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BTW, we seem to have survived it with minor issues. Had some bushes / small trees fall onto the road in front of the house, so had to clean that up, a lot of mess on our driveway, as expected. I have not gone down the hill yet to inspect there, most of that section is covered with huge Eucalyptus trees and these do not have great root systems so they are prone to falling. Going to give it a couple more days for everything to dry before I go and investigate. I do not think we lost any of the big ones, maybe some of the small ones, but I am not sure yet.
 
andalusian said:
BTW, we seem to have survived it with minor issues. Had some bushes / small trees fall onto the road in front of the house, so had to clean that up, a lot of mess on our driveway, as expected. I have not gone down the hill yet to inspect there, most of that section is covered with huge Eucalyptus trees and these do not have great root systems so they are prone to falling. Going to give it a couple more days for everything to dry before I go and investigate. I do not think we lost any of the big ones, maybe some of the small ones, but I am not sure yet.
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Glad you're OK...also glad you only sustained "just a mess"...can't imagine how many others lost everything they had, ...and some even their lives.
 
My son lives in Huntington Beach and says it wasn’t that bad at all. Said the earthquake freaked him out more.
 
THE HCP said:
My son lives in Huntington Beach and says it wasn’t that bad at all. Said the earthquake freaked him out more.
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My Aunt lives just north in Long Beach. She said she didn't feel the earthquake at all. Said the storm was just a lot of rain.
 
yankeesince59 said:
Glad you're OK...also glad you only sustained "just a mess"...can't imagine how many others lost everything they had, ...and some even their lives.
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Wait, were there deaths from this thing? A lot of damage, sure, but I didn't think it was a loss of life situation.
 
Shaboid said:
Wait, were there deaths from this thing? A lot of damage, sure, but I didn't think it was a loss of life situation.
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I think there were in Mexico.

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Is Dodger Stadium flooded? No, it was just an illusion

https://apnews.com/article/dodgers-...sinformation-c9f635c3131826ea4c6da2b3158a8309


A viral aerial video of Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium has many social media users convinced that floodwaters submerged the ballpark over the weekend amid Tropical Storm Hilary.

“Dodger Stadium flooded in Los Angeles after Tropical Storm Hilary slams California,” reads one popular post on X, formerly known as Twitter, alongside a still from the footage appearing to show the stadium surrounded by water. “Dodger Stadium is an island,” said another.

But the team says the stadium, which is built into a hill, was never under water — and the apparent flood in the video is just an optical illusion.

While the footage from Sunday does make it look like a moat formed around the outside of the building at first glance, it is actually just the parking lot that encircles the stadium slick with rainwater.

The video was originally posted that morning on X and Instagram by an account named Los Angeles Dodgers Aerial Photography. “Dodger stadium this morning,” reads the caption of the post. Others then reshared the footage, and screengrabs of the clip, claiming that it depicted the area underwater.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Aerial Photography accounts did not respond to a request for comment. But Mark Holtzman, president of Los Angeles-based company West Coast Aerial Photography, told the AP that it’s likely the image was an optical illusion created by the wet concrete.

The reflections in the water create an “opaque look” that makes it appear like it’s standing water, he told The AP. “It’s just the way you’ve got the rain affecting it, you’ve got the light coming in on gray,” said Holtzman.

Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley, also noted that from a distant aerial view, it’s hard to tell the difference between a wet surface and one that is under several inches of water. “I don’t think the video is fake or manipulated, I just think that it does not show flooding around the Stadium,” Farid said in an email.

Holtzman, who has flown over the stadium many times and has never seen or heard of it being flooded, noted the parking lot is not level, so water couldn’t pool up.

“I’ve flown over at it, you know, all different times and all different, you know, dry and wet,” he said. “It looks like a wet stadium.”

A closer look at the footage also reveals parts of the parking lot that would not be present if it was deep under water.

For instance, the painted markings for the parking spaces in the sections closest to the camera — lots 3, 4, 5 and 15 — are visible, and match with the markings in satellite imagery of the area on Google Maps.

A triangular median at the intersections of lots I, K and 7 is also clearly visible in the footage, even though it is mostly landscaped with short shrubbery that would likely have been submerged.

Major League Baseball rescheduled three Sunday games throughout Southern California because of the forecast for Hilary. The Dodgers played a double-header on Saturday, meaning the team had no game on Sunday.

Brener, the team spokesperson, noted that the field would probably have been playable on Monday night if the team wasn’t on the road. He added that there were trucks in the parking lot setting up for a Saturday concert by K-pop group BlackPink.

Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, which also grappled with wildfires and an earthquake on Sunday.

___ This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. Learn more about fact-checking at AP.
 
Would it be possible for a mod to change this to Storm Hilary or something?

i avoided this thinking it was a political thread about Hilary Clinton. :)
 
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