“There’s a lull, so I decided to go for it,” Bright said.
In Orange County, south of Los Angeles, about 800 canyon homes were under evacuation orders Tuesday after a flash flood warning was issued in the area scorched by a 2020 wildfire.Īfter a cloudburst calmed to a drizzle, Lori Bright leaped a puddle in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood, determined to get her daily steps in despite the soggy weather. Spokesperson Sara Roston said Kirkwood Mountain Resort, which closed Monday for safety reasons, was among them. Vail Resorts’ three Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts opened late Tuesday morning after the significant snowfall. A mountain route into the resort town of Big Bear was expected to be closed until Wednesday while crews cleared several feet of mud and debris.Īvalanche warnings were in effect in the Mono and Inyo county areas of the eastern Sierra Nevada as snowfall, which began Sunday, continued Tuesday. Similar orders were issued for people living near burn scars in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, where rockslides were reported. Residents near the Alisal Fire burn scar in California’s Santa Barbara County were ordered Monday to evacuate over concerns that heavy rains might cause flooding and debris flows. Mammoth Mountain in the eastern Sierra also got about 4 feet (1.2 meters). Rose ski resort just southwest of Reno and more than 4 feet (1.2 meters) fell at Heavenly on Lake Tahoe’s south shore. The storm began over the weekend in Northern California and has brought heavy precipitation as far inland as Nevada, where more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow fell since Sunday night at the Mt. The powerful system is a so-called atmospheric river that sucks up moisture from Pacific Ocean and dumps it at lower elevations as rain and in the mountains as snow. “I’m just trying to get stuff done so I don’t have to be on the roads any more,” he said. Heller said he’d seen a few minor auto accidents and traffic on the Arroyo Seco Parkway had slowed to a crawl because of flooding in lanes. “It’s kind of scary out there,” said Dean Heller, while filling up his car’s gas tank in northeast Los Angeles. He suffered bruises and hypothermia, fire officials said. The man called for help on his cellphone and firefighters reached him through a maintenance hole on the street above.
“The circumstances surrounding these three separate vehicles and their journey down the LA River remain unclear,” a Fire Department statement said.Įarlier, a man was rescued after being swept into a covered stream channel in the San Fernando Valley. No victims, if any, were immediately located and firefighters were waiting for the water level to fall. Los Angeles firefighters searched the surging Los Angeles River on Tuesday after discovering two submerged vehicles wedged against a bridge pillar south of downtown and learning that a third vehicle had been swept past the bridge.
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