L.A. Narrowly Avoids Second Natural Disaster After Intense Rainfall

Southern California dodged another natural disaster.
On Thursday, February 13, residents of Los Angeles braced for extreme rainfall, which officials warned could have caused massive damage as the recovery from the devastating wildfires — which left people homeless and outraged at public officials — continue.
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The National Weather Service issued immediate flash flood warnings in Malibu and Pacific Palisades. In the hours following, the alert was spread to the Altadena area.
Authorities' biggest worry was that the water would cause landslides in the places affected by the infernos. While there was intense flooding, the storm did not cause damage.
"It's moving out," meteorologist Carol Smith told The Los Angeles Times on Thursday evening.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell confirmed more than 100 homes were evacuated out of extreme caution.
Residents have been put through the wringer with the fires and now ravaging rain. "All of us are dealing with insurance companies and trying to arrange for cleanup and this and that," local and former banker Makis Dasigenis told the outlet. "It's been exhausting and it will take months before it's over."
The latest intense weather pattern comes as citizens of the West Coast state have expressed their displeasure with the left-leaning leadership.

"The shock of L.A. is most of the people that were burned out in Pacific Palisades or on the areas around it were very, very left-wing and very wealthy," historian Victor Davis Hanson explained in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.
"And this was what's shocking politically because the consequences of their votes and their ideology had never really personally affected them to this degree," he added.

"So, there is a group of people in California that could fuel a revolt of liberals or Democrats," the expert alleged.
To make matters worse, landlords have allegedly been taking advantage of people needing shelter. According to some, licensees are jacking up rent prices already too steep for workers trying to make ends meet. In the most severe scenarios, tenants have been asked to leave their homes.

"If we just let people get evicted, if we let them become homeless and lose them to other cities, we're going to look back on this moment and wish we could have done something differently," tenant organizer and director of policy and advocacy at the non-profit Strategic Actions for a Just Economy's Chelsea Kirk explained to The Guardian.
"The idea that only people in the Palisades and Altadena are impacted, that losing your home is the only type of displacement, is just not true," she added.