Winter storms brings heavy rainfall, snow and dangerous road conditions to Southern California

Southern California is getting drenched by heavy rainfall while the mountains are receiving potentially record amounts of snow from the winter storm this week.
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[@stratostatic]

Having lived in the LA area for years and seen how bad people drive in a rainstorm, this must have the freeways looking like demolition derbies.

[@John-isAround]

Probably not the kind of place you can just hop on a snowmobile and go flying down the road.

[@JAMESYBOY.]

🤣 I can confirm this I'm actually a AAA tow operator in Southern California. we had calls pending up to 15 hours our call volume was far to high to the point that we had to turn down even PD and chp calls. I work from 3am-3pm but today I worked until 6pm oh man I feel bad for our night shift lol

[@davidlafleche1142]

You also have people high on marijuana, competing with drunks.

[@mattreynolds4035]

Its caused by global warming.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@mattreynolds4035 "The North Pole will melt by 2016. Children will forget what snow looks like." (Al Gore)

[@darrelv764]

Hey CA there is a bright side NO FIRE DANGER.

[@kaypee4704]

Yeah, the government decides to drown and freeze us after the unsuccessful Pandemic….. many diverse ways to de-populate….Türkiye got the triggered HAARP earthquake, we got the floods and snow….. lovely world 2023….isn’t it⁉️⁉️⁉️🇺🇸

[@laughingatyou6353]

I prayed for California to get snow and rain two months ago and my prayers have been answered. Fill up the Reservoirs throughout California, especially Southern California. I pray for more and more and more and you will get it. For the crops and the delicious California fruits and veggies. 😋 Mm Mm Good 👍

[@b.powell3480]

The state will have a permanent drought because of gruesome Newsom!!!

[@ΝίκοςΜπέτσης-ΗΠΑ]

Next time don’t pray for rain and snow…pray that our government officials develop brain cells to keep that water and not release 95% of it to the ocean.

[@Rexington]

FREE FOOD AND DRINK

[@AsiaUnscripted]

I pray for baby Jesus

[@Agent.Wadsworth]

Oh, so I guess without your prayers, it'd be dry as a desert this weekend. I guess you're looking for a thank you? How about a 🍪?

[@joanofarcxxi]

Last time I remember this severe crazy weather was in the 90s during El Nino. I love the attitude of Californians. They are happy to have rain and snow. They make the best of it. Keep it up, Cali people. Driving conditions are dangerous and we don't know ho wto handle that! The floods cause damages. But we will be okay. The drought will be over for a while, and God willing, we will have a good harvest in the fall. Good reporting KTLA.

[@lewisc9959]

Amen! I feel the same way! I am just glad we can finally get out of this stupid drought, hopefully.

[@CT-vm4gf]

@@lewisc9959It’s great for the drought, but it would take months of this weather to be drought free.

[@John-isAround]

The weather will be better in Chicago than Southern California this weekend.

[@Coliocoliocolio]

This storms gonna cross the country through Chicago to buffalo look at the long range

[@John-isAround]

@Colestofallcoles A weather channel reporter said a system was going to go from Seattle to San Diego to Saginaw.

[@crand20033]

We are in the 80's in North Carolina.

[@roywolfe7054]

Didn't they make rain and snow illegal in California? 🤔

[@EffieComfort]

There will be fines.

[@crand20033]

Never saw snow in my 15 years living in L.A.

[@Vladkazenski7777]

So many roof jobs need to be done as a result. This winter was the rainiest i can remember in the past 17 years

[@ninamatthews8747]

Holy crap, that’s crazy! I feel like we’ve barely had any snow this year in the Midwest but they got a blizzard in Southern California!

[@QueenP1974]

Right

[@GabeSegundo]

Heck yes! We need the rain. Stay safe people.

[@JohnKaBonk]

literally man, god bless.

