Los Ángeles — Las autoridades de Los Ángeles han emitido órdenes de evacuación a residentes de áreas que podrían ser las más afectadas por la tormenta y los temporales que golpean hoy el sur de California.
El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional prevé que los chaparrones de agua que se sentirán entre la noche de este domingo y la mañana del lunes, que conllevan riesgo de inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra, podrían colaborar que el actual invierno sea el más fuerte que se registra en el área desde 2010.
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A car is stuck in standing water on the southbound 110 Freeway on Jan. 22. (Christina House / For The Times)
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A surfer barely clears a giant wave in Manhattan Beach.
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People enjoy the snow in Acton.
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Elizabeth Wolterbeek plays among rocks in the 200 block of Mel Canyon Road in Duarte on Friday after a mudslide.
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A girl loses control of her umbrella after being rescued by a Huntington Beach police officer and a tow truck operator. Her family became trapped in their disabled car in the middle of flooded Heil Ave. amid a heavy downpour in Huntington Beach.
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Commuters navigate a rain-soaked 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning, as the first of three storms rolls through Southern California. More storms are expected over the weekend.
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Palmdale residents Cesar Navarro, left, and his son Cesar Navarro Jr. sled down a snowy hill in Acton.
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A fast moving discharge of water spews from the San Gabriel Dam, as a storm front moves through the area.
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A bicyclist comes to the end of a trail that’s covered in wet sand at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey.
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Snow covers boat slips and a lone picnic at Lake Arrowhead on Monday as the latest strom moves through.
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Debris, including drinking cups, rubber balls and bottles, washes ashore along the Alamitos Peninsula near East Ocean Boulevard and 56th Place in Long Beach on Monday.
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Dale Ball of La Cañada Flintridge has rain gear for herself and her dogs while walking toward the entrance to Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena on Jan. 23.
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A car drives through a snowy scene on Shannon Valley Road in Acton.
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A city worker uses a snowblower to clear the walkways during a snowstorm at Lake Arrowhead Village.
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With the road closed to traffic, Paul Doolin rides a skateboard past a fallen boulder that rests on Topanga Canyon Blvd.
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A city worker shovels the walkways during a snowstorm at Lake Arrowhead Village in the San Bernardino mountains.
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Jose Villa of Lake Arrowhead clears fresh snow off his windshield during a blizzard in Rimforest, Calif.
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Snow begins to fall and stick to the road in Crestline, Calif.
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Enrique Nicanor carries plywood on an improvised walkway he made over a flowing creek that damaged the driveway to the house where he works on Iron Canyon Road.
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Clearing storm clouds are reflected in the wet sand at low tide in Newport Beach on Monday.
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County of Los Angeles pubic works equipment clears the flooded creek on Iron Canyon Road.
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Niklas Hofverberg and his daughter Bianca Hofverberg, 3 1/2 years old, watch the sun set as storms clouds dissipate in Venice on Monday.
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John Fisher of Altadena looks out toward Devils Gate Reservoir in Pasadena on Jan. 23.
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Westminster resident Shirley Hansen carries her dog Scruffy while she walks through floodwater caused by recent rain on the boardwalk in Seal Beach.
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A glimpse of blue sky is seen during a break in the rain at Devil’s Gate Reservoir in Pasadena on Jan. 23.
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Gina Picciolo takes a picture of a boulder that fell onto Topanga Canyon Blvd. Picciolo is a longtime resident in the area.
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Ward Preston and Gina Picciolo walk past a mudslide along Topanga Canyon Blvd.
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A Huntington Beach police officer watches a tow truck operator hook up chains to rescue a family from the middle of flooded Heil Avenue after their car stalled in the deep water amid a heavy downpour in Huntington Beach on Jan. 22.
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A rainbow appears over Seal Beach, Calif. on Monday. The tail end of a punishing winter storm system lashed California with thunderstorms and severe winds Monday after breaking rainfall records, washing out roads and whipping up enormous waves.
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All lanes of the 110 Freeway from Carson Street to 223rd Street were closed Sunday because of flooding. (Christina House / For The Times)
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Jerry Katz stands next to a mudflow at the corner of Mel Canyon and Brookridge roads in Duarte.
