Homes, cars and freeways are buried in mud, rocks and debris.
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Mud poured through the front doors of homes, tossing cars around like toys.
The historic Montecito Inn, built in the 1920s, sits surrounded by a lake of mud.
All the mud came down from barren hillsides, stripped bare by last year's wildfires.
It rumbled downhill in a thick wall that picked up and carried boulders the size of cars, burying entire homes.
For one home, all that can be seen is a chimney sticking up out of the muck.
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The mud also seeped into a country club and took over a golf course.
Now that the rain is gone, ground crews are working on digging out the town.
They're trying to repair damaged railroad tracks.
And a lengthy stretch of the 101 Freeway remains shut down, covered in mud. Crews are trying to clean up the mess, one tractor bucket at a time, but Caltrans believes the freeway won't reopen until at least Friday if not later.