An already drenched California was inundated with much more rain Tuesday as yet one other storm pummeled the Golden State, flooding roads, triggering mudslides and forcing the evacuation of tens of hundreds of individuals.
The National Weather Service warned rain was expected to proceed through Tuesday after dumping as much as 14 inches in central and Southern California.
After a transient lull, one other storm was expected to slam the state in a number of days’ time, saturating areas already on the verge of flooding.
Cellphone videos shared online by residents documented the chaos that was wrought by the most recent storm, with trees being felled by mudflows, water from a swollen creek rushing through a neighborhood, and a person paddleboarding in the course of a flooded street.
The death toll from the string of storms that began last week climbed to 14 Monday, after two people, including a homeless person, were killed by falling trees, state officials said.
A 5-year-old boy vanished in floodwaters on the central coast. The boy’s mother was driving a truck when it became stranded in floodwaters near Paso Robles.
Bystanders managed to tug her free however the child was swept out of the truck and carried away, probably right into a river, said Tom Swanson, assistant chief of the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department.
A roughly seven-hour seek for the missing boy, who was not named, turned up only his shoe before officials called it off as water levels were too dangerous for divers, officials said. The boy had not been declared dead.
The weather service issued a flood watch through Tuesday for your entire San Francisco Bay Area, together with the Sacramento Valley and Monterey Bay. Areas hit by wildfires lately faced the potential for mud and debris slewing off hillsides devoid of vegetation.
“Additional heavy rains on Tuesday will exacerbate ongoing flooding and proceed the danger of flash flooding and mudslides, especially across recent burn scar regions,” the weather service said.
Forecasters also warned southwestern California could see 60-mph wind gusts at the height of the storm, while some areas could receive rainfall of a half-inch per hour.
Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage and drone footage showed quite a few homes sitting in muddy brown water, the highest halves of cars peeking out.
About 130 miles to the south, about 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Santa Barbara County.
The complete wealthy seaside community of Montecito — home to the likes of Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Jennifer Aniston — was ordered to flee on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed greater than 100 homes within the exclusive enclave.
“That is crazy,” DeGeneres said in a video she recorded while standing next to a raging creek flowing past her house, which she shares together with her wife, Portia de Rossi. “We have to be nicer to Mother Nature because Mother Nature’s not joyful with us.”
The TV host and her spouse were sheltering in place on the orders of local officials Monday because their home is on higher ground.
County officials ordered 20 homes evacuated in the world of Orcutt after flooding and a sinkhole damaged as much as 15 homes.
Jamie McLeod’s property was under the Montecito evacuation order, but she said there was no way for her to “get off the mountain” with a rushing creek on one side and a mudslide on the opposite.
The 60-year-old owner of the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary said certainly one of her employees got here to make a weekly food delivery and in addition became stuck.
McLeod said she feels fortunate because her home sits on high ground and the facility remains to be on. But she tires of the frequent evacuation orders because the massive wildfire followed by the deadly landslide five years ago.
“It shouldn’t be easy to relocate,” McLeod said. “I totally find it irresistible, except in catastrophe.”
Some miles down the coast, one other town, La Conchita in Ventura County, was ordered evacuated. A mudslide killed 10 people there in 2005.
In Ventura County, the Ventura River reached its highest level on record at greater than 25 feet. Firefighters using a ladder and twine system, boats and helicopters rescued greater than a dozen people from a homeless encampment who found themselves trapped on an island within the surging waters.
The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a protracted line of cars and big-rig trucks. Crews worked into the night to tug them free.
In Los Angeles, a sinkhole swallowed two cars within the Chatsworth area Monday night. Two people escaped by themselves and firefighters rescued two others who had minor injuries, authorities said.
Tens of hundreds of individuals were without power, including some 17,000 late Monday within the Sacramento area. The number of shoppers without service was down from greater than 350,000 a day earlier after 60-mph gusts knocked trees into power lines, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District said.
The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific that may drop staggering amounts of rain and snow.
The precipitation expected over the following couple of days comes after storms last week knocked out power, flooded streets and battered the coastline.
President Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday to support storm response and relief efforts in greater than a dozen counties.
