Forgot about our time in SoCal/Pasadena area. In winter 2004/spring 2005 we got to experience torrential rains, flooding, and landslides. Glendale lost a lot of homes that year. Still crazy to me that driving on the freeway you see these homes clinging to the edge of the hillsides--who would build there?? Then spring came and we got wildfires! California has a little of everything...