This is doctor Wendy Walsh and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the
Doctor Wendy Waalsh Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app I Am six forty.
You have Doctor Wendy Walsh with you. This is the Doctor Wendy Walls Show.
Obviously, my content is a little different tonight because I have a background
as a local news reporter. You may remember me from KCOP and then UPN
and where I covered riots, fires, floods and earthquakes. So this is
not new to me. What's going on here today. Reminder to everybody,
evacuation orders and warnings are in effect for portions of southern California. The governor
has issued a state of emergency as powerful storms hit the region. Most of
the cal States are closed. My University cal State Channel Islands is giving the
professor's flexibility of deciding whether to go on zoom or not. If you're one
of my students who's listening, I've reached out to the library to see if
the librarian can do our library class by zoom. Tomorrow we will see.
We're starting to see as predicted, some power outages. Extended power outages can
impact an entire community and the economy because they disrupt communications, water transportation,
they can close retail businesses, they can cause food to spoil. Obviously,
the most dangerous is the prevention of the operation of medical devices. So producer,
Kayla, you've been monitoring it. Where do we have power outages right
now? We have some outages in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica. It's looking
like some in Winnica, I Prona, there's some in Chatsworth. But and
there's a lot of crews working as well. I believe on some power outages.
So that's in West Hollywood, certain areas of Los Angeles. Doesn't say
it necessarily one hundred percent. Where Granada Hills, people are going through it.
It's starting. Yeah. Yeah, what's the longest power outage you've ever
been in? I lived in New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy. So we actually
went a couple of days, a couple days, yeah, without power.
And you don't even realize how much runs on power until you lose it.
Yeah, all your pro teen went bad in the freezer. Yeah, you
can't make a coffee. You can't do any coffee, can't no, no
coon coffee for three days. It was rough. I think we all need
one of those little camp coffee makers at home, just because that really would
be a state of emergency for me. I think with no coffee, that's
smart camp coffee, those little things, those little burners, little I don't
know. I have at home. One of those little Korean barbecue things you
put on the tabletop with the little gas canoo. That's faahy. I take
that camping, so that that could work anyways, Start to think about that,
folks, where in an atmospheric river. It's another historic storm that we're
experiencing. Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for eight counties in southern
California, including Los Angeles, Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara,
Ventura, San Diego, and San Luis Obispo counties as this series of winter
storms continues to impact the state. Santa Barbara Airport is completely closed, no
flights flying out there. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning
for central and western Los Angeles County. Now, this warning expires at midnight,
but then we'll see what they're going to do next. Because the thing
about storms is they have to monitor them to see where they're going. Los
Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged Angelino's to stay home Sunday and Monday. Oh,
she said Monday too. Maybe that does mean I should teach on Zoom.
They want the city's emergency operations to have the freedom to get the job done.
LA Unified School District superintendent says that that district plans to keep schools open
on Monday. There's one exception though, if you go to Vinedale Elementary School
in Sun Valley. That is in a big flood zone, so that is
definitely closed. Here's a little rundown of some of the other evacuation orders.
Listen closely if you may be in one of these areas. Mandatory evacuations were
ordered for people living in unincorporated areas of oh High, including North Fork,
Camino Cielo. Also, evacuation warnings were issued for Ventura, a Ventura RV
Resort, the community of Foster Park Camp Chafe, Old Creek Road, structures
on Grenada Avenue and Trerello Avenue in unincorporated Camerio. So I guess cal State
Channel Islands and came Rio is not being evacuated yet. We will see.
What we do know is that these evacuation orders have happened. They are in
effect in all parts in different parts of Ventura County. As a storm continues
to move through the region, it is bringing a risk of dangerous flooding.
Also into Panga Canyon, we have seen evacuations. An evacuation order was issued
for areas along Santa Maria Road that's north of Tapanga Canyon due to a high
risk of mud and debrif flows. Let me tell you, folks, when
I was a news reporter, I remember wearing my big rubber boots and my
full wet suits if you will, my rainwear, and going to the houses
where it was heartbreaking to see people crying on their front lawns with first responders
around them, as that hillside behind their house was now sitting in their living
room. These mud slides are no joke. All I could hope is that
they had insurance, and of course they were always crying for the things that
we care about emotionally, the family photos, the videos, the mementos.
