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Because a couple of years ago this hillside was on fire and the crews were filling up the helicopter buckets out of this lake which is now a dry lake bed, elizabeth lake. so this is one of the reasons why this is a powerful mudslide behind the houses, because, you know, the hillside burn didn't have any vegetation to hold on, and it has been four years, not enough rain to germinate any root structure to hold the hillsides in place. so they have that to contend with. and dump truck after dump truck has been coming up and down the road today, and they have 300,000 cubic yards of mud. they have t...

>> reporter: already they have some problems indeed. public works officials have been working overtime making sure that storm drains are clear. they know this amount of rain that's falling is not only going to be a flood event, but also will weaken the actual root structure of trees and because the soil will be so saturated and the roots will be weakened, any gust of wind and there could be gusts up to 35 miles per hour, could cause trees to go down. bottom line, the amount of rain here expected in the next three days will be equal to what could normally happen in three months. and they say th...