That's what a Los Angeles City official called the massive downpours experienced Tuesday and Wednesday, especially in some highly-impacted areas of San Pedro.
"Basically we had an excessive amount of torrential rain coming down in a very short time, it was equivalent to a 100-year storm ... The drains cannot handle that much," said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of the city's Bureau of Sanitation. "The system was overwhelmed."
He estimates that some areas got as much as 2 inches of driving rain in under 20 minutes.
City officials are now assessing the drain infrastructure around the intersection of Fourth Street and Grand Avenue in San Pedro, he said, to see if something can be done to ensure that the flooding that occurred this week doesn't happen in the future.
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