The Santa Barbara Police Department has issued notices of significant flooding at various locations throughout the City of Santa Barbara due to the heavy rainstorm.
On Monday, November 17, there was a significant amount of rainfall over a few hours which caused various locations within the city to flood.
“Please refrain from driving through standing water and use extreme caution while driving throughout Santa Barbara,” the police department stated.
Motorists are encouraged to avoid the following locations as barricades are in place to ensure safety and prevent damage to vehicles:
- Cacique at Quarantina
- Cacique at Powers
- Calle Cesar Chavez at Railroad tracks
- 500 and 600 E. Gutierrez Street
- Salsipuedes Street south to Montecitio St.
Residents have posted photos of flooding throughout the South Coast beginning on Saturday night, November 15, as the rain storm began to ramp up.
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On Sunday morning, the Santa Barbara Police Department reported a mudslide on the sout bound lane of Loma Alta between Shoreline and Cliff Drive, flooding at Cota and Salsipuedes, with other flooded sections of roads including Ortega Street, Old Coast Highway, and Calle de Los Amigos.
Rain is expected to wrap up on Monday afternoon as another storm system is set to return to the South Coast on Thursday, November 20.
Santa Barbara County’s Office of Emergency Management issued the following precautions to stay safe during rainstorms.
- NEVER drive, swim, or walk into floodwaters. Turn around, don’t drown!
- If a Flash Flood Warning is issued, stay off roads and move away from waterways. If near a recent burn area, go immediately to the innermost room of your home or to higher ground such as a second floor.
- Stay away from rivers, creeks, streams, recent wildfire burn areas, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
For more safety tips and the latest information, visit www.ReadySBC.org.
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Spring St and Salsipuedes. Castillo St. underpass and Garden St. underpass . . . I wonder how things are going, down at the old location for Open Air Bicycles, near the Fig Tree/AmTrack Station? I see on Instagram that someone has posted some pretty jaw-dropping photos of Pedregosa St. I don’t ever remember seeing that as a flood area in Santa Barbara. I do remember crossing at Pedregosa and Laguna Sts, many many years ago, when the water was up to my knees, rushing down Laguna. My dogs and I used to take long walks in the pouring rain.
I just wanted to wish everyone well and say that I hope you’re all okay. The Pineapple Express sure is making my fruit trees happy, but my heart goes out to anyone who is having problems due to such heavy rains.
Proof a little delayed maintenance by the public works department can create a lake almost anywhere in town. – Larger Managers Salaries, Low on Infrastructure Competence, niltch on consciousness.
Another strange post spewing angry nonsense.
Best and heaviest November rain anyone can remember. Parklets flooded? Who cares.
Weather idiot #2 spreads his fecal pellets.
You sure seem to care, BASIC. What a weird and pointless thing to say. Maybe local news is too much for you?
Maybe the “parklets” don’t belong there? They block drainage in storms like these. Nothing “weird” or “pointless” at all about my comment, unlike yours.
Funny, then, how the areas with the parklets didn’t experience any marked flooding.
No they don’t, BASIC. Stop inventing fantasies to whine about and then say “who cares?”
You do, bro. You clearly do. What a weird hobby you have – ranting about non existent situations then trying to act like you don’t care despite filling the page….. And here I thought doll collectors were strange….
I think the area held up very well considering how much rain in such a short period we got, especially for the early season when there’s tons of leaf litter coming in. Record rains for November.