I mean, walls and dishes can be replaced, couches can be replaced,
but it's those memories that people want to keep. Deer also, meanwhile,
evacuation warnings have been issued for several other unincorporate unincorporated parts of La County near
the Agua fire, remember that one, the Bobcat fire, the Lake fire
on the Owen fire burn scars. If you are in one of those areas,
go online find out if your area was evacuate. These evacuation warnings are
not leaving quickly. They are in effect until at least six pm on Tuesday.
Okay, so this is going to continue. This is not a quickie,
come and go kind of storm. Also, there are evacuations in Santa
Maria Road. Officials issued in evacuation order for residents living in Santa Maria Road.
That's Topanga Canyon, as I mentioned, due to the high risk of
mud or debris. So we are talking about a multiple day storm that could
drop up to eight inches of rain along the coastal and valley areas in the
mountains up to twelve inches, and we are expecting that to occur in just
a twenty four to thirty six hour period. I want to explain why it
is so dangerous for a huge amount of water to come in such a short
period of time. I always use the example, and I think it's a
good one of you or kitchen sponge. If it sits on the edge of
the sink for too long, it becomes it shrinks, it becomes dry.
It is not porous. When you first hold it under the kitchen water,
the first thing that happens is the water rolls off before the sponge opens up
and it can absorb it. So when the rain comes fast and pure furious,
too quickly and too much. This is what we see in the Southland.
Because we're usually accustomed to drier weather, we don't forecasters don't know how
heavy this rain will be, how high the winds will be. They are
suggesting they could be as high as sixty to eighty miles an hour in higher
mountain areas and along the Golden State five Freeway corridor. If you've ever driven
on the five, you're heading to northern California and you feel they actually have
signs along the five they say, you know, high gusts or wind warning
along this area, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, I
actually have to hold the steering wheel now, I can feel the wind really
push my car right. And so that's only sort of your average thirty forty
mile at hour winds. We're talking gusts of up to potentially sixty to eighty
miles an hour. We do know that rain is continuing to fall across the
region as it has done all day to day on Sunday. If you're experiencing
anything on the roads or in your area, whether it's flooding, whether it's
mud slides, let us know. Give us a call. Call one eight
hundred five to zero one KFI. That's one eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. We do know that, given the sheer amounts of rainfall
that is expected to fall today and tomorrow, that these rain rates could be
highly problematic. We are watching closely for mud and debrief flow issues and swift
water moving in our local rivers and streams. This is not a time to
go near to the Los Angeles River. We just got an update from San
Bernardino County. They have now declared their own state of emergency. San Bernardino
County declared a state of emergency tonight in anticipation of extreme rain and snow that
is expected they say today all the way through Wednesday. According to the Board
of Supervisor's chair and Third District Supervisor Don Roe, the declaration puts the state
and federal government on notice that our residents in San Bernardino County will need their
help. The county is taking all available steps to keep their residents safe,
and they're making preparations to meet the needs during and after the storms. Officials
there are urging everyone to take necessary precautions avoid unnecessary travel. Also, there's
a website you can go to so you can prepare things. You go to
prepare dot Sbcounty dot gov for vital Safety information SB standing for San Bernardino.
That's prepare dot Sbcounty, dot gov. So you probably if you live in
San Bernardino County already got some kind of phone or text warning in either English
or Spanish warning you but the potential for flooding and mudslides. The county is
going to continue out in San Bernardino to post these warnings and safety information on
its social media platforms. So if you want to follow them on social media,
go to San Bernardino County see what they're telling you. Remember, the
National Weather Service has predicted catastrophic and life threatening flooding for the San Bernardino Valley
and the coastal slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains. That's tonight through Tuesday and
even Wednesday. They're also saying saying that some of the showers and chances the
chances of these showers actually might last all the way through until Friday. So
remember travel and commuting will be extremely difficult. If you're experiencing a power failure
and your cell phone still working, we'd like to hear from you. We
want to know where the power is out and what you're experiencing, what the
temperatures like. If you don't have a power failure yet, this might be
a good time while the lights are on, to dig out your candles.
I've had that situation where the power goes out, it's nighttime. I had
small children with me. We're digging around drawers in the dark. If you're
smart enough to happen to have I mean, we're all smart, but if
you happen to have flash lights around, make sure the batteries are new good.
