[californiadisasters] Mudslides, Flooding Close Roads; 'Huge' Storm Expected Monday PM

Mudslides, flooding close roads including PCH; 'huge' storm expected Monday afternoon

By Los Angeles Times Staff
December 20, 2010 |  6:14 am

Rain continued to pound Southern California overnight, prompting several major road closures due to flooding and mudslides.

The California Highway Patrol closed a 10-mile section of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu due to the rock slide on the road in Ventura County. The 710 Freeway was closed for several hours at Willow Street in Long Beach due to flooding.

Numerous roads around the hillside areas burned in the Station fire -- including Big Tujunga Road and Angeles Forest Highway -- also were shut down.

As of Monday morning, the region was seeing scattered showers. But the National Weather Service warned that a new storm will "bring heavy rain and the potential for serious flooding between late this afternoon through Wednesday afternoon." The San Bernardino Mountains "could see huge rainfall totals."

 The subtropical drenching came from a rare weather system that arrives about once every decade. In the last four days, downtown Los Angeles has received 3.75 inches of rain -- a quarter of the rainfall it typically receives in an entire year.

The warm Pacific storm swept the entire state. It rattled Cape Mendocino with thunder, dumped 9 feet of snow on Mammoth Mountain, flooded streets in usually dry Bakersfield and tossed 2 feet of floodwater onto a residential street in La Crescenta.

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