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At least 58 trees were blown down across Los Angeles, officials told the National Weather Service.

In the east of the city, where rescue workers were clearing debris, AFP reporters saw multi-storey buildings with dozens of windows and balconies blown out, their facades charred.

Along their route, manhole covers had been blown off by the force of the waves, turning the roads between buildings into an obstacle course of open holes lurking beneath the standing water.

It must have been around two o’clock in the afternoon when steam whistles were blown & we shoved off.

If the market had been at all rational it would have blown up long before.