Navigating El Niño

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Guides

Easy ways to be prepared before El Niño storms hit Long Beach

Easy ways to be prepared before El Niño storms hit Long Beach

Here’s where you can get information in an emergency and how to be ready for when one arrives.

What a super El Niño means for Long Beach: High risk of rain and floods — but no guarantees

How to report clogged drains or downed trees and spot flood-prone areas in your neighborhood

A Long Beach renter’s guide to El Niño

With a strong El Niño expected in SoCal, should you consider flood insurance?

Latest El Niño news

Rare sea turtles laid eggs here for the first time, only to have them threatened by hurricane-charged waves

Rare sea turtles laid eggs here for the first time, only to have them threatened by hurricane-charged waves

Hurricane Polo expected to stir up powerful waves, high tides and rip currents in Long Beach

Hurricane Polo expected to stir up powerful waves, high tides and rip currents in Long Beach

Sharks, sea snakes and weird fish: El Niño brings unusual marine life to Southern California

Sharks, sea snakes and weird fish: El Niño brings unusual marine life to Southern California

Go deeper

Long Beach’s Peninsula keeps washing away. The fix could cost hundreds of millions

Long Beach’s Peninsula keeps washing away. The fix could cost hundreds of millions

‘Water always wins’: The most expensive parts of Long Beach are most vulnerable to rising seas

‘Water always wins’: The most expensive parts of Long Beach are most vulnerable to rising seas

After the rain, a flooded Chittick Field reminds us of its purpose and its history

After the rain, a flooded Chittick Field reminds us of its purpose and its history