“The storms hit us like a water balloon exploding and just dropped water down through our rivers and creeks. aC0Qg8s5U7- Scott Safechuck January 10, 2023Īnother sinkhole was reported Monday in Santa Barbara County’s Santa Maria, where 20 homes were evacuated, CNN affiliate KEYT reported. There are assessment teams surveying the entire County for damage assessments. The local health department warned the water could increase the risk of illnesses.ĭamage to road and catchment basin in the Orcutt area. In parts of Santa Barbara County, “the storm caused flows through the sewer system to exceed capacity, resulting in the release of sewage from the system to the street,” County Supervising Environmental Health Specialist Jason Johnston said Monday evening. In Malibu, a massive boulder came crashing down, shutting down a key roadway.
In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth, several people had to be rescued after a sinkhole swallowed two vehicles Tuesday. Smashed cars, destroyed homes and gushing sewage “A lot of us that live here in the neighborhood are elderly, and can’t actually physically do the cleanup.”
“It’s backbreaking labor,” Oliviera said, visibly emotional.īut she was more concerned about her neighbors, whose homes were also covered in thick mud. Rachel Oliviera used a shovel to try to push out some of the floodwater and thick mud enveloping her Felton Grove home. 'More rain, more flood, more mud': California resident describes heartbreaking impact of stormĪs another storm looms, many residents are still grappling with devastation to their communities. “We had a canoe strapped up, that we thought if we needed to, we could canoe out. And it’s just rushing through – it was going fast,” Fenton Grove resident Caitlin Clancy said. That barely leaves enough time for residents in flood-ravaged neighborhoods to assess the devastation before the next storm. The flood watches Wednesday are primarily in Northern and Central California, including Sacramento, the North Bay and Redding.
“We’re continued to be concerned about our streams, our culverts and some of the areas that are prone to mudslides, particularly along our central coast.” “While there is a bit of a break today, we continue to see additional storms prepared to come onshore in the next two days,” he said. “Yesterday, we had perhaps more air rescues than we’ve ever had on any other single day in the state’s history,” Ferguson said, adding that the Golden State is not out of the woods yet. It had already been “one of the deadliest disasters in the history of our state,” Brian Ferguson, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services spokesman said Wednesday before the 18th death was reported. This is the kind of weather you would get in a year and we compressed it just into two weeks.” “We’ve had six storms in the last two weeks. “The state has been experiencing drought for the last four years, and now we have storm upon storm,” California Lt.
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