"LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of people living below fire-stripped mountains were under orders to leave their homes Wednesday as another Pacific storm hit Southern California on the heels of powerful systems that have flooded coastal communities, spawned a tornado and killed one person.

Los Angeles County and city authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders in advance, saying residents of more than 600 homes would have to be out by 9 a.m., just ahead of the storm's expected midday arrival.

The homes are in communities in the foothills and canyons below the rugged San Gabriel Mountains, where more than 250 square miles of forest burned away last summer, and public safety officials warned that basins designed to capture debris-laden runoff were full after two days of storms."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34926340/ns/weather/

These storms are pretty strong and severe, and especially for the SoCal area. A tornado may even have been spotted in the L.A. area yesterday. Anyone here from SoCal, or maybe even knows someone from there? Tell us how bad it is/was. Share a story if you like.

I tell ya I feel for them it seems as if it ain't one place getting hit it is another.