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Police Calls: Water, Water Everywhere!

Selected highlights from the Dec. 23-25 Los Altos Police logs include rainstorm related calls for flooding, sewer backups, and trees down.

 

Dec. 23

Stranded motorist

  • 11:26 a.m., I-280 and Foothill Expressway, Los Altos Hills; California Highway Patrol advised.

Vehicle Accident

  • 1:30 p.m., Foothill Expressway and El Monte Avenue; traffic collision with property damage, no injuries. Officer assisted parties with name exchange.

Tree down

  • 3:25 p.m., Fremont Avenue and Fallen Leaf Lane; Municipal Services advised.
  • 3:34 p.m., 1400 block of Hollidale Court; tree branch down and blocking roadway; Municipal Services advised.
  • 3:52 p.m., Fallen Leaf Lane and Fremont Avenue; tree branch down and blocking roadway; Municipal Services advised.
  • 4:46 p.m., 600 block of Covington Road; report of unstable trees because of flooding; Municipal Services advised.

Sewer Backup

  • 9:02 a.m., Alma Court; caller reported a possible sewer or storm drain backup. Referred to Municipal Services.

Storm Drain Blocked

  • 11:43 a.m., South Springer Road and Giralda Drive; blocked storm drain resulting in “ponding” on roadway. Municipal Services advised.
  • Noon, Berry Avenue and Riverside Drive; blocked storm drain resulting in “ponding” on roadway. Municipal Services advised.
  • 5:20 p.m., 500 block of Paco Drive; blocked storm drain with minor flooding. Municipal Services advised.
  • 5:33 p.m., 200 block of Covington Road; blocked storm drain with minor flooding on roadway. Municipal Services advised.

Flooding
Reports received from neighborhoods throughout the city during weekend rainstorm.

  • 1400 block of Montclaire Place
  • 1500 block of Vineyard Drive
  • Berry Avenue and Brentwood Street
  • 600 block of Benevenue Avenue
  • 2100 block of Deodara Drive
  • 700 block of Manor Way
  • 1300 and 1600 blocks of Holt Avenue
  • 700 block of Viola Place
  • 400 block of Deodara Drive
  • Windimer and Stonehaven drives
  • Foothill Expressway and Summerhill Avenue
  • 1900 block of Colleen Drive
  • Deodara Drive and St. Joseph Avenue
  • 2100 block of Sierra Ventura Drive
  • 1200 block of Windimer Drive
  • 1900 block of Wimbledon Place
  • 600 block of Covington Road
  • Woods Lane
  • 1800 block of St. Charles Court
  • 300 block of Blue Oak Lane
  • 100 block of Pine Lane
  • 1900 block of Grant Road
  • 30 block of Farm Road
  • Manresa Court and Manresa Way
  • Middlebury Lane
  • 900 block of Campbell Avenue
  • Los Altos and Chamisal avenues
  • 200 block of West Portola Avenue

Dec. 25

Graffiti

  • 11:08 a.m., 1200 block of Patlen Drive; vandalism to a vehicle. Report taken.

Public Accident

  • 4:35 p.m. 300 block of Second Street; subject reported to have tripped and fallen. Report taken.

 

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.