Calamities

L.A. winds: visuals tell the story

As of 3 p.m., the DWP says that 121,000 of its customers are still without power. Pretty scattered too, across the city: the large red circles represent clusters where 1,000 or more customers are in the dark.

dwp-outage-map-12111.jpg

Also, at least two of the circa-1940s deodar cedar trees along Los Feliz Boulevard that have city of Los Angeles historic-cultural monument status have fallen in the wind. Photo courtesy of Councilman Tom LaBonge at the website of county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, so I guess this represents a kind of cross-jurisdictional, hands across the water kind of thing.

los-feliz-deodars.jpg

The city, by the way, has activated its emergency operations center and will staff it through the night. The Los Angeles Fire Department has added engines tonight and is also asking people to stay home if they don't need to go out.


More by Kevin Roderick:
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staff
Power out Monday across Malibu
Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
Here's who the LA Times has newly hired*
LA Observed Notes: Clippers hire big-time writer, unfunny Emmys, editor memo at the Times and more
Recent Calamities stories on LA Observed:
Power out Monday across Malibu
Here we go again
Cory Iverson, 32, California firefighter dies on Thomas Fire
Biggest maybe, but not close to the worst LA brush fire
Mass evacuation below Oroville Dam
Bet you didn't know quicksand is a real SoCal thing
Sand Fire grows overnight to 35,000 acres
New leak over the weekend above Porter Ranch


 

LA Observed on Twitter