Storm Damage Hits $20 Million; More Rain Moving In

LOS ANGELES -A new Pacific storm has begun moving into Southern California, where the ground is saturated from rain that fell daily through most of last week.

The National Weather Service says Tuesday’s storm will drop between a quarter-inch and 1 inch of rain, depending on location.

Several inches of snow is expected in the mountains above 6,000 feet.

During last week’s storms, more than 2,000 homes were ordered evacuated in areas of Los Angeles County along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, where slopes were denuded by a huge wildfire last summer.

Even though no major problems occurred, public works officials say that cleaning out flood-control debris basins above the communities and repairing road damage from those storms will cost $20 million.