{"id":120835,"date":"2026-01-05T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:53:13","slug":"weekend-storm-triggers-new-mudflows-in-southern-california-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120835\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend storm triggers new mudflows in Southern California mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest powerful storm to hit Southern California brought new mudflows and hazardous driving conditions to local mountain communities over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains, was still cleaning up from a destructive Christmas storm<\/a> when the most recent round of rain triggered additional debris flows. The earlier storm damaged homes and buried cars up to their windows in mud.<\/p>\n

Video recorded Sunday showed fast-moving mud and debris rushing near homes and making nearby highways and roads impassable.<\/p>\n

\"Wrightwood<\/a><\/p>\n

A mudflow is seen near a home in Wrightwood on Jan. 4, 2026. (OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n

KTLA\u2019s Erin Myers was headed to Wrightwood to survey the damage Monday morning but was forced to take an alternate route because of flood damage.<\/p>\n

In the nearby San Bernardino Mountains, heavy rain likely contributed to multiple crashes, including one vehicle that landed in a creek after going over the side of Highway 18 in the Arrowbear area of Running Springs Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"Highway<\/p>\n

A pickup truck went over the side of Highway 18 in the San Bernadino Mountains on Jan. 4, 2026. (OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/p>\n

Snow falls on Green Valley Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains on Jan. 4, 2026. (OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n

Caltrans reported no current restrictions on Highway 18 as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Much of the flooding was due to the warm nature of the storm. Snow fell only at the highest elevations, but a mix of rain and snow was captured at Green Valley Lake.<\/p>\n

The weather is expected to give mountain communities a chance to recover as drier conditions are forecast this week, with sunny skies returning by Thursday and continuing through the weekend.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest powerful storm to hit Southern California brought new mudflows and hazardous driving conditions to local mountain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,63645,63646,63643,63644,58133,5076,1009,38819],"class_list":{"0":"post-120835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-flood-damage","12":"tag-green-valley-lake","13":"tag-mountain-communities","14":"tag-san-bernadino-mountains","15":"tag-san-bernardino-mountains","16":"tag-san-gabriel-mountains","17":"tag-southern-california","18":"tag-wrightwood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}