FP Home Buried — Is this the way drought ends?

  • This Frazier Park home was buried in mud and rocks as the occupants fled in their truck. Log in for the full story.

    This Frazier Park home was buried in mud and rocks as the occupants fled in their truck. Log in for the full story.

Rocks and mud hammer homes and roads in day of torrential rain

By TME staff and community reporters

The Pineapple Express barrelled into the Mountain Communities Friday, Feb. 17 like a steam locomotive—triggering mudslides in Frazier Park, Lake of the Woods and Lockwood Valley. It also left behind a gift of new water in Frazier Mountain Park pond, and a flock of happy ducks.

What the National Weather Service called an “atmospheric river” of wild winds and wet air was said to be originating from…(please see below to view full stories and all photographs)

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Above: This young woman was stranded on Lakewood Drive, Friday, Feb. 17 during the downpour that overflowed the banks of Cuddy Creek. Minutes after Marianne Brown snapped this photo, a man in a tractor came by and rescued the woman from her car. Nine people were evacuated from several homes and taken to an evacuation center at Frazier Mountain High School.

Cuddy Creek was screaming with flash flood level waters, seen here from the Monterey Trail bridge in this photo by Lance Borgstrom in Frazier Park.

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This is part of the February 24, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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