This is the time. When your lights are on. Go to your
flashlights, change the batteries. Go to your drawers, find your lighters and
matches. Go get the candles. Get them out because once the lights are
out, it makes it very difficult to do this. We are going to
continue to cover this atmospheric river, this historic storm that is happening in Los
Angeles. Stay with us here on KFI. You are listening to the Doctor
Wendy Wall Show on KFI AM six forty Relive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Doctor Wendy Walsh on demand from KFI AM six forty. KFI
Am six forty, you have Doctor Wendy Walsh with you. This is the
Doctor Wendy Walsh Show. Well, you won't be taking a flight out of
Santa Barbara Airport tonight because it is completely closed from our historic well, it's
flooding because of this atmospheric river that we're seeing flow across. I keep getting
emails from my students saying, do we have class tomorrow? Do we have
class tomorrow? We're supposed to have a special class at cal State Channel Islands
with a librarian, so students, I have written to the librarian. I'm
going to see if she can be available on zoom and if that is true,
then we will do that. So I've mentioned earlier that flooding is how
he is the most dangerous part, and driving in your vehicle while flooding is
the most dangerous when it comes to these storms. In fact, flooding is
the second leading cause of weather related fatalities in the United States in general.
The only I know you're like, what's the first one that has to do
with weather? I know you're thinking tornadoes, right, Flooding is the second
leading cause of weather related fatalities in the entire country. No, tornadoes aren't
number one. No, snowstorms and avalanches are not number one. What else
could it be? Hail? A hail on your head could be number one.
No, it's excessive heat, and we also have that in California.
So number one is heat. Number two is flooding. According to the National
Weather Service, a majority of these flood related deaths are a result of driving
through floodwater. So let's talk a little bit. If you are driving,
then you do encounter floodwaters, what you need to do to try to save
yourself, to keep yourself safe. So, first of all, I've been
saying it, everybody's been saying it. Driving through flooded roadways is highly discouraged.
Did you know that just sink six inches of moving water can knock a
person down? How often you have you ever stood out at the beach and
a little wave came in. It only went halfway up your calves, but
the force was so strong that before you knew it, you were down on
your butt. We're talking about water moving faster than that, right. Two
feet of water can actually sweep away large vehicles, even SUVs and pickup trucks
just twenty four inches of water. Okay. Now, obviously these unexpected situations
can occur if you do find yourself trapped in floodwaters. Here are some of
the tips to follow. According to the National Weather Service, the one we
hear all the time, remain as calm as possible because you need to think
clearly, and when you're frightened, you're not making good decisions with your brain.
So if you drive into a flooded area you're not sure if you can
get out, then just be take a few deep breasts. It's the first
thing I want you to do. They recommend that you turn your head lights
on and your hazard lights on, your foreways and your headlines headlights. This
helps first responders locate you. Now, flood waters may begin to rise around
your car. If the water is not moving, this is important. They
could be just rising up because it's coming in from somewhere else, and it's
just getting deeper in this low lying area where the road is. Then get
out of your car as fast as possible and move to higher ground. But
listen closely. Do not leave your car if water is moving around your vehicle.
Because the water, if it's not strong enough to sweep your vehicle away,
it may be strong enough to sweep you away. You have no idea
until you're in it, and then it's knocked you off your feet. The
Natural Weather Service suggests that you lower your window very slowly. Apparently I didn't
know this. Most electric windows work unless the car is completely submerged in water.
I've always had that thought, you know, if I'm driving in a
flood zone, and how will electric windows work? But apparently they will still
work. It is suggested that you do not break your window. Okay,
only break your window if it's a last resort. And I don't even know
how you break your window. What are you going to use? Hi heel?
I don't know. You're gonna need something hard. Who drives around with
the hammer? I don't know if you can lower your windows, climb out
and get to higher ground as soon as possible, and call nine one one
These flood safety tips can save a life. If anybody is going on the
roads tonight, make sure you understand that if a barricade has been put out
by law enforcement, you don't violate it. You don't go around. This
is not the night for that. Again, we are in a state of
emergency in southern California. Evacuation orders and warnings are an effect in portions of
southern California. The governor has issued a statewide state of emergency, and we
don't know what's going to happen come midnight. The state of emergency is going
until midnight. After that, we're going to wait for more instructions. Most
of the cal State universities have been closed. Cal State Channel Islands, where
I teach has been telling professors to use their good judgment about whether to come
in or whether to do their classes by zoom. There are eight counties in
southern California where the governor has declared a state of emergency. Los Angeles County,
Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County. As I mentioned earlier,
Bernardino County has issued its own state of emergency now, Santa Barbara County,
Ventura County, San Diego County, San Luis Obispo counties. This is
a series of winter storms that has continued to impact the entire state. And
this is a storm that may not leave early. There is word that it
actually may go through until Tuesday, right, So it's a quick one.
