Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-10
RAIN FLOODS
THE STREETS
STORM WATER iNVADES CITY
AND VICINITY
HUGE BouLDERs TORN LOOSE
AT THIRD AND HILL
Pasadena Has HaiIstorm, but No DAM
age Is Done-New Automobile
Boulevard in Good
Shape

storm water" was away above par
yesterday in this section of the coun-
try, and the Los Angeles river was tur-
bulent and muddy.
About o'clock yesterday morning
Los Angeles umbrellas had to bear
the brunt of young cloudburst, 1t
seemed to those outside at the time, as
the water came down in torrents for
a short time. A little before noon the
clouds grew so dark that it necessitated
the lighting of lamps in most OF the
houses, and the rain fell almost as
heavily as it had done earlier in the
day.
Some damage was done by the storm,
the corner at Third and Hill streets
looking like the plot for cyclone story,
as good sized boulders had been torn
from their resting place by the angry
waters, and sent rolling down the
steep grade there.
The city street department got busy,
hauling the proverbial rolling stones"
back to where they could gather moss
or mud. Out Maud Junction way the
street cars passed through water which
was churned up as in the wake of
steamer, while automobiles were in
trouble again at the zoo yard stretch
between Downey avenue and the new
Pasadena-Los Angeles boulevard.
Streets Slippery
Outside of those two points, automo-
biles, with "creepers" on to enable them
to grip the slippery, rain soaked streets,
could make pretty good time, and the
Improvement especially at that APP
preach to the Los Angeles end of the
boulevard was particularly marked.
Gravel has been placed there in large
quantities, which has made it possible
for the automobiles to pass.
1--WE tried one kind of gravel at first
from the river which did not prove
satisfactory, not being able to pack,
Street Commissioner d. K. Edwards eX-
planned yesterday, but later we used
another kind which would pack If given
the chance. However, both automobiles
and heavy teams travelled right along
over that stretch of road, which could
not be rolled in consequence, and is ac-
cordingly pretty rough yet"
1t seems that the stretch of road in
question has been under litigation for
a time, dating back to an old Spanish
right, and the city cannot and the pub
lie will not attempt to repair the road
so long as the matter is unsettled. 1t
is Just within the city limits.
One other place outside the city on
the Pasadena boulevard, near Sierra
Madre junction, has been washed out,
but checked before it did much damage.
Pasadena Flooded
Pasadena people had plenty of storm
water" to make it difficult to get to and
from street cars, and the city was Wis
tied by hail storm yesterday after
noon.
The city has most excellent asphalt
streets, but on Fair Oaks avenue yes
terday a runaway was almost caused
by a large tin bucket being carried
along by the heavy storm waters rush.
ing over the hard street which the
bucket would strike now and then,
causing a perfect din. A spirited pair
of horses hearing the noise We're with
difficulty kept from running away as
the tinware made the noise of small
cyclone swinging down stream.
However, the traffic between Los An
geles and Pasadena was not materially
interrupted, the Pacific Electric man
aging to keep it's cars running on pref
ty good time despite the young flood.
The Colegrove line of cars on the Los
Angeles Pacific were detained by a
washout yesterday morning, While other
cars of the city lines were detained
by flooded tracks.
The rainfall up to 1880 this morn
ing was 1853 inches, which bring the
storm record up to 10.48 inches, which
is fast nearing the record of 1909 Tor
the same date of last year.