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...recent Southern Picnic drew quite a fervent student response, too. "It's kind of insulting that they say we eat dirt down south," Texan Julia A. Kidd '98 remarks about the Union's so-called dirt cakes. Maybe HDS was thinking of Mud Pie, a dish that many are familiar with, but the dirt cakes were served with sand pudding instead. Kidd continues, "And what's with this catfish and slaw business? Nobody eats that. Plus, I've never seen a Soho soda before I came here." Kidd's confusion is understandable, as Soho sodas come from New York City...
...could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast Highway and canyon passes packed with mud. Santa Barbara's mission-style historical district was a waist-deep gumbo of guck. Dramatic rescues were everywhere on television as heroes dangled from helicopters, plucking the stranded from the water's path. Authorities revised the damage estimates daily: $200 million, $300 million . . . As the floods receded and more storms...
...Before, something would happen and people around here would start to get nervous," said Malibu stockbroker David Mizrahi, setting off on foot across a bridge closed to car traffic because of cracks. (If this had been a movie, the sound track would swell about now with the scraping of mud shovels and the rush of tributaries newly sprung to life.) "This time, after going through the quakes and the fires and the other floods, everyone just threw up their hands and said let it happen, we'll deal with the consequences later...
...into, we had things stolen. So I came back here, and then in November 1993, I was staring at a 40-ft. wall of flames. Now this." The fire spared his four-bedroom tract home, but the rains got it in spite of the 4- ft.-high barricade of mud he constructed as the waters rose. He ticked off his losses, saying finally his situation was "like a sinking ship." He picked up a pole with a squeegee affixed to one end and began clearing away mud, his third day of clearing away mud. (In many areas there was nothing...
This time it wasn't an earthquake or wildfires that ravaged California, but simple rain -- a merciless deluge. The downpour unleashed treacherous floods and mud slides up and down the state, killing 11 people, displacing thousands from their homes and wreaking property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...