MONTECITO, Calif. (KABC ... upscale neighborhoods looked like before the heavy rains triggered massive debris flows. The footage then displays a live image of the devastated landscape.

A GeoEye-1 satellite image shows homes destroyed by the debris flow in northern Montecito. (Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe) In additional to Landsat images, a pair of commercial satellites ...

Historic aerial photos showed the county ... “Urgent action is needed to protect life and property in Montecito from the impacts of future debris flows,” the Colorado engineers wrote in ...

Montecito and Santa Barbara were built on top of prehistoric debris flows, but scientists know ... Now, he said, he is left to pore over high-resolution aerial photographs of the mountainside ...

and Montecito Water District were themselves negligent in their actions before the debris flow. The county allowed development in flood zones, Edison asserted, using aerial photos from 1927, 1965, and ...

The storm came four days later, unleashing debris flows that killed 23 people and destroyed 130 homes. Crews work on installation of one of five debris flow barriers engineered in Switzerland ...

Aerial photo courtesy Matt Udkow ... January 9 is one year since the deadly debris flow in Montecito that killed 21, with two still missing. We pause to remember those we lost that morning.

Read on . . . to learn more about the likelihood of debris flows in L.A.'s burn areas and lessons learned from Montecito's devastating mudslide in 2018. Read the full story Sterling Klippel is ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said many deaths from debris flows occur when people are asleep, just as happened in Montecito, where heavy rain fell in a short period a few hours after midnight.

have been the lingering questions since Montecito’s monstrous debris flow in January ... world peering into volcanoes and examining rock and mud flows. His colleague Tom Farr has been caching ...

Thursday, January 9th marks the 7th year anniversary of the Montecito Mudslides and Debris Flow. 23 people lost their lives back in 2018, after mud and boulders plowed down the Santa Barbara ...