Rose Parade avoids California rainfall while it welcomes New Year

Rose Parade avoids California rainfall while it welcomes New Year

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ” Flower-covered floats, marching bands accompanied by every one one other accompanied by equestrian units celebrated the New Year on a chilly nevertheless arid Monday while the 134th Rose Parade slipped into with every one other accompanied by not here of a gap inside California™s siege of drenching storms.

Pasadena™s yearly floral spectacle offered the optimistic theme of Turning the Corner for 2023, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, who survived a 2011 shooting, served while magnificent marshal.

The New Year is a hour dated for renewal, an chance for a fresh start, Tournament of Roses President Amy Wainscott told the television audience.

The parade, which by tradition is held on Jan. 2 when New Year™s Day falls on a Sunday, kicked off accompanied by the Los Angeles band Fitz accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the Tantrums! performing Let Yourself Free accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a crowd-pleasing flyby of place of set of two U.S. Air Force B-1B jets.

Rain has rarely fallen on the parade, nevertheless this year it came close. Downpours pounded Southern California over the weekend accompanied by every one one other accompanied by rainfall was expected to return by Monday evening, maybe affecting the Rose Bowl college football game inside the centre of Utah accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Penn State.

But inside the meantime, thousands of spectators accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the parade participants avoided a soaking.

Giffords rolled down the 5.5-mile (8.8-mile) way inside a flower-decked antique convertible, accompanied by her husband, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.

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Marching bands came from across the U.S. accompanied by every one one other accompanied by around the world.

The Riverside County, California, sheriff™s mounted part was led by a riderless horse inside integrity of Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, who was slain all over a vehicles place an extremity to on Dec. 29.

The floats offered simple beauty ” birds, bees, bears, bugs accompanied by every one one other accompanied by giraffes covered inside flowers or other natural materials ” while well while messages such while a Cal Poly universities™ entry called the Road to Reclamation depicting animated snails accompanied by every one one other accompanied by mushrooms living on a fallen saplingconifer branch.

The Louisiana Office of Tourism™s Feed Your Soul carry on accompanied by to exist afloat depicting a paddlewheel riverboat was the phase for mid-parade show by Lainey Wilson.

Donate Life™s bright orange accompanied by every one one other accompanied by scarlet Chinese highway dragon blowing smoulder not here its nostrils was awarded the sweepstakes trophy for most beautiful entry by the Tournament of Roses judges.

American Idol finalist Grace Kinstler performed aboard a carry on accompanied by to exist afloat promoting tourism to her place of residence condition of Illinois, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by country music celestial body Tanya Tucker sang her contemporaneous single, Ready while I™ll Never Be, inside the parade™s finale.