SOGGY, FOGGY WEATHER SLICKENS SOUTHLAND ROADS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Reports Southern Californians awoke to a chilly, soggy Sunday as an autumn storm dumped as much as two-thirds of an inch of rain, dusted the mountains with snow and left highways lethally slick. Rainfall in Burbank came to one-quarter inch, while just over one-half inch fell in Van Nuys and two-thirds inch in Chatsworth, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jonathan Slemmer. The Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. handled 160 traffic crashes citywide, including 69 in 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. , during the rainy period from 3 p.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday, spokesman Brian Humphrey said. Traffic problems tapered off quickly after the rains stopped, he said. One person died and another was injured at about 8 a.m. when a car went off a wet road, ran into a power pole and overturned on a road in the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. , a CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. At Seal Beach, another fatal crash may have been rain-related. The storm downed some power lines and shorted some transformers, causing outages in Santa Clarita, Montebello and Whittier, said Steve Hansen, a spokesman for Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. . The rain was expected to taper off in time for job commuting this morning, but another storm is expected to roll in later this week, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Hoffer said. Fog in the Valley early today will later be replaced by partial cloudiness, with high temperatures between 65 and 70 and lows between 45 and 50, Slemmer said. |
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