Ellen Gets Emotional Over Mudslide Devastation Near Montecito Home

It continued to smolder before a drenching Pacific storm hit bare hills and mountains this week, unleashing debris-laden flash floods that swept away homes and killed at least 17 people.

Lauren Cantin was coated head to foot in mud, was led by firefighters from a pile of wood and debris that was once a house on Tuesday, a photo from Santa Barbara County Fire Department showed.

Another victim was found dead in his mudslide-ravaged Montecito home Friday, bringing the death toll to 18 in the Southern California disaster.

Until it was washed away this week by raging floods, leaving only a moonscape of mud and rocks, the three-bedroom Spanish-style house at 319 Hot Springs Rd. had been a sunny place filled with the artworks collected by Alice Mitchell, who steadied art in college, Megan Mitchell told NBC News on Wednesday. Snapped power poles blocked some street, and authorities were still struggling to figure out how to clear Highway 101, a portion of which still resembles a river rather than a road. “Thousands have been blessed by the Rohters’ friendship and generosity”.

“Roy Rohter was a man of strong faith and a great friend of Catholic education”, said Michael F. McLean, president of Thomas Aquinas College.

“There is one thing Roy would want from everyone – prayers”, Van Hecke added.

“We have got to get those basins cleaned as fast as we can”, Lewin said. Many of Rebecca’s clients quickly became close personal friends as her knowledge, strength and work ethic were eclipsed only by her unending grace, warmth and kindness.

The grim discovery came around noon on a day in which searchers were going through damaged and destroyed homes, sometimes for a second time.

“Why didn’t she stay upstairs?” “Why did she go downstairs?” Her body was found Wednesday near a highway.

Her firm, Riskin Partners, credited the former ballerina with having closed more than $2 billion in high-end real estate sales since founding the company in the early 1990s.

The statement says Riskin was an “exceptional woman” who had exuded strength, grace and elegance.

Jennifer Ramos says Marilyn Ramos shared the home with her husband, Antonio Benitez, and the family of his brother, Victor Benitez.

Their daughter Kelly Weimer last spoke to them on Monday when she called to wish her father a happy birthday.

Peerawat Sutthithepn, six, died alongside his step-grandfather, Richard Taylor.

“Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown described the devastation this way: ‘It looked like a World War I battlefield”.

And because of the fire, communities below the scarred terrain could remain at risk of mudslides for years, said Randall Jibson, a research geologist with the US Geological Survey. “He just marched to a different drummer”.