Friday 2 March 2018

California officials order mandatory evacuations as rain threatens another round of mudslides

Officials in weather-battered southern California have issued mandatory evacuation orders affecting thousands of people as a rainstorm threatened to unleash mudslides.

“This is a challenging storm,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a press conference.

“Please know we do not take evacuations lightly,” he added. “We are issuing this mandatory evacuation order because there is a risk to life and property”.

The area has been lurching from one meteorological crisis to another in recent months. The largest wildfire in California history, the Thomas Fire, scorched more than 280,000 acres and incinerated more than 1,000 structures in December.

As a consequence, vegetation that helped anchor earth in place was burned from hillsides when torrential rains arrived a month later and sent mud and debris thundering into the town of Montecito.


Source : Yahoo

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