We have a caller on the phone, by the way. If you're anywhere
and you have news for us about what's happening in your area regarding this storm,
give us a call. The number is one eight hundred five two zero
one KFI. That's one eight hundred and five two zero one five three four.
Okay, I think we have a caller now, Hi, it's Hi.
ITT's doctor Wendy. Hi, doctor Wendy. Who's this? You remember
that? My name is Jeff, Hi, Jeff and Hi. Do you
remember back in the eighties when we had those zonings and the waves were crashing
on pas and had all those horrible mudslines. Oh yeah, I was a
news reporter covering it. Words. It wasn't called atmosphereic, you know what
burgularies. Burgularies used to not be called home invasion robberies either. But I
mean we never had weather like that since you know, in the eighties when
all those Alminos went through. You think it was worse then really, oh
about the same waves. I think it was way worse. Waves were crashing
on PCH and they were bringing you know, all those houses were evacuated.
It was causing mudslides. Remember when PCH. Remember driving from Santa Monica to
PCH. The mud slides were so great that wasn't PCH like at least one
of the lanes or two closed for like months and months. And then in
the early nineties, I remember that was I think eighty five Almino eighty four
eighty five is when actual waves were crash. I mean I remember I was
with friends and we actually went out onto a house where ways were crashing through
the living room and crashing on the What were you doing there, Jeff?
What were you doing there? I remember, while we're having storm memories in
California that are so dear to our heart. In two thousand and five,
I was living in Venice Beach and you know how they put up the berm,
right, the big sand berm to keep the waves in the front of
the winter storms coming in to flood the houses. And so there were crowds
of people standing up at the berm watching something. So I had like a
kid on one hip, you know, a toddler, and another one by
the hand, and I go, let's go see, let's go see,
and we're standing up there. I remember specifically, it was like December of
two thousand and five, right around Christmas, and we're standing up on the
top of the berm and we're watching something that they called then monster waves.
Monster waves crash on the Venice Pier and take out the bathrooms. By the
way, they never rebuilt those bathrooms. That was it, and part of
the pier. And as I'm sitting there watching these monster waves and the people
are cheering, I'm thinking this, what if this turns out to be like
one of those videos you see on the news where as you're watching it,
you know the aftermath, you're saying, why are the people just standing there?
Don't they know these waves are going to come and take them. I
took my kids and I ran inside. Anyway, Jeff, thanks for calling.
You're right. We do give things new adjectives all the time to impress
upon people. I can't say it enough, no matter how much we warn
people, no matter how much the city or county officials come out, talk
about state of emergency, tell people to stay home. There's always some knuckleheads.
There's some knuckleheads who do the darnedest things and then it costs all of
us money, you know, not to mention the loss of life and the
damages, but all of us as first responders are heading out there, so
they do this as a precaution. You know, if you don't need to
go out, don't go out. That's basically how it works, right,
You stay home in the big storms. This is a time to cuddle with
your loved ones, cook something delicious and yeah, find out where the batteries
are for your flashlight, find out where your candles are. You never know.
We're starting to see more power outages. Let's talk about some of the
evacuation orders that are happening. Oh, we have to go to break.
When we come back, we'll talk about more evacuation orders and the latest from
LAUSD. You are listening to the Doctor Wendy wallsh Show on KFI AM six
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here with you during this storm. We're all going to be okay, all
right, as long as we do what we're supposed to do, keep calm
and keep safe. Earlier today, our Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference
to warn Angelino's of the severity of this current storm. Angelinos, My pledge
to you is to keep you informed and to make sure that the city is
operating in an all hands on deck manner to keep Angelino safe. Storms can
change quickly, but let me be clear, this storm is a serious weather
event. This has the potential to be a historic storm, severe winds,
thunderstorms, and even brief tornadoes. This morning, the city issued its first
evacuation order related to this storm, and out of an abundance of caution.
