Rain is Coming: Drive Safely in Places Like This

Recognize this stretch of road? It's the low point of Bradley Road as it crosses Salt Creek, between Rio Vista Drive and Potomac Drive in Menifee, in a photo taken last winter. If you're a regular around here, you will recognize this sign of flooding at that location during a rainstorm. And guess what? A big rainstorm is only hours away.

This location is on the list of road improvements scheduled by the City of Menifee. As described on the city's website, an $8 million project to build improved culverts to handle storm run-off on that road is scheduled for for 2015. Meanwhile, drivers are urged to drive safely and slowly through that area -- and all potentially hazardous road locations -- during rainstorms, and always, for that matter.

The Newport Road Widening Project, which was ahead of the Bradley Road project on the priority list, is still a few weeks from completion. Please drive carefully through that area as well.