Southern California hit by destructive rubble flows caused by heavy rains

Los Angeles-El Sur de California faces the continuous risk of rocks and landslides on the slopes of the forest fire forest on Friday, a day after heavy rains sent rubble through several roads, including the coastal road Del Pacífico, where a vehicle from the fire department was pushed into the ocean.

The storm that came to the region began to relieve Thursday night, but dangerous landslides can attack even after the rain stops, particularly in burned areas where the vegetation that helps maintain the ground has burned.

A member of the Los Angeles Fire Department was in the vehicle when he entered the water in Malibu and was able to leave with minor injuries, said the department spokesman Erik Scott, on social platform X.

On Thursday in Pacific Palisades, an intersection of the road immersed himself in at least 3 feet (91 centimeters) of mud, with some drivers trying to make his way and police officers pushing a vehicle through the muck. The excavators worked to clear the roads not far from where they only moved away from abandoned cars after the people fleeing last month stuck in the traffic and fled on foot.

In northern Altadena, a road near the Fire Burns Eaton was also covered with several feet of mud, vegetation and trees when a water flood exceeded the established concrete blocks to avoid such debris flows. The area was mostly deserted.

To the north, snow and ice contributed to the great accumulations on the roads of Oregon and Washington, wounding at least 10 people, while a winter storm descended in the northwest of the Pacific.

The storms on the west coast are only the last ones in a week of bad weather in the United States that reduce power to tens of thousands.

Too much rain too fast in California?

When the downpour intensified on Thursday, the National Meteorological Service issued sudden floods and severe warning warnings for a strip of the east of the Los Angeles County. The rain caused a rock slip and pushed the mud to the road on the Malibu cannon, and a large flow of debris left approximately 8 inches (approximately 20 centimeters) of mud through a road on the Hollywood hills.

Southern California reported 1 to 2 inches (around 2.5 to 5 centimeters) of rain in coastal areas and valleys and 3 to 6 inches (approximately 7.6 to 15.2 centimeters) on the coastal slopes on Thursday, according to the National Meteorological Service.

More than 25,000 people in California had no electricity, according to Poweroutage.us.

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued in areas where the slopes were marked by the fire of Palisades, the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles. In addition to burning the vegetation that maintains the ground in its place, the fires also added loose debris to the landscape, including ashes, earth and rocks.

Before the storm, the officials distributed sandbags, positioned rescue swimmers and told residents who had ready banks. The sandbags and temporary concrete barriers were in their place through Altadena, where Eaton’s fire destroyed thousands of houses.

Despite the recent storms, much of the south of California remains in an extreme or severe drought, according to the American drought monitor. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that while the area is desperate for rain, this storm could bring too fast.

In Altadena, Mehran Daoudian prepared by placing canvas on a hole in the roof of his house where the fire burned it last month. Daoudian said he was grateful that the city workers organized sandbags and concrete barriers in his neighborhood in recent weeks. “I did not leave the cars on the street because with the landslide, (they) could go down,” he said.

Near the burning scar for the airport fire in Orange County, Trabuco Canyon Road was overcome by mud and debris, the public works of the Orange County published on social networks.

In the San Francisco Bay area, there were blackouts, small landslides and flooded roads. The authorities urged people to evacuate Felton Grove, a small community along the central coast, while the San Lorenzo River threatened to overcome its banks.

In neighboring Nevada, the weather service said it registered a measurable amount of rain in Las Vegas, finishing a 214 -day streak without precipitation.

And in northern Utah, rain and snow created dangerous conditions on mountain roads that lead to ski stations. The State transport department issued a road safety alert a warning of a mixture of strong snow and rain until Friday.

Pacific Northwest Ice Storm

The first to answer registered all vehicles in an accumulation on Thursday near Multnomah Falls, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Portland, Oregon, said the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office. Initially, the office said more than 100 cars were involved, but the state transport department later said the number was 20 to 30 vehicles. Oregon State Police said four people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.

The accumulation occurred during the almost white conditions in the lanes west of the interest 84, authorities said. A SUV caught fire, but its occupants escaped.

Multnomah County officials extended an emergency state at least on Friday and said eight shelters would be open. The authorities said 489 people went to the shelters on Wednesday night.

The chills could immerse 10 degrees (except 12 Celsius) in Portland, said the National Meteorological Service.

In southern Washington, six people were taken to hospitals with injuries in another accumulation of 22 vehicles in interstatal 5 near the Cowlitz River, said state patrol spokesman Will Finn. There were 95 accidents on Thursday in five counties in the southwest of the state.

East is beaten with strong snow and frozen rain

The school was canceled or delayed on Thursday in dozens of districts in New England, where snow and ice made driving. Maine’s State Police said they were investigating an accident that involved a trailer trailer on the Maine toll highway that killed two people.

Thursday’s storms followed two days of strong snow and icy rain in an area that extends from Kentucky to Washington, DC, which caused hundreds of traffic accidents and knocked out power to tens of thousands.

Until Thursday night, 130,000 clients in Virginia and around 6,600 in North Carolina still had no electricity, according to Poweroutage.us.