[JavaBrewer]

I have lived in SoCal since 1964. These weather systems, now called atmospheric rivers, are not new. The worst in my memory was in the mid 70's, Our master planned, track community, had streets filled with water that overwhelmed the drainage. Tree's knocked over, police guarding creeks and overpass roads, a calamity by SoCal standards. I believe even a plastic lawn chair was knocked over.

I am not discounting the real pain some are encountering. Remember the mud slide in Montecito that closed highway 101 and swiped away the interior access roads. Basically cut off Santa Barbara from points South. Lives and hundreds of homes lost. What I am saying is this is nothing new. Yes rare, when combined with fire events, but certainty not new.

My rental home in Santa Barbara is good to go, The same home with flooded streets I mentioned prior. Some of the community homes in canyons and downhill likely not so good. I saw that too in the 70's.