Los Angeles Basin

The aircraft went down in the waters off Catalina Island.

For those unfamiliar, Catalina sits about 22 miles southwest of the Los Angeles Basin coastline, out in the San Pedro Channel.

22 miles doesn't sound like much on a sectional, but 22 miles of open water, particularly cold Pacific water, is a different environment than 22 miles of Southern California terrain.

Two people are confirmed dead.

But that's our job, is to hopefully educate and inform people and open their eyes to things they may not have been familiar with before.

We actually discussed doing Angela's Crest, which is right here in the LA Basin.

But we thought, oh, it's gotten so much exposure already, and it obviously has a lot more traffic on it.

And so... we thought let's pick something that maybe everybody hasn't heard of um even people in la who i meet who are car people aren't aware of highway 33 it's just that far enough away that a lot of people don't know about it so hopefully this will uh inform them and at least motivate them to go out and explore their own cool roads because you know no matter where you live there's some place to drive yeah

Yeah.

Well, you know, that's the thing is, you know, you write about these great places and then you take responsibility for them becoming popular, but that's our job is to hopefully educate and, uh, and inform people and open their eyes to things they may not have been familiar with before.

We actually discussed doing Angeles Crest, which is right here in the LA Basin, but we thought, oh, it's gotten so much exposure already, and it obviously has a lot more traffic on it, and so...

We thought, let's pick something that maybe everybody hasn't heard of.

But she was living with her mom, and she had to borrow clothing from her mom, that her mom gave very good descriptions of, and, and was unlucky with love, wasn't finding love, and was a factory worker.

Basic- she basically was a factory worker in, in the LA Basin, and went out with him through a, a Lonely Hearts Club.

And there's the one photograph in the book of her mother with her two sons looking at a picture of their mother, and I found that kind of coincidentally, um, through the historical society because they had this big portfolio of negatives that had never been reproduced.

And I said, "Can you reproduce some of those for me?" And they did, and there's the, the mother and the two children.

We're coordinating that with the folks that also need the Colorado River for drinking water.

such as the LA Basin.

There's 40 million people over there that drink Colorado River water.

So it is an ongoing effort to coordinate the use of the water, not only for crop production, for municipal use, for drinking water for folks, and also power generation.

Oh.

And I hated LA, or LA Basin, I should say.

It's in, it's very close to what's in Claremont Colleges, if you know where that is.

Okay.

At five or 10 times the current cadence, the present system would not hold.

California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast is the primary West Coast launch site, and its corridors reach into the Pacific and toward the Los Angeles Basin's complex airspace structure.

As Pacific Corridor launch cadence increases, the interaction with offshore routes and transoceanic traffic becomes a planning problem the FAA's oceanic facilities will have to absorb.

So what do you do with this information right now? Keep your NOTAM briefings current.

It was out on Old Highway 38, the back way up the mountain to Big Bear.

Mentone, California was the last transition between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mount San Gorgonio Wilderness, a long way from where I had grown up, just off Sunset Boulevard, looking out a bedroom window at the Hollywood sign.

In the mid-1980s and after two divorces, another difficult ending with an ex-boyfriend had pushed my mother away from the City of Angels to a place where the grammar of urban streets transitioned to orange groves under palms.

Land here was sold with agricultural rights.