Heavy rain has caused problems for people around San Diego County this morning. KPBS reporter Andrew Phelps has details.
If it feels like an unusually rainy winter, you're right.
National Weather Service forecaster Stan Wasowkski : For the season we're actually above normal again. Lindbergh -- currently right now they're at 5.45 inches since July 1st of 2007, and normally they're supposed to be at 5.12, so that's about a third of an inch above normal. And in the month of January alone we've had about 3.26 inches.
All that rain is good for this dry desert. But it's bad for roads and hillsides, especially in the areas burned by October's wildfires.
Bill Pollick is with the county's public works department.
Pollick : We had some flooding in the usual areas that fill with water during rainstorms. But we had an unusual closure in an area where we don't normally close, and that's South Grade Road on Palomar Mountain, which of course was hit hard by the Poomacha Fire. And then we have a hillside that's threatening