[johniegrad]

Is this one for real? Mudslide?

[rockabyebaby]

This one is for real, saw it on the news last nite, apparently 18 houses wiped out at once

[WestCoastGal]

That one is La Conchita between Ventura and Santa Barbara. They are still digging for people.

This happened there in the same place about 10 years ago.

[crushelits]

Frantic Search Ends In Grief
Calif. Man Loses His Family in Mudslide

LA CONCHITA, Calif. -- Jimmie Wallet went out for ice cream, and when he got back, everyone and everything he had left behind were gone.
On Wednesday, he identified the bodies of his wife and three of his daughters, pulled from a tangle of homes smashed by a mudslide.

No one lost more than Wallet in Monday's mudslide, which has killed at least 10 people in this oceanside community. And, driven by the frantic hope of finding his family, no one was as quick to claw through the debris and help pull out survivors.

Wallet dug for hours in the rain around where he thought the family might be. He helped rescue two people before he stopped and waited, smoking cigarettes as friends stopped by to embrace him. Early Wednesday, after 36 hours, his wait ended. <> His wife, Mechelle, was the first to be found. Around 2 a.m., firefighters and several of Wallet's friends carried her to the makeshift morgue at the town's gas station. Wallet went in and identified her, then returned to the porch of a peach stucco house where he had been staying, put up his feet and sat without a word. more...

Jimmie Wallet, center, shares happier times with his wife and daughters in this undated family photo. His teenage daughter Jasmine, right, survived but his other three daughters and his wife were killed in the Calif. mudslides.

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[TASMANIANRED]

I pray for all those suffering and those lost.

However, I don't want to know what this is and please don't tell me. I blush easily.