WEATHER EFFECTS SEASON'S FIRST WINTER STORM INUNDATES AREA RAIN EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer QUARTZ HILL - A powerful winter storm dropped more than an inch of rain on 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 , covering nearby mountains with snow and flooding intersections. In Quartz Hill, firefighters spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning placing 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. at a dozen locations to divert runoff, mostly at flooded roads but also on some home lots. ``This happens every year we have a heavy rain,'' said 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 Fire Capt. Clifford Meridth. ``Our crews were up all night handling calls.'' Rainfall totaled 1.1 inches by Thursday afternoon, the Palmdale Water District said. Mountain High ski resort near Wrightwood said two to three feet of snow had fallen by 1 p.m. Thursday. Snow accumulated early Thursday beside the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. in the Acton area, around the 3,000-foot level, but officials said it didn't interfere with traffic. The National Weather Service said showers continue to be likely this morning, with rain possibly mixed with snow and the snow level down to 3,000 feet. Rain is expected to taper off Verb 1. taper off - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" fizzle, fizzle out, peter out discontinue - come to or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" 2. this afternoon. The Weather Service predicted partly cloudy Partly Cloudy is an industrial band based in Hollywood, California. Band members
In Quartz Hill, runoff from the storm threatened the home of sisters Joan and Bonnie Axe in the 43100 block of 52nd Street West. Joan Axe called 911 early Thursday when water rose to within an inch of the sandbags she had piled outside her doors. Fire crews placed additional sandbags and dug trenches to divert the water flow from the Axes' yard and from neighboring yards. The house has flooded twice before - once in the late 1980s, and again last winter, Joan Axe said. Her landlord has twice had to replace the flooring as well as much of the interior drywall, she said, and she still hasn't replaced the furniture damaged last year. Axe blames her flooding on the lack of a drainage system Noun 1. drainage system - a system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a around her neighborhood, which is in unincorporated territory under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County but borders the Lancaster city limits and is downstream from housing tracts in Palmdale's Rancho Vista area. ``I nearly died trying to get those bags up,'' said Axe, who suffers from emphysema emphysema (ĕmfĭsē`mə), pathological or physiological enlargement or overdistention of the air sacs of the lungs. A major cause of pulmonary insufficiency in chronic cigarette smokers, emphysema is a progressive disease that commonly . ``I just appreciate the fire department so much for what they do. If it wasn't for them, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what we would have done.'' Fire officials said digging a drainage ditch near the road would go a long way to divert flood water but may not completely solve the problem. ``The house is actually set lower than everything around it, so it's hard to say whether a trench would work,'' Meridth said. Through today at least, county fire stations will hand out sand bags for residents who need them to protect their homes. THE FORECAST TODAY: Showers likely in the morning, with rain possibly mixed with snow and the snow level down to 3,000 feet. Rain is expected to taper off this afternoon. SATURDAY: Partly cloudy skies SUNDAY: Mostly clear SOURCE: National Weather Service CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair of Palmdale shovels snow onto his truck Thursday to bring home for his children and nieces to play with. (2 -- color) Joe Alyea and his daughter, Stephanie, 4, of Lancaster build themselves a snowman Thursday along Big Pines highway. (3) A sport utility vehicle fords an intersection at Avenue R and 20th Street East in Palmdale. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: The Forecast (see text) |
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