Dan Abendschein is the Senior Field Editor for the San Gabriel Valley Patch sites. He has been working as a reporter since first publishing freelance journalism work at several weekly papers on Maui in 2004, and has worked as a full-time journalist in Southern California since 2007.
Originally from New Jersey, Dan Abendschein has lived in Southern California since 2005. Dan spent five years of his childhood in Stockton, CA., and seems to keep moving back to the Golden State.
He completed his undergraduate work at Pomona College in 2002, majoring in Linguistics/Cognitive Science.
After that, Dan spent several years working odd jobs and traveling, living in Washington state and on the island of Maui, while visiting Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Australia, and Central America.
He returned to Southern California in 2005, to attend the University of Southern California's journalism program at Annenberg, received a master's degree in 2007. He then went to work for the San Gabriel Valley Tribue, and later moved to the Pasadena Star News.
At Tuesday's County Board of Supervisors meeting, county officials faulted Edison for poor communications, for not coordinating with local officials, and for not having a good enough plan in place to deal with extended power outages.
The Altadena Town Council Land Use Committee will keep its regular meeting Tuesday night, which will include a new hearing on the proposed Palm Street School.
Tuesday's wind storm updates
A Wednesday meeting on the county's plans to replace street lights in south central and southeast Altadena has been canceled
Utility officials will take questions at Tuesday's County Board of Supervisor meeting. As of Monday, 20,800 Southern California Edison customers were still in the dark.
As with last weekend, Altadena residents can take their green waste to Farnsworth Park
The latest Monday storm updates.
Two homes in Eastern Altadena were broken into and burglarized on Thursday, the afternoon after power went out for most of Altadena.
An event volunteer tells Patch that the group is now planning to hold the lighting event, as planned.
All campuses will be open on Monday as long as they have power, district officials say.
SoCal Edison is now shooting to have power restored to 99.9 percent of its customers by Monday night at 8 p.m.
JPL climatologist Bill Patzert talks about why the winds were so strong, what made the storm so unusual, and our poor choices in an urban canopy.
A house caught fire Saturday morning in Altadena, but it was not related to the storm.
Several people have noted from government data that 167 mph winds were recorded at Henninger Flats. But one weather columnist doubts the accuracy.
JPL climatologist Bill Patzert talks about why the winds were so strong, what made the storm so unusual, and our poor choices in an urban canopy.
The county will be holding an event where Altadena residents can dispose of green waste from the storm at Farnsworth Park from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
A Sacramento County judge issued a ruling backing the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee in a lawsuit filed over the Legislature's refusal to release legislator budget records. The case was the result of a public records request originally made by Anth
JPL climatologist Bill Patzert talks about why the winds were so strong in the foothills, what made the storm so unusual, and about our poor choices in our urban canopy.
JPL climatologist Bill Patzert talks about why the winds were so strong in the foothills, what made the storm so unusual, and about our poor choices in our urban canopy.
JPL climatologist and Sierra Madre resident Bill Patzert talks about why the winds were so strong in the foothills, what made the storm so unusual, and about our poor choices in our urban canopy.