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El Niño Storm Wallops Santa Barbara

See Photos and Videos of This Week's Heavy Rains

By Indy Staff
Wed Jan 06, 2016 | 10:54am
Flooding on Cota Street

As sheets of rain — with smatterings of lightning and hail — bombard Santa Barbara this week, Independent staff and readers are submitting photos and videos of the action. We’ll post them here as they come in, and feel free to email news@independent.com with your own visuals. Also be sure to check us out on Facebook. Stay dry, and stay safe! (If you’re viewing this on a mobile device, switch to the desktop version of our site to see more.)

Micheltorena Street.
Anacapa Street.
Flooding in the Solimar Fire burn area.
Ray Ford
Sailboat washed up on Hope Ranch beach.
Flooding at Garden and Cota.
Caltrans maintenance supervisor Larry Weaverling (neon yellow) works to open clogged median drainage culverts that caused freeway flooding Tuesday morning. (Jan. 5, 2016)
Paul Wellman
Caltrans employees work to open clogged median drainage culverts that caused freeway flooding Tuesday morning. (Jan. 5, 2016)
Paul Wellman
Caltrans employees work to open clogged median drainage culverts that caused freeway flooding Tuesday morning. (Jan. 5, 2016)
Paul Wellman
A jackknifed semi blocked two lanes of southbound traffic in heavy rains on the 101 just before the Garden Street exit. (Jan. 5, 2014)
Paul Wellman
A historic tree at the Santa Barbara Mission that was uprooting during recent storms. (Jan. 6, 2016)
Paul Wellman
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