[@westpine3106-ug1ds]

Snow is water

[@morrisparrish76]

What you “need” is to do something about climate change

[@jobabs]

Buy milk, buy bread! Hunker down! That’s what we do in the Midwest. Great reporting, I’m sure many people are freaking out. Stay home, let the roads get cleared.

[@KB-ke3fi]

The midwest...oh yeah....ok. Makes perfect sense to compare the southern california climate to the midwest. We'll just laugh when you call 85 degrees a heat wave.

[@mombythesea2426]

​@@KB-ke3fi I'm from the Midwest and lived on Catalina. Now I'm in Florida. The Southerners can't do cold. Midwest can't do humid. SoCal cant do basic kindness.

[@TheCharleseye]

@@KB-ke3fi Thank you. I'm always afraid that stupidity will go unnoticed and people will inadvertently follow the advice of ignorant people. Your comment has ensured that every intelligent person who reads this thread will be sure to avoid your advice at all costs. I really hope you ignore Jo Babs' advice. Please, don't make any basic preparations to help deal with road closures and power outages. Spend as much time on the road as humanly possible. Maybe even go for a swim in the ocean or a hike in the mountains when the storms are at their worst. I used to live in Southern California, so you can trust me more than Jo Babs. Please, please, please...earn that Darwin award. I want that for you more than you can possibly know.

[@chuckyjules8488]

Or..just call door dash!

[@arcobab1536]

Don’t forget to also buy some chill pills

[@susanbaker641]

It's a damn shame the power's that be let's the rain water run off to the ocean instead of directing it to the resavors, just plain stupid!! 🙄🤔🙄

[@seanthe100]

If only you saw how disgusting that water is once it hits the ocean literally a pile of trash

[@BenChung78]

anything related to water in california is a gift desperately needed....with decades of prolonged drought its a truly rare gift all this rain and snow....I remember endless years of fires and scorching heat burnt skin and heat waves with water shortages water use limits.....all this rainwater should be somehow preserved...hopefully most of it refills severely depleted underground aquifers all across california.

[@kaypee4704]

When government controls you and your Water….. you know America is “Donned“……… read the book 1984…..perhaps, you’ll wake up…

[@BenChung78]

@@kaypee4704 off gridders have their own wells and solar power.....no govt water and no electric bill.....that comprises about 15 percent of the american public...so the 1984 orwellian dystopia applies to the other 80 % of the city dwellers in a shtf EMP scenario

[@Cindy-lr6su]

Excellent work God Almighty love your your presence of Authority Power

[@stratostatic]

God's authority and power bringing tornados to the midwest..

[@Bdub1952]

@@stratostatic and earthquakes to Turkey.

[@Bdub1952]

@Mike H. ...predicting climate change. Will wonders never cease?

[@daixer3156]

​@@mikeharris9737Democrats

[@greg2976]

Welcome to the real world of weather, California!!!!

[@kaypee4704]

Nothing new we used to have this in around Thanksgiving through Christmas, until they started messing around with the Weather…but now they got control of Cali, and they’re headed to the WH in 2024… thanks to the Dominion software….now they have the Power & Control……America, you’re Doomed…..🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑😡‼️⁉️

[@Adam-uu4vg]

I can not wait to hear how they screw this up and lose most of the water causing another water crisis by September

[@gladitsnotme]

Right they need to be saving all this water for the fires coming in June lmao

[@dannybaldwin7343]

🌬️🌨️ Big Bear Big Snow 🌨️🌬️

[@islandbirdw]

California has cycles, heat, drought, firestorms, torrential rain(or snow) landslides. REPEAT! about 7-10 year cycles. The rain they usually get in Seattle headed to So California 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

Oh God! Don't tell them nature works in cycles....they will label you a science denier......a heretic who must be cancelled.

[@islandbirdw]

@@cornpopsrazor5375 I don’t care what “they” label me as. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I stay true to my morals and scruples.

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

@@islandbirdw And that is exactly what you should do....if you are under the age of 35.....maybe there is hope.

[@lewisc9959]

Good! It’s really nice to finally have wet weather. I’m so tired of droughts.

[@carlindurfee7566]

You guys just have extremes of everything terrible place to live

[@lewisc9959]

@@carlindurfee7566 wonderful place to live! I can go walk my dogs without stupid snow or ice on our roads everyday if the year. We have 60-70 degree weather in winter. I love our state! Best state in the country!!

[@MaryMendoza-yc1qj]

I prayed for California.

[@fredm.9474]

Take care people ok I'm an American citizen living here in Manila Philippines ok central out

[@pederlettstroem980]

As far as I know, you really need water in California. Be happy!

[@kaypee4704]

If they didn’t block the Sacramento River, and if they had used the tax dollars appropriately to fix the Dam, we would not have had water crisis….. the so-called “ Drought “ is politically motivated……🐑🐑🐑🐑‼️⁉️

[@pederlettstroem980]

@kaypee4704 There is another solution, as far as I know. Your formerrepresentative inWashington DC, Mrs Pelosi, didn’t do so much for your state California. But now, perhaps depending on that you have such big companies, and to add money from Sacramento, why not invest a huge sack of 💰dollar, to invest in a huge plant to just desalinating the seawater from the Paciffic Ocean somwhere near the ocean where no people live. That can be a very nice investment for California in the long run. You have plenty of seawater.

[@Rexington]

Snow so close to LA is crazy!

[@daixer3156]

L.A. rats 🐀 are gonna freeze to death

[@kaypee4704]

Nothing new… it snowed heavily in LA in the 80’s……

[@moorek1967]

And in Indiana we have had only one week of very cold weather and several snows, but California got more than us.

[@kaypee4704]

It would be like this every year naturally, if only, the government didn’t interfere with the management and control of the weather, like they do everything else…..‼️⁉️

[@sylviahanna8497]

Good reporting KTLA

[@darrelv764]

Anyways stay warm and safe CA .By the at one time Savannah Georgia had snow and ice and was cold for two days in 2017

[@maymelden]

Somehow .. I don't feel bad for California. They need the water so bad, and they need to count their snowflake ❄️ blessings.

[@BenChung78]

"snowflakes......" here we go again about brandon and the commies coming for your 2nd amendment and the rest of it.

[@kcorbiekeli4816]

Is Al Gore going to have to make a new movie?

[@susettehorspool2646]

That studio report was strange. So the weather is moving through all these neighborhoods and locations, yes, but what is it actually doing there? So I remember the grapevine being closed several times for ice and flooding when I lived in the Antelope Valley 1995-2008. It's not unusual. And yes, palm trees bend in the wind-that also is not unusual. However, the floods in Studio City are unusual. Studio City needs to work on its drainage system. No floods up here in Pasadena, thank goodness.

[@sagebrush7202]

Crumbling infrastructure. Just the beginning for Cali. Mismanagement to infinity.

[@susettehorspool2646]

What is it that's crumbling again? The mountainside in one location. That's not infrastructure. You're creating a bit of drama here, for clearly political reasons.

[@sagebrush7202]

@@susettehorspool2646 California's infrastructure scored a D grade frome professional civil engineering associations.

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

@@sagebrush7202 Facts.....a dying state just like NY and IL.....so easily fixed but common sense is not allowed in these areas.

[@h2beezy2]

the snowboarding and skiing gonna be good

[@chadlaicram4775]

Enjoy the snow los angeles

[@ninamatthews8747]

Well I guess Tony toni tone were wrong, it most definitely does rain in Southern California. I hope everyone is ok, I know they are not prepared for that mess.

[@thomasmartin7816]

that man made global warming is pretty damn cold.

[@susettehorspool2646]

Climate change is the correct term. Please catch yourself up.

