By Gary Meyer and Patric Hedlund

Tropical storm Dolores dropped in for a visit Saturday, July 18 just before 5 p.m. What meteorologists termed “remnant moisture” transformed the drought-parched Mountain Communities with cloudbursts and flash floods.

Walls of mud, boulders and water crashed through…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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A wall of mud, water and boulders crashed down Woods Drive in Lake of the Woods to block off Frazier Mountain Park Road Saturday, July 18.

About 150 cars were unable to pass the mud slides and flooding on Frazier Mountain Park Road on Saturday, July 18 in the first hour of the deluge. Boulders and tons of debris crashed onto the road east and west of Frazier Park. The worst mud slide was near Woods Drive in Lake of the Woods.

Woods Drive comes down across Frazier Mountain Park Road on Saturday, July 18 after a downpour.

Steve Sigmon shovels 8 inches of mud from his living room on Border Ct. in Lake of the Woods.

Woods Drive is not passable, but help is coming.

Above: A tractor on Woods Drive stopped boulders from smashing a well house. Right: Gil Karson’s house on Johnson Rd. in Frazier Park had mud 4 feet deep, up to the windows.

In LOW, Terri Lascasse’s neighbors had 3 ft. of mud.

A Woods Drive swing set in 5-to-6 feet of mud

Left, Mona McCabe kept Midway Market open to serve coffee and snacks to those stranded by the flood on July 18.

Gil Karson of Frazier Park, a musician, video editor and volunteer soccer coach is staying positive about the challenge ahead to dig his house out of the mud and to redo the landscaping—with lots of boulders.

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This is part of the July 24, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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