As another powerful storm walloped California, a five-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters on Monday on the state's central coast. 9News
, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities was ordered to evacuate on the fifth anniversary of deadly mudslides there.Streets and highways transformed into gushing rivers, trees toppled, mud slid and motorists growled as they hit roadblocks caused by fallen debris.A man wades through a flooded street in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, California on Monday.
The boy has not been declared dead, said spokesperson Tony Cipolla of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office. About 209 kilometres to the south, the entire community of Montecito and surrounding canyons scarred by recent wildfires were under an evacuation order that came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes in the coastal enclave.
Ellen DeGeneres shared an Instagram video of herself standing in front of a raging creek near the Montecito home where she lives with her wife, actor Portia de Rossi."This is crazy!" the talk show host, wearing a hoodie and raincoat, says in the video. The 60-year-old owner of the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary said one of her employees came to make a weekly food delivery and is stuck, too.But she said she tires of the frequent evacuation orders since the massive wildfire followed by the deadly landslide five years ago.Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said the decision to evacuate nearly 10,000 people was "based on the continuing high rate of rainfall with no indication that that is going to change before nightfall".
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