Workers walked past a home yesterday damaged by last weekend’s mudslides in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for the area. (Nick Ut/Associated Press)
"Mudslide risk prompts evacuations in Los Angeles-area foothills" by Associated Press | February 10, 2010
I thought they were told to go home.
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. - A new wave of winter rains washed over the wildfire-scarred foothill towns north of Los Angeles yesterday, leaving some residents to flee their homes in bag-laden cars while others risked remaining to deploy buckets in an attempt to hold back the muddy deluge.
Officials issued evacuation orders for 541 homes on the hillsides of La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Acton, and two canyons. Several streets in the city of Sierra Madre spent several hours under evacuation orders that were lifted in the evening.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies went door to door, urging people to leave; those who refused signed waivers acknowledging they were aware of the risk....
Sheriff’s deputies also asked residents to move their vehicles and trash cans away from the streets, where heavy rain took residents and officials by surprise Saturday by washing away cars, punching holes in houses, filling swimming pools with debris, and inundating homes with mud.
God's final finger-flip to fascist Arnie?
The National Weather Service downgraded its flash flood warning for the area to a flash flood watch last night, but warned that another half-inch of rain could still hit the region, where up to about an inch had fallen over the course of a day....
Just wondering why the reedited rewrite eliminated the hail that is in my printed copy, but... oh, snow, too!?
And if it isn't Mother Nature that gets you, it's man!
"Town’s birth defect rate normal, Calif. says" by Associated Press | February 10, 2010
FRESNO, Calif. - State health officials said yesterday that they found nothing unusual about the rate of birth defects among infants in a San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the largest toxic waste dump in the West.
Someone page Erin Brockovich quick!
The officials told a packed meeting of the Kings County Board of Supervisors that they had discovered no common cause for the birth abnormalities and facial defects among children in Kettleman City....
Many residents have said the health problems were caused by the landfill and have rallied to stop its proposed expansion....
I'm sure the executives of the company wouldn't mind moving next door, right?
Officials of Chemical
Yeah, sure they do!
In corporate-speak that means they do not.
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Also see: LA police arrest suspect in slaying of antigang adviser
And they are worried about pot clinics?
