The story of Los Angeles · October 20 to October 27
Road hazards bunched up in a few neighbourhoods as the city held steady
Weather alerts nearly doubled this week, and freeway closures and two fatal collisions shaped the weekend on the roads.
50 road hazard reports near Downtown LA, usually about 9
Across Los Angeles, road hazard reports were right at normal this week, 2,779 against a usual 2,805. But they piled up in a few places. Downtown LA had 50 against a usual 9, Reseda had 14 where about 1 is normal, and East Hollywood had 12.
Vandalism followed the same pattern. Citywide there were 11,718 reports, below the usual 14,841. Near Highland Park there were 19 and near Chinatown 14, both places that usually see about 1 a week.
Weather alerts ran at 197 this week, compared with a normal 107. On the freeways, Caltrans listed full closures on the 101 downtown and in Encino, and on stretches of the 110, 71, 47 and 14. The highway patrol logged two fatal collisions, on the northbound 57 at Brea Canyon Road and at Avalon Boulevard and East 122nd Street in Watts.
In the South Bay, a Southern California Edison outage affecting 11,607 customers near Manhattan and Hermosa Beach stayed on the state outage list for about 24 hours.