[sanddrag]

Earlier in the season I lost 3 days due to having to evacuate for fear of mud flows. In a recent storm a couple days ago, over a dozen houses just two or three miles from me were lost. The debris basins have all reached their capacities, filled with dirt, mud, ash, brush etc from the recent fire that wiped out the entire mountain range. There has been an endless convoy of dump trucks 24 hours a day carrying out as much debris as they can before the next rain, which actually started about 20 minutes ago. Personally, I have not really been affected yet, but my house does sit about 1 block downhill from a debris basin, directly in front of it. The scary part about it is a good downpour can happen a mile away up in the hills, and you'd never know it until the rush of mud hit you.