(14 Feb 2025)
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Sierra Madre, California – 14 February 2025
1. A resident looks around a car buried in mud
2. A postal worker and resident walk down a mud covered road
3. A patio umbrella is buried in mud
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lilian Shaw, Sierra Madre Police Department:
"We had some rain after the fires that affected this area. Some of the rain had washed a lot of the mud, dirt and debris down."
5. A car is buried in mud up to its headlights
6. A man walks around the mud-buried car
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lilian Shaw, Sierra Madre Police Department:
"A lot of the residents, you can’t get past your own vehicle. They’re having to sort of trek their way down. Of course, city officials, our public works, we’re getting crews together to start clearing some of that out."
8. A car partially blocked in by mud
9. Mud inside of a home
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lilian Shaw, Sierra Madre Police Department:
"We’re fortunate that only a few homes were affected by the mud flow and the rain damage. Mud did get into some of the homes. So we’ve had residents have to dig mud out of their garages and such."
11. Trash cans knocked over by the mudslide
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Duvall, resident:
"It happened, you know, very quickly, but it was very loud. And you could even feel the ground shaking and stuff. You go fire into flooding. You know, it’s a lot."
13. A mud buried car
14. Muddy water flows down a channel
15. Emergency vehicles near a pile of mud
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Wayne Andlovec, resident:
"Nobody saw this huge pineapple express bearing down upon us. You know, here we get fire and also we get this biblical 40 day and night flood and it just inundated any kind of system."
17. A man walks down the mudslide impacted street
18. Heavy machinery digs out a mudslide-buried car
STORYLINE:
Debris flows brought on by the strongest atmospheric river of the season swept a car off a southern California highway and into the ocean and left roads submerged in sludge.
While the heavy rains from the storm hitting the region have begun to ease, the risk of rock and mudslides on wildfire-scarred hillsides continues Friday since dangerous slides can strike even after rain stops.
There is particular risk in scorched areas where vegetation that helps keep soil anchored has burned away.
To the north, snow and ice caused major pileups on highways in Oregon and Washington, injuring at least 10 people.
The West Coast storms are just the latest in a week of bad weather across the U.S.
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