September 15, 2015A powerful storm packing heavy rain (click here) and high winds that tore through Washington, Oregon and northern California Thursday killing at least two people, knocking out power for thousands and flooding major roadways, dipped into southern California Friday causing mudslides and evacuations. That same storm is now moving into Nevada and Arizona....
...The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-0 tornado struck a neighborhood in south Los Angeles Friday morning. According to KTLA-TV, the tornado ripped the roof off an apartment building and damaged a daycare center. Witnesses said the tornado lasted less than a minute and sent debris flying through the air. No injuries were reported....
These are climate crisis events. They scream out loud and no one within government in Washington, DC hears. Politics? Really? This isn't going away or is it going to stop. Year after year it gets worse and worse and denial exists for politics. There is a sickness in this country.
October 16, 2015 Los Angeles Rescuers (click here) threw ladders and tarps across mud up to 6 feet deep to help hundreds of trapped people from cars that got caught in a roiling river of mud along a major Southern California trucking route, a California Highway Patrol official said Friday in what he and other witnesses described as a chaotic scene.
Amazingly, officials said, no deaths or injuries were reported. The people rescued from State Route 58, about 30 miles east of Bakersfield, were stranded in a powerful storm on Thursday evening. They were rescued about 10 hours after the storm hit and taken to three shelters.
"It was terrifying," 51-year-old Rhonda Flores of Bakersfield told The Associated Press on Friday. "It was a raging river mud. I've never experienced anything like it, ever."
Flores said she, her mother and her stepfather were driving back to Bakersfield from her sister's funeral in Utah when the storm hit out of nowhere.
"It started raining, and it kept raining, the water started to build up and the mud started coming," Flores said from the church where she, her family and about 150 other people sheltered overnight. "The water's rushing by, the mud's rushing by, then pieces of trees started coming by and the water was past our doors."...
