Officials order evacuations before 3rd SoCal storm

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Source: ap

LOS ANGELES – After two days of lightening, flooding and even a tornado, officials tried to get ahead of the next round of powerful storms that are pummeling Southern California by ordering evacuations in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods.

Los Angeles police officers went door-to-door in the Tujunga neighborhood late Tuesday, handing out flyers and asking residents of about 200 homes to be out of their homes by Wednesday morning.

With debris basins full and the fire-scorched soil saturated, Los Angeles County fire officials plan to issue mandatory evacuation orders for about 600 homes beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday in anticipation of the third and longer drenching.
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County Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman begged residents to heed their evacuations orders. He said public safety officials are racing against Mother Nature.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_re_us/us_california_storms

[MISSDem]

1. Shades of "The Day After Tomorrow".

a tornado!

[Roland99]

2. "lightening"?

If things were lightening I would think the rain was over and the sun was out.

*sigh*




Anyway, par for the course for SoCal. Fires then rain and the eventual mudslides but people will still build on hillsides.

[Delphinus]

3. Is there a Weather forum here on DU?

I don't get much of a chance to see what's happening in terms of weather and if there's a forum, I'd love to check it out and get a really good sense of all that's going on.