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...from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people were trapped their homes without power or water, authorities suspect that...
...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...
...coast in Pacifica (pop. 36,866), a middle-class suburb just south of San Francisco, William and Barbara Velez had no such redemption. The mud sent a neighboring house crashing into theirs. The couple escaped, but all three Velez children, ages three to 14, died beneath 100 tons of mud...
...with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come for many months. In one of the series' most fascinating sequences, Attenborough digs up a piece of the desert and drops it into a container of water. The dirt turns to mud, then dissolves, and a single Cyclorana emerges-looking, doubtless, for a mate...
...were occupied by secret police agents who had requisitioned them. Service stations, where drivers sometimes wait for 24 hours to tank up, had plenty of gasoline but, because sales were banned, no customers. Other public transportation was running normally, though the red-and-white buses and trams, caked with mud, dirt and ice, looked like sardine cans on wheels...