Montecito

As another powerful storm walloped California, a 5-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters Monday on the state's central coast and an entire seaside ...

As a result, Highway 168 was closed from the bottom of the four-lane portion of the roadway between Auberry Road and Lodge Road, CBS Bay Area [reported](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/live-updates/atmospheric-river-new-week-begins-with-warnings-evacuations-closures/). The precipitation expected over the next couple of days comes after storms last week knocked out power to thousands, flooded streets, and battered the coastline. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and video on social media showed a neighborhood flooded with muddy water surging up to a stop sign. The National Weather Service reported that at least 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain fell over 12 hours, with several more inches predicted before the latest storm system moves through the area with roads winding through wooded hillsides with large homes. Still, Martin said she wasn't worried — her family has owned the property for about 60 years, and her grandfather checked out conditions Monday and shrugged it off. Vehicles were turned back at the summit as crews arrived to clean up. A firefighter discovered one of the boy's shoes, but crews still had not found the child more than five hours later. The death toll from the relentless string of storms climbed from 12 to 14 on Monday, after two people were killed by falling trees, state officials said. The boy's mother was driving a white truck when it became stranded in floodwaters just before 8 a.m. The boy has not been declared dead, said spokesperson Tony Cipolla of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office. There was no evacuation order in the area at the time. Tens of thousands of people remained without power, and some schools closed for the day.

Rescuers ended the search for a 5-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters in central coastal California while the entire community of Montecito was ...

Land that would have been able to absorb heavy rainfall became sensitive and at risk of mudslides. Then, when a powerful winter storm moved in, mud and debris ...

Santa Barbara County, which includes Montecito, was particularly hit hard Monday. [Those lost in the mudslides](https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/us/california-mudslide-victims/index.html) included young children, a school founder, a real estate broker, a married couple and several others. [Thomas Fire](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/02/us/thomas-fire-officially-out/index.html) that set the stage for the devastation that befell the community in 2018. “LEAVE NOW! Nic Coury/AP [community remembrance event](https://twitter.com/montecitofire/status/1611513009569939456) had been planned to honor the lives lost on January 9, 2018, when mud and boulders the size of houses plowed down the Santa Barbara hillsides, splintering more than 100 homes and rupturing a gas main, [according](https://news.caloes.ca.gov/montecito-mudslides-anniversary-reflections-through-images/) to the state’s Office of Emergency Services.

The area is under a flash flood warning until at least 4:45 p.m. Pacific time Monday due to heavy rains possibly leading to “Life threatening flash flooding of ...

[90% of Californians are under flood watches as another storm threatens mudslides, power outages and deadly inundation](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/us/california-flooding-atmospheric-river-monday/index.html) (CNN) [12 Californians have died in past 10 days in extreme weather, Gov. More than 100,000 people are without power in California, according to [ PowerOutage.us.](https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california) The cause of the deluge has been a series of systems called “atmospheric rivers”—narrow bands of storms that can travel long distances and drop a tremendous amount of rain. [ said](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-weather-bay-area-severe-storms-power-outages/) Sunday that 12 people died due to the weather, which has also brought wind gusts near hurricane-force. This is just the latest round of rain California has dealt with since late December due to a series of winter storms that have lashed the state. Rainfall totals in “nearly all of California” have been 400-600% above average over the past few weeks, the National Weather Service reported, with additional rain likely through Tuesday. The area is under a flash flood warning until at least 4:45 p.m.

Montecito, home of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was evacuated during Monday storms.

The order comes five years to the day after mudslides killed 23 people in this Santa Barbara County enclave that’s popular with celebrities on the [Central Coast](https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/). [wealthiest neighborhoods](https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/Montecito-homes-uninsurable-against-fire-17184446.php), was put under an evacuation order at 12:31 p.m. [The evacuation orders](https://www.countyofsb.org/3679/Heavy-Rain-Countywide-January-9-10-2023) affect Montecito, which has about 8,100 residents, including Prince Harry and Meghan, as well as parts of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria and Summerland, the Montecito Fire Protection District posted on Twitter.

Home to many celebrities, these communities in Santa Barbara County were ordered to immediately evacuate on Monday.

