“Dirt from last month’s wind storm still cakes Beaumont homes
10:41 PM PST on Saturday, November 24, 2007
By MICHAEL PERRAULT
The Press-Enterprise
BEAUMONT – Residents here have spent nearly a month scooping, scrubbing and scouring sand and grit blown into homes, schools and businesses by Santa Ana winds on Oct. 21-22.
The gale-force winds left a powdery mixture of sand and dirt inside electrical wall sockets, showerheads and door locks in many homes. Sand blanketed baby cribs, formed 4-foot-high drifts alongside garage doors and rendered school refrigerators inoperable.
… “baby powder-fine” sand and dirt mixed with dry manure cloaked the interior of his 4-year-old home, prompting health concerns. Doorbells and light switches no longer work, water in a hot tub looks more like moldy hot chocolate, and thick dirt shrouds furniture, carpets and nearly every crack and crevice.
Banning and Beaumont are situated in a pass and are subject to some wind most of the time. That’s one reason they have all those windmills dotting the hillsides east of the Morongo Reservation.
It’s only natural that when the Santa Ana winds get going these areas would get even more wind that usual.
Banning and Beaumont are situated in a pass and are subject to some wind most of the time. That’s one reason they have all those windmills dotting the hillsides east of the Morongo Reservation.
It’s only natural that when the Santa Ana winds get going these areas would get even more wind that usual.
Banning and Beaumont are situated in a pass and are subject to some wind most of the time. That’s one reason they have all those windmills dotting the hillsides east of the Morongo Reservation.
It’s only natural that when the Santa Ana winds get going these areas would get even more wind that usual.
Banning and Beaumont are situated in a pass and are subject to some wind most of the time. That’s one reason they have all those windmills dotting the hillsides east of the Morongo Reservation.
It’s only natural that when the Santa Ana winds get going these areas would get even more wind that usual.
Banning and Beaumont are situated in a pass and are subject to some wind most of the time. That’s one reason they have all those windmills dotting the hillsides east of the Morongo Reservation.
It’s only natural that when the Santa Ana winds get going these areas would get even more wind that usual.
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