I was in my apartment in Sierra Madre, which is a little town lined by tall palm trees, wedged between Pasadena and Azusa, set right at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, which tower over that part of LA like a brown corrugated wall, pretty ugly if you ask me. It was kind of a blessing when the smog got so thick you couldn’t see it, which could happen even from only three miles away. None of the ring of mountains backing LA are good-looking. But they do form quite the wall, as we found out that day.
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Luckily I was an active kayaker before I broke my arm, and I still had my kayak. My apartment was a granny flat over a garage, its separate entrance something I valued a lot, as I didn’t have to bother my landlord going in and out, and he usually never saw me and thus never got a chance to scam on me. It was kind of a mercy rental on his part, or so I thought before his intentions became clear, as I couldn’t afford Hollywood anymore, no doubt obvious when I gave him my clichéd young-aspiring-actress-currently-waitressing shtick. And he let me store my big stuff in his garage below my studio, which was really just a storage shed with a bathroom in it, tacked onto the flat roof of his garage. So when the atmospheric river hit, I was one of the few people in the city with watercraft on hand.
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It rained hard all that first night, the timing was part of the problem—by the time everyone woke up things were already bad, and it just went downhill from there. Literally so for the water, and therefore everything else. But it wasn’t your ordinary flood, or maybe it was, I don’t really know, but in our case, the water came roaring down off the side of the San Gabriels onto us. It was terrifying to see what the dawn revealed that day. The mountains are ten thousand feet high over Sierra Madre, and they were catching all that rain, which was falling as hard as in a hurricane or something, and then it was all rushing down those vertical ravines onto the streets that poked up into the ravines, now all of them whitewater rapids brown with mud, and filled with boulders and shrubs and pieces of all the houses that were coming apart farther up the street.
I looked out my front door and saw cars floating down the street on a brown wave about three feet high that covered everything. I could see the water was already coming into my landlord’s house, and rushing hard toward the 210. Everywhere I looked was a big sheet of brown water! I shouted to my landlord but he had already left without informing me, very typical. In fact I couldn’t see anyone anywhere except for a family on top of their SUV, getting taken for a sideways ride and looking desperate.
Colibri 1928. I got down my outside stairs and sloshed through brown water to the garage side door. Inside I found the power had gone out, of course, so it was a struggle to get the big garage door open. I managed to pull it up from the inside, and a sloosh of water flowed into the garage, a little wave about a foot high. But there was my kayak and I grabbed it and the paddle off the wall, wriggled into the skirt and got into the kayak and took off into the street.
A whole river network was being revealed or half-revealed by currents in the streets.
That was a crazy moment, realizing the streets were all flooded and my kayak was the only way for me to get around. So much water! And brown as hot chocolate. And it was still raining cats and dogs too, so it was hard to see very far, and hard to believe what you could see. Later I heard the whole LA basin was flooded, all the way from the Hollywood Hills down to San Clemente, past Irvine where I grew up. Orange County was just as bad as LA, which makes sense given they are the same coastal plain with the same backing mountains. Of course there are some high points here and there on the plain, as everyone found out that day. Palos Verdes sticking up near Long Beach of course, and a few inland neighborhoods on lines of low hills like Puente Hills and Rose Hill, and back where the freeways meet around San Dimas. But for the most part LA is just one big coastal plain, and on that day, a big brown lake. In lots of places the elevated freeways were the only flat surfaces that stuck up out of this new lake, so, with no other place to go, the freeways were where people went. There were still some cars up there, but none of them were moving, and as the need for space to accommodate people got greater, a lot of cars were shoved over the side into the drink.
I kayaked under the 210 through a very scary underpass, and paddled around getting people off roofs and over to the freeway, where onramps served as boat docks. A lot of people were zipping around on motorboats they had kept in their driveways, also some kayaks like mine. We were doing all we could to help, some people were really desperate, especially if they had kids, and it was hard to keep them from tipping my kayak over in their panic. My arm started to hurt where it had broken, and I kept feeling a sense of unreality that this could all be happening at all, it was too much like a cheesy disaster film, but whatever, I must have gotten cast at last, and besides the fear on people’s faces and in their voices kept reminding me that no, this was real no matter how weird it was. And my arm hurt, kayaking is just very bilateral, you can’t do it one-armed, but I just kept saying Fuck it and kept paddling.
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Message 1: Language attitudes
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:10:10 -0100From: a9255719 <a9255719unet.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Language attitudes
Dear LL,I am a student at the University of Vienna English Language Department,and am currently working on my MA Thesis with the topic 'Languageattitudes in the US towards a Southern speech variety'. I am thereforelooking fora) references to very recent language attitude studies (primarily in theEnglish speaking world) to get a survey of current research trends inthe field as a wholeb) language attitude studies about the South of the USAc) material on the Southern speech variety from a linguistic point ofview (articles, etc.)d) material on American regional accents as a whole (the globalsituation)
I would be very grateful for any information or references on mytopic(s).Thank you very much in advanceand greetings from AustriaBarbara Soukupa9255719unet.univie.ac.at
Message 2: Chinese phrase detecting
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:16:38 +0800From: Arthur <wang_jiayue163.net>
Subject: Chinese phrase detecting
Dear linguists:
I'm doing NLP on Chinese phrase (esp. noun phrase) detecting. A thoroughbibliography is of vital importance to me. Any help will be greatlyappreciated. Thanks in advance for your attention! I'll post a summary ifthere's enough interest.
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Message 3: Languages and genetics
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:51:08 -0500From: Peter T. Daniels <grammatimworldnet.att.net>
Subject: Languages and genetics
A non-linguist friend who is, shall we say, enthusiastic aboutcross-discipline studies cites with great approval a number ofarticles by Robert R. Sokal and colleagues, which supposedlydemonstrate close coincidence between populations as definedgenetically and speech communities, within Europe. Since the onlylinguist listed among the colleagues is Merritt Ruhlen, and since noneof the cited articles appear in linguistics journals (most are inProc. Nat. Acad. Sci.), I wonder whether this work has been evaluatedboth for its specific application to the Europe situation (which seemsanomalous wrt the rest of the world) and for its possible relevance toother areas.
Thank you. Summary as warranted.-Peter T. Danielsgrammatimworldnet.att.net