“People do remember Love Creek,” Hoppin said. Four victims, including two children, were never found and remain buried there. The horrific slide destroyed 30 houses, killing 10 people. 5, 1982, following torrential rains, a steep hillside collapsed at Love Creek, a tributary of the San Lorenzo River in the redwoods near Ben Lomond. The area knows deadly mudslides firsthand. Where is the power out and when will it be restored?.Map of the Santa Cruz Mountains evacuation zones.I couldn’t stress more the need to follow the evacuation order.”Įvacuation, power outage and storm tracker maps “Make sure you are as safe as you can be. “This is a storm we were hoping we weren’t going to see, but we are potentially going to see,” said Chris Clark, chief deputy sheriff in Santa Cruz County. On Monday, 31 sheriff’s deputies fanned out across the Santa Cruz Mountains, knocking on doors and telling people in danger zones to leave. Homes near steep slopes that burned are most at risk from debris flows, commonly called mudslides, which can send thousands of tons of soil, trees, rocks and other debris down hills in seconds, said Jason Hoppin, a spokesman for Santa Cruz County. Hilary Stanley places things in their trunk while evacuating from their home in Boulder Creek, Calif., on Monday, Jan.
Bathrooms, charging stations, food and Red Cross workers will be available. Santa Cruz County set up temporary emergency access points at three locations: San Lorenzo Valley High School in Felton, Pacific Elementary School in Davenport and Scotts Valley Community Center, at 360 Kings Village Road in Scotts Valley. People who evacuate probably will be able to return by this weekend, he said. The orders were posted on a county map at When it occurs, if you hear it, it is too late.” “We ask you to heed these warnings and get out of the way,” said Ian Larkin, chief of Cal Fire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit. On Monday morning, Cal Fire and sheriff’s officials in Santa Cruz County issued evacuation orders for 2,800 homes with nearly 5,000 residents in parts of Felton, Ben Lomond, Brookdale, Boulder Creek, the Swanton area north of Davenport along Highway 1, and other rural communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains where the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burned 86,509 acres last August, destroying 1,490 buildings, including homes and businesses from Bonny Doon to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. “It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen a storm like this.” “There’s going to be a lot more moisture than we had thought,” said Matt Mehle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey. The National Weather Service said that as the storm has moved closer, revised forecasts call for it to dump 3 to 5 inches of rain on Bay Area cities, mostly Wednesday and Thursday 5 to 8 inches at higher elevations up to 10 inches in some parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and up to 13 inches in Big Sur. An atmospheric river storm that is expected to drench the Bay Area and Central Coast starting Tuesday night will bring more rain than was earlier anticipated forecasters say, raising the risk of power outages, downed trees and potentially deadly mudslides in the days ahead - with evacuation orders for an estimated 5,000 people in the Santa Cruz Mountains announced Monday.
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