Just because nature allows a delay of many years while officials dither over a catastrophe in the making doesn’t make that disaster any easier to handle when it finally strikes. This is one major lesson of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis that saw the sudden evacuation of almost 200,000 persons from their homes when the […]
California is not the only place in the West confronting startling amounts of rain and snow. Drought conditions have declined substantially across the region in recent weeks, with heavy storms replenishing reservoirs and piling fresh powder on ski resorts. Yet there is one place where the precipitation has been particularly welcome and could be transformative: the […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Melissa Etehad, Sonali Kohli and Michael Finnegan
Cleanup was beginning across Southern California on Saturday after a storm that forecasters billed as the most powerful in years caused flooding on multiple freeways, triggered dramatic mudslides and downed hundreds of trees and power lines. The storm was moving out Saturday morning after dumping record rain in some areas and leaving havoc in its wake. Thousands of Los Angeles County residents […]
Snowpack and reservoir levels continued to increase in California, marking another week of improvement for drought conditions across the state. Last week, 47 percent of the state was in drought, but that figure plummeted to 24 percent this week, according to the Drought Monitor report issued Thursday. At this time last year, 94 percent of […]
OPINION: Ignored Oroville Warning Raises Big Quake, Levee Questions: Thomas Elias
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Daily Newsby Thomas D. Elias,Just because nature allows a delay of many years while officials dither over a catastrophe in the making doesn’t make that disaster any easier to handle when it finally strikes. This is one major lesson of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis that saw the sudden evacuation of almost 200,000 persons from their homes when the […]
Wet Winter Has Improved Colorado River Basin’s Water Forecast, But The Drought Endures
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby William YardleyCalifornia is not the only place in the West confronting startling amounts of rain and snow. Drought conditions have declined substantially across the region in recent weeks, with heavy storms replenishing reservoirs and piling fresh powder on ski resorts. Yet there is one place where the precipitation has been particularly welcome and could be transformative: the […]
At Least 4 Dead Amid Major Flooding And Mudslides As Biggest Storm In Years Barrels Into L.A. Area
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Melissa Etehad, Sonali Kohli and Michael FinneganCleanup was beginning across Southern California on Saturday after a storm that forecasters billed as the most powerful in years caused flooding on multiple freeways, triggered dramatic mudslides and downed hundreds of trees and power lines. The storm was moving out Saturday morning after dumping record rain in some areas and leaving havoc in its wake. Thousands of Los Angeles County residents […]
Strong Winter Storms Land Another Knockout Punch to California Drought
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /NBC Los Angelesby Jonathan LloydSnowpack and reservoir levels continued to increase in California, marking another week of improvement for drought conditions across the state. Last week, 47 percent of the state was in drought, but that figure plummeted to 24 percent this week, according to the Drought Monitor report issued Thursday. At this time last year, 94 percent of […]