Residents along a portion of Latuna Canyon Road should have already evacuated because of the
increased risk of significant flooding, mud slides, and sediment flow due to the
burn scars left by the twenty twenty two landfire. If you are in this
area and have not yet done so, please evacuate immediately. Our emergency Operations
Center is coordinating the information flow and is staffed by many different city departments as
well as leaisons to region regional agencies. This this storm will flow without regard
to city limits, our jurisdictional distinction, so we are all working closely with
county, state, and federal officials. Our Emergency Operations Center is designed for
earthquakes, fires, and storms like these, with a way for each and
every city department to be plugged in, so the City of Los Angeles is
activated and ready to go. This is all part of our continued proactive response
to the storm's potential impacts. Just like our preparations for Tropical Storm Hillary paid
off in August, I am confident we will weather this storm too, because
once again the city is prepared, we are sharing information, and I'm seeing
Angelino's take action to make common sense preparations. If you are not home already,
please get home and stay home, stay off the roads. Make tonight
a Sunday night dinner. Our family gave Stay informed. Register for notify LA
at emergency the full word emergency dot Lacity dot gov to sign up for alerts
and get more information. Stay safe, keep your devices charged, and have
your emergency supplies and medications on hand as we anticipate this weather event continuing into
the next couple of days. If if you are able to work remotely,
please stay home. Keep nine to one one lines open for life threatening emergencies
including falling fallen power lines, but for flooded roads, fallen branches, flooded
gutters and the like. Please contact three to one one by phone on the
web or download my three one one NY three one one app whichevery Angelino should
do. Already, we have extended three to one one hours for this storm
for power out of our water main breaks called DWP at one eight hundred DAL
DWP one eight hundred dial DAL DWP. This is an all hands on decked
effort and that was our Mayor Karen Bass earlier today. We want to thank
KTLA News for allowing us to use that video. She really made it clear
to us that we need to be extremely careful. Los Angeles Unified School District
Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district plan to keep schools open on Monday. You
know why that is right. They got criticized so much during the pandemic for
closing schools all the time that there you know, if this were another year
pre COVID, I bet they would have totally closed it. But anyway,
there's one exception though, if you are a student, If your child is
a student at Vinedale Elementary School in Sun Valley, that school will be closed.
Otherwise, continue to monitor the storm watch to see if there is evacuation
if they're flooding. Speaking of evacuation, let's remind people where some of the
evacuations are. In Ventura County. We have mandatory evacuations for residents in OHI,
including Northfolk area, Camino Cielo. Also the areas in Ventura, the
Ventura RV Resort, the community of Foster Park, Camp Chafe, Old Creek
Road, structures on Granada Avenue and Trulleau Avenue in unincorporated Camillo. In Tapega
Canyon, we've seen evacuations and evacuation order was issued for areas along Santa Maria
Road north of Topega Canyon due to the very high risk of mud and debris
flows and that order will rate remain in effect until six pm on Tuesday.
Okay, so if you've had an evacuation order, you still must check to
see when it is safe to go back. As I mentioned earlier, it
only takes twelve inches of water for your car to be flooded. If that
water is moving water, it can knock a human being down and can be
very very dangerous. Right. It's also where else I see evacuations? Oh,
of course, Why does it always happen? I noticed in Latuna Canyon
It seems every time we have a storm. Latuna Canyon. Did you guys
have a lot of mudslides up there? Are you all houses built on hills?
Sounds like great views? I will say that. But an evacuation warning
was upgraded to a mandatory order for residents of Latuna Canyon Road in Sun Valley.
