By Kevin Tripp, KABC
Several big rigs have been flipped over by the dangerously strong Santa Ana winds. Part of the 118 had to be shut down after a driver said a gust picked up his 18-wheeler and tossed it down the highway. CHP officer Jesus Maya tells KTLA-5 it’s no joke.
”You can see the skid marks. You can see that he started getting picked up, about, almost a thousand feet back to where he landed. And that’s some pretty strong wind to pick up a whole big rig up and flip it around in the opposite direction.”
A different long-haul truck was knocked over by winds along I-15 in the Cajon Pass. Wind gusts in some local mountain are approaching 90 miles per hour.