Media images of rising waters may seem alarming \u2013 but that\u2019s pretty much what the channel is supposed to look like in heavy rain<\/p>\n
When newspapers across the world wanted to visualize this week\u2019s torrential California storms, they chose the same image: a shot of the brown, choppy waters of the Los Angeles River, seemingly about to fully swallow the trunks of local trees.<\/p>\n
Photos and video of the river dominated the homepages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Guardian. On Monday, \u201cLA River\u201d was trending on X.com (formerly Twitter), with more dramatic videos of rising waters.<\/p>\n
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