{"id":369486,"date":"2010-02-27T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8dc7dec970b"},"modified":"2010-02-27T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:27:56","slug":"rains-pound-l-a-area-officials-on-alert-for-possible-mudslides-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/369486","title":{"rendered":"Rains pound L.A. area; officials on alert for possible mudslides [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sandbags<\/img><\/a>
<\/br> A new storm moved into Southern California early Saturday morning, dumping steady rain, flooding some roads but so far causing no major mudslides.<\/div>\n

The National Weather Service said about .8 of an inch of rain had fallen in downtown Los Angeles as of 4 a.m., but officials expected 1-2 inches of rain before the storm moves out Saturday night. <\/p>\n

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood advisory for foothill areas burned during the Station Fire, which are prone to mudslides and flooding. The NWS also issued a high-surf advisory beginning at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

\nSteady rain is falling over the La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge area, where a heavy storm earlier this month caused massive mudslides that damaged dozens of homes.<\/p>\n

The debris basins, which collect muck before they can hit residential streets, appeared to be holding.<\/p>\n

[Updated at 7:20 a.m.: <\/strong>Standing outside of her home with an umbrella and flashlight, Michele Barkin watched as firefighters drove into her cul de sac on her street to check on the basin that lies only a house away from hers. <\/p>\n

"It’s been raining hard all night and I’m worried," she said. <\/p>\n

Barkin said she was concerned that the bottom portion of the basin near her home would clog up and cause another overflow of mud. She said she has been keeping in touch with other neighbors through walkie talkies and e-mail.<\/p>\n

Flooding closed a portion of the 710 Freeway at Florence Avenue.]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Pacific<\/img><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has been patrolling the Paradise Valley area where mudslides hit.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department also has been patrolling the area. Some evacuation orders have been issued, but many residents decided to stay in their homes.<\/p>\n

The heaviest rain is forecast to occur through Saturday mid-morning, with scattered showers expected in the afternoon. Rains started falling around 2 a.m., with a top intensity of about a half-inch an hour.<\/p>\n

Roads are closed in many parts of the Angeles National Forest. Snow levels are expected to drop to 5,000 feet.<\/p>\n

There were reports of scattered road and freeway flooding, and officials were closing roads in the Sepulveda basin area.<\/p>\n

— Ruben Vives in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge<\/p>\n

[For the record: <\/strong>An earlier version of this post incorrectly referred to Paradise Valley as Pleasant Valley.]<\/p>\n

Photo: Steve Brown places a sandbag at the K-rails in front
\nof his home on Ocean View Boulevard in La
\nCa\u00f1<\/em>ada Flintridge. Credit: Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em>
<\/br>
<\/br>Map of storm activity in California. Credit: National Weather Service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new storm moved into Southern California early Saturday morning, dumping steady rain, flooding some roads but so far causing no major mudslides. The National Weather Service said about .8 of an inch of rain had fallen in downtown Los Angeles as of 4 a.m., but officials expected 1-2 inches of rain before the storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}