Foothills Sentry April 2021

Page 3 Foothills Sentry April 2021 7540 E. Chapman Ave. Orange, CA 92869 (714) 639-9792 MEAT&DELI, PRODUCE, BAKERY, FRESH FISH, GIFT BASKETS, WINE MON-SAT: 8am - 9pmSUN: 8am - 8pm www.Paci�icRanchMarket.com $ OFF Excluding alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. With coupon only. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. Limit one coupon per customer. Valid only at Paci�ic Ranch Market. When You Spend $25 or More * EXPIRES: 4/30/21 5 OC’s Premier ProduceMarket Dispatches from the Silverado mudslide front By Scott Breeden Wednesday morning, March 10, water and mud carried trash cans and other debris past my Grundy Lane house in Silverado. The worst-hit area near me was around the corner on Anderson Way, where at least three cars were carried downstream and lodged next to somebody’s house. A lot of the Anderson mud next wound up on aptly-named Water Way, the street closest to Silvera- do Creek. At the last house on that road, Linda Learned recovered clothing and other artifacts, in- cluding someone’s yearbook and a very muddy rattlesnake (prob- ably dead, though it was carefully carried off to uninhabited terri- tory as a precaution). Linda, husband Steve, and sev- eral neighbors then shoveled and fire-hosed enough mud out of the way so Steve could drive one car out to the Canyon Market area, where sheriff’s deputies were en- couraging residents to park their cars if they were not planning on leaving town. A mandatory evacuation order was now in ef- fect -- anyone leaving would not be allowed back in until the order was lifted, which occurred three days later. The amount of debris caught everyone off guard, since there hadn’t been as much here after the previous rainstorm. At the top of Shady Drive, Fran Williams had just gotten through paying Mike Silberman for digging a large catch basin to keep any de- bris from farther up the canyon off the road. But the catch basin filled up and overflowed. Ron Wortman used his tractor to clear an upper stretch of Ander- son Way. The creek is supposed to flow out of the two pipes in the culvert under the road when it rains. But since the other end of the pipes got clogged with debris, the creek shifted over to the road, depositing mud and rocks from the burned hills above as it went. Martra Abello was extremely interested in the road-clearing operation because her car was parked uphill. She had gone for a hike Wednesday morning when the weather seemed fine. When she got back to her car, though, the road was buried under so much mud and rock that she had to leave the car and walk out. While at least six homes were damaged and a number of cars swept downhill, no injuries were reported. Photos by Mike Boeck