![]() ![]() The vehicle slid off the roadway and ended up in bushes near Harbor Boulevard around 10:25 a.m., trapping the two people inside the wreckage, said d’Lisa Davies of the Los Angeles Fire Department.Ĭalifornia Highway Patrol officials reported six times the number of traffic accidents on Los Angeles freeways Sunday night and Monday morning than statistics from the same period last week.Ībout 240 accidents occurred from 10:45 p.m. In San Pedro, two people were unharmed Monday when their car skidded off a rain-slicked transition road from the westbound Vincent Thomas Bridge to the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway, authorities said. Slick road conditions caused Macinnes to spin out as he turned off Lomita Boulevard, his vintage Volkswagen Bug landing perfectly on the median but knocking out a road sign in its path. Tony Best said the city had “a couple trees down here and there, no property damage, no hillsides sliding.”Īs motorists cruised to work Monday morning along Anza Avenue, Robert Macinnes patiently waited for a friend to help him move his car off the street’s grassy median in Torrance. Traffic was detoured onto Via Valmonte for about a block, but the northbound lane was not affected. Palos Verdes Estates police officers closed the southbound lane of Palos Verdes Drive North at Via Opata when a storm drain backed up and flooded the street. Heavy rains also wreaked havoc on some South Bay streets, causing accidents, road closures and traffic delays in some cities. The unusually cool temperatures prompted the Los Angeles County Health Department to issue a cold-weather warning.Īgency officials reminded residents – particularly children and the elderly – to be mindful of the cold, and not heat chilly homes with carbon monoxide-producing barbecues, stoves and ovens. Wearing light rain jackets, shorts and flip-flops, the Bender children might have wished for warmer clothes Monday, when temperatures hovered in the mid-50s – about 10 degrees colder than usual in the South Bay this time of year. “We came here about noon, and it’s been fine except a little bit of drizzling and it’s breezy.” “We woke up at 7:30 this morning because we were planning to go to Disneyland, but we decided not to because of the rain,” Bender said. Visiting from Hawaii, the family of six ended up instead at the Redondo Beach pier Monday afternoon. Most of Monday’s rainfall tapered off by late morning, but the showers still dampened Damon Bender’s plans to take his family to Disneyland. Tonight’s incoming storm should dump another half-inch of rain in the area, Pacheco said, adding to the 1.85 inches reported Monday afternoon at the Torrance Municipal Airport. ![]() “We are anticipating another storm, that will take a similar path here, and bring some rain late (tonight).” “The weather will remain unsettled for a couple more days here,” he said. While the South Bay weathered the storm’s biggest hits Monday morning, another similar pattern is expected to emerge tonight, likely wringing out showers through Wednesday, said Jon Pacheco, an AccuWeather meteorologist. ![]() ![]() The first big storm of the season Monday drenched, whirled and chilled the South Bay, bringing rain, wind and cool temperatures that meteorologists expect to linger for a few more days. ![]()
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