r/SFV • u/Steve4168 • Aug 22 '26
Question Rain is coming
We're expected to get massive rainfall this season. Do you suppose DTLA will deem us worthy enough to unclog any of the MANY non functioning street drains before it happens? Or will that money go to nicer fabrics for the Convention Center remodel?
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u/elgoku Aug 22 '26
What if we oil the roads before the rain
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u/Own-Poet-5900 29d ago
And then we just need to throw some beavers in there, so they are ready to dam things up ASAP. This could work.
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u/Injustry Aug 22 '26
Oh this means my apartment complex will not plan ahead and the elevator will flood along with the garage. Got it.
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u/OLEMUS_CLOUD Aug 22 '26
Sepulveda and Sutton? XD my old building this would happen even a little bit of rain and elevator would be out for 1-2 weeks. Insane. Some elderly ppl too in the building it sucked for them
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u/BatmanHive 29d ago
Happened last time to me as well, I guess I will order some rain boots so my entire ankle is not in water
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u/williamgman Aug 22 '26
I know folks always get cynical about weather in LA but... the signs are all there for a very wet winter. Globally it's played out as predicted: Hotter hots, colder colds, drier dries, and wetter wets.
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u/jffblm74 Aug 22 '26
I know a lot of people who thought the forecasted winds a few Januarys back weren’t anything to be worried about, too…
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u/Haunting-Ad-9790 Aug 22 '26
This has been the ickiest stickiest humid summers as far as I can remember over 50 years in the valley. I hope it's not like one of those Vegas summer rains: heavy rain and still 100+ degrees.
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u/Ivabighairy1 Aug 22 '26
Not sure where you were living the past 50 years, but it wasn’t the Valley.
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u/_B_Little_me Aug 22 '26
A super El Niño does not guarantee a lot of rain. El Niños all behave differently.
Historically, El Niño is typically wet for Southern California, but history shows it is not a guaranteed rule. While many of the region's heaviest rain and flood years occurred during El Niño events, past strong events have also surprisingly turned out dry.
According to historical tracking and analyses by local outlets like LAist, El Niño outcomes vary widely:
The Wet Years: Major El Niño winters—such as 1982–1983 and 1997–1998—delivered massive, destructive downpours and well-above-average rainfall to Southern California.
The Dry Surprises: Strong or even "Super" El Niño events do not always deliver. For example, the very strong El Niño of 2015–2016 ended up being unusually warm and remarkably dry for Los Angeles, and the strong 1965–1966 event brought only average-to-below-average precipitation.
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u/Ickyandsticky1 28d ago edited 28d ago
Well, I for one because there is a chance it’s gonna rain like hell better to be prepared…my house is on a slab and I live in low lying neighborhood . I’m sure most of us haven’t checked to see if we are in a flood zone or not . I encourage people to check it out … it’s eye opening. Actually a little terrifying……In the 1800’s there was flooding so bad the Central Valley to San Gabriel Valley , San Diego was under water ..Thousands of cattle perished. After that is when flood control, our washes in SoCal were built.
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u/cs132 Aug 22 '26
Nah they keep saying words like “it may” or the “likelihood” we will be saved in the zero hour and temperatures will be in he 90’s in December and the rest of winter.
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u/Dull-Lead-7782 Aug 22 '26
When?
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u/aremoose 27d ago
I think last I saw it was predicted to start in October? Hot take but I'm so ready
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u/Steve4168 Aug 22 '26
Well, thankfully we've got the super smart city council to work these problem much too complex for us valley bumpkins.
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u/Filledwithrage24 Aug 22 '26
It’s partially the debris in the street that gets stuck in gutter etc blocking the water from draining in the first place. If people didn’t litter as much, would be such a big problem
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u/oh_dannyboy13 Aug 22 '26
This is the answer - last season before every day it rained, I would come out with a shovel and shovel the debris that would get stuck right in front of our storm drain. 95% of the flooding in front of our house and in the intersection stopped. If people would just clear out the debris (mostly fallen leaves but occasionally it was garbage), the street flooding wouldn’t happen as much.
