Heavy rains and strong winds from powerful winter storms this week brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, triggering widespread mudslides and debris flows and leaving homes halfway filled with mud.
It's unclear how long it will take to repair the roadway. In the meantime, the highway is closed.
Landslides in the North Carolina mountains have closed a popular Labor Day destination ahead of the holiday weekend.
The last time the Strogoff's saw Diamond was one day before the Montecito Mudslide destroyed their property and surrounding neighborhood.
The waves on Zuma Beach turned black as a river of mud from the Woolsey Fire burn scar rushed into the Pacific Ocean.
As forests and hillsides are charred by wildfires, damage to trees, plants and the soil can create the potential for flooding and mudslides during a rainstorm.