SoCal faces most destructive winds since 2011, when storm wreaked havoc on Pasadena area

Few residents in the San Gabriel Valley will forget the events of late November and early December 2011, when winds cut off power to 400,000 residents, downed thousands of trees and damaged over 200 homes and structures.

In some places we've seen gusts over hurricane force, which for the Southwest part of the country is not something that usually happens," Brian Edwards, a meteorologist for AccuWeather.com, told The Times back then.

Nobody in our department has ever seen such widespread damage. Nobody," Jon Kirk Mukri, general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, told The Times at the time.

In the end, the storm caused $40 million in damage, with Pasadena hit hardest, suffering $20 million in damage.

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