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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Flood Advisory for Burn Areas, SO CAL

The National Weather Service in Oxnard has issued a

* Flood Advisory for...
Los Angeles County in southwest California...
this includes areas in and below the station... Morris...
Sayre... marek and sesnon burn areas

* until 500 am PST Friday

* at 1050 PM PST... National Weather Service Doppler radar showed
a large area of moderate to locally heavy rain spreading across
Los Angeles County... including the Antelope Valley. Rain will fall
at rates of between one tenth and one third of an inch per hour
overnight... causing widespread ponding of water on area roadways
and local flooding of low lying areas and intersections. Rainfall
rates could occasionally approach one half inch per hour in
heavier showers. Rain at these rates would cause at least minor
mud and debris flows in and around the recent burn areas...
especially near the station burn area above La Canada and La
Crescenta.

Residents near the recent burn areas should remain vigilant about
the rain and possible debris flows overnight.

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