Word: lomond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa Cruz County, the greatest devastation occurred along Love Creek, near the town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled...