Officials are gearing up for another storm that’s expected to move into Southern California this weekend.
The bulk of the action is expected to hit Saturday afternoon and linger into Sunday. Coastal and valley regions are expected to get one to three inches of rain, while foothill and mountain areas could see up to 6 inches.
Los Angeles Fire Captain Adam Van Gerpen told KNX News’ Jon Baird that his department continues to monitor what is a very active weather pattern.
“Just because of the amount of saturation in the soil all throughout our burn scar areas - Palisades, Hurst, Sunset burn scar areas - we are still watching all those hillside communities very much just to make sure that we're not having mud and debris flow and that we're standing by ready if there is,” he said.
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Capt. Van Gerpen also urged drivers to heed all warnings, especially road closure signs.
“It could look like there's no mud or debris, and then it could just come down like an avalanche and take vehicles out,” he said. “So if those road closure signs are up there, it's for a reason.”
Gene, a tow truck driver with Angelenos Towing, echoed a similar statement.
“Most of the time they think that they can go through deep water, muddy water,” he told Baird. “They think it's a lot shallower than it appears to be, and they'll kind of blast through it like they're coming out of the tunnel at USC, and they'll just get stuck in the mud.:
In an interview with LA’s Morning News on Wednesday, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said that in his jurisdiction during the last storm, his deputies wrote over 120 citations to people who drove around the road closed signs.
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