By the time they tried to return, the roads were closed. “I feel pretty good this year, but you never know,” he said.Īlfredo Garcia, 55, couldn’t find a hotel after he brought his wife, who is battling cancer, from Lompoc to Santa Barbara for a PET scan. Still, Ausanka-Crues said he had no plans to leave yet. “It’s wild.”ĭuring the 2018 mudslides, his home was spared from damage, but his neighbors’ was not. “I was there a couple of hours ago and took a video,” Ausanka-Crues said.
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The creek was full and roaring, the sound of tumbling boulders emanating from the muddy water.
On Monday afternoon, Ryan Ausanka-Crues walked about 100 feet from his home on East Valley Road to a bridge over Montecito Creek. Officials were hoping flood control improvements made in the wake of that event would help better protect communities this week.
In Montecito, the storm called to mind the devastating January 2018 mudslides that killed 23 people, destroyed 130 homes and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The powerful storm that knocked out power, toppled trees - including one that killed a toddler - and flooded homes along the coast in Santa Cruz continued its march through the region. Roads were choked with water and debris and, in one case, a person was seen kayaking down a street swamped by windshield-high water.Ĭalifornia Photos: Southern California reeling from days of destructive storms Normally tame creek beds were transformed into raging torrents. In Ventura County, firefighters rescued a man who was on the roof of his car after it became stuck on a flooded road. Firefighters rescued two people after their cars fell down a sinkhole that opened up in Chatsworth. The storm took aim at Los Angeles County on Monday night, causing widespread street flooding and trapping some people in cars. “This is not a day to be out doing anything you don’t have to,” said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown. Thunderstorms are likely, especially in San Luis Obispo County and northern Santa Barbara County, which could produce damaging hail and wind gusts, and even the possibility of weak tornadoes should a waterspout come ashore. That’s “not strong enough to cause problems in of themselves but they will not let the standing water subside and flood warnings continue across the area,” the weather service said. The Tuesday morning incursion could dump rain at up to two-tenths of an inch per hour. The National Weather Service called the storm “the most impressive storm since January 5–7, 2005.” A second, weaker round was expected to hit San Luis Obispo County around dawn, Santa Barbara County at mid-morning, Ventura County mid-to-late morning and Los Angeles County in the late morning or early afternoon. The storm, which was expected to move through Los Angeles, Orange and other southern counties through Tuesday, dumped more than 16 inches of rain in some mountain areas Monday and prompted pleas for people to stay indoors. Pounding rain wreaked havoc throughout the coastal counties north of Los Angeles, bringing flooding, road closures and tragedy, including the death of a motorist who entered a flooded roadway and the presumed death of a 5-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County. A powerful winter storm barreled into Southern California on Monday, forcing the mass evacuation of Montecito and other communities exactly five years after mudslides in the same area left 23 people dead.
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