I grew up in Los Angeles in the suburbs and one thing you can say generally about people there.
they don't know how to drive in the rain unless they grew up or traveled somewhere else.
I learned how to drive in the rain traveling other places by car where it rained more or snowed more
starting when I was 16 with my then 8 year old blue and white 1956 Ford Station wagon that I called
my "SURF WAGON". So, I often drove 400 miles a weekend because gas was only 17 cents a gallon
and my job at 16 paid me 3 dollars an hour after school delivering cameras all over Los Angeles which
then was 3 times the minimum wage. But this also helped me learn to drive in the rain. But, in a drought
for 15 years or so now
you have so many drivers (young ones in Los Angeles) that have never driven in the rain even once
in their lives. Dangerous!
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weekend rainstorm that drenched Southern California and triggered
hundreds of freeway crashes will disappear by the afternoon and make way
for cool, autumn weather on Thanksgiving, the National Weather Service
said …
Rain triggers 570% surge in Los Angeles County freeway crashes
A weekend rainstorm that drenched Southern California
and triggered hundreds of freeway crashes will disappear by the
afternoon and make way for cool, autumn weather on Thanksgiving, the National Weather Service said Monday.
Over Sunday and Monday, the storm dumped more than two inches of rain in San Luis Obispo County and more than an inch at Brentwood’s Getty Center in Los Angeles County, where a surge in car crashes left freeways intermittently jammed, authorities said.
According to statistics from the California Highway Patrol,
between 9 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday there were 201 reported crashes
on L.A. County’s freeways — a 570% increase from the same period last
week when the CHP counted 30 crashes.
Runoff also swelled the Los Angeles River and prompted the rescue of four people who were stranded on a small island near Atwater Village early Monday morning, officials said.
About 100 Los Angeles city firefighters worked to rescue the two men and two women who had climbed into trees as rising water swept past at 35 mph. The city had activated two rescue crews the night before, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott.
Another Los Angeles River rescue occurred in South Gate, where Los Angeles County firefighters rescued a man who tried to walk through the fast-moving water Sunday night, officials said.
By Monday afternoon, the storm should make way for patchy clouds and temperatures in the mid-60s, said National Weather Service meteorologist David Sweet.
“I think our rain is pretty much over for the rest of the week,” he said.
Inland valleys could reach the mid-70s by Thursday, but the rest of Southern California’s beach and mountain communities and downtown L.A. should be a few degrees cooler through the rest of the week, Sweet said.
Northern California is also being hit by rain this week, which is producing much-needed snow in the parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a key source of water for California as the state deals with a fifth year of drought.
Over Sunday and Monday, the storm dumped more than two inches of rain in San Luis Obispo County and more than an inch at Brentwood’s Getty Center in Los Angeles County, where a surge in car crashes left freeways intermittently jammed, authorities said.
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Runoff also swelled the Los Angeles River and prompted the rescue of four people who were stranded on a small island near Atwater Village early Monday morning, officials said.
About 100 Los Angeles city firefighters worked to rescue the two men and two women who had climbed into trees as rising water swept past at 35 mph. The city had activated two rescue crews the night before, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott.
Another Los Angeles River rescue occurred in South Gate, where Los Angeles County firefighters rescued a man who tried to walk through the fast-moving water Sunday night, officials said.
By Monday afternoon, the storm should make way for patchy clouds and temperatures in the mid-60s, said National Weather Service meteorologist David Sweet.
“I think our rain is pretty much over for the rest of the week,” he said.
Inland valleys could reach the mid-70s by Thursday, but the rest of Southern California’s beach and mountain communities and downtown L.A. should be a few degrees cooler through the rest of the week, Sweet said.
Northern California is also being hit by rain this week, which is producing much-needed snow in the parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a key source of water for California as the state deals with a fifth year of drought.
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