ON GUARD ... AGAIN VALLEY RESIDENTS PREPARE FOR MORE RAIN.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer As a cold, wet storm swept across Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, on Sunday - with more heavy rain expected this week - homeowners lugged home trucks and vans full of sandbags sandbags small sacks containing sand used to support an anesthetized animal in dorsal recumbency and prevent it from rolling sideways during anesthesia or surgery. , in an effort to protect their property from flooding. Intermittent rain is expected through Tuesday, with a strong system moving in on Wednesday, raising the risk of mudslides and flooding. 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. city Fire Station 88 in Sherman Oaks, which provides sandbags for all the city's fire stations, has given away 65,000 bags since the beginning of the rainy season in September, said Capt. Alex Arriola. The station has 35,000 bags left, with more on order. The ground dried quickly after the first rainy spell around the end of September, but since then the rain has been relentless and has saturated the ground. ``Now we're having storm after storm after storm, so the ground's not getting a chance to really absorb it all and dry up,'' Arriola said. Hillside residents are facing drainage problems, and even residents on flat land have seen their properties get flooded. George Chacon, 60, of Van Nuys was picking up sandbags at Station 88 because he has a garage full of ``valuable junk'' that was getting flooded with water from an alley. Also dealing with a flooded garage was Linda Maeder, 56, of Sherman Oaks, who was picking up 10 sandbags with her partner Diane Fisher Rev. Elder Diane Fisher serves as an elder (something broadly like a bishop) of the Metropolitan Community Church. She serves Region 5, which covers eastern Canada, the northeastern United States and much of central and eastern Europe. . Maeder also got some help from Fisher's 14-year-old nephew and 4-year-old niece. ``This is our third time here, and it's still flooding,'' Maeder said. Residents can expect more rain and flooding. The weather will be ``wet, wild and windy'' over the next few days, with a chance of thunderstorms thunderstorms a storm characterized by thunder and lightning caused by strong rising air currents; identified as agents of animal disease because of their involvement causing (1) spasmodic colic; (2) lightning strike; (3) injuries of cattle acquired in stampedes initiated by storms. into this evening and a 70 percent chance of rain through Tuesday, said weather specialist Stuart Seto of the National Weather Service. Meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
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. through Tuesday, with 4-8 inches for the foothills and mountains. Another powerful storm is expected to hit the region Wednesday. ``It's not going to be as bad as (last) Monday and Tuesday, but it's going to be pretty bad,'' Seto said. At a Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box in Woodland Hills, shoppers grabbed tarps, pumps, sandbags and cans of roof patch. Tarzana resident David Jackson, 47, who was buying a tarp to protect his home from a clogged gutter, said his neighbor's pool dropped into the ground after an underground stream eroded the soil beneath it. As of midnight Saturday, downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or had received 13.53 inches of rain since July 1, according to Seto, who said the figure is 9.66 inches above normal for that area. For the same period a year ago, 2.68 inches of rain had been recorded downtown, said Seto. The 5.55 inches of rain that fell in Los Angeles on Dec. 28 made that day - last Tuesday - the third-wettest since the Weather Service started keeping records in 1877, said Seto. City News Service contributed to this report. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Diane Fisher helps her niece, Taylor Wise, 4, hold a sandbag Sandbag A stalling tactic used by management to deter a company that is showing interest in taking them over. Notes: The company stalls in hopes that a more favorable company will take them over. while nephew Michael Wise, 14, shovels sand at Los Angeles city Fire Station 88 on Sunday. The bags were to be used to stop flooding in Fisher's garage. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer (2) A pedestrian guarding against the rain passes an oblivious smiling Santa on Van Nuys Boulevard on Sunday. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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