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The Night the Hills Collapsed at Arroyo Hondo
By Hattie Beresford   |   January 20, 2026

It was Saturday, January 3, and at 11:30 am in Santa Barbara the cell phones were dinging, the land lines ringing, and the emails zinging with messages from Ready Alert SBC and the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management. Flash floods were threatening, and word came of airport closures due to flooding and the […]