California Emergency Workers Are Battling a New and Potentially Deadly Threat: Mudslides
LOS ANGELES—Southern California’s first significant storm in more than six months brought snow to the mountains and drenching ...
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With fires coming under control, LA preps for mudslides
Why it matters: Two people died because of the Thomas Fire, which burned through Santa Barbara County in late 2017. But the mudslides that followed killed 23 people in the town of Montecito and ...
Powerful storm causes mudslides in California, threatens outbreak of tornadoes and wildfires across US this week
A powerful storm dropping drenching rain on flood-prone Southern California is raising concern among forecasters that it ...
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What causes mudslides, and what can be done to lessen the danger?
They’re also costly — Santa Barbara County spent $20 million on a new basin after 2018 — and must be emptied occasionally or they can be overwhelmed by new landslides or mudslides.