California cleans up from mudslides, as fire gains strength
California Mudslides And Wildfires
“We have trees in there ... 30 feet long that came straight through our building,” said Brandon Gallegos, whose family owns the restaurant. “It’s crushing." In January 2018, mudslides thundered down a steep mountainside that burned a month earlier and killed more than 20 people in the tony beachside town of Montecito near Santa Barbara. The worst of the rain fell in a 15-minute span with Montecito getting little more than a half-inch in five minutes.
While the temporary relief was welcome in the drought-stricken West, a spate of flash floods that followed have wreaked havoc in many places.
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