Snowboarders and skiers will definitely be tempted in the days ahead, since snowfall is expected throughout the weekend – with as much as 4 to 8 inches expected Saturday night.īut the snow and ice will also make driving dangerous. We’ll see what can be worked out for traffic handling but for now use 330. Waiting on engineers to give us info for Emergency Work. This will be closed for several days if not weeks. Officials estimate repairs will cost $4.2 million. In its wake, the debris flow left at least one structure caked in mud, another video from that fire agency showed.Ī route into the San Bernardino mountains along State Route 18 will be closed for “several days if not weeks” because of a washout, Caltrans said in a tweet. A stretch of Oak Glen and Potatoe roads were under two feet of mud. In Oak Glen, sludge rushed down a canyon, according to a video the San Bernardino County Fire Department tweeted. In Los Angeles County, Caltrans stopped all lanes on the 710 Freeway at Alondra Boulevard, in Compton, for about an hour early Friday because of flooding, according to the California Highway Patrol log. The flood watch NWS put into effect in multiple parts of the region, meanwhile, proved prescient. firefighters from multiple agencies, including Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, were still searching all the way south to Pacific Coast Highway – and OCFA had deployed a drone. “We’re still urging everybody to be very aware,” Nguyen said, “because even though it is not raining, the ground has been saturated and there is the potential for mudflows.”Īlong the Santa Ana River Trail, near MacArthur Boulevard, in Santa Ana, someone fell into the river, Nguyen said.Īs of 1:30 p.m. But he did say people need to be careful in the Bond fire area Thanh Nguyen said he was not expecting more problems because the storm appeared to be passing from Orange County. Sean Doran of the Orange County Fire Authority.Īround midday, OCFA Capt. The mudslide, at Silverado Canyon Road and Olive Drive, was more of an access issue for nearby residents than anything else, said Capt. There were no injuries nor calls for rescues following the landfall, OCFA said. Friday for Williams and Modjeska canyon and noon for Silverado Canyon. Thursday, not long after Orange County implemented a mandatory evacuation for an estimated 2,116 residents in areas scarred by the Bond fire. Still, the tempest that tore through the region Thursday night and Friday morning caused plenty of havoc on its own.Ī mudslide in Silverado Canyon occurred just past 8 p.m. “Several inches of snow are possible above 5000 feet and light snow accumulations are possible over the Grapevine on Interstate 5.” “Another storm will move through southwest California Christmas day into Sunday morning with MUCH lower snow levels,” NWS Los Angeles tweeted Friday. And patches of blue sky were beset by dark storm clouds, portending the rain that seems likely to drench the region through Christmas weekend. But whatever warmth is created was undercut by the biting wind that remained.
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