RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Breaking News: Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster urges all residents to "stay inside" (duh) during this massive storm

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Breaking News: Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster urges all residents to "stay inside" (duh) during this massive storm

THE RIVERS HAVE RAPIDS today in Long Beach!

Breaking STORM News in Long Beach:
By Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/

Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster has sent out an "SOS" to the nearly 800,000 residents of his coastal community to stay "indoors" during the next day or so.

The rain has much of Long Beach underway this afternoon, and the worse is yet to come.

In a message sent out this afternoon from the Mayor's office, the City of Long Beach will doing the following:

* Safely tow for free any vehicle abandoned or trapped in a flooded street to the nearest safe location.
* NOT issue street sweeping citations Thursday.
* Provide large trash bins at severely impacted areas to assist residents and businesses with clean-up efforts.
* Provide free sand and up to 10 bags at five Fire Stations:
o Station No. 5 7575 E. Wardlow Road (El Dorado Park)
Station No. 7 2295 Elm Ave.
Station No. 12 6509 Gundry Ave.
Station No. 13 2475 Adriatic Ave.
Station No. 14 5200 Eliot St.

o Sand can also be obtained for free at the Public Works/San Francisco Yard, 1601 San Francisco Ave. (outside, next to the gate, on the Esther Street side).
o Residents with mobility impairments, or seniors who need assistance can obtain filled bags at the Senior Center at El Dorado Park West, 2800 Studebaker Road, and the Long Beach Senior Center, 1150 E. 4th St.
* Identify flooded locations, prioritize the most pressing areas, barricade intersections to divert traffic, and clear away any debris.

Residents and business are asked to:
* Report any life-threatening emergency to 9-1-1.
* Report flooding, blocked storm drains, fallen trees or limbs, etc. by calling 562.570.2726.
* Keep trashcans up on the sidewalk and out of the gutter, so they don’t block the flow of water into the catch basins. Water in the gutter can lift and flip light trashcans, and then the trash will block the catch basin, compounding the problem. Refuse service will maintain the normal schedule.
* Never drive through a flooded street. If you don’t need to drive, stay at home. If you come across a flooded intersection or street, turn around or find an alternate route.

Also, California State University at Long Beach will be closed tonight and tomorrow due to the storm.

The 710 Freeway at the 91 is under water in both directions, so avoid the 91 and 710

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”