SOUTHLAND SWAMPED POWER'S OUT, CRASHES ARE UP AND RAIN KEEPS COMING DOWN.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer Already drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. by record rainfall, Southern California got hit again Friday with the first of three strong storms expected to dump 5 more inches on the area by Monday. At least one person was killed in a weather-related crash - possibly drowned when his car skidded off a rain-slick road and landed upside-down in a water-choked drainage ditch between Camarillo and Oxnard, officials said. Throughout the region, residents navigated flooded streets, covered leaky roofs with tarps, waited out power outages, sandbagged The word sandbagged is a colloquial expression used to describe a situation in which one is publicly rejected or corrected in the presence of peers, often causing embarrassment. their homes against rising water - and braced for more rain today and Monday. ``It's a dual disaster,'' said meteorologist Stuart Seto of the National Weather Service. ``They're going to work together to increase the rainfall amounts. We got a lot more rain coming.'' In addition to rainfall across the Los Angeles Basin The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles as well as its southern and southeastern suburbs (both in Los Angeles , the new storms are expected to dump as much as 4 feet of snow in the San Bernardino Mountains San Bernardino Mountains, part of the Coast Range, S Calif., extending c.60 mi (100 km) NW and SE through San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Notable peaks are San Bernardino Mt. (10,630 ft/3,240 m) and Mt. San Gorgonio (11,485 ft/3,501 m). and 7 feet in the eastern Sierra. With snow forecast at elevations as low as 3,500 feet locally, the California Highway Patrol warned of likely closures along Interstate 5 through the Grapevine. Wind, high surf and winter storm advisories are expected to remain in effect through today in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Concerned about the potential for flooding, mudslides, power outages, uprooted trees and other problems, the city of Los Angeles
``We urge L.A. residents to take simple precautions to ensure everyone's safety as the storm moves through area,'' Mayor James Hahn said at a news conference in Sherman Oaks. ``When it rains in Los Angeles, our flood control channels, our rivers, canyons and arroyos can quickly fill up with fast-moving water.'' So far this season, which runs from July 1 to June 30, 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 has recorded 17.41 inches of rain, some 2 inches above normal for a season. Friday's storm dumped 1.73 inches of rain downtown, 1.21 inches in Chatsworth and 1.24 inches in Woodland Hills. The rain forced the closure of the 2,000-acre Sepulveda Basin in Van Nuys, the San Fernando Valley's largest recreational park which also doubles as its flood-control system. There were the usual kinds of problems that accompany a significant storm - scattered power outages caused by downed lines, fender-benders caused by slick streets. A mudslide partially blocked Benedict Canyon Road for a time, and a mudslide in East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. buried four vans halfway to their wheel wells. A tree toppled onto a car in Sherman Oaks, briefly trapping the driver, but no one was injured. Work crews were called to repair minor leaks at nine 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. libraries. And at the Amelia M. Earhart Regional Branch in North Hollywood, librarians used 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. to prevent water from seeping under the door and into the children's area. In Fillmore, officials ordered the evacuation of more than 140 horses from an equestrian center located south of the rain-swelled Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
``Care is going to have to be exercised a bit more diligently,'' Seto said. ``Most of the low spots and previously flooded spots will be flooded again.'' Staff Writer Andrea Cavanaugh contributed to this report. Jason Kandel, (818) 713-3664 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos, 2 boxes, chart Photo: (1 -- 2) Workers cross Ventura Boulevard at Sepulveda Boulevard on a rainy Friday, above. Right, firefighters look over the damage after a large tree fell over onto a two-story building in the 12200 block of Maxwellton Road due to heavy rains in Studio City. Soggy ground undermines tree roots in such heavy rains, say experts. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News (3) City workers try to clean up a mudslide in the 1900 block of Benedict Canyon Drive in the Beverly Glen area. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Box: (1) Warm up with a quick pot of chili (2) Songs for a rainy day Chart: RAINFALL TOTALS SOURCE: National Weather Service |
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