A powerful winter storm that swept down the West Coast with flooding and frigid temperatures shifted to southern California on Saturday.
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Rainfall totals as of late Saturday morning were equally stunning, including nearly 15 inches at Los Angeles County’s Cogswell Dam and nearly 10.5 inches in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.“Quite a remarkable storm the last few days with historic amounts of precip and snow down to elevations that rarely see snow,” the LA-area weather office wrote.
Derek Maiden, 57, who lives in a tent in LA’s Echo Park neighbourhood, collected cans in the rain to take to a recycling centre. He said this winter has been wetter than usual. “It’s miserable when you’re outside in the elements,” he said.Meanwhile, people farther east were struggling to deal with the fallout from storms earlier this week.Article content
She said the group will demand that utilities reimburse residents for the cost to purchase generators or replace spoiled groceries.Article content “The ice that was falling off the trees as it was melting was hitting our windshield so hard, I was afraid it was going to crack,” she said. “There’s just tree limbs everywhere, half of the trees just falling down. The destruction is insane.”
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