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A Huntington Beach police officer watches a bus drive through flooded Heil Avenue amid a heavy downpour in Huntington Beach.
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A man looks for a safe way to cross floodwaters flowing from hillsides in a nearby recent burn area on North Iron Canyon Road in Santa Clarita.
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A Huntington Beach police officer diverts a pickup driver while a tow truck operator hooks up chains to rescue a family from the middle of flooded Heil Ave.
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Mud and rocks have filled the driveway of a Duarte home along Mel Canyon Road, where residents have been evacuated due to mudslides.
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Rudy Fuentes stands on the porch of his home on Mel Canyon Road in Duarte, looking out at where mud has taken over his driveway.
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Police stop traffic on Mountain Crest Road where residents have been evacuated due to incoming storms in the Fish fire impact area in Duarte.
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Marcus Jenkins selling umbrellas as he shelters under one of his own on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood as the second of three winter storms begin to drench the Southland Friday.
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Motorists navigate the flooded lanes of northbound Fairview Street in Santa Ana.
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Ella Masa, all wrapped in plastic, pushes her two service dogs as she joins an East LA/Boyle Heights group with banners and posters marching from Mariachi Plaza on Friday, protesting President Trump’s inauguration.
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Umbrellas are necessary on Hollywood Boulevard as the second of three winter storms begins to batter Southern California on Friday morning.
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A pedestrian scurries across the street under her umbrella in downtown Los Angeles on Friday morning.
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Paulina Tu takes cover under her umbrella as she waits for a ride in downtown Los Angeles on Friday morning.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Las autoridades de las ciudades de Duarte y Santa Clarita se han visto en la necesidad de urgir a los residentes, en visitas casa por casa, a que evacúen tan pronto sea posible. Y todos aquellos que se negaban a hacerlo debieron firmar documentos en los que aceptaban el riesgo de quedarse en las propiedades
“Estamos en espera a ver que pasa, la ciudad ya estableció un centro de evacuación, hacia mucho tiempo no se veía llover tanto”, dijo a EFE el salvadoreño Mario Matute, un residente de Santa Clarita.
Los meteorólogos advirtieron que las acumulaciones de agua producto de la lluvia podrían alcanzar hasta seis pulgadas (más de 150 milímetros) y que la lluvia podría caer en áreas cercanas a las montañas, propiciando el riesgo de inundaciones para una buena parte del sur del estado.
Las autoridades han procedido a colocar cientos de sacos de arena en varias vías para intentar reducir el riesgo de que el lodo ingrese a las viviendas, mientras que la vía que comunica Calabasas y Malibu ha debido ser cerrada a causa de deslizamiento de tierra.
A los residentes de las áreas montañosas se les ha recomendado abastecerse de comida y agua para varios días ante la posibilidad de cortes de energía, además de mantenerse vigilantes por si es que suceden avalanchas de nieve.
La caída de nieve que se espera para esta noche en el área de Grapevine podría motivar el bloqueo de la Autopista 5, que comunica Los Ángeles con el norte de California, advirtieron las autoridades.
Las recomendaciones llegan a los desamparados, muchos de ellos con campamentos levantados cerca a los desaguaderos que hasta unas semanas permanecían secos. El sábado, cinco personas que pernoctaban cerca del río Los Ángeles se quedaron atrapadas en el lugar y debieron ser rescatadas.
Los meteorólogos advierten además de las fuertes ráfagas de viento, que han hecho que dos árboles caigan en el mismo parque donde hace unas semanas otro cayera sobre los invitados a una boda y matase a la madre de la novia.
Las condiciones climatológicas, que conllevan tormentas eléctricas y fuerte oleaje, afectaron incluso la llegada del ex presidente Barack Obama, quien tras concluir su mandato el viernes partió desde Washington rumbo a Palm Springs (California), en donde planeaba disfrutar de unas vacaciones.
Las inclemencias del tiempo, que se dejan sentir también en el norte del estado y el valle central, obligó a que el avión en el que viajaba junto a su esposa, Michelle Obama, se desviara y aterrizara en una base militar de Riverside.
Los registros indican que este podría convertirse en el invierno más intenso y húmedo de los últimos seis años, que al mismo tiempo palía la sequía crónica que sufre el estado.
