An incoming storm will be strong enough to potentially cause serious problems in Southern California’s burn scar areas, and those communities are on high alert.
Cement barriers hug the curb along both lanes of Lake Avenue as it hooks uphill through Altadena into the burn zone. The K-rails were erected as rain could send mud and debris flowing downhill.
People in those areas are also shoring up homes and businesses with sandbags in an effort to keep rain damage to a minimum.
An incoming storm will be strong enough to potentially cause serious problems in Southern California’s burn scar areas, and those communities are on high alert.
“We’re all trying to work together here to get these sandbags going because we’re going to be needing them very soon,” said Lynn Bealer, owner of Malibu Bungalow.
She’s still haunted by the last storm on Feb. 13 flooding her bungalow nursery with mud. Now, she knows what needs to be protected.
“All the entrance ways where the floodwaters may come down the road – that’s where it likes to travel so we want to cut it off at the pass,” she said.
Duke’s along Pacific Coast Highway survived the Palisades Fire in January but took a big hit from mud flows a month later, and repairs from that are still ongoing.
They are hoping this storm doesn’t set them back further.
