Floods and mudslides forced thousands of people to evacuate as more than 200,000 homes and businesses left without power
Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz county for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage and drone footage showed numerous homes sitting in muddy brown water, the top halves of autos peeking out.
A roughly seven-hour search for the missing boy turned up only his shoe before officials called it off as water levels were too dangerous for divers, officials said. Jamie McLeod’s property was under the Montecito evacuation order, but she said there was no way for her to “get off the mountain” with a rushing creek on one side and a mudslide on the other. The 60-year-old owner of the Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary said one of her employees came to make a weekly food delivery and also became stuck.
In Ventura county, the Ventura River reached its highest level on record at more than 25ft on Monday. Firefighters using helicopters rescued more than a dozen people trapped on an island in the surging waters.
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