Seems too coincidental --makes me wonder whether it benefitted Caruso over Bass for LA Mayor

[diva77]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-08/winter-storm-pounds-southern-california

Mistaken flash-flood warning sent in L.A. hours before polls close as storm batters Southern California


By Alexandra E. Petri, Christian Martinez
Nov. 8, 2022 Updated 11:23 PM PT

A flash-flood warning mistakenly went out to a far larger area than intended Tuesday as a heavy storm continued to lash Southern California, killing at least one person and forcing multiple swift-water rescue attempts.

The warning, which was meant for about 1,500 people in the Fish fire burn area east of Duarte, went wide when a “glitch” changed the small, targeted area to all of L.A. County, according to the National Weather Service. The warning was canceled, and a corrected warning was sent to those in the burn scar area.

Although the weather service issues such warnings, the alerts that are sent to cellphones come from a separate, federally managed system that the weather service does not control, said John Dumas, a meteorologist with the Oxnard office.

[chia]

1. I don't know, I live in SoCal and we tend to take flash flood warnings with a grain of salt

Could make a difference to the more inland areas of the state, the foothills near the mountains, in burn areas or in the high desert, but in the heavily populated urban/suburban valleys we might have to drive in the rain, but don’t have to worry too much about our cars being swept away. I’d already voted by mail, but the inch+ of rain we got would not have kept me home from the polling place, if I’d needed to vote in person.

[chowder66]

2. I don't think so. I saw it and laughed.

The "heaviest" rain had already passed and that was basically normal rain. It wasn't pouring by any stretch of the imagination.
The sun was even breaking through at that point.

[chowder66]

3. What benefits Caruso are the people that think he's going to magically transform

L.A. into a crime and homeless free county.
It will depend on how the Nimby's react to his proposals if he's the Mayor.
That is... if he tries to place them in areas that the residents have said No to in recent years.

[brooklynite]

4. Well, a new conspiracy theory is a refreshing change...

[diva77]

5. Refreshing to hear more armchair judgments!

[tishaLA]

6. Vote by mail was 65% of the electorate

The problem is apathy: only 23% turnout, which isn't unusual here unfortunately.

I still say Bass is going to win. She was further down in the primaries and IMO the vile racism in those city council tapes was probably helpful to her.

[diva77]

8. Her opponent tried every trick, every smear in the book. That's why it doesn't seem unrealistic to

imagine that someone could purposely arrange for a flash flood alert to keep people from going to the polls at the busiest time -- after work. After all, TFG arranged for a hurricane to take a different path.

[onenote]

7. Can you expand on your theory as to how this might favor one candidate over the other?

[diva77]

9. Perhaps some kind of info that working people unable to vote during the day would skew toward Bass

in the "after work" hours at the polls. I don't have a specific reason -- it just seems suspicious to have a mistake like that on election day. I hope it gets investigated.