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Brace yourselves, and bundle up: Another storm's a-comin'!

Seeing such a dominant swath of white broadly blanketing the mountaintops behind our downtown skyline is rare, and LAist Featured Photos Pool contributor jslander teases in this photo's title: "L.A. or Denver?"

  • Orange County residents in areas burned in last fall's wildfires are being urged to evacuate due to the threat of mud and landslides on the rain-soaked hills. Shelters are opening up in the area, but reports claim that few people are willing to leave their homes. Malibu residents meanwhile remain braced for more rain and possible slides, but so far no significant activity on the scarred hillsides has been reported.

  • We get to call it a "Winter Storm" because it's storming and it's January, and not to overstate the obvious, but it is Winter Storming like nobody's business out there.

    What a sad legacy for a hospital named after Martin Luther King, Jr. and Charles R. Drew. The Los Angeles Times reports that King/Drew Medical Center is losing accreditation from a National Health Agency. While it won't force the hospital to close, it will prevent several insurance companies from paying for services there and will likely end several of the doctor training programs the beleaguered facility is famous for. This is as good as time as any to take a look at The Times special report on the trouble at King/Drew and to remind our readers not to get sick in Watts. Seriously.

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