	54,172	0.4
San Dimas	33,432	33,499	0.2
San Fernando	23,687	23,752	0.3
San Gabriel	39,796	39,926	0.3
San Marino	13,170	13,195	0.2
Santa Clarita	176,779	177,445	0.4
Santa Fe Springs	16,432	16,516	0.5
Santa Monica	90,080	90,223	0.2
Sierra Madre	10,936	10,963	0.2
Signal Hill	11,060	11,129	0.6
South El Monte	20,151	20,190	0.2
South Gate	94,563	94,320	-0.3
South Pasadena	25,664	25,725	0.2
Temple City	35,634	35,749	0.3
Torrance	145,770	146,115	0.2
Vernon	120	120	0.0
Walnut	29,407	29,661	0.9
West Covina	106,284	106,713	0.4
West Hollywood	34,599	34,681	0.2
Westlake Village	8,284	8,300	0.2
Whittier	85,482	85,654	0.2
Balance Of County	1,058,894	1,062,073	0.3