January 10, 2005
Stuck in the mud...
You've doubtless heard about the floods and mudslides in Southern California. My poor wife and daughter were visiting in Ojai, and are now stuck in a motel there because mudslides have closed the road out.
But they haven't suffered any real difficulties, except for brief power outages. They are only a few miles from La Conchita, where mudslides have left 2 dead and 12 people missing
Update: They are heading home...but from LA! after many hours of trying they escaped from Ojai, but could only go south. They will be coming home via US 5
Yikes! Good luck! Speaking of fun with weather and the ground, a huge sinkhole opened up yesterday in Orange City (which is about thirty miles from me), and it swallowed several homes. One had opened up in the same area in Florida last week. They say it's because of the hurricanes a few months ago -- it seems that the groundwater that had saturated the ground is slowly draining away, and it's taking the ground with it.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 10, 2005 08:55 PMI was down in SoCal myself last week. The grapevine was snowed in save for the few hours it took me to actually get past it. And it was hailing on the Border. Weird, weird weather...
Posted by: Andrew Cory at January 11, 2005 02:45 PMEvery so often, it happens...
Posted by: B. Durbin at January 14, 2005 03:57 PM
