After previously blogging about how very little it rains in the greater Los Angeles area, this winter has pelted more rain in the last five days than almost the last five years.
A trip to my closest beach, El Porto in Manhattan Beach, found me lucky to see how the rain has effected that beach during about an hour of dry and sunny.
Even though it was only about two hours until low tide, the water reach was still quite high on the beach. The sand was very hard and compact. Much of the beach was covered with a dark something making the sand look dirty (noticeable in the photo below and the accompanying video).
The waves were all over the place. In many spots the water on the shore looked as if it had a large amount of soap dumped into it leaving soap-looking bubbles on the sand.
BTW did I mention how windy it was? You can really hear it in the video, not to mention that it's a bit funny looking seeing some of those soap-looking bubbles being blown around the beach.
The most noticeable change from less than a week ago when the winter waves had the beach and water generously peppered with surfers (see the photo below taken six days previous to this blog post)...not a surfer to be sight seen.
More rain is on the way. Please stay dry and safe people.
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