{"id":59829,"date":"2025-11-19T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59829\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:38:11","slug":"neighbors-kayak-in-the-streets-as-long-beach-is-hit-with-street-flooding-national-and-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59829\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors kayak in the streets as Long Beach is hit with street flooding | National and World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/neighbors-kayak-streets-long-beach-is-hit-street-flooding\/18160309\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LONG BEACH, California (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/neighbors-kayak-streets-long-beach-is-hit-street-flooding\/18160309\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KABC<\/a>) &#8212; Long Beach dealt with major street flooding on Saturday after a storm brought heavy rain through the area.<\/p>\n<p>Many neighborhood streets looked like rivers, and some residents even got out on the water on kayaks.<\/p>\n<p>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>Neighbors on Naples Lane in Long Beach sloshed through murky rainwater on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Morrisse captured video of flooded streets around his neighborhood. One shot shows his dog trying to wade through the water.<\/p>\n<p>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>&#8220;The water just started coming up really fast,&#8221; Morrisse said.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, Long Beach was walloped by water. Neighbors took cover underneath hoodies and umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>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>Video shows the water getting too close to residents&#8217; garages.<\/p>\n<p>&#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>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>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>This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate and does not contain original CNN reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTHE-CNN-WIRE (TM) &amp; \u00a9 2025 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., A TIME WARNER COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for updates on this story \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LONG BEACH, California (KABC) &#8212; Long Beach dealt with major street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-59829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","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\/59829","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=59829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}