Heavy rains, deadly floodwaters and huge power outages engulfed California from top to bottom on Tuesday — and although most of the megastorm’s fury was focused on Northern California, the southern half of the state had plenty of rain to go around, causing celebrity Received evacuation orders. Enclaves, such as Santa Barbara and Montecito, are disrupting film and TV production and drenching the already overwhelmed Golden Globes.
Heavy rain at this time is an annual occurrence for the state – usually leading to jokes about California drivers in the rain or shots of people rafting “white water” on rain-swept roads that aren’t even close to turning white. In fact, we’ve desperately needed rain since Southern California has been Drought emergency for three years, But this storm By the accounts of most experts, won’t help in that drought situation. It just appears to be wreaking havoc – but of a very serious level.
Fearing rising rivers and inevitable landslides across California, more than 50,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes, with nearly 200,000 experiencing power outages since the rains began on Sunday. A continent-sized offshore cyclone that extends beyond the state’s northern and southern borders brought down its worst-ever “atmospheric river” on Tuesday and, after a short pause, is expected to deliver another round of destruction was done, with an increase of up to seven more inches. Rain as the weekend approaches.
Over the past few days, civic officials have responded to several hundred distress calls across the state, including in Santa Barbara – home to Oprah Winfrey and other Hollywood elite – where rescue workers on Tuesday rescued several hundred people and the back of a flooded street. Worked hard to free the trapped horses. ,
In Montecito, Ellen DeGeneres shared a video of an eerie channel of dirty water behind her home, which she said is usually “a small stream.”
“Barbie” actor Luke Mullen shared a similar view from near his home in Santa Barbara, where he said a creek, which is now rising rapidly, “hardly holds water”:
No matter where it hit, the monstrous storm was wreaking havoc:
Outside Los Angeles in Pasadena, a Tesla crashed into a swimming pool; The driver, his son and his female passenger were rescued safely. In San Luis Obispo County, rescuers called off the search for a 5-year-old boy who was washed ashore in punishing waters off the Central Coast. Even in the urban core of Los Angeles, vehicles were swept away by flash floods:
Statewide, destruction was already estimated to reach or exceed $1 billion, said Adam Smith, a climatologist and disaster specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Los Angeles Times, And more was in store: With another pair of Pacific storms on tap for the weekend, much of the state was expected to get a break in the latter half of the week. the weather Channel,
If Tuesday night’s Golden Globes ceremony at the Beverly Hilton was the award show’s last outing — or perhaps the last on network television — it would go down in history as the wettest. The rain in the Los Angeles area painted any exposed part of the Beverly Hills red carpet a deep red, although the visiting celebrities and guests were completely protected by plastic enclosures, allowing them to visit as such. was protected from hazards, such as runny makeup and hair tangled in the wind.
In greater Los Angeles, TV and film productions were scrambling to check the rain, as permitted productions were forced to pack up sensitive equipment and ride out the storm, according to FilmLA, the area’s permitting agency. Was.
FilmLA spokesman Philip Sokolowski told TheWrap, “While I cannot share specifics or the names of affected productions, we are assisting several productions in adjusting their permitted locations and filming dates.” “We are also seeing companies withdraw their permit applications as a result of the recent winter storms.”
