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Storms Lead To Mudslides In Southern California Areas Affected By Wildfires

January 14, 2018 07:40·
U.S. Highway 101 at the Olive Mill Road overpass is flooded with runoff water from Montecito Creek in Montecito

U.S. Highway 101 at the Olive Mill Road overpass is flooded with runoff water from Montecito Creek in Montecito

In the video, mud and water can be seen filling the bottom floor of the house Mr Farrell shares with his elderly parents, Gabrielle and Jeff.

The National Weather Service says that more than 2 inches (5centimeters) of rain fell at Sonoma County Airport's and that up to 1 1/2 additional inches were expected by Tuesday morning.

A family of five were also plucked from the debris of their home in a dramatic rescue.

Search and rescue officials located 87-year-old Joseph Francis Bleckel dead inside his residence on Friday.

"But realistically we suspect that we are going to continue to have discovery of people who were killed in this incident".

The searchers are using all-terrain vehicles and helicopters, but downed power lines and blocked roads are complicating their efforts. "I got back over the holidays and I just drove around".

"So we chose to hoist them from the roof, but we did have to pull them from the roof in order to hoist them up to the helicopter".

John "Jack" Keating - 53 year old transient who often frequents the Montecito riverbed area.

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Oprah Winfrey is still in Montecito following the area's third brush with Mother Nature's fierce wrath in an achingly short timeframe.

"This is the street in front of our house", she said. My property is fine.

"Some mud, and minor damage that pales in comparison to what my neighbors are going thru".

Short term, making the public ready to evacuate during heavy rains is key, he said. Another celebrity who joined Oprah in posting on social media updates on the disaster was Ellen DeGeneres.

Tennis star Jimmy Connors also revealed that he had to be flown from his property. For example, powerful mudslides wash away entire mountainsides, tragically taking with them homes, other structures and human lives. The mudslides happened Tuesday after heavy rains affected areas recently charred by the historic Thomas Fire.

Hundreds of residents remain trapped and authorities are working on an evacuation plan. But what they saw, what they experienced, as they stood there, in the most bad of environments, was heroic to me. The fire started more than a month ago.

A mandatory evacuation order has been extended, as Santa Barbara's County Sherriff said residents staying behind were hindering recovery efforts.

Anderson says there are reports of injuries, but she didn't immediately know how many or the extent. 'Thanks everyone for your prayers and concern, ' she wrote. He added: "We are still very much in active search and rescue mode". First there were record-breaking fires, then rain and flooding, and now the tight-knit California community is reeling from mudslides that further ravaged their homes. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department created a page with the names, ages and photos of people who were still missing. "It was a carpet of mud and debris".

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