text:  There were tremendous floods in Southern California, and twice the Los Angeles River lived up to its name with a raging torrent. You may remember the poignant scene of this young boy, Hispanic kid, was swept down in the current, and the fireman reached over from an overpass and tried to grab his hand, and he slipped free, and he drowned. Well, it was just two months later when the Landers quake hit on June 28th, just two days before the eclipse of the sun.