[@toysr4troops72]

Meanwhile East coast is having sunshine and 70s

[@Timetraveler1111MN]

Vikings gather. Great news team you all look great you’re all very beautiful people anyways um it was 29°F 45 mile an hour winds and we got 13 inches of snow in the 24 hour. So I guess it’s context yeah people in the Minneapolis Saint Paul cleared plowed the next day my whole driveway was plowed out and my neighbors shoveled and plowed their walks and sidewalks and the whole city system was completely on plowing and within 48 hours the roads were cleared from about 14 inches of snow. Interesting differences. Flash folding is scary!

[@susettehorspool2646]

Looks like it flooded in Studio City and that's about it. Haven't heard of any more floods. Here in Pasadena the roads were fine. No trees were blown down that I've heard of-not like 2010 when we had a horrendous wind storm and all the young trees fell over. The snow in the mountains around here is light. It's only in the higher elevations that snow is heavy, and that is more welcome than unusual-people there know how to handle it. The grapevine? That's often a problem for traffic at this time of year.

[@deborahsemaan1341]

Now you can see what we have to deal with in the North!

[@KB-ke3fi]

Yeah but, it's not the north.

[@alysiahamner53]

@Deborah Semaan They don't keep the reservoir full from the snow in the mountains up north. I know what you mean. Other weird commenters: We live in the north, have some family ln the south near Santa Monica. We are originally from Michigan near the great lakes so we know what a storm is.

[@MarieAntoinette1938_tmc]

this is good news in tens of water i don't want to hear ohhh no water let's raise prices of water collect the rain water so there's no shortage !!!!!

[@gladitsnotme]

8:29 she really said "it's very cold we're getting RAIN" 🤣🤣 Honey, if it was cold you'd be getting snow and ice. 🤣

[@phyllisbruner8976]

Lots of snow in Victorville CA.

[@adamwolf4041]

California dreaming on such a winters day.

[@crand20033]

No!!! it's a nightmare now.

[@susettehorspool2646]

@@crand20033 - Not in my area. It's pretty mild here near the foothills in Pasadena.

[@canadaeast]

I live in Atlantic Canada. You gotta plow the roads.

[@cooperparts]

Thank god for global warming

[@lindahughes2289]

Don't like to see this ! Sorry California. Prayers and hope everybody can stay safe as can be.

[@seanlewis1148]

NOOOOO....DON'T BE SORRY. WE NEEDED THIS RAIN.....BRING ON MORE!!

[@rightousnesspursuer6523]

Bro. We need more of this, this drought NEEDS to go.

[@chingo3387]

Prayers for more water it's a desert out here.

[@crand20033]

@@seanlewis1148 Montecito houses washing away due to mudslides. Oprah and Ellen not happy.

[@JG-vx7hc]

Courtney so 😍

[@WRG2024-h7k]

This extreme storm not just bringing major floodings, also causing blackouts parts of the San Fernando Valley. After Winter, Summer will be extremely hot. Triple digits.

[@kaypee4704]

What better way to get you to go green and buy Solar, so they get $$$$$$$$$in their pockets……government-controlled weather to pressure you……wake up…🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@myrnajucar3498]

May God take care of you all. It is rainy season also here in the Philippines.

[@Purchaser.]

Has it been a light year or lots of rain?

[@davidlafleche1142]

God's judgment upon the USA is only beginning. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalm 9:17, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem and save the world from the tyranny of Democracy (Daniel 7:7, KJV)!

[@wiscogirl81]

When SO CAL is getting more snow than Wisconsin 🤔

[@thenudepotato5100]

Lol those poor German people had no idea what was coming- it snows like this for the first time in decades and they just so happened to come at the worst time xD

[@bargdaffy1535]

OMG, the LA Lady Talking Heads are out of control funny looking. Is the Blonde married to Thor? 2:20 "The wicked weather has continued to pound the California Coast" I bet that is not the only thing in California getting pounded.

[@glad777]

80 degrees in VA yesterday.

