As the low-pressure area stalls off the coast of Los Angeles we are watching Southern California turn into a giant lake. Neighborhoods in the low-lying areas are starting to look more like ponds. A couple of burned out fire areas are under flood watches and some have already seen small mudslides, hopefully they will get a break from the rain, but with the circular storm it simply drops all that water, then goes out to the ocean to pick up more. The storm is fairly large with outer bands from San Luis Obispo, to Las Vegas to Tijuana Mexico.

Mudslides and the Malibu Landslides are known hazards of Southern California, especially in El Nino years, but we are not even in the El Nino time of year and this isn