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Originally Posted by Flatbutt1
The new year doesn't seem to be going too well wrt rain in the LA area. The reports don't paint a pretty picture. I can't imagine what a mudslide is like.  |
The damage is also ongoing in that trees may fall up to a month after rains like this if the wind gets strong enough. Many do not have deep roots because of the lack of deep soaking.
Same goes for slides. The water takes awhile to soak deep into areas that might fo filled for stratified. It could be dry for 2 weeks and some land will give away. Mudslides and landslides are different things. We are having mudslides now but the landslides are coming. One of the wealthiest places in the county, Palos Verdes, is going to be a disaster zone. Parts of it are already. This is a problem all along the coast where the ocean meets the Pacific Coast (mountain) Range or bluffs.
And we haven't heard much from our local mountain inland communities yet. Where there was a fire there is now a lot of erosion. Most of it just goes into an uninhabited canyon. Some of it wipes out roads, streets and houses.
Last year's problems were caused in part by a much larger snowpack in the Sierra's. It wasn't until Spring that things started getting bad for many like the Tulare Lake forming after being dry for decades.
What I'm saying is that there are some immediate emergencies, but the carnage is yet to come.