With parts of California yet again burned by severe fires, the state is facing a new winter of mudslides.
flowed through coastal Montecito, which had been burned less than a month earlier in the Thomas fire. That fire, one of California’s most destructive on record, burned 282,000 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.There was a considerable amount of evacuation fatigue in the Montecito area from earlier storms that rolled through but did not cause major debris flow, and many residents declined to evacuate.
Local authorities also did not order mandatory evacuations to cover all the areas where fatalities occurred in the days ahead of the deadly debris flow. While some of the dead lived in mandatory evacuation zones and declined to evacuate, the majority of the dead were in voluntary evacuation zones.Have clogged drainage basins been in a problem in other debris flows?
with detailed evacuation plans mapped out; officials cleaned out debris basins and installed steel cable netting designed to catch large rocks at the base of the slopes.What are the areas authorities are worried about in the winter of 2019-20?
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