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Old 11-09-2006, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Treasure Valley
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Oh, by the way Marios in Five Points Plaza has the best Mexican Food in Orange County...Try the shredded beef taco and enchilada combo. Yum...Miss that alot! Been going there since It opened and was a babe! You know a local when the go to Marios!
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Old 11-12-2006, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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I never really understood what the Santa ana winds are.

So when it's really hot, like before I was in Lakewood/Signal hill, is that due to the Santa ana winds? I was wondering how sometimes it's just so hot outside, whether it's because of the Santa ana winds or not.
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Old 11-15-2006, 04:02 PM
 
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Tom My Good Man...santa Ana Winds Come Three Times A Year So If You Can Handle Nine Days Of Dry 90 Degree Weather You'll Be Fine Stay Away From The News Big Dawg
It's more often than that! It's the heat that accompanies them that most people don't like. I have asthma, so I'm no fan of Santa Anas.

Here's another take, from an L.A. author:
"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot, dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen."
-- from "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler
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Old 11-15-2006, 08:51 PM
 
Location: FL
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Those winds sound good to ME! Hey - at least they're DRY!!!!!!!
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Old 11-15-2006, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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About the only reason I liked the Santa Ana winds in the fall was that they cleared out the smoggy air. Other than that, I don't particularly like it when they come sweeping down from the north.
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Old 11-03-2010, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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This is one of those weird high pressure, borderline Santa Ana conditions with the temperature in Malibu actually warmer than Palmdale Lancaster right now.

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Old 11-03-2010, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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I never really understood what the Santa ana winds are.
A bastardization of their true name, the "Santana winds". Really grates on me when people call them "Santa Ana" winds, much as when they use the non-sensical term "majorly" for "major league".
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Old 11-03-2010, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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A bastardization of their true name, the "Santana winds".
Highly debatable.
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Old 11-03-2010, 06:58 PM
 
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I've never heard a Southern California native, and I am one, call them anything BUT Santa Anas.
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Old 11-03-2010, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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I have, and she and I fight about it 3 or 4 times a year.

The common misconception that the "Santana" people usually hold is that Santana means Satan, hence "devil winds". Santana is, in reality, a last name, while Spanish for Satan is Satanás.
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