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One of the wettest storms in Southern California history unleashed at least 475 mudslides in the Los Angeles area after dumping more than half the amount of rainfall the city typically gets in a ...
2022–2023 California floods. Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. [ 3][ 4] The flooding resulted in property damage [ 5][ 6][ 7 ...
For reference, Downtown Los Angeles only averages 14.25 inches (362 mm) of rain in a normal rain year. Heavy rainfall caused more than 300 landslides and severe flash flooding throughout the state. San Diego received record rainfall for California at higher elevations causing floods and prompting road closures.
Since the storm began, the Los Angeles Fire Department has responded to 130 flooding incidents, 49 mud and debris flows, half a dozen structure fires and several water rescues for stranded ...
Areas at risk of flooding or mudslides — a danger in recent hillside burn areas — are under evacuation orders. Within Los Angeles, officials ordered evacuations for La Tuna Canyon Road ...
65 residences destroyed, 462 residences damaged, 8 commercial buildings destroyed, 20 commercial buildings damaged. A series of mudflows occurred in Southern California in early January 2018, particularly affecting areas northwest of Montecito in Santa Barbara County. The incident was responsible for 23 deaths, [ 4] although the body of one of ...
In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass declared an emergency Monday after the storm dropped nearly 1 foot of water in some areas, triggering mudslides, evacuations and rescues. The city responded to 475 ...
St. Francis Dam. / 34.54694°N 118.51250°W / 34.54694; -118.51250. The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 ...