{"id":69882,"date":"2021-12-01T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=69882"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T19:27:44","slug":"santa-ana-winds-cause-major-pickleball-court-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2021\/12\/01\/santa-ana-winds-cause-major-pickleball-court-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ana Winds cause major pickleball court damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-520x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69883\" width=\"332\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-520x693.jpg 520w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><figcaption>In the far background is what is left of the once majestic pine tree Santa Ana Winds snapped during the Thanksgiving holiday that crashed onto the Idyllwild Community Center\u2019s pickleball courts on Idyllwild Pines Camp property. Pickleball players, shown, volunteered to remove the pine and were hard at work at it with chainsaws Friday.\t\nPhoto by Becky Clark<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanksgiving eve and day brought strong Santa Ana Winds that stirred up the holiday throughout Southern California, and in Idyllwild, wreaking havoc to the banners hanging between the Red Kettle and the Fort, and driving tumbleweeds across Highway 74 in motorists\u2019 paths through Garner Valley.<br>Thanksgiving was not a good day to be outside, much less playing pickleball on the courts at Idyllwild Pines Camp. And that was a good thing because either the night before or Thursday, those winds were strong enough to snap a tall pine tree standing near the courts, felling the giant diagonally across both courts, smashing chainlink fencing and netting.<br>\u201cWe are unsure of when exactly the tree fell, but it happened sometime Wednesday night or Thursday morning,\u201d said Idyllwild Community Center Recreation Director Will Steichen. \u201cWe are so thankful no one was hurt.\u201d<br>One thing for certain, Idyllwild pickleball players are avid about their sport and they weren\u2019t about to let a little pickle of a situation such as a fallen pine tree get in their way.<br>Pickleball player Ginger Dagnall said about 11 players, with Doug Churchill in the lead, volunteered in removing the tree and repairing some of the damage to one of the courts on Friday, a calm day. \u201c\u2026 Doug was a powerhouse in the cleanup and removal efforts,\u201d she said.<br>\u201cA group of local pickleball players stepped up, cut the tree and removed enough to allow for play on one of the two pickleball courts,\u201d said Steichen. \u201cHow awesome! We have repairs to do on the fencing, netting and concrete before both courts are up and running.\u201d<br>By Saturday morning, the winds were forgotten and a group of pickleball players were back at it on the one good court.<br>According to the National Weather Service (NWS), \u201cSanta Ana Winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry, desert region of the southwestern U.S. flows westward toward low pressure located off the California coast. This creates dry winds that flow east to west through the mountain passages in Southern California.\u201d<br>NWS said expect this weather phenomenon in cooler temperatures between September and May, and it often brings major property damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving eve and day brought strong Santa Ana Winds that stirred up the holiday throughout Southern California, and in Idyllwild, wreaking havoc to the banners hanging between the Red Kettle and the Fort, and driving tumbleweeds across Highway 74 in motorists\u2019 paths through Garner Valley.Thanksgiving was not a good day to be outside, much less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411076,"featured_media":69883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Santa Ana Winds cause major pickleball court damage &bull; Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2021\/12\/01\/santa-ana-winds-cause-major-pickleball-court-damage\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2021\/12\/01\/santa-ana-winds-cause-major-pickleball-court-damage\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pickle1-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":2560,\"caption\":\"In the far background is what is left of the once majestic pine tree Santa Ana Winds snapped during the Thanksgiving holiday that crashed onto the Idyllwild Community Center\\u2019s pickleball courts on Idyllwild Pines Camp property. 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