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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gurrola scoured newspaper archives; property records; geological survey, fire insurance, topographic and aerial ... and frequency of debris flows and debris-laden floods in Montecito, and he ...

The impact of the 2017 Thomas fire and 2018 Montecito post-wildfire debris flows can be seen in these satellite images. Use the slider to see the before, taken on December 23, 2017, and the after ...

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 ...