In Los Angeles area floods and mudslides are becoming a something to worry about as each day passes.

Look at this video:

LA CANADA MUDSLIDE OCEAN VIEW 02/06/2010

another video:
A shorter video that shows the rocks, bolders and trees that are coming down the canyon. The basin is now officially at 100% capacity. So, we don’t have a basin anymore, but we do have channels downstream, into Montrose. Up stream at the top of the canyon there were mudslides last night. The basin at the top of I met neighbors who have been parked at the lot on Foothill since 4am. Their home is completely surrounded by mud. Another neighbor pulled an elderly resident from her bed, washed in water and mud, and took her down the hill to a medical unit. Cars are turned over. Boulders are strewn about. Several homes at Manistee Dr, Derwood Dr, Bristow Dr and Normanton Dr are feeling the brunt of the mud slides right now. They have a debris basin at the end of Manistee Dr. which is also now full. When the basins fill up, the mud has to go into the streets.

La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta area
Acton and Altadena

211 – County Information Line

La Canada High School

Sierra Madre Community Center
Acton Community Center

Animal Shelters – Pasadena Human Society

dpwcare.org

An additional 200 firefighters have been brought in to assist.

500+ evacuated
19 fire trucks
2 u
2 camp crews

The Station Fire was US Forestry Service inactions, apparently they let the fire burn

Public Works

Here’s what gets me. There was several forecasts made that told everyone to not worry, that this was not going to be as bad as the last storm.

Here’s the story in the Pasadena Star News Not to worry…
Light rainfall not likely to produce mudslides for La Cañada Flintridge hillsides read more

4am is when the cell of intense rainfall

Mud flow made it from the top of Ocean View to almost Foothill Ave in the town of La Canada/Montrose.