To the editor: We have been among the many 9 properties on Lockridge Highway in Studio Metropolis that have been evacuated late Sunday night time. Though we knew we’d be wonderful, for a couple of hours we had the misplaced feeling of being local weather refugees. (“LA’s monster storm was even worse in some areas than alarming forecasts,” February 7)
We can not reward our fireplace and police departments sufficient for his or her professionalism and kindness in direction of us. They managed the evacuation so effectively. The Bureau of Road Companies additionally cleared mud and rocks on the road inside hours.
We’re again in our dwelling now, however we’re keeping track of the hill behind us. We’re conscious that even with a respite from the rain, the soaked floor can nonetheless transfer.
Within the 32 years we have lived right here, our greatest concern has been fireplace. We have now by no means skilled flooding or mud earlier than and this storm is just the start.
It’s gone time for our nation and the world to face the fact of local weather change.
Lynette Berg Gown, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: As I watched the rain fall for days exterior my Southern California window, I could not assist however take into consideration the harm left by storms like these. Over the course of some days, we obtained almost a typical yr’s value of rain. Floods, mudslides and falling rocks have precipitated a lot destruction.
Information articles use phrases like “atmospheric rivers”, “bomb cyclones” and “century storms”, however mainly all of them imply that these occasions are extra extreme. They’re additionally extra frequent, and the storm could have precipitated $11 billion in harm.
Later within the yr we could have to fret about wildfires inflicting extra havoc.
We have to take critical steps to mitigate the results of our altering local weather. We will scale back our use of fossil fuels and scale back our carbon footprint with out sacrificing trendy conveniences. Inaction is just too pricey.
Jonathan Gentle, Laguna Niguel
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To the editor: As this text factors out, climate forecasts have improved considerably lately. I noticed forecast fashions predicting the storm to stall over Los Angeles a number of days earlier than its arrival – in reality, earlier than the storm had even developed.
The ability and accuracy of those fashions have turn into spectacular. Maybe we must always all take significantly the local weather modifications made by very comparable fashions.
John La Grange, Solana Seashore
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To the editor: I promise I’ll by no means once more complain a couple of lack of rain in Southern California. Sincere!
Jay James, Pico Rivera
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To the editor: I need to give a shout out to the maintainers – the unsung women and men of our Los Angeles Division of Water and Energy who work across the clock to maintain our electrical energy flowing.
Thomas Bliss, Los Angeles
