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Significant rainfall is expected to start about 9 a.m. Thursday in Malibu.   Rainfall rates are expected to be a quarter-inch to a half-inch per hour. That’s just enough to trigger debris flows in the recently burned areas” to experience debris flows. Rainfall totals through the afternoon will likely end up between three quarters and an […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   PCH was closed for hours this morning … from the Incline to the freeway tunnel. =   And a major wreck on the 101 west snarls traffic heading to the Malibu exits. =   That major atmospheric river may just sweep past Malibu. =   Rain […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   The first 16 houses get torn down by Cal recycles … so far so good. =   Fire insurance policies are getting cancelled across wild fire areas in California. =   Trader Joes is getting closer to Malibu. =   And rain will hit Malibu on […]

Four inches of rain in Malibu on Wednesday???? Nope. That big storm that was predicted ion some places is getting swirled out of the forecast. Try one inch of rain … Wednesday. Maybe some more rain late Thursday and Friday. The National Weather Service says its prediction computer runs are still all over the place. […]

Malibu’s two new city council members have rescheduled their first meeting of the city council’s Disaster Response and Recovery Ad Hoc Committee. The first meeting was rained out. The meeting will now be held tomorrow night …. Tuesday … at 6:30 at Malibu City Hall. This small working group is designed to listen to residents […]

California property owners are having a hard time renewing their fire insurance policies. The Wall Street Journal reports insurance companies are canceling some policies and refusing to sell new ones … or applying for rate increases … in fire risk areas. Large insurers have filed to raise home-insurance rates . in the past six months. […]

Cal Recycle crews have already substantially ripped down more than a dozen houses in the Point Dume and Malibu High School area. Fire debris removal under the California state-sponsored program began last week at 13 properties within city limits … plus three outside the city limits. Preliminary work … like knocking down chimneys and site […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   A half inch of rain … but no mud … tomorrow morning. =   Malibu High’s softball and baseball trams win their first victories … the district promises to get mud off their fields. =    99 percent of the hazmat stuff has been removed form […]

LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl has also been getting an earful on bitter experiences caused by the county government during the Woolsey Fire. TV opictures of boats unloading emergency supplies … desperately needed as malibu residents battled flames with garden hoses ,,, have triggered massive criticism of the evacuation roadblocks. The city of Malibu has […]

State regulators are cracking down on trash in Malibu Creek … Malibu Lagoon … and the ocean. Revised regulations have been approved by the Regional Water Quality Control Board for the creek … which starts in Ventura County way north of the 101 and ends at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach. Current levels of trash in Malibu […]