Ralph E. Shaffer: A message from the past for handling today's wind

Local weathercasters noted that the unusually fierce Santa Ana winds that roared down from Cajon Pass this week come only once a decade. Their powerful gusts, measured at up to 100 miles an hour, can't be blamed on climate change. Pioneer settlers felt their destructive power long ago. And Isaac Kinley, the editor of the Los Angeles Star, proposed a remedy to the devil winds more than a century ago. [More]

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