With Post wires
An already drenched California was inundated with much more rain Tuesday as yet one other storm pummeled the Golden State, flooding roads, triggering mudslides and forcing the evacuation of tens of hundreds of individuals.
The National Weather Service warned rain was expected to proceed through Tuesday after dumping as much as 14 inches in central and Southern California.
After a transient lull, one other storm was expected to slam the state in a number of days’ time, saturating areas already on the verge of flooding.
Cellphone videos shared online by residents documented the chaos that was wrought by the most recent storm, with trees being felled by mudflows, water from a swollen creek rushing through a neighborhood, and a person paddleboarding in the course of a flooded street.
The death toll from the string of storms that began last week climbed to 14 Monday, after two people, including a homeless person, were killed by falling trees, state officials said.
A 5-year-old boy vanished in floodwaters on the central coast. The boy’s mother was driving a truck when it became stranded in floodwaters near Paso Robles.
Bystanders managed to tug her free however the child was swept out of the truck and carried away, probably right into a river, said Tom Swanson, assistant chief of the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department.
A roughly seven-hour seek for the missing boy, who was not named, turned up only his shoe before officials called it off as water levels were too dangerous for divers, officials said. The boy had not been declared dead.
The weather service issued a flood watch through Tuesday for your entire San Francisco Bay Area, together with the Sacramento Valley and Monterey Bay. Areas hit by wildfires lately faced the potential for mud and debris slewing off hillsides devoid of vegetation.
“Additional heavy rains on Tuesday will exacerbate ongoing flooding and proceed the danger of flash flooding and mudslides, especially across recent burn scar regions,” the weather service said.
Forecasters also warned southwestern California could see 60-mph wind gusts at the height of the storm, while some areas could receive rainfall of a half-inch per hour.
Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage and drone footage showed quite a few homes sitting in muddy brown water, the highest halves of cars peeking out.
About 130 miles to the south, about 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Santa Barbara County.
The complete wealthy seaside community of Montecito — home to the likes of Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Jennifer Aniston — was ordered to flee on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed greater than 100 homes within the exclusive enclave.
“That is crazy,” DeGeneres said in a video she recorded while standing next to a raging creek flowing past her house, which she shares together with her wife, Portia de Rossi. “We have to be nicer to Mother Nature because Mother Nature’s not joyful with us.”
The TV host and her spouse were sheltering in place on the orders of local officials Monday because their home is on higher ground.
County officials ordered 20 homes evacuated in the world of Orcutt after flooding and a sinkhole damaged as much as 15 homes.
Jamie McLeod’s property was under the Montecito evacuation order, but she said there was no way for her to “get off the mountain” with a rushing creek on one side and a mudslide on the opposite.
The 60-year-old owner of the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary said certainly one of her employees got here to make a weekly food delivery and in addition became stuck.
McLeod said she feels fortunate because her home sits on high ground and the facility remains to be on. But she tires of the frequent evacuation orders because the massive wildfire followed by the deadly landslide five years ago.
“It shouldn’t be easy to relocate,” McLeod said. “I totally find it irresistible, except in catastrophe.”
Some miles down the coast, one other town, La Conchita in Ventura County, was ordered evacuated. A mudslide killed 10 people there in 2005.
In Ventura County, the Ventura River reached its highest level on record at greater than 25 feet. Firefighters using a ladder and twine system, boats and helicopters rescued greater than a dozen people from a homeless encampment who found themselves trapped on an island within the surging waters.
The storm also washed 3 feet of mud and rock onto State Highway 126, stranding a protracted line of cars and big-rig trucks. Crews worked into the night to tug them free.
In Los Angeles, a sinkhole swallowed two cars within the Chatsworth area Monday night. Two people escaped by themselves and firefighters rescued two others who had minor injuries, authorities said.
Tens of hundreds of individuals were without power, including some 17,000 late Monday within the Sacramento area. The number of shoppers without service was down from greater than 350,000 a day earlier after 60-mph gusts knocked trees into power lines, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District said.
The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific that may drop staggering amounts of rain and snow.
The precipitation expected over the following couple of days comes after storms last week knocked out power, flooded streets and battered the coastline.
President Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday to support storm response and relief efforts in greater than a dozen counties.
With Post wires
