The fierce storm hammering the West Coast was expected to drench Los Angeles and San Diego on Friday. The storm, dubbed the “Pineapple Express,” was to bring hurricane-force winds and sheets of rain and snow in the mountains. Mudslides blocked part of the Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura County, and flash flooding was a concern in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to the National Weather Service. The storm has already left two dead in Oregon where falling trees killed a homeless man and a teenaged driver. Thousands were left without power in San Francisco and western Washington. Precautionary evacuations were ordered in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora, where a wildfire earlier this year left the hills bare.
