Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was shut on Thursday after floodwaters brought mud and rocks across the carriageway at Fort Tejon, 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Cleanup is under way this weekend from the major mudslides due to flash flooding and thunderstorms in a section of Southern California that trapped hundreds of cars on a highway.
Workers in California continue to clean up after a storm covered highways, homes and cars with mud.
Any storm that developed was expected to be slow-moving, and could result in flash-flooding, and mud and debris flows, the weather service stated.
The highway was closed eastbound from Towerline Road in Bakersfield and westbound at San Canyon in Tehachapi, according to the California Highway Patrol’s incident log. There was no estimated time for when the roadway would reopen.
The rushing water, which was triggered by several inches of rain an hour over the foothill communities, forced the California Highway Patrol to close parts of the busy Interstate 5 freeway in both directions through the Grapevine pass. “There could always be more slide that comes down onto the road”, she said.
Scary scenes were also coming out of the Lake Hughes area along and near Lake Hughes Road, as well as nearby Elizabeth Lake.
She said the two homes on the land seemed like they were OK, but that one of the homes was without water because of an inundated pump, and their 20-foot trailer is nowhere in sight.
Bill Wells, a local rancher, was walking through the area looking for his livestock on Friday morning.
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Nuesca said the family got from the auto “just in time” after she assured the children, “we are not planning to perish”.
Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Keith Mora said the agency rescued four people and two dogs from atop one vehicle.
Lopez said it’ll take State Route 58 to reopen, of which is choked with mud between 2 and 6 feet deep, a mile.
Historically, he said, an El Nino brought on by a warming of Pacific Ocean waters doesn’t usually bring heavy rain to Southern California before November.
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A low pressure system pulling from your south powered the thunderstorms.
