Ellen DeGeneres's Flooded Backyard, Highway Sinkholes, And 23 Other Images From The Flooding In California
California has been hit by a major rain storm over the past week, causing significant flooding all over the state. Here are 25 images showing just how wild all that flooding has been:
1.People's parked cars in some areas of LA are flooded:
2.Here's what the Los Angeles River looked like back in October:
3.And here's what the Los Angeles River looks like now:
4.This video at the same spot a few days apart shows just how incredible the change is:
#LARiver channel views in Universal City. #LARain ☔️🌧️
5.Here's a video that Ellen DeGeneres posted from her house in Montecito, which now has a raging river:
Montecito is under mandatory evacuation. We are on higher ground so they asked us to shelter in place. Please stay safe everyone.
6.Here's what Los Angeles's Union Station looked like during the storm:
7.And here's another view, with commuters being carted through the flooded station:
8.This video shows how the water was pouring through cracks in the ceiling and walls:
rain storm in LA went crazyhttps://t.co/6PUqXgu7En
9.Here's how workers had to set up for the Golden Globes on Monday evening and Tuesday morning:
10.People's homes are flooded, particularly in Santa Barbara County, where this photo was taken:
11.In fact, entire neighborhoods are flooded, like this one in Merced, California:
12.The flooding has caused tons of damage to roads, including this very scary sinkhole in Chatsworth:
13.And this one:
14.Entire roads are flooded, like this one in Forestville near the San Francisco area. It basically looks like this car is driving on an actual lake:
15.Even areas in the city proper are flooded, like this stretch of West Hollywood featuring restaurants and nightclubs:
Flooding in Los Angeles, West hollywoood #la #LARain #flashflood #flashflooding
16.In LA, the sewer system was overloaded. This video shows water bubbling up from underneath a maintenance hole cover (which is very, very heavy):
Rain continuing to pour down in Los Angeles. A manhole cover on Fountain and La Brea is rattling as water spews through holes on the top.
17.Speaking of restaurants, the flash flooding didn't stop people from eating on the patio at the popular Los Feliz spot Little Dom's, a favorite of celebrities:
18.The LA city sanitation services are still running! But people's trash cans are floating down the street:
My sister sent this to me. She lives in North Hollywood. That trash is not going to collect itself. #LARain #LARiver I love how the cans just float away after.
19.This gas station in San Francisco completely collapsed due to the rain and high winds:
20.Another danger of the storm in hilly areas are mudslides and rock slides, like this one that totaled a parked car:
21.Some of those rockslides are really scary. This one in Montecito washed some propane tanks — some of them with propane still in them — onto the road:
22.Here, a tree branch fell on top of a San Francisco city bus due to the high winds. Tree damage is common during floods like this, as the water loosens the soil and causes trees to uproot:
23.Beaches along the coast — like this one in Aptos — are covered with debris (and sometimes litter) that has been washed to the ocean through the storm drain system and then deposited back onto the beach:
24.Many Californians don't have the usual supplies you need to deal with this level of rain. After all, you normally don't need a raincoat and galoshes in a state that's been dealing with record-setting drought:
25.Despite the intense storm, though, people still flocked to Disneyland on Tuesday:
