Up and down Orange County's rugged Santiago Canyon, volunteers from the Irvine Ranch Conservancy have positioned themselves and are surveying the landscape with binoculars.
Riptides, high surf, gusty winds, fire warnings, even snow: weird holiday-weekend weather so far. But winds will die down and temps will rise Sunday and into Monday.
Police will be out in force Memorial Day weekend looking for drunk drivers, creating an equally busy weekend for Sonnett Devermont, creator of mrcheckpoint.com.
California's legislators, the highest paid in the country with salaries at $95,000, also might be underpaid, with state senators making only 10 cents per constituent