“My kids said ‘there is something wrong.’ Then I looked out the window and there was definitely something wrong,” Lee said.
He knew there was the potential for serious mudslides, he added, but he thought the hillsides would hold as they had during previous storms.
County and city officials, including Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, were on site to survey the damage Saturday afternoon.
About a dozen displaced residents showed up at the evacuation center at La Cañada High Saturday, according to Mary Schander, who served as public information officer at the center. Schander said the school has served as an evacuation center three times since mid-January.
