LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rainfall from either Wettest storm in Southern California history The weather was expected to ease on Tuesday, but forecasters warned that flooding was still possible and flooded ground was raising the risk of deadly landslides.
The slow-moving storm that stalled in the region Monday and dumped record rain on parts of Los Angeles could linger into Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. There will be light to moderate rain with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms, but many areas will experience short periods of heavy rain, averaging 0.5 inch to 1 inch (1.3 to 3 centimeters) per hour. There was a threat of rain.
Much of Southern California remains under a flood watch as authorities warn people to remain on high alert.Swollen fast-flowing streams and rivers “The risk of drowning increases and the need for rapid water rescue increases,” the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The storm hit northern California over the weekend, killing three people after being crushed by fallen trees, before remaining in the south. It was caused by the following storm. atmospheric river It will hit the state over several days.
Rain lashed Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and rocks cascading down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes and causing people living in homeless encampments in many parts of the city to scramble for safety. As they scrambled to get ahead, heavy rain hit Los Angeles.
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A man walks his dog at the edge of the Los Angeles River, which carries rainwater downstream, on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles. The second in a series of atmospheric rivers has hit California, flooding roads and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people, as well as a rare surge of hurricane-force winds as the state braces for days of heavy rain. A warning has been issued. (AP Photo/Damien Dovarganes)
Los Angeles River on February 4, 2024 (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A rainstorm is seen along the LA River in Atwater Village on February 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Submerged trees stand in the flooded Los Angeles River on February 5, 2024. (Kyle Grillot of The Washington Post, via Getty Images)
Aerial view of the Los Angeles River swollen by storm runoff from a prolonged atmospheric river storm, February 5, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Tama Mario/Getty Images)
A vehicle drives through water on a flooded road in Ventura, California, on February 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)
Residents watch floodwaters rise during a storm in Santa Barbara, California, on February 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
A pedestrian walks through floodwaters during a rainstorm in Santa Barbara, California, on February 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Firefighters rescue a dog from a homeless encampment surrounded by flooding from the Santa Ana River during a rainstorm in San Bernardino, California, on February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
A person walks through floodwaters in Santa Barbara, California, on February 4, 2024. (Tama Mario/Getty Images)
Gilberto Bueno rides his mare during a rainstorm on February 5, 2024 in the Duarte area, California. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Near the Hollywood Hills, flooding swept mud, rocks and household items downhill through Studio City, city officials said. 16 people were evacuated and several homes were red-tagged.
“It’s like a river that’s been here for years,” said Keki Mingus, whose neighbor’s home was damaged. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Drake Livingston, who lives in the Beverly Crest neighborhood, was watching a movie around midnight when a friend warned him about flooding.
“I looked outside and there was about a foot and a half of water and water started seeping out the door,” Livingston said. The car was found soaked in mud on Monday morning.
Nearly 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain had fallen in downtown Los Angeles by Monday night, nearly half of the annual average rainfall of 14.25 inches (36 centimeters). The bureau said this was already the third wettest two-day period since 1877.
Despite the expected drop in rainfall, the danger is not over, warned Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Los Angeles.
“The ground is extremely saturated, supersaturated,” he said at a Monday afternoon press conference. “It can’t hold any more water before it slips. Even if it doesn’t rain that much, we’ll still see more landslides, mudslides, rock flows, and other debris flows.”
Aerial view of homes destroyed by a landslide caused by an atmospheric river storm on February 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Water flows onto Fryman Road during a rainstorm on February 5, 2024 in Studio City, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
On February 5, 2024, a residential garage door was damaged in a storm in Studio City, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Mud, stones and storm debris litter outside a property in Studio City, California, on February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Storm damage from mud, rocks, and debris flowing along Rockridge Road in Studio City, California, on February 5, 2024, caused significant damage to vehicles and homes in the area. (David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
On February 5, 2024, an SUV is buried by a landslide in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles, California. A historic storm brought record rainfall to parts of Los Angeles on Monday, endangering the city’s large homeless population and leaving mud and rocks on hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes. More than 1 million people in California lost power. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
First responders stand on a hill in the aftermath of a landslide in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
A vehicle submerged in water after a landslide was photographed in Los Angeles’ Beverly Crest neighborhood on February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Workers hold up the beach during a storm in Malibu, California, on February 5, 2024. Los Angeles and the wealthy enclaves of Montecito and Malibu are facing life-threatening landslides and flash flooding as a violent atmospheric river flooded Southern California on Monday. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A house slid off its foundation during a severe storm that hit Southern California on February 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, destroying it and causing damage to surrounding homes. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A house slid off its foundation during a severe storm that hit Southern California on February 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, destroying it and causing damage to surrounding homes. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A homeowner is seen in Studio City, California, on February 5, 2024, with a driveway littered with debris from a mudslide during the severe storm that hit Southern California, causing flooding and landslides. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2024: A strong and long-lasting atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, continues to impact Southern California, leaving people in areas where landslides have destroyed homes. gather. (Tama Mario/Getty Images)
In Los Angeles, evacuation orders remained in place for some residents in canyon areas scarred by the 2022 fires. Authorities said bushes and trees that could hold back mudflows had been burnt down in the area, increasing the risk of debris flows and debris flows.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said 1,000 firefighters responded to more than 300 landslides, and there were more than 100 reports of flooding and rescues of motorists stranded on flooded roads.
The shelter has added beds for the city’s approximately 75,000 homeless population.
Tony Sanz spent the night in a city park and looked for higher ground around dawn as flooding rose around his tent.
“It rained last night,” he said Monday afternoon, crouched in a tarpaulin tent on the sidewalk outside a supermarket. He looked at the cloudy sky between the downpours and thought to himself: He hopes so. ”
Crews rescued people from rushing water across Southern California, including 16 people and five cats in Los Angeles County alone, authorities said.
Two homeless people were rescued Monday after spending the night on a small island in the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino, about an hour’s drive east of Los Angeles.
“They were cold and exhausted from spending the night stranded on this small patch of dirt in the middle of the river,” said Capt. Nathan Lopez of the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A dog and two cats were also rescued.
Officials also reported multiple spills Monday in the Rancho Dominguez area around Compton, including the discharge of about 5 million gallons (18.9 million liters) of untreated sewage. Most of the untreated sewage ends up in waterways leading to the Pacific Ocean, and the city has closed off a 7-mile (11-kilometer) stretch of Long Beach to swimming.
A truck drives on a flooded road during a rainstorm in Santa Barbara, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Workers remove a tree that fell on a home due to high winds and rain in San Jose, California, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Workers remove a tree that fell on a home due to high winds and rain in San Jose, California, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwaters as the Guadalupe River swells due to heavy rains in San Jose, California, Sunday, February 4, 2024. The car was unoccupied. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Over the weekend, the storm caused flooded roads, downed trees and water rescues in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The dead included two men killed Sunday by falling trees in Carmichael, a suburb of Sacramento, and Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County. Police were investigating Sunday after another man was found dead under a sequoia tree in his backyard in Yuba City, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for much of coastal Southern California, and President Joe Biden pledged Monday to provide needed federal aid.
“We’re going to get all the help along the way as soon as you ask for it,” he said on the phone with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
This aerial photo shows a flooded and closed road in Sonoma, California, on February 4, 2024. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Associated Press journalists Christopher Webber, John Antczak, Julie Watson, Michael R. Blood, Eugene Garcia and Amy Taxin contributed to this report.
