The National Weather Service doesn’t expect the rain to bring the intensity necessary to produce debris flows in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, which is welcome news for residents who suffered through deadly mudslides in the area in January. Those mudslides followed the Thomas fire, which burned more than 281,000 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in late 2017.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 01, 2018 19:48 UTC