[@crand20033]

Same in North Carolina. Wacky weather.

[@lunaparker9489]

It’s really bad in my city. In pretty sure I just head a tree fall.

[@catherinecreativevideos]

Now American people will know how Ireland and the UK feel about our weather, You have the perfect weather all the time but we are in February and we will get the tail of your weather soon. Hopefully not that bad.

[@CaliRepublic77]

Not too long ago we were talking about drought.

[@digitalmusic4803]

Let s see if California will turn rock into sand for concrete, and then use those vast cavities in the rock to let the rain water fill in, to be used when there is a drought?

[@capricebollond7934]

New Zealand here. Thinking of Everyone in the USA. Keep Safe and try to keep warm

[@RZ-sh6yi]

It will be gone in a few days. Like we say in the Midwest, turn around dont drown and think before you head out.

[@whatdoyouthinktodd]

It's funny how much drama that comes from one state that doesn't have much weather and then they get like what the rest of the country gets on the east Coast and it's like oh my god The world is coming to an end.Well I hope you guys get through it well wishes from Michigan Sorry for the poor grammar I'm speaking into my phone because I'm using the snowblower on the other side

[@Tomcat71]

and to think your govt wasted time and money NOT building New reservoirs .

[@susettehorspool2646]

We've got three new reservoirs here in the Pasadena area. Maybe that's why the drainage is good.

[@minhhop3208]

Please show on the maps the locations mentioned ! Thanks !

[@vernearase3044]

Please change your channel name to *KTLA 5 Los Angeles* so viewers can tell what region of the country you're reporting on.

[@michaelkendall662]

easy enough to LOOK IT UP....or anyone from the western region knows the channel

[@vernearase3044]

@@michaelkendall662 Point is you shouldn't _have_ to. KZbin is a world-wide service and posting local news on it without saying where it's from is just _wrong._

[@michaelkendall662]

@@vernearase3044 why should someone have to choose the name you have selected for them....have you become king of the Internet?....they have MORE than enough info there if you are of a mind to find it out on your OWN.....never been to college I see and dealt with a bibliography

[@susanmctavish6639]

Driving in snow and rain is a skill most people don't have. I lived in Colorado for 11 years.

[@roderickconstantino5354]

Being from Cali, driving in Utah and Colorado snow set the bar for driving for me, rain driving is now a breeze, as long as your tires are good that is.

[@tomkelsey3512]

All that is required is to slow down, especially when turning, but that escapes the average imbecile.

[@daixer3156]

​@@tomkelsey3512even the Utah and Colorado driver. But truth be told. I think it's all the Cali people that moved there. Lol

[@crand20033]

When I lived in Pittsburgh, my dad had studs and snow chains on his tires in the winter.

[@curiousdog1207]

Global Warming. Where there's never snow, Now you have snow.

[@susettehorspool2646]

Yes there is snow here-in the mountains, anyway. We just haven't had it for awhile . . . and have been lamenting that fact. Are we catching up now? Hopefully, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.

[@darrelv764]

Hum remember the balloon s now the weather is crazy weird.gets ya to thinking what's up??

[@williamcovarrubias1070]

oh my goodness its windy YIKES!!

[@crand20033]

Roofs in danger.

[@moresalad221]

Blonde ❤️ 💙

[@WhiteGravey]

wtf are people in rancho cucamonga "bracing" for bad weather? ffs do they really have to feel like they are part of the story.

[@eddym5532]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Santa Claus is coming to L.A.

[@mistermylo8607]

Truckers should stay off these highways during these storms.

[@TheAnselma123]

GOD WORKING ON EARTH

[@TruthBTold-op9kv]

You said we needed water, you didn't say how 😂. Let see how much is saved instead of going into the ocean 😙.

[@ladywisewolf3942]

None, our idiot government purposely lets it run into the ocean so they can charge more for water in the summer and keep the "climate change drought" grift going.🙄

[@nascar427]

I would rather shovel snow than mud.

