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Highway 101 Set To Reopen In Montecito After Nearly Two Week Long Storm Closure

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Crews say Highway 101 will be open again Monday morning in Montecito

It’s official. Highway 101 is going to reopen in time for the morning commute tomorrow, after being closed for nearly two weeks by flooding in Montecito.

Caltrans officials say they’ll have it open by Monday morning, although they aren’t saying exactly when. It was shut down by the flooding on January 9th which killed 21 people, and left two people missing.

There’s still no word on when the estimated 10,000 evacuees from the Montecito area will be able to return home.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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