Montecito, parts of Carpinteria, Summerland and the City of Santa Barbara were evacuated on Monday due to heavy rain caused by an atmospheric river. Caused by heavy rainfall in early January 2018, the mudslides led to 23 fatalities, 167 injuries and over 400 damaged homes. [ATMOSPHERIC RIVER HAMMER CALIFORNIA WITH LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODING AS RESIDENT TOLD TO EVACUATE](https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/atmospheric-river-flash-flooding-damaging-wind-california)

Another storm moving through Southern California has prompted evacuations and emergency declarations as vulnerable communities brace for flooding and mudslides, ...

"These floods are deadly, and have now turned to be more deadly than even the wildfires here in the state of California. "So an atmospheric river is basically the fuel of a storm system over the Pacific Ocean," he said. The huge swath of the county encompasses the city of L.A. "There are multiple areas under evacuation orders and we need the public's adherence to these orders as we expect additional high intensity rainfall in the overnight hours." Santa Barbara County emergency workers responded to more than 200 calls related to the storm and five water rescues as of Monday afternoon. County — including the valleys, mountains, and the L.A. There are several closures of the northbound lanes in Montecito and Carpinteria. This Is How You Can Prepare](https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/prepare-for-dangerous-mudslides-california) [Storms Can Bring Lots Of Water — But Much Of It Winds Up In The Ocean](https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/this-weeks-storms-brought-lots-of-water-but-much-of-it-still-goes-to-the-ocean) [Your Guide To Driving Safely In The Rain In LA (And Really Anywhere)](https://laist.com/news/transportation/a-guide-to-driving-safely-in-the-rain) [How LA County Prepares For Massive Rainfall — Like The Storm Hitting Us Now](https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/how-la-county-prepares-for-massive-rainfall-like-the-storm-hitting-us-now) [Flash Flood Warnings? But Santa Barbara County looks like it will be getting a reprieve from the rain this evening — officials said Monday there would be a break in the rain between 5 p.m. Parts of the Ventura River are under evacuation orders in advance of expected flooding by midnight. Here’s What You Need To Know](https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/la-flash-flood-warnings-watches-what-they-mean-southern-california) [Why Atmospheric Rivers Can Be A Blessing And A Curse](https://www.kpcc.org/2018-03-21/why-atmospheric-rivers-can-be-a-blessing-and-a-cur?_ga=2.239670090.89506711.1673283819-1325438180.1672965077&_gl=1*164x549*_ga*MTMyNTQzODE4MC4xNjcyOTY1MDc3*_ga_02V0FNLNZR*MTY3MzMxMzExMS4xMjM5LjEuMTY3MzMxMzc1OS4zMC4wLjA.) Montecito was the site of deadly mudslides in 2018.

It burned for over a month in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Get Southern California news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign ...

Even so he pulled up his drain covers to help move the water. Nobody wants that to happen again which is why at the first sign of trouble Santa Barbara officials took action. The historic flooding was caused as a result of the Thomas Fire that at the time was the largest wildfire in California history.

Ellen DeGeneres told her followers, 'We need to be nicer to Mother Nature' as she stood by a roaring creek, swollen by recent rains, at her Montecito ...

“Because Mother Nature is not happy with us.” “We are having unprecedented rain. This creek next door to our house never flows, ever.”

"This stream next to our house never flows, ever. It's probably about nine feet up. It could go another two feet up. We have horses ready to evacuate," she ...

[announced ](https://deadline.com/2023/01/los-angeles-rain-flooding-evacuation-montecito-1235215160/)that the 101 is now closed at multiple points, effectively cutting off traffic going northbound into Santa Barbara and also traffic going Northbound out of the county. We are on higher ground so they asked us to shelter in place.” [warning of](https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1612607311901782021) (caps theirs) “DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING FLASH [FLOODING](https://deadline.com/tag/flooding/) across southern [Santa Barbara](https://deadline.com/tag/santa-barbara/) county,” [Montecito](https://deadline.com/tag/montecito/) homeowner [Ellen DeGeneres](https://deadline.com/tag/ellen-degeneres/) put her own exclamation point of sorts on the situation, posting a video of herself with a raging torrent just over her shoulder and in it remarked, “This stream next to our house never flows, ever.

The rebuilt and reinforced watershed throughout the community of Montecito showed signs of "behaving unpredictably" during Monday's major storm, ...

