Rainstorm pounds Southern California
A fast-moving storm pounded Southern California early Friday, resulting in brief power outages in Glendale, Burbank and La Crescenta.
In Burbank, police reported a fallen tree limb in the 2100 block of Pepper Street, along with two 15-second power outages at 2:57 a.m. and 3:33 a.m.
Two power outages were reported in Glendale early Friday morning after palm fronds fell onto power lines, which together affected more than 2,000 customers, according to city spokesman Tom Lorenz.
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Around 5:30 a.m., 573 customers were without power for a half hour, and another 1,716 customers were affected at 8 a.m.
Glendale utility crews responded and restored power within 30 minutes, Lorenz said.
Nearby in Atwater Village Friday morning, two people — a husband and wife — were rescued from the rain-swollen Los Angeles River.
Later in the day, just before 1 p.m., authorities responded to reports of a fallen tree in the 1600 block of Valley View Drive in Glendale, which caused damage to three power poles and a water service line, leaving another 200 customers without power. Crews were slated to work through the night to repair the damage.
Meanwhile, a couple hundred La Crescenta homes and businesses on Foothill Boulevard between Ocean View Boulevard and Briggs Avenue, including the Crescenta Valley sheriff’s station, were out of power for a couple of minutes around 3:15 a.m. after a transformer blew, according to Sgt. Booker Hollis.
Due to the storm, trash in some areas of Glendale will be picked up on Saturday instead of Friday.
“If trash isn’t picked up today, they will get serviced on Saturday,” Lorenz said, adding that bulky-item collection has been postponed to Saturday.
Throughout the rest of Southern California, the storm triggered rock slides and mud flows in some areas, leaving nearly 70,000 people across the Southland without power, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The hazardous storm kept Bill Patzert awake in the foothills of Sierra Madre.
“It was fast and furious,” said the climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It was really hard, like somebody pulled the plug and it all came down.”