Posted on 12/24/2018 3:39:08 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A 96-year-old water main burst in a South Los Angeles neighborhood Friday, sending water bubbling up above the pavement, flooding streets and creating a void that submerged cars.
It took the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power more than four hours to fully shut off the 24-inch cast iron main as water inundated the neighborhood at 55th Street and Towne Avenue.
About 30 adults and 20 children were displaced from their homes; the Fred Roberts Recreation Center was set up as a temporary shelter.
LADWP is covering the cost of hotel stays for some affected residents while crews do cleanup and repair, Shavely said.
The break provided an unsettling reminder of Los Angeles’ crumbling water infrastructure, which has been a recurring problem for years. Large sections of the water system are old and corroded, and the water district faces a continuous challenge in trying to replace the infrastructure before breaks occur.
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SoCal ping.
California is coming up on 50 years of sitting on their asses, after their ancestors broke their tails to make the place livable.
So, now the chickens are ‘coming home to roost’.
Unngh!
Yeah, but I think the bullet train is still on schedule.
“We need to raise rates again....for the pensions.”
SURFS UP DUDES! Wear you Santa suits like in Cocoa Beach with the surfing Santas.
Ha ha ha. They spent all their money on those that provide nothing. They don’t even have enough money left to buy a little sympathy.
Quick, import more illegals. California is running out of things to spend tax money on.
Too bad, and those homes don’t look high dollar. Glad it’s a small area, and I hope they get good help. That’s no way to spend Christmas.
Where’s thread By that name?
Ungh,,, or something.
The plates keep grinding, and the surface keeps twisting. Pipes keep breaking.
The local Democrats don’t care about poor people. They should have had plenty of tax money to prevent this.
There was also a break/leakage in high-end Beverly Hills a few days earlier. And in 2014, part of UCLA was flooded.
Top picture - Saints fan who fled Katrina for the desert so he’d never have to worry about flooding again?
Southern California was a wonderful place to grow up in the 50s. As a kid I’d ride the Pacific Electric by myself to the LA terminal located in lovely “skid row”, never worried or felt in danger. People from back east would remark on how neat and tidy Watts looked in comparison to the slums back at home. A different world...
Well they can’t invest in things like that...I mean what about illegal alien legal representation and healthcare?
Another needs to be commissioned asap.
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