"There aren't too many days that I don't drive through Montecito and the creek areas," said Hall. He's most proud that the ominous image has helped convince other people to evacuate from below burn scars ahead of heavy rains. "And, it's solidified how much our community means to us." "It's also taught myself and my family lessons that we would've never learned. The search for Lydia Sutthithepa, a missing toddler, continues. The revelation came during Santa Barbara County's second public news conference in just over an hour.

Five years after mudslides killed 23 people, the entire town of Montecito was evacuated after rain pounded California. A recent independent study found ...

Made of sandstone and shale, the soaked hillsides then dump out large boulders and debris, sometimes as far down as the coast. Despite the eerie timing and similarities to 2018, the community is better prepared today, officials said. Similarly, the current rains arrived after the 2017 Thomas fire, which burned more than 280,000 acres and left the hillsides barren of brush, at risk of creating huge mudslides. “I don’t know how we could do anything but ask the community to leave,” said Chief Kevin Taylor of the Montecito Fire Protection District. But on Monday, they once again were forced to flee as torrential rains pummeled the region, giving rise to the threat of more mudslides. In all, the 2018 mudslide killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes.

The Duke and Duchess' Montecito estate falls within the boundaries of an evacuation order issued by Santa Barbara County. Other celebrity homes are also at ...

[mudslides that killed 23 people](https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-montecito-debris-basins-20181220-htmlstory.html) in Montecito and destroyed more than 100 homes. [Harry, Meghan or their children, Archie and Lilibet](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-12-23/lilibet-diana-photo-prince-harry-meghan-markle), were on the premises. [An order](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-09/montecito-and-santa-barbara-storm-evacuations-road-closures-shelters) Monday from the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management told all residents of the tony seaside town to “leave now.” Powerful rains have caused flooding in the area, and strong winds have hurled debris onto roadways. In a video, she stood next to a gushing creek and said, “We need to be nicer to Mother Nature, ’cause Mother Nature’s not happy with us.” The 7-acre property includes a 14,500-square-foot main house and a two-bedroom guesthouse, as well as a teahouse, tennis court and pool. [biggest storm](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-09/weather-storm-rain-southern-california) to hit the area since the couple purchased the home in the summer of 2020.

The weather took a deadly turn in San Luis Obispo County, where floodwaters swept away a 5-year-old boy and a motorist died after entering a flooded roadway. In ...

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The video shows the raging creek next to her house, which she said had increased by nine feet because of the storm.

The water vapor they carry is roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River, [according to](https://www.noaa.gov/stories/what-are-atmospheric-rivers) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They called the storm a "brutal system." and while California's central coast is being hit hard this week, the Bay Area was also smacked with powerful storms that caused flooding, mudslides and power outages. They are an important part of the world's ocean water cycle, often contributing to water supplies, Several atmospheric river storms have hit cities up and down the state of California since Dec. Atmospheric rivers are long regions in the atmosphere that transport water. "Expect more rain today as showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue." The video shows the raging creek next to her house, which she said had increased by nine feet because of the storm. The boy has not been declared dead, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Cipolla said. "Mother Nature is not happy with us," she said. Officials had to call off the search as water levels were too dangerous for divers, officials said. "This is crazy.

NBC Universal, Inc. In Santa Barbara County, the entire community of Montecito is under an evacuation order. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News on Jan.

At least 14 people, [ including a 5-year-old boy](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/weather-news/5-year-old-boy-vanishes-in-rushing-floodwaters-near-paso-robles/3070409/), have died since the storms began last week. The entire community of Montecito, which is also home to other celebrities including Prince Harry and Oprah, has been ordered to flee. "Let's all do our part." "This is crazy. It's probably about 9 feet up, and it could go another 2 feet up," DeGeneres said in a video posted to her Instagram account. "This creek near our house never, ever flows.

The entire community of Montecito, which is also home to other celebrities including Prince Harry and Oprah, has been ordered to flee ...

At least 14 people, [ including a 5-year-old boy](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/weather-news/5-year-old-boy-vanishes-in-rushing-floodwaters-near-paso-robles/3070409/), have died since the storms began last week. The entire community of Montecito, which is also home to other celebrities including Prince Harry and Oprah, has been ordered to flee. "Let's all do our part." "This is crazy. It's probably about 9 feet up, and it could go another 2 feet up," DeGeneres said in a video posted to her Instagram account. "This creek near our house never, ever flows.

More lives have now been lost in the storms than were caused by all the wildfires tearing through California over the past two years.

