Important Takeaways:

• Roads remained closed throughout Southern California on Friday following an atmospheric river that triggered rounds of evacuations and closures as it unleashed damaging mudslides in the fire-ravaged region.
• Multiple mudslides and flash floods were reported through Thursday night. In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
• High winds tore through a mobile home community in Oxnard, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, damaging at least 12 homes, many with entire walls and roofs shredded and torn off. The damage could have been caused by a waterspout that came onshore as a weak tornado, said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Winds in the area were recorded at speeds of 50 mph.
• Evacuations warnings and orders were issued in multiple counties, though the majority occurred in the Los Angeles area where the worst of the wildfires broke out last month. By late Thursday, the National Weather Service lifted all rain-related weather advisories in the region, but officials warned that “mud and rockslides can still happen even after the rainfall has stopped.”

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