The affected area encompasses horse Haven to the north, Martindale to the east,
Primrose to the south, and Ledge to the west. Several evacuation centers
have been established near there also Santa Barbara County evacuations. Evacuation orders are in
place in several parts of Santa Barbara. They earlier in the day they were
ordering people to be gone by two pm. That includes any areas along the
waterways with the Thomas Cave and alisel Burn areas and properties in the vicinity of
Sycamore Creek and Stanwood Drive down to parts of Nino's Drive in the city of
Santa Barbara. I also, we just got this in from the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. It says all canyon roads leading into and from Malibu are
closed due to rock and mud slides Malibu. If you're a Malibu resident,
do not go home. Find a hotel on high ground. The Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department says all canyon roads leading into and from Malibu are closed due
to rock and mud slides. Malibu Canyon Road is closed between Malibu Crest and
Mulholland Highway, so traveling on any of these routes is not advisable. Okay,
if you are if you are Malibu resident and you are trying to get
home, don't do it tonight. We're done. Go on to Airbnb dot
com, Go on hotels dot com. This is your moment. You know,
one of my favorite apps is actually called hotel tonight dot com. It
is it's called hotel Today. I don't know, Kayla is if our booty
calls or something, it's an awesome It's an awesome set. I do it
when I'm driving up the five, and I start to get tired on my
way up to Oregon, and I just go on hotel tonight and when I
stop for gas, and then I find the closest hotel near me because what
they are last minute hotels for late night people, although tonight they're probably they
take an inventory for people that check in after ten pm. I don't know
who those people are. I don't know. When we come back, I
want to talk a little more about a power outage and what you can do
to stay safe. Also prepare for a power outage and to stay safe,
and Kayla will give us an update on which areas have power outages. Right
now in Los Angeles County. You're listening to the Doctor Wendy Wall Show on
k if I Am six forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're
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sixty, you have Doctor Wendy Walsh with you. This is the Doctor Wendy
Walsh Show. So uh, I mentioned that there's some areas around Los Angeles
in our atmospheric river that we're seeing one of our many historic storms that will
go down in history that are experiencing some power outages. Producer, Kayla,
what's the latest? Who's where? Yeah, so there's still some power outages.
Beverly Hill, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades. Yes, and you know
i'd stiff upper lip as people in the Palisades would. That was what I
was doing, right, because I couldn't pronounce it. Universal City. Uh,
there's Wintica that messed it up again when that God? Yeah, So
yeah, those are the areas they're mostly affected. Let me just say this.
If you don't have a power outage in your neighborhood, great, but
let's prepare for it just in case it's a long night ahead of us.
All right, So here's these are advice from La County of how to stay
safe in a power outage. First of all, before your lights go out,
figure out what needs to stay functioning. I mentioned earlier. Make sure
you pull out your flashlights, check the batteries, put new batteries in,
pull out some candles, have the matches nearby. There's nothing worse than in
the pitch black dark, feeling around drawers trying to find you lighter. Right
also, right now this time, go do it. Check your purse for
your backup iPhone battery. You got one, I know you do. I
have one, So make sure it's charged, because how often do you go
to put in that backup battery and it's dead. So make sure you're charging
while you have power. Charge any backup batteries that you have. If you
have a medical device that needs power, find out, you know, talk
to your medical provider. Obviously not tonight, bother them unless it's an emergency,
but in the future you should have a power outage plan for any medical
devices. Find out how long your medications can be stored at higher temperatures.
Some of them do need to be refrigerated. Stay tuned to KFI and check
your local weather forecast regularly, or visit the National Weather Service because you want
to make a habit of watching the news reports so you can be aware when
weather conditions are changing and when you might experience a power outage. Figure out
if your home telephone will work in a power outage. Some people have old
fashioned, you know, hardwired phones, and some of them work right,
like the flip ones. No, not flip ones. Okay, wait,
what are you mean, young dial? Yeah, you have to dial?
Can I push buttons, but plug hard wire. So it's a cable,
and so your cable might not be out if your power's out. Home phone,
home phone, Oh there you go, landline, right, landline,
there we go. I have one of those. Might work. Okay.
So let's talk a little bit about your fridge, because everybody always says I
don't know if I can eat that food. Well, believe it or not.
A refrigerator, don't open it very often. We'll keep food cold for
about four hours at least bacteria. Every chef will tell you that the food,
if it's animal, protein, whatever, has to be at room temperature
for about four hours before that bacteria starts to grow. I've had many chefs
tell me that, So don't worry. You're good for a four or five
hours. A full freezer, keep that door closed, will keep its temperature
for forty eight hours, so that's good. Use coolers with ice if necessary.
Also, it's a good idea for all of us. I know we
don't like processed food, but we should always keep some kind of food that
does not require refrigeration. I always keep a few jars of that Trader Joe's
Maynara sauce. Those glass jars in my cupboard and always a little pasta and
some can goods coming in. Goods, yeah, san goods like that soups.