The fire department later tweeted that their website had crashed due to heavy traffic. This creek near to our house never flows ever (and it’s) probably about nine feet up. “Thunderstorms are possible Tuesday with best chances between 4 am and 8 pm. Ms McLeod said she feels fortunate because her home sits on high ground and the power is still on. “Even though it’s a 5 to 15 per cent chance, we still need people to be on their toes. Lightning, heavy rain, gusty winds, small hail, and funnel clouds are possible. “It’s probably about nine feet [high],” the TV host remarked. We have horses ready to evacuate.” Ellen DeGeneres has urged residents of Montecito, in California, to “stay safe” as the area continues to experience “unprecedented” weather conditions. Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary owner Jamie McLeod’s property was under the Montecito evacuation order, but she said there is no way for her to “get off the mountain” with a rushing creek on one side and a mudslide on the other. The National Weather Service has warned that more extreme weather is on the way to California. [weather](/topic/weather) saw the star-studded city of [Montecito](/topic/montecito), where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres live, placed under an evacuation order, with the Montecito Fire Department urging residents to immediately leave their homes.

Pounding rain prompted major evacuations Monday in Santa Barbara County, including for all of Montecito as well as surrounding communities.

Here’s how to prepare and what to have ready to go if you may need to evacuate during the rainstorms hitting California. - U.S. Residents are directed to go to the innermost room in their homes or high ground. [State Route 150 in Carpinteria to Cabrillo Boulevard](https://twitter.com/chp_santabarb/status/1612578299263471616?s=46&t=RHxHT9DAbb5uWpJt0-hqSQ)near Santa Barbara due to flooding and weather conditions When an evacuation order reaches you, you need to leave. [Cave](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-26/cave-fire-residents-thought-they-were-safe-then-the-flames-and-smoke-began-to-blossom)and [Alisal](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-13/stoked-by-sundowner-winds-alisal-fire-scorches-8-000-acres)fires.

The elite enclave's geography and climate play into the small town's risk for natural disasters.

Climate is another factor when it comes to the potential to trigger mudslides in particular. Then intense rain followed and loosened the burned-scarred and stripped land from the mountains. And that precipitation runs down into the town. "There could be two inches of rainfall in community, but in the mountains it could total 6 inches and drain into the town," Mr Gurrola said. What makes the region dangerous is the steep topography of the mountains to the east and two types of rock that make up the mountain, he said. The US National Weather Service (NWS) reported that up to 14in (35.5cm) of rain was dumped in the last 24 hours in Santa Barbara, the region where Montecito is situated.

A long-term repair project is expected for a portion of East Mountain Drive in Montecito impacted by the latest storm. The Montecito Fire Protection ...

Rocks & mud across Romero at E. Valley Road and a mudslide across Mountain Drive above the debris basin. The department says other storm damage included rocks and mud across Romero Canyon Road at E.

Scarred by deadly disaster, Montecito residents are still on edge as they watch creeks flow a day after massive storm.

“I was pleasantly surprised by the setup,” Cribbs said. In Carpinteria, about 25 people — and a dog named Chica — stayed at the Veteran’s Center blocks from the ocean. “I don’t have the exact amount of homes that were affected, but we know there’s more damage out there.” All hotels were booked, so they decided to stay at the shelter. The area saw record-breaking rainfall that raised Lake Cachuma by 21 feet in one day. On Monday evening, a stormwater basin in northern Santa Barbara County failed, sending mud and water into a residential neighborhood. About 100 people sought refuge Monday night in evacuation centers in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara, both run by the American Red Cross. [Santa Barbara County](https://www.countyofsb.org/3679/Heavy-Rain-Countywide-January-9-10-2023) to [Paso Robles](https://twitter.com/PRCity/status/1612908995676610560) — were told they could return to their homes after being ordered to flee Monday. Downs, who lives nearby on higher ground, had wanted to see how the creek held up during the night. [Photos: Southern California reeling from days of relentless rain, evacuations, stranded cars and overflowing creeks](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-03/photos-california-storms-bring-necessary-moisture-but-also-life-threatening-conditions) “The storm that we just experienced was a significant and powerful weather event, one in a series of storms that have and will continue to hit Santa Barbara County,” said Sheriff Bill Brown. Several homes were evacuated in the community of Orcutt as the drainage basin and roadway were compromised.