We’re live blogging the Rose Parade on TV this morning. The wind is whipping outside and rain is pelting the windows here. About thirty miles away in Pasadena, the parade is on schedule and the people watching and the ones in the parade are carrying on – mostly as if nothing unusual is happening. Rain slickers and umbrellas notwithstanding, they all seem to be enjoying the parade. One exception may have been a peregrine falcon riding on the float in the picture; his feathers looked waterlogged as his head nervously darted from side to side as though he were ready to find a roost in one of the trees along Colorado Boulevard.
The storm is expected to dump up to eight inches of rain in the Southland today. It’s probably a good thing that the Rose Bowl isn’t being played until Wednesday evening, when clear weather is forecast. (GO TROJANS!)