Southern California Neighborhoods Dig Out of Mudslides that Damaged Homes, Trapped Cars The Weather Channel 3/11/2021 Jan Wesner Childs Inspectors are assessing the damage Thursday left behind by mudslides in Orange County, California. At least four residents were trapped in their homes Wednesday after a storm across Southern California unleashed the mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires. Firefighters were called in to help the residents trapped in Silverado Canyon near Irvine, the Orange County Fire Authority said. Mud flowed into six or seven homes and damaged nine vehicles, the fire department said. Mud two to three feet deep covered a half-mile stretch of road, Shannon Widor, a spokesman for Orange County Public Works, told the Los Angeles Times.