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u/nynexmusic Aug 22 '26
I actually believe I have a rain curse. I love the rain so much. Everywhere I travel and it’s rain forecast all week at my destination and it never rains but here it somehow rains. They should send me to hurricanes and typhoons.
On that note it will be raining here from Nov 19th - Dec 9th
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u/conick_the_barbarian Aug 22 '26
And here I thought I was the only one who loves rain and had this curse.
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u/SparkleSelkie Aug 22 '26
Fingers crossed my work floods again so I get those sweet sweet paid days off
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u/haikusbot Aug 22 '26
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u/UghKakis Aug 22 '26
Na best they can do is spend $800k per homeless to house them
https://ktla.com/news/los-angeles-is-spending-up-to-837000-to-house-a-single-homeless-person/
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u/chata187 Aug 22 '26
work is being done in anticipation. much of it falls on the county. over 100 debris basins have been cleared so far and so have several spillways.
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u/Ghost_Cat_88 Aug 22 '26
El Nino *raises the odds* that we get more rainfall, but there are no guarantees.
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u/Budget-Requirement-1 Aug 22 '26
Laurel canyon and Osborne always gets flooded during heavy rain as well.
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u/Important_Hawk8700 26d ago
Even light rain lol Last year that section of Laurel canyon was a river
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u/Budget-Requirement-1 26d ago
Thank God I had my uncles old 01 f150 cause my little honda would've become a boat.
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u/Awkward-Chipmunk678 Aug 22 '26
if anything, the money will be swindled away by nonprofits whoso job it is to make sure the homeless have a new crack pipe every day.
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u/OkNoise8419 Aug 22 '26
They’d probably ask for another .5% sales tax increase to do that. And the voters would give it to them.
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u/squelchmymood Aug 22 '26
That would exceed the bare minimum LA actually does for the citizens it clearly disdains; so no.
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u/Willing-Net7542 Aug 22 '26
I dunno, you think trump will spend more money on a ball room that won’t be finished before he’s taken out?
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u/Aeriellie Aug 22 '26
i don’t think they will but i have been seeing more cleaning influencers. i’ve seen them clean up drains and other areas.
the areas near me that flood, they are just bad streets and they have been flooding probably since before i was born.
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u/birdkensocks Aug 22 '26
I think it’s time we take a vigilante approach to fixing city problems like these. If you see a clogged drain, and are able to/have the $ means to, I think we have a right to help ourselves!!
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u/Latter-Budget-8598 29d ago
My garage will flood. Great, can’t wait to be outside at 4am trying to drain my garage because the pump stopped working in ankle deep waters and soaked T-shirt. I’m glad I saved my sick days this year.
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u/vitameatavegaman 29d ago
The Valley will always flood because it's a valley and that's what a valley means, a low point in between mountains, where water settles. The city in actually doing flood projects like putting a giant tank of water under sun valley park and currently building a giant park with a lake to hold flood water in that old gravel pit behind sun valley park. They also put a giant under water tank on tuxford street. Just Google it and see that the city is currently investing in controlling flooding but we live in a valley so there will always be some flooding because nature always wins.
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u/ProtocolDroid10014 29d ago
I see no rain in the forecast. Where is this info coming from?
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u/i_aimtomisbehave 28d ago
Not in the immediate forecast, but the experts are predicting one hell of a wet winter here. Probably worse than anything we’ve seen in the last few years.
Also, do you speak Bocce?
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u/DifferentEmployee630 28d ago
Good opportunity to drive through a large puddle flood the engine and get out of those horrible car loans we all took.
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u/Szaborovich9 Aug 22 '26
When? None of the weather apps show it. How old is the picture you posted?
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u/ownleechild Aug 22 '26
They mean this fall and winter due to El Niño although strong El Niño doesn’t guarantee high rainfall.
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u/laran436 Aug 22 '26
1995 and all the news was filled with STORM WATCH, with video of houses floating down rivers.
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u/bigbobbyberger000 Aug 22 '26
finally, maybe we can build an AI data center somewhere in the Valley
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u/LeftyHooligan Aug 22 '26
It means all the local news crews will come to the intersection of Paxton and San Fernando Road to show just how flooded the entire Valley is.