"It was horrendous." They had no electricity, no phone signal, and no running water. Mrs Whitwell took this photo of a collapsed road and water flowing down the mountain [Diana Whitwell] Diana ...

It’s not immediately clear exactly what preparations each local water provider took before the Mountain fire ... of stress on that system; you draw down that tank faster than it can get refilled ...

touching seawater at a river’s mouth and then running alongside that river all the way back up the mountain the river had sprung from--taking the route that water flows down the mountainside to ...

But it did not stop, and with more than a year's worth of rainfall in just eight hours on Wednesday, it was "like a tsunami coming down a mountain" and through their ... by which time the flood water ...

They had no electricity, no phone signal, and no running water ... daughters walked across a collapsed road and down the opposite mountain to get water from a spring. "We knew it was there ...