The Hollywood Reporter recently published this amazing aerial photo showing the many streets in Venice that became flooded as a result of the torrential rain that fell on Los Angeles during the first week of March 1938. (The photo is dated March 5th.) It was so bad that the floods and resulting landslides caused 144 deaths in Southern California and thousands of homes were destroyed. It was this storm that resulted in kickstarting the project in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers channeled the Los Angeles River with concrete.