Multiple Photos + Storm Data: ELB Balcony Facade Collapses, Trees Downed, Storm Debris Follows Predawn Downpour <nobr>Dec. 12

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ELB Balcony Facade Collapses, Trees Downed, Storm Debris Follows Predawn Downpour Dec. 12

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(Dec. 12, 2014, most recent update 2:10 p.m.) -- As seen on our front page earlier today (photos plus LIVE NWS Doppler radar), a predawn downpour left LB with about an inch and a half of rain (between midnight and 11 a.m.) and damages and debris in its wake.

As flashed on LBREPORT.com's front page (initial photo shortly after dawn by Brian Kucera, thank you), the facade of a second story balcony on an ELB building on Los Coyotes Diagonal just east of Woodruff Ave. (businesses at street level, residents above) came crashing down.

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Photo courtesy Brian Kucera

No persons were injured but families living above were displaced, LBFD Firefighter/Public Information Officer Jake Heflin told LBREPORT.com at the scene....and a car parked below was damaged.

The facade was along part of the balony leading to the entrances of the apartment units...and part of the balony connected to an access staircase also fell. LBFD responded and assisted residents in getting to the ground from their (now inaccesible) apartments.

This giant tree below came down in the area of Studebaker Rd. and Monlaco Rd.

ELB area Monlaco/Studebaker. Photo courtesy Charlie McGrail

The top of a palm tree landed in the 200 block of Termino Ave. (Photo right at approx. 2:45 a.m. by Heather Altman, thank you.)

Another reader reported traveling from 90803 to 90806 (Memorial Hospital area) at about 5:00 a.m. and seeing storm debris on several streets.

In the Wrigley area, a large tree came down in the area of Burnett St. @ San Francisco/Golden...and comments on Facebook indicate there's an SUV underneath.

Photo via Wrigley Neighborhood Group Facebook page

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As flashed before dawn today on LBREPORT.com's front page, the KE6JDC private weather station in ELB (Palo Verde/Stearns area) indicates that between midnight and 5:00 a.m., ELB received 0.66" of rain.

The Nat'l Weather Service monitor at LGB shows major downpour from 3:48 a.m. to 3:53 a.m. in which it recorded about 0.33" of rain.

As likewise reported before dawn on LBREPORT.com, in the 4 a.m. hour, the CHP closed the southbound lanes of 710 freeway in the area of PCH due to flooding; the northbound lanes weren't affected and the southbound lanes were reopened shortly after 5:30 a.m.

The Nat'l Weather Service monitor at LGB reports 1.48" of rain between 3:48 a.m. and 10:53 a.m. The KE7JDC weather station (Palo Verde/Stearns area) reports 1.23" since midnight.

LBREPORT.com will continue to provde LIVE NWS Doppler Radar on our front page as newsworthy.

As of midmorning, the Nat'l Weather Service forecasts a 70% chance of showers Friday afternoon, a 40% chance of showers tonight...and a mostly sunny Saturday (with a high about 65 degrees and low about 48 degrees), nippy but dry for Saturday night's Daisy Ave. Christmas Tree Lane Parade.