FINALLY - WET STUFF TRICKLE OF RAIN CHEERS PARCHED VALLEY.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer A hissing of tires. A swishing of streets. A gurgle gur·gle v. gur·gled, gur·gling, gur·gles v.intr. 1. To flow in a broken irregular current with a bubbling sound: water gurgling from a bottle. 2. of drainpipes. The sound of rain - light drizzle, actually - on Thursday shocked residents withered by the driest year in history. ``As soon as I heard the drops hit, boom - I put on my shoes. I am so happy,'' said Megan Samuels, a screenwriter in Woodland Hills, hoofing it through a late-afternoon drizzle along Topanga Canyon Boulevard. ``I've been waiting all day so I can go running in the rain.'' Thus ended the 77th day without rain in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , which hadn't seen a drop since 0.01 inch fell on June 21. On Thursday, 0.01 inch fell on Woodland Hills, 0.01 inch on Van Nuys, 0.02 on Chatsworth, 0.1 on Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. and 0.01 on LAX. Trace amounts also fell in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , Newhall and Burbank. ``All right!'' said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, upon learning of the trickle in Woodland Hills on Thursday afternoon. ``You really got rain there? ``Everybody else got a trace.'' Forecasters predict a 60 percent chance of rain today, dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. to 20 percent Saturday morning. The wet relief came from Tropical Storm Hernan, centered 700 miles west of Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just Cabo) is a small city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula at , in the municipality of Los Cabos in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. , Baja California, Mexico. While the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. sweated in 55 percent humidity, Seto said temperatures that had soared above 100 degrees this week should drop into the 80s through the weekend. Firefighters said the rain gave a wee assist in dousing a 5,100-acre wildfire in the Leona Valley west of Palmdale. ``The rain helped a little bit, but not a lot,'' said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Brian Jordan. The rain also seemed to increase business at one local car dealer. ``A change of weather like this always boosts business,'' said Steve Livingston, owner of Livingston Volkswagen in Woodland Hills, marveling at the water beading beading, n the scribing of a shallow groove (less than 0.5 mm in width or depth) on a cast that outlines the major connector. It is used to transfer the design to the investment cast and ensure tissue contact of the major connector. up on 60 newly waxed cars. ``We're glad to be chamoising off our cars.'' But others were less sure about Thursday's splash. ``Every time I wash my car, it rains on my flippin' SUV,'' said George McQuade, 49, of Canoga Park. ``But I just put in a front lawn, and my wife and I have prayed for rain all week.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Kids on the way home from school at Mason Avenue and Saticoy Street use umbrellas to shield them from the rain. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer |
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