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[DLibrasnow]

Hope all the CBNers in California are okay. Saw a picture over the wire that had a gigantic boulder sitting in the middle of the road.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Indy 4 filming there?

[Qwerty]

Hope everyone over there is okay.

[Athena007]

Well, everyone I know is ok. Though my friend Carrie's apartment flooded like you wouldn't believe! The rain has been unbelievable never ending. Though it ended today. Most of the Hollywood Hill canyon roads are closed or... land sliding. A house collapsed in Laurel Canyon. Streets were flooded everywhere! There's so much more. But during the (2) weeks of non-stop rain we had power outages here and there (lines falling down, tress falling down into power lines and into houses). I think the worst thing that I heard about during this whole storm is this...

"Firefighters were using a helicopter to hoist a mother and her 2-year-old daughter to safety today. The mother lost grip of her 2-year-old girl who slipped from her mother's arms and fell into the raging floodwaters."

Yesterday morning I heard about this on the radio. I was in shock! I mean... imagine dropping your child to her death. How could you live with that visual? It

[zencat]

Thanks, Darren. It's been pretty wild. As most of you know, Athena and I just moved into a house in Laurel Canyon and this was certainly our first taste of canyon living. The roads up here have been a mess. Laurel Canyon Blvd itself has been closed, but there are back roads open for the residents and the foolish. I passed five landslides snaking my way up to Mullholand. Part of the road had collapsed (the cops closed it off today). Our power was out all day today. We have a large mountainside literally 3 feet from our bedroom wall and 6 feet from our bed but, thankfully, it's more rock than mud and we didn't have any problems (our house is old enough to have been built back when people actually considered where it was safe to build, or at least had room to choose). It was supposed to rain today, but it didn't and I think that was a blessing. I don't think this city could have taken one more day.

On a more positive note, L.A. after a rain can be breathtaking and today certainly was.

[Bryce (003)]

Indeed, after a good rain we do get the winds - The LA equivalent of a wash and blow-dry hence the air is clear, and amazingly clean.

Today was truly the calm after the storm and was a breezy January LA day. I know it's clear when I can see the Hollywood sign and actually see it clear enough to make out all the letters.

Glad you and Athena survived Zencat. The other night when I was awakened by the sound of the pounding rain at about 4am, I was wondering if I was going to get the "our living room's full of mud...Can we come over and stay in the guest room?" call from you two.

As to the boulder on the highway, they used Q logic - Screw moving it...Just blow it up. It was quite a sight on the local news tonight. (actually, they just called me and I used the Jag's rockets).

However, the "second wave" is due in tomorrow afternoon and will last through the weekend.

Between the tsunami and the rain here, I'm wondering if Dr. Evil has got his weather control device up and working again.

[Genrewriter]

I'm really glad we goit a break from the rain, made getting my car fixed a little less riskly driving wise. Glad to hear everyone is fine aside from some dampness.

[hrabb04]

This is all starting to look like that movie The Day After Tomorrow. We have the ice here. Heading up to campus this morning was like the ice chase in Die Another Day

Edited by hrabb04, 12 January 2005 - 05:33 PM.

[mccartney007]

I work in the city about 40 miles away from where I live and they have been getting tons of snow over the past few days. The city is absolutely terrible about getting the streets cleared in any amount of time so it's one big snowy, slushy mess. It's a lot of fun to go for a drive in the middle of the night, though.

However, up here at my house in the mountains we've had mostly sunny days. Usually, you have to go into the foothills and not the mountains to get that sort of thing.

[DLibrasnow]

Well I am just glad to hear that everyone is okay.

Here in DC we are still waiting for the first snowfall (I hear it may be February nefore we see any) and although it's raining here today, yesterdays temps got up into the '70s.

[Tarl_Cabot]

It's 8F here.

[Athena007]

Just thought I'd give you a taste of the house that collapsed in Laurel Canyon near, but not that near to where we live. When you're driving up the curvy hill and BAM you see this massive house (looks smaller in the pics, but it's BIG) crumbled on the side of the road, well...

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[Joyce Carrington]

Maybe I won't move to LA, then.

[Athena007]

LOL... don't worry... those things don't happen everyday. Actually...