FYI- the "flooding" is overblown. The stadium is on a hill, and their next game is tomorrow. It's probably un-flooded already. A helicopter took the photo, which should give you an idea of how "catastrophic" the winds were.
L.A. is a huge metropolis, hard to visualize for people who've never been here. I'm sure there are many closures of small roads in hilly or mountainous areas, which happens every rainy season (we get 2 seasons of potential rain: Nov-Dec, and April-ish), assuming it actually rains.
There's still a closure of I-5 in the northern part, which is very unusual and a huge hassle for anyone in that part of town. And I just spoke with someone from the City of San Fernando (a small municipality at the northern tip of the large SF Valley, near that highway closure) where the power was out. I'd be very surprised if it didn't get restored today. Same for the I-5.
Most of L.A. is normal, and it wasn't a big deal. My local area was largely unaffected. The desert areas got harder hit, though: I can't speak to those conditions.
I had been through LA on the past but my information is 3 decades old. I was amazed by the traffic jams and how much time it consumed just to get trough LA. Then amazed when I went off the highway to eat and join the highway traffic there was a red light just before joining the traffic on said highway ? Instead of the norm I was used to to get up to highway speed to safely join the traffic. Also i remember making progress and back to a crawl and complete stop and this pattern continued and no wrecks ? I thought about all the people who went through this daily to go to work and go back home. No thanks and I decided if I ever went through again I better go through LA at 4am.
Like all deserts it requires less rains to create floods. Look at the terrain it will tell you where and how wide the floods in the past have been so stay on the higher sides.
Thank you for sharing this.
FYI- the "flooding" is overblown. The stadium is on a hill, and their next game is tomorrow. It's probably un-flooded already. A helicopter took the photo, which should give you an idea of how "catastrophic" the winds were.
Thank you for the update. Are the roads clear ?
L.A. is a huge metropolis, hard to visualize for people who've never been here. I'm sure there are many closures of small roads in hilly or mountainous areas, which happens every rainy season (we get 2 seasons of potential rain: Nov-Dec, and April-ish), assuming it actually rains.
There's still a closure of I-5 in the northern part, which is very unusual and a huge hassle for anyone in that part of town. And I just spoke with someone from the City of San Fernando (a small municipality at the northern tip of the large SF Valley, near that highway closure) where the power was out. I'd be very surprised if it didn't get restored today. Same for the I-5.
Most of L.A. is normal, and it wasn't a big deal. My local area was largely unaffected. The desert areas got harder hit, though: I can't speak to those conditions.
I had been through LA on the past but my information is 3 decades old. I was amazed by the traffic jams and how much time it consumed just to get trough LA. Then amazed when I went off the highway to eat and join the highway traffic there was a red light just before joining the traffic on said highway ? Instead of the norm I was used to to get up to highway speed to safely join the traffic. Also i remember making progress and back to a crawl and complete stop and this pattern continued and no wrecks ? I thought about all the people who went through this daily to go to work and go back home. No thanks and I decided if I ever went through again I better go through LA at 4am.
Like all deserts it requires less rains to create floods. Look at the terrain it will tell you where and how wide the floods in the past have been so stay on the higher sides. Thank you for sharing this.
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