Is the Hollywood Fwy REALLY under water?

[serryjw]

How bad is it really? Are they evacuating?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Might be...we've had over 6 inches of rain this weekend

which is unheard of here

[Blue_State_Elitist]

2. Wow

I hope not.

[Merlot]

3. I just got home from driving through hollywood

I took topstreets which had A LOT of water, about half way up the tire in some places and large rivers on the side of the road. But the freeway? I don't think so. I looked at it as I drove over it, it was slow, but it's alwyas slow this time of night. It looked dryer than the topstreets I was on.

So, to answer your question, I don't think they're evacuating, traffic is just slow. Good thing it was a holiday and there wasn't as much traffic as usual. Took me an hour and half to get home, usually would take an hour.

[zann725]

4. Wonder if that billboard bashing Hollywood Stars was damaged by the rains?

If there were a god...

[SoCalDem]

5. It's... B. A. D.

The soil here in SoCal cannot hold a lot of moisture at any one time, and it's been raining FOREVER..

My yard is flooded, my roof is leaking..and I am ready for it to STOP...

[SoCalDem]

6. Wet and soggy..

By DAISY NGUYEN
Associated Press Writer
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S6465.html?cat=87

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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.

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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 died late Sunday when he fell into a 30-foot-deep sinkhole created by the storm, said Fire Department spokesman Melissa Kelley.

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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.