With warmer temperatures, Southern California is particularly vulnerable to flooding from storms. A study by the University of California, Irvine, released last October and published in the journal Nature Sustainability revealed that flood risk is far more widespread than suggested by federal estimates, with low-income and marginalized communities including the homeless particularly at risk. … The UCI study also found that Black residents of LA County were 79 percent more likely than white residents to be living at risk of waist-high flooding, with Latinos and Asians 17 and 11 percent respectively more likely. Read More