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Storm Causes Street Closures, Downs Trees, Knocks Out Power In Parts Of Central and South Coasts

(Photo by John Palminteri)
The storm knocked down some huge trees on Anapamu Street in downtown Santa Barbara Friday

The storm caused localized flooding, and scattered power outages in a number of areas on the Central and South Coasts.

In Santa Barbara, three apartment buildings on the 3400 block of Richland Drive had to be evacuated after a retaining wall behind them failed. Santa Barbara Airport had to shut down operations at around 4 p.m. Friday after a section of its main runway flooded.

In Ventura County, sections of the Casitas Springs golf course are underwater, after the creek which runs through it overflowed its banks. But, the good news for Casitas Springs residents is that there was no flooding, or mudslides from the mountains just above the community.  The 2013 Springs Brush fire stripped those mountainsides, causing leading to flooding which destroyed, or damaged about a dozen homes in the community.

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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