At least 8 dead as mudslides wipe away homes in fire-ravaged Southern California
Source: The Washington Post
By Noah Smith, Avi Selk and Eli Rosenberg January 9 at 6:35 PM
LOS ANGELES – Mudslides, floods and cascading debris swept away buildings, inundated roads and killed eight people in Southern California, as thousands of residents of an area recently devastated by wildfires were forced to flee their homes from the potent forces unleashed by yet another disaster.
Some 25 people were injured, with many more in danger across the region as hills left barren after weeks of fires were transformed by rainstorms early on Tuesday morning into fast moving rivers of mud and debris.
“It’s bad,” said Amber Anderson, a spokeswoman for Santa Barbara’s incident management team.
All eight bodies were recovered near Montecito, a coastal community north of Los Angeles, where mudflows carried houses off their foundations and rose to people’s waists, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/09/after-devastating-fires-mudslides-are-now-wiping-away-homes-in-california
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over 24 hours. This was expected. I've seen this before during the state's worse fires until this year. The Cedar Fire destroyed thousands of homes as well as burning tons of acres of land in 2003 and another almost as destructive in the 2007 Witch Fire. One disaster creates another one and almost back to back! I am so glad Climate Change is a hoax. 
Giant trees and boulders are blocking the roads.
They are okay, but the fire is still fresh in their memories, they were evacuated for that, and now this.
She put on KTLA for a couple of hours of fire, flood, mudslide, and severe traffic jam coverage, and then she got over it. 
