{"id":108438,"date":"2025-12-25T03:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:12:28","slug":"torrential-rain-leaves-los-angeles-freeway-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108438\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential rain leaves Los Angeles freeway underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Torrential downpours from Wednesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/live-strongest-christmas-storm-years-130214392.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:atmospheric river;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric river<\/a> have caused widespread street flooding across metro Los Angeles, including the full closure of the 5 Freeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video shared on the Citizen app showed the normally busy interstate submerged under several feet of water near Penrose Street in the northeast San Fernando Valley starting at about noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Caltrans crews were working to clear water from the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol, which said in a 2 p.m. update that the freeway would remain closed \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no reports of injuries or drivers trapped in their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both sides of typically busy freeway were closed from Penrose Street to Lankershim Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sun Valley Flooding\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8872bce62fee2efadc3968ef4c8abf90.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The flooded I-5 freeway in Sun Valley on Dec. 24, 2025. (Citizen)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sun Valley Flooding\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4ee54d3dfe6bbb0bbbfcf8a3126ef0d4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The flooded I-5 freeway in Sun Valley on Dec. 24, 2025. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Sun Valley Flooding\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/813553d2103019341201d132754c6b1c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The flooded I-5 freeway in Sun Valley on Dec. 24, 2025. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=lox&amp;issuedby=LOX&amp;product=AFD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">National Weather Service<\/a>\u00a0is forecasting 4 to 7 inches of rain falling on coastal and valley areas of Southern California through Friday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u00a0has declared a state of emergency for the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrential downpours from Wednesday\u2019s atmospheric river have caused widespread street flooding across metro Los Angeles, including the full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[859,48,52,51,47,50,49,58313,58314,7611,1328],"class_list":["post-108438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-metro-los-angeles","tag-penrose-street","tag-san-fernando-valley","tag-sun-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}