Yeah, they can even have some proteins in them. Also, I
can't believe I have to say this, but a lot of people don't know.
You didn't even know about the landline thing. Never use a gas stove
or an oven to heat your house. So a lot of people think,
well, the power's out, it's cold, I'm gonna light the gas on
my stove because that's a fire that'll warm things up. Yeah, it also
can release a very dangerous gas. Okay. You know people put their heads
in the oven to do those things right off themselves. Yeah, so that's
nothing. Also, if you are in a power outage, check on your
neighbors, especially older adults or people with young children. They're specifically especially vulnerable
to extreme temperatures. When it comes to food. When in doubt, throw
it out. I'm sorry, but why make yourself sick right from bacteria growing?
If the power is out for more than a day, it's suggested by
the county that you discard any medication that should be refrigerated, and you can
always reach out to the LA County at other times to learn more about how
to be prepared in a power failure. Two to one one is the number
to dial, Isn't that interesting? Nine to one one is emergency and only
dial that if it's a big emergency. Three to one one is city services
and trash collection and whatever. And as our Mayor Karen Bass said in the
last segment that my La three to one one is the best app. I
use it all the time for graffiti. Did you know, just throwing this
out there, that if you have graffiti on your house, your wall,
your fence or whatever, you know how if you have a little bit of
graffiti, very quickly it becomes a lot of graffiti because somehow someone decided that
if that tagger is going to put it, then it must be a great
place to tag. So it builds up very quickly. Well, as soon
as you see the first sign of graffiti, you do my LA three one
one app and you take a picture of it, upload it into the app,
and within three days the city paints it. A lot of people don't
know that it's amazing. They have a whole graffiti program. But I digress
a reminder. We are in a state of emergency here in the state of
California. That state of emergency is in effect until at least midnight. To
understand the amount of rain that's been coming down. Normally, in an average
year, in a month of January, we get about three inches of rain.
This storm has in some parts has been bringing an inch and a half
every hour. That's like a whole January every two hours. We do have
a very severe weather alert in Malibu right now. All roads the heading into
Malibu are completely closed and evacuation is happening for Tapanga Canyon Santa Maria Road.
That is in effect until six pm on Tuesday. Okay. There is an
evacuation center that has been set up on Victory Boulevard in Resita, so that
if you do need to go somewhere, the La County Sheriff's Department has set
up an evacuation center for you. If you're in Malibu, stay put until
you're told to evacuate. The problem is all roads leading to and from pch
through Malibu close now, okay, including some parts of Malibu Canyon. So
if you're in Calabasas, stay over there too. Don't go over the hill.
Malibu often is vulnerable to lots of mudslides. Malibu residents know this,
so hey, LIS's hand here, I don't want to miss. Oh.
Yes, are alert by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says that all canyon
roads leading into and from Malibu are closed due to rock and mud slides.
Malibu Canyon Road is closed between Malibu Crest and Malholland Highway. That is normally
my route into town, so I won't be doing that tomorrow or Tuesday.
I am waiting to hear if any students are listening. Most of the cal
States campuses are closed tomorrow. I teach a cal State Channel Islands. Our
president has decided to give us flexibility and whether we should teach on zoom or
not. Look for an email from me, students, because as soon as
I hear from our librarian about whether we can do our library class on zoom,
then we will do that, although teaching in person is always so much
better. But I am also going to monitor the storm, and I'm also
going to Oh there's our department chair emailing me right now. She says,
flexibility is key. Think of your safety, think of the safety of the
students. Okay, okay, So I'm going to make a decision in a
couple hours. I think I want everybody out there to stay safe. I
want you to follow the rules. Get off the road unless you have to
be there. Only call nine one one if there is a real emergency.
If the highway Patrol, the Sheriff's department has set up any kind of barricade,
do not be a knucklehead and go around that barricade. If you are
trapped in your car in a flood, if the water is at least twelve
inches and moving, do not get out of your car. Put on your
four ways because moving water can knock a human being down. I want us
all to stay safe. This is going to go on for a few days.
We're not used to this kind of weather, and I am going to
head out now. I want you to stay close to KFI because the KFI
News Department is going to continue to follow the storm. But it has been
my honor to be with you for the last three hours. I am always
here for you. Every Sunday at seven o'clock, you have been listening to
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