posted on February 21, 2005 03:34:11 PM new
I saw pictures today and they are horrible. Does anyone here live in that area? I think our relief needs to go to them instead of Sri Lanka. It doesn't look like there is any end to the rains, snow for them either.
Calif. Storms Set Off Mudslides; 3 Dead
1 hour, 13 minutes ago U.S. National - AP
By DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Mudslides trapped people in their homes Monday and forced others to flee as Southern California was soaked by yet another of the powerful storms that have pounded the region this winter.
At least three deaths were blamed on the weather and part of the area's commuter rail service was halted.
Rescuers pulled three people from about 10 feet of mud that flowed into a town house in Hacienda Heights, a suburb east of Los Angeles. One woman was flown to a hospital while the other two escaped with only minor injuries, said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Mark Savage.
That same mudslide had forced the evacuation of 30 people from five units at the complex, Savage said.
The latest batch of rain, snow and hail started battering the region Sunday, part of a series of storms that arrived Friday and was expected to continue into Tuesday.
Since Thursday, downtown Los Angeles had gotten more than 6.5 inches of rain. The city's total since July 1, the start of the region's "water year," has reached 31.40 inches, making it already the fifth wettest on record, said weather service forecaster Bruce Rockwell. The record, 38.18 inches, was set in 1883-1884.
In addition to the mudslide victims in Hacienda Heights, mudslides and flooding chased about 30 people from 11 homes in Glendale, north of downtown Los Angeles, officials said. Three homes on an unstable hill were evacuated in nearby Pasadena and up to 10 homes were flooded in Fullerton.
Early Monday, a mudslide killed one man in a house in the city's Woodland Hills area in the San Fernando Valley, coroner's office officials said. In Orange County, a 16-year-old girl was killed by boulders that crashed into her family's apartment in a rural area east of Irvine, said Joseph Luckey, supervising deputy coroner.
In Los Angeles' Sun Valley area, a repair worker was died late Sunday when he fell into a 30-foot-deep sinkhole created by the storm, said Fire Department spokesman Melissa Kelley.
In the coastal community of La Conchita, where a landslide killed 10 people last month, six of the 39 people still living there elected to leave during the night because of the heavy rain and a steady flow of mud on the bluffs behind the town, said Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Bill Flannigan. Warnings had been issued earlier and the community about 70 miles north of Los Angeles was described as a ghost town Saturday after other residents moved out.
Metrolink canceled some commuter train service Monday along the Ventura County line north of Moorpark because of the heavy rain. Amtrak had canceled Los Angeles-to-Santa Barbara commuter rail service Friday night because of mudslides in Moorpark; northbound service on the line remained out Monday.
The stormy weather also had knocked out power to some 170,000 customers since Friday, primarily in the South Bay area that includes towns such as Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach, officials said. About 2,800 homes and businesses still had no electricity by late Sunday, said Steve Conroy, a spokesman for Southern California Edison (news - web sites).
posted on February 21, 2005 04:55:55 PM new
I know...they're getting hit very hard.
Since they first started showing the clips of the flooding on TV here...I've been wondering about bunni. I believe she's mentioned she lives in LA county.
I sure hope she's okay...and that maybe she's not in one of these areas that are being hit so hard.
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posted on February 21, 2005 05:08:58 PM new
I think I may be getting the only positive. Since my place floods every time it rains now I am being released from my lease without penalty. Hidden blessing since I'm only there every other week and paying 1500 a month for that has been a huge waste. Thankfully I have already gotten rid of most of my things so there won't be much to move.
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posted on February 21, 2005 05:49:27 PM new
Linda, I thought I read where bunni said she no longer posted much or enjoyed these boards because of the nasty "neo-cons". I hope she is not effected by the mudslides either. (Cheryl also said the same thing, but came back to show you a cartoon.)
posted on February 21, 2005 06:23:51 PM new
" Linda, I thought I read where bunni said she no longer posted much or enjoyed these boards because of the nasty "neo-cons""
what the hell is she talking about..crowfart aint a neo-con.
posted on February 22, 2005 07:29:28 PM new
Yup, out here in the West, when we say 'there goes the neighborhood' it means something other than everybody hooking up their trailer.
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