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Photos: The Damage Rainpocalypse Is Doing In SoCal
The biggest SoCal rainstom in nearly three years has been hitting hard this weekend, causing evacuations in the foothills, sweeping one man down a canal, getting a reporter stuck in the mud and causing all sorts of other mayhem.
People who lived in the foothill areas of Azusa and Monrovia were under mandatory evacuation as of about 1:45 p.m. Though the National Weather Service had downgraded the storm alert to advisory status from warning, they said large-scale mudflows could still affect the hillside areas, and expected residents could return home around 6 p.m.
A half-foot of water was reported flooding all four northbound lanes of the 5 Freeway near Atwater Village just after 2 p.m. Saturday, City News Service reported.
A 26-year-old woman named Katherine Valle was killed just after 2 a.m. when another driver hit her spun out car on the rain-slick 110 Freeway near Dodger Stadium, CHP and Coroner’s Lt. David Smith said. The 40-year-old man who hit the car was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.
And two others were hospitalized with major injuries after a head-on collision on West Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills at around 2:30 a.m., Beverly Hills police reported.
More than 2,400 Los Angeles residents were still without power by 9 a.m., official said, with crews working overtime to restore power.
National Weather Service expects snowfall to reach 5,500 feet overnight.
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See some of the damage reported by Twitter and Instagram users below.
#rain in Los Angeles claims the @BobsBigBoy in Toluca Lake #BobDown @CurbedLA pic.twitter.com/uIfKMuIp2L
— Julianne Reiser (@RogueMomLA) February 28, 2014
@LAPublicWorks RD556 crew took the driver of this car to safety using a bucket loader to travel through the mud. pic.twitter.com/WSwrVnRKbX
— LA Co Public Works (@LACoPublicWorks) February 28, 2014
The LA river gushing all the rain fall out to sea instead of in putting into the ground #lariver #la pic.twitter.com/0tctGKMsgv
— Anthony Batt (@djabatt) February 28, 2014
When LA rain meets hillsides burned from the #colbyfire, mudslides. Hicrest road is washed out. W/@jackhannahcnn pic.twitter.com/hk7OBX8jvG
— Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) February 28, 2014
A Brit in the Los Angeles rain is like a pig in sh*t. Look at the LA River! pic.twitter.com/bqwRvzfQZa
— Stuart Wood (@stuiewood) February 28, 2014
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