{"id":55489,"date":"2025-11-16T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:14:08","slug":"neighbors-kayak-in-the-streets-as-long-beach-is-hit-with-street-flooding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55489\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors kayak in the streets as Long Beach is hit with street flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Long Beach dealt with major street flooding on Saturday after a storm brought heavy rain through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many neighborhood streets looked like rivers, and some residents even got out on the water on kayaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Although the water had drained by Saturday night, many neighbors say they aren&#8217;t taking any chances with more rain in the forecast. Eyewitness News spotted many homes with sandbags outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Neighbors on Naples Lane in Long Beach sloshed through murky rainwater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tim Morrisse captured video of flooded streets around his neighborhood. One shot shows his dog trying to wade through the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Forget the beach &#8212; families made the most of the weather event. The rainstorm transformed their neighborhood sidewalk and street into a shallow pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The water just started coming up really fast,&#8221; Morrisse said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Overnight, Long Beach was walloped by water. Neighbors took cover underneath hoodies and umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">By Saturday afternoon, Morrisse and his neighbors living near Naples Lane and Ravenna Drive were overwhelmed. He admits he was not completely prepared for the rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shows the water getting too close to residents&#8217; garages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I put some sandbags around the house. It&#8217;s almost in the house. It&#8217;s a little scary,&#8221; Morrisse said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Morrisse said this typically happens when there&#8217;s heavy rain and storm drains are clogged, and he believes this is one of the worst times he&#8217;s seen the flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Long Beach Public Works Department said there was a power outage that caused a couple of L.A. County-maintained pumps to go offline. Officials said work is being done to minimize the impact.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Long Beach dealt with major street flooding on Saturday after a storm brought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34526,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-55489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-34526","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55489","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=55489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}