LA floods

[rogerzilla]

https://youtu.be/JCMID6A6h10?si=Hljzuk51JqGbaHio

This is the bit where Danny and Leo race in "Grease".  Maybe not just now.

[Jurek]

Is it not also the bit where the lorry was chasing Arnie on a Harley in Terminator 2?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Given the implications that would be more appropriate.

[cygnet]

Wasn't the T2 section more canyon-like than the V sides to the Grease race?

[ian]

Is it not also the bit where the lorry was chasing Arnie on a Harley in Terminator 2?

Yes, it's literally the Los Angeles River, excellent for that kind of thing when the water isn't flowing. It does flood though, as it comes down from the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains to the north of LA County which are both bigly and full of things that actually might eat rather than shoot you.

[Beardy]

I’m still trying to work out why a river in spate is newsworthy. I mean, the damn think was designed to hold water, not teenagers and robots racing each other.

[Basil]

I’m still trying to work out why a river in spate is newsworthy. I mean, the damn think was designed to hold water, not teenagers and robots racing each other.

+1   

[Jaded]

If that’s a river, then I am a banananana.

[Pingu]

It's just what we've done to a lot of our watercourses but taken to American exstreams 

[Mr Larrington]

Many years ago – IIRC it was the early 1980s – some of the early IHPVA held a sprint race meeting in there.

[rogerzilla]

They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.

[ian]

They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.

I suspect there’s usually more water trickling down Swindon High Street on a Saturday night than the LA River.

[Jaded]

They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.

I suspect there’s usually more water trickling down Swindon High Street on a Saturday night than the LA River.

Yellow water?

[ian]

Likely. Those these days it’s still cleaner than most actual rivers.