Ellen DeGeneres Shares Video Of Raging Flash Flood As Mudslides Hit Star-Studded Montecito

Ellen DeGeneres, 64, gave her Instagram followers a glimpse of the brainsick h2o issues Southern California, including her country of Montecito, is having, successful a caller video. The erstwhile speech amusement big filmed the clip of herself arsenic she stood successful beforehand of a raging creek adjacent her location and explained that she’s been ordered to shelter-in-place since her location is located adjacent higher ground. Other parts of Montecito, however, person had a mandatory evacuation.

“Montecito is nether mandatory evacuation. We are connected higher crushed truthful they asked america to structure successful place. Please enactment harmless everyone,” Ellen wrote successful the caption of the video. She besides mentioned that it’s the five-year day of erstwhile a occurrence and major mudslides killed 23 radical successful the country and ruined 100 homes, arsenic she stood successful a grey hoodie with the hood implicit her head.

“This is brainsick connected the five-year anniversary. We are having unprecedented rain,” she said. “This creek adjacent to our location ne'er flows, never. It’s astir apt astir 9 feet up and it’s going to spell different 2 feet up.”

A CA roadworthy is shown blocked disconnected due to the fact that of the unsafe mudslides. (Haven Daley/AP/Shutterstock)

Ellen’s video was shared aft the storm that’s causing monolithic rainfall and information has been making headlines. Other celebs that unrecorded successful the country and whitethorn person been ordered to evacuate see Oprah, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Rob Lowe, Adam Levine, Gwyneth Paltrow and George Lucas. There person been reports that 10 radical person sadly been killed already owed to the storms implicit the past 10 days.

The National Weather Service has besides reported that “at slightest 8 inches of rainfall fell implicit 12 hours, with respective much inches predicted arsenic the tempest strategy swept done the country of wooded hillsides and secluded ample homes,” according to the Independent. The outlet besides reported that Santa Barbara exigency officials issued a structure successful spot informing for those who haven’t evacuated and advised them “to spell to innermost country oregon precocious ground.”

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