2026 Rose Parade is in the books, capturing the ‘world’s stage’ amid a challenging storm

Piles of plastic ponchos. Bulging trash bags. Remnants of roses left at Pasadena Metro stations. Street barricades and portable toilets. Busy restaurants.

Reminders of Thursday’s Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game, part of a holiday week, were disappearing from Pasadena streets Friday, as hundreds of thousands of visitors exit the city, making their way back home and as crews expedite cleanup and traffic flow.

While the Crown City slowly gets back to normal, the earliest accounts of...