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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 04:04 PM Nov 2018

Thousands evacuated as flash floods hit fire-ravaged California

Source: CBS

MALIBU, Calif. -- Thousands of people in California were under evacuation orders Friday morning because of rushing floodwaters and mudslides. Some areas were already digging out from the muck and debris.

Residents of the areas hardest hit by the deadly wildfires are the most at risk of having their homes destroyed.

CBS News correspondent Cater Evans said the city of Malibu got a solid day of rain, and more was still on the way in parts of California. That's a big concern in the burn areas. In the mountains around Malibu, there's nothing left on the hillsides to hold the dirt in place.

Heavy downpours across Southern California prompted flash flood warnings and mandatory evacuations for about 4,000 homes.



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-evacuated-as-flash-floods-hit-fire-ravaged-california/ar-BBQimv1?li=BBnb7Kz

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Thousands evacuated as flash floods hit fire-ravaged California (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
It never ends for those folks. TheCowsCameHome Nov 2018 #1
Hopefully the earthquakes in Alaska Rural_Progressive Nov 2018 #3
Those poor people are getting hit hard canetoad Nov 2018 #2
The flash floods are actually a result of the fires MR. ELECTABLE Nov 2018 #4
Interesting fact. I just thought it was the dry, cracked earth from the drought. libdem4life Nov 2018 #5
Next it will be locusts. leftyladyfrommo Nov 2018 #6

Rural_Progressive

(1,105 posts)
3. Hopefully the earthquakes in Alaska
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 04:37 PM
Nov 2018

won't pop something loose further south, they just don't need that on top of everything else

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
2. Those poor people are getting hit hard
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 04:24 PM
Nov 2018

On top of this the ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) report a 70-80% chance of an El Niño forming in early 2019. This generally brings hot, dry weather to my part of the world but more rain to California.

MR. ELECTABLE

(218 posts)
4. The flash floods are actually a result of the fires
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 04:48 PM
Nov 2018

The chaparral (the native dry material that grows on malibu hillsides) actually gives off an oil when it burns that makes the ground unable to absorb water. So after a fire the rain will not be absorbed into the hillside and will mostly run off, causing flash floods downhill.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
5. Interesting fact. I just thought it was the dry, cracked earth from the drought.
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 05:23 PM
Nov 2018

That's a double whammy.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,815 posts)
6. Next it will be locusts.
Fri Nov 30, 2018, 08:04 PM
Nov 2018

I feel so sorry for those people. I can't even begin to imagine what they are going through.

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