A message to the users who live in California
 

How're you coping with the torrential rain, and how has it effected your xmas plans? :)

Literally across the street from my neighborhood. There are cars sticking out of the ground, the engines lodged vertically in the dried mud. A bridge went out, and someone drowned. I want to go back north...

honestly, most angelinos didn't even notice! Even sunday on the light rails, after it having rained consecutively without pause since thursday many people were not dressed for the extreme weather, a lot of folks were in shorts, had not rain jackets, were wearing open toed shoes and even flip flops on the train! These were not folks who could hide in their car pretending it might not break down and have them stranded, but folks who like me use the buses and rails to get around, who were out on their feet in the elements without a forethought about the rain! Angelinos, we aren't necessarily bright about the rain..

by the way, it was indeed a trip, I haven't seen it rain so consistently since 1995 when we were literally swimming on the streets.

All things considering it was not that bad a series of storms, it didn't do half the damage the floods this past February did, and it wasn't anywhere near as harmful or caused as much loss of life as the winter storms that hit the mid-west and north east last month which killed over 16 people. Essentially, this storm got a lot of hype cuz its los angeles and honestly it doesn't rain that much so people across the country tend to take over-emphasized notice. We got about half a year's worth of rain in seven days, I must admit that is kinda impressive.

see, no one even noticed this thread ;)

Fuck man. I did. 100 of my neighbors got evacuated. There are prison-laborers digging up houses and cars out of the mud literally 200 yards from where I sleep.

Are you two the only users that live in LA? I thought there was more, unless they drowned!

there are dozens of Angelinos here on SYG, but again, most of us here don't hardly notice rain in any significant or impacting way.. besides, the damage was primarily in Laguna (the OC) and Highland (San Bernardino) which aren't really even in or that connected to LA in the first place.. crossing into the OC or San Bernardino is almost like entering a foreign country compared to LA, one side is behind the arch-conservative Orange Curtain, and the other is caught up in the racist backwoods (where there are as many racists/neo-nazis/KKK per capita as in many places in the more redneck areas of the South)

Precisely where I live, when I am down visiting from school

then you know exactly what I am talking about ;)

What rain? it emptied Disneyland.

Totally. San Bernardino is a pretty shitty place. I come back to find a huge black tar problem with my friends. Basically heroin gangs disseminating tar to the rogue junkies, and yet the whole place is conservative, mormon ran....

heroin is actually replacing meth for the Inland Empire and the mountains? Crazy! I never woulda thought it would swing back around like that..

hey, count your blessings, at least there are remarkably beautiful vistas up the SB/Riverside counties and the IE, unlike this self-defeating, soul-crushing urban sprawl we call Los Angeles, which mile for mile is one of the single largest populated areas in the world..