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(EMPIRE NEWS NETWORK—ENN)— RIVERSIDE, CA— For more than a week it already had been raining, sometimes quite heavily. San Bernardino’s annual Black History AND Culture Parade, traditionally scheduled for the first Saturday in BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE Month–FEBRUARY had been washed, even ‘flooded’ out. And on this Riverside ‘Parade Day’ puffed-up, dark clouds were crawling down area mountain sides. And it was raining.
Questions asked: What to do? Who to ask? Is the parade still on? Even in the rain?
Dell Roberts answered, “This is Riverside! A little rain doesn’t stop us!”
The clouds above the 10 Freeway appeared to thin as we approached Downtown and a patch of blue let sun through to illuminate the off-ramps. The corner where i parked was flooded into mid street; but the rain had stopped.
