I did get the reference. I was one of the few people who actually hated that movie.

All I could think of was how could these enlightened aliens have kidnapped all of those people in different eras, caused grief for their families, etc., and then dumped them back in the 1970s?

And yes...sometimes we did get great clouds over the Santa Ynez Mountains above Carp. But nothing, I mean NOTHING like the clouds we have here. Have photos of them not on this computer tho....will try to show you. Often the clouds get stacked up four or five on top...like a sloppy layer cake. In the bright moonlight, it is a MAGICAL sight! We laugh up here and say "Well, the fleet's in tonight!". Usually means weather change withing 24 hours.

Isn't there a fellow who proposes that clouds DO have something to do with earthquakes?