30 years ago today SC disaster.

I never read about this. ... Just A reminder of what can happen in one of the most beautiful settings around.... May the lost rest in peace.


http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_19695565?source=rss

Wow, never heard of that one.  Just a reminder to cherish what you have, each and every day.

Wow, never heard of that one.  Just a reminder to cherish what you have, each and every day.

yeah this event was sort of news to me too.  I had heard of it but had not realized the size of the slide.

Houses tumbled from foundations and slid down muddy slopes. One home fell across Lompico Road, trapping canyon residents.

Scariest night of my childhood life!    My family lived in Lompico, near Loch Lomond, from 75-82 when we left our house there in the middle of the night to make it out before the road washed away or a slide took out our home. I can still vividly remember the train of cars trying to make it down the mountain and feeling pretty freaked out about sliding off the road in the rain.   It was weeks before we could go back and see the dammage since part of the road was completely covered from a slide.  That was it for my parents, we never went back to live there after that night but rather only as a weekend getaway.   

that winter of 81 into 82 was a bad one. The first El Nino event that really had an impact on me. I'd not seen rain or surf like that in Southern Cali before.  The one in 97 into 98 was bad too.

Al, that is spooky! It would be tough to go back to full time winter living in a place that I had had to evac like that.

 

  I was aboard ship then (Navy) and remember reading about the storm and the Love creek slide in the Peatersons 4 wheeler and Four wheel drive mag's I was getting in the mail.  Surprisingly enough those rags covered the incident pretty well.  Aug.  that year returned home ( Honorably discharged) Severe storms today are judged in severity as to how they compared that storm back then!