[@bermuda975]

comon bruh u call that snow ? come to California will show you real snow ..

[@nancysmith2389]

Bond James Bond. Lol Matt Damon. Bourne

[@moemcgovern7345]

If you can get out...get lanterns, batteries, radios operated by batteries. '

[@fthkava]

Sau guut

[@sandrabowman8935]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@kcorbiekeli4816]

Ellen DeGeneres! Too many cows are farting🤪

[@charlielam8040]

Hollywood need to move to Florida soon ?😐

[@kcorbiekeli4816]

Where is the global warmest?

[@macedonioalvarez5603]

Asi esta aca.

[@tomkelsey3512]

Lemme guess, "If you think this is going to help the drought, you're crazy !"

[@demetriushill9725]

Can't hurt

[@crand20033]

@@demetriushill9725 You'd better hope it does. Most of our food comes from CA.

[@Pedantic1953]

I’ve noticed we can’t seem to break through the 2 male anchor gender barrier. We never see 2 male anchors; usually male and female and occasionally 2 females like here. We can never make real progress as a completely gender tolerant society until we can tolerate 2 male news anchors. Just sayin’.

[@Coodeville]

"Screwed" is the word

[@curtisraduege553]

Wow Can't handle little winter Will not have to worry about you all your gonners

[@YoMumzinnit]

I’m so scared

[@ianwalton284]

Just an average day in Oregon. Poor cali babies. lrn2swim

[@jagtan13]

Well they close the freeways because of those running Bald tires. They spin out in the dry, wipe out in the rain, and god knows what If they get into ice or snow. California has inspections, but it's useless to the unregistered and uninsured.

[@kaesthetic9983]

Obviously we are not used to those conditions because most of the year we have the best weather 😄

[@Tiredgeek]

@@kaesthetic9983 Ahahaha, 340+ days of beautiful sunshine! Suck it Oregon!

[@michaelkendall662]

DUUUUUH....you do not regularly get 2 FEET of snow in a day in Portlandia....I know I lived there for a year while in overhaul........if you check out some other reports you will find Mammoth Lakes is above average on their slopes of MORE than 400 inches this year........is that another average day goof ball

[@ianwalton284]

@@michaelkendall662 I live in the coast range mountains. No where near Portland hell. We get one or two good snow dumps every year. Been out of power for a week after one ice storm. We also get one or two hurricane force storms every year. Some years we get almost 200 inches of rain.

[@bartwilloughby2909]

Not Bad for a La Niina year .

[@tyreseforren6721]

California usually get a lot of precipitation in LA Ninia years it's usually in El Ninio years

[@bartwilloughby2909]

@@tyreseforren6721 not in the areas I preside . 🤔

[@tyreseforren6721]

@@bartwilloughby2909 historic LA Ninia years are dry in California most of the time but not always its kinda of a surprise for California to get a lot of rain and snow because it's usually in El Ninio years

[@bartwilloughby2909]

@@tyreseforren6721 all the years I’ve been in California, except this one , La Nina’s have always been Historically Dry .

[@twistedhillbilly6157]

HAARP

[@loisfolk5492]

Just another day on earth. It has all happened before.

[@jocelyncalisaan6112]

😔😔😔😔hayst winters so much denger to cumunity

[@juniorj.5108]

What drought lol

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

This global warming must be stopped.

[@sylviahanna8497]

And who is helping the homeless?

[@nascar427]

Doesn't look cold. I can't even see her breath.

[@marilynwright1550]

Crime may be down no police chase. Stay safe all

[@masterdisaster2273]

101 no TRY THE 401 IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO

[@kennyjohnson366]

Geo storm ! Nothing natural or mother nature about this storm .

[@allenshen42]

This is A sign that something is Happening within USA...

[@junkboxxxxxx]

Put chains on the grapes