Published on Sunday, February 07, 2010
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
PHOTO GALLERIES Gallery I GOVERNOR TOURS SLIDE AREA Gallery II DIGGING OUT IN LA CANADA
Officials are scrambling to avoid a repeat of the weekend's hillside mudslides that damaged 43 homes in La Ca±ada Flintridge and La Crescenta and left many scratching their heads over the apparent lack of emergency preparations.
Workers hurried Sunday to empty debris basins once filled with mud in anticipation of mid-week rains feared to further endanger homes on hillsides denuded by last summer's wildfires.
Although today's forecast predicted mostly sunny skies and a high near 60 degrees, a 20 percent chance of rain was expected to increase to a 40 percent chance of rain by Tuesday night and a 30 percent chance of rain Wednesday morning.
Earlier Sunday, evacuation orders were lifted for residents in the mudslide area where at least nine of the mud-damaged homes were uninhabitable - possibly permanently
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