STORM POURS IT ON : 3 KILLED AS RAINS SOAK ROADS.Byline: Mary Beth Alexander Daily News Staff Writer The most powerful storm of the season walloped 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. County on Monday, breaking rainfall records and tangling roadways with hundreds of crashes, including one that killed three people. More than 400 freeway collisions were reported between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m. - most of them likely the result of motorists driving too fast on rain-slick roads, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the California Highway Patrol. Rock slides closed Malibu Canyon Road, leaving Topanga Canyon Boulevard as the last open commuting route from 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. to Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
Four feet of mud flowed onto the northbound Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. in Sun Valley about 5:40 p.m., closing all four lanes of traffic for more that five hours. Crews worked late into the night to clear the debris, and 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 officials said the freeway was expected to be opened by early morning. Motorists will be detoured this morning around the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin, as police shut Woodley Avenue from Victory to Burbank boulevards, and Burbank Boulevard from the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. to Balboa Avenue. With the worst of the rain expected to pass Monday, the National Weather Service predicted that skies will begin to clear today, leaving occasional showers until Wednesday. The storm was the strongest of the season and pushed the rainfall total since October to 3.85 inches, forecasters said. This time last year, 0.11 of an inch had fallen in the region. The snow level was above 7,000 feet because of the tropical nature of the storm system. Snow was reported falling on Mount Pinos near Frazier Park. The downpours began around midmorning mid·morn·ing n. The middle of the morning. , created by the merging of South Pacific moisture with a wintry win·try also win·ter·y adj. win·tri·er also win·ter·i·er, win·tri·est also win·ter·i·est 1. Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold. 2. storm system from the north, weather officials said. Heavy rainfall continued through the day Monday, dumping more than 1.08 inches at the Los Angeles Civic Center and breaking a record set there when 0.84 of an inch fell on that date in 1909. Woodland Hills received 1.27 inches of rain, and in Northridge, 0.85 of an inch was recorded. As if on cue, the rain prompted a rash of traffic crashes. ``We have incidents all over town,'' said Officer Ken Lane, a CHP spokesman. Three men were killed when the car they were in hit a puddle of water on Highway 126, about a half-mile east of the Ventura-Los Angeles county line, said CHP Officer Wendy Moore. The car spun into oncoming traffic and was hit by a truck shortly before 4 p.m., Moore said. The mostly two-lane road, which runs from Valencia to Ventura, was closed for more than three hours. With the first signs of rain, Malibu residents girded for the possibility of mudslides on hillsides left barren by the Calabasas-Malibu wildfire. Weather officials issued a flash flood watch A Flash flood watch is issued when conditions are favorable for flash flooding in flood-prone areas where grounds are already saturated from recent rains. The Storm Prediction Center does not issue those watches, only National Weather Service offices can do so. for the burn area that lasted until 9 p.m. Although rock slides closed Malibu Canyon Road, city officials remained hopeful that the community would weather the storm with few problems. ``Things are holding up remarkably well,'' said Sarah Maurice, city spokeswoman. ``Maybe we're going to make it OK.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos, chart PHOTO (1 -- color) George Amescua, left, and Gonzalo Tobar, both 12, get little protection from a cardboard box in Chatsworth. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News (2 -- color) The front of a big rig hangs over the edge of the I-5, Highway 118 transition. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News (3) Cars splash their way through a flooded section of Sherman Way. Heavy rains Monday caused hundreds of crashes throughout the Southland. Tom Mendoza/Daily News Chart: Rainfall Data |
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