Snow in Long Beach, CA???

Okay, so it wasn't snow, but it sure looked like it after all the hail fell.  Here's a photo standing on my front door step that I took on the 15th. 

The storm started out with some loud thunder and bright lightening which we don't get very often here.  It started raining just a bit and then before I knew it, it was hailing.  After it finished hailing, it started pouring and washed most of it all away.  But for about 15 minutes we had our own "white Christmas" here in sunny CA.