https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-day-70-thurs-jan-17/
This is KBUU News – Day 70 –
The Headlines:
- = Malibu skates through without major flooding … but it’s nasty in Ventura and LA this morning.
- = Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Malibu Canyon Road are both closed … rockfalls.
- = 300 houses remain evacuated today … but it may be sunny this afternoon.
- = And tomorrow may see highs of … get this … 80 degrees in the mountains.
- = Plans for the Malibu Beach Inn moving its parking lot acorss PCH go to the Planning Commission Monday.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news. It’s the Thursday edition of the news … from Radio Malibu …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
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Once again ,… it appears that Malibu has lucked out.
Now new mudflows.
No new problems.
KBUU storm summary: https://www.radiomalibu.net/no-major-mud/
On top of everything else, Malibu got hit by a minor earthquake overnight.
The epicenter was shallow … in the fire-scorched hills
Magnitude 2.8 … epicenter in the mountains west of upper Trancas Creek.
In other news … what do you want at Malibu High?
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is conducting an online survey of Malibu community members … to gather input for the Malibu High School campus plan.
Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/mhs-community-survey/
Community survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/malibumsandhscommunity
The Malibu Beach Inn plan to spread its business across Pacific Coast Highway goes before the city planning commission next Monday. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/plan-to-split-hotel-across-pch/
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A pedestrian was killed by a Metro train in Santa Monica Tuesday morning.
The Santa Monica Lookout newspaper reports that the person was snagged by a train and dragged from the platform at the Colorado & 17th street station.
That is the station heavily used by Santa Moncia College students.
No name has been released. , according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s homicide detectives were on the scene.
Deputies say there appears to have been no foul play.
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An alarming, precipitous drop in the western monarch butterfly population in California this winter could spell doom for the species, a scenario that biologists say could also plunge bug-eating birds and other species into similar death spirals.
Only 28,429 of the striking orange-and-black butterflies were counted at 213 sites in California, according to the San Francisco Chronicle an 86 percent drop from a year ago, according to the final tally of the annual Thanksgiving count to be released Thursday by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
That’s a 99.4 percent decline since the 1980s, an all-time low for the Pacific Coast, where an estimated 10 million monarchs once blanketed trees from Marin County to the Baja California peninsula, providing, by all accounts, a spectacular winter display of color.
Scientists knew things were bad for the western monarch, but then “there was this other order of magnitude drop,” said Emma Pelton, a conservation biologist for the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit whose mission is to protect invertebrates and their habitats. “It’s mind-boggling. We’re now down below 1 percent of the historic population.”
Many Malibu residents are growing backyard milkweed to help encourage monarchs .. which in pat years not only migrated through Malibu but frequently nested here as well.
The die-off has been blamed on a variety of things, including urban sprawl, the spraying of pesticides and herbicides on corn and soybean crops, and the plowing under of the monarch’s milkweed habitat along their migratory route.
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Meet The Mayor is going to have to wait.
It was scheudled for 10 a-m today.
The storm is interfering.
It will be rescheduled.
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Weather for the MALIBU:
Breaking waves of 5 to 8 feet will build increase rapidly later today to 6 to 10 feet today … finally reaching 10 to 15 feet tomorrow morning.
The surf will begin to subside late Friday but this high surf condition will persist into Saturday morning. The highest surf will be on west-facing beaches.
Rain before 11am, then showers, mainly between 11am and 5pm. High near 60. South southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Sunset tonight at at 5:07.
After that …. a 30 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 46. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high near 65.
No rain in the next 6 days of forecasts.
The KBUU Newswire is posted midmornings … at RadioMalibu.net and at the MalibuTimes.com websites.
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