City Evacuates Part Of Malibu Park As Mud Flows

Yards and yards of muddy soup poured out of the hillside last night… causing the city of malibu to hit the warning horns and order evacuation of the area.

Good call.

The series of rain squalls that swept across Malibu yesterday left the hillside unstable … liquid soup quickly clogged storm drains … and goo ran down Cuthbert Street.

It headed to the intersection of Cuthbert … Harvester at Phillip.  which soon was under six inches of soup.

Houses downhill from there were flooded with mud … but those houses had already burned and were left unprotected.

The mud went down the barranca … tons and tons of mud.

Mud also flowed onto the Malibu High school athletic fields.

The canyon at Via Cabrillo at Morning View carried tons towards the ocean.

Down at PCH … Caltrans workers had already spent hours trying to unclog culverts that run under the highway to Zuma Beach.

The mud was scraped clear by daybreak.

But sandbags on hillside on the hillside above the houses will be necessary … to prevent another mudflow in the next rainstorm.

yesyerday’s storm provided nearly 3 inches of rain to the local mountains and foothills …and more than an inch and a quarter to the coast.

1.4 inches here at Trancas.

1.85 inches in Upper Decker Canyon.

Agoura .96

Monte Nido in Upper malibu Canyon … 2 point 24 inches.

Big Rock Mesa … an inch and a half.

And more than 2 and a half inches of rain in Topanga Canyon.

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Both Webster Elementary school and Pepperdine University

cancel classes yesterday.

Heavy rain storms hit the Malibu area and set rocks falling on the Malibu Canyon Road… a major access route for students at both campuses.

Employees also use Malibu Canyon to get to work.

Several cars were hit by falling large rocks and badly damaged on the road near the tunnel yesterday. 

Broken radiators… smashed grills … dented side panels.

Most of the serious rock falls were in Malibu Canyon … neat the tunnel.

Many cars on Kanan Dume Road also broke their wheels … as drivers were unable to avoid sharp rocks on the pavement.

Fire damaged hillsides are going to cost thousands of dollars of damage to cars … and may injure people … as they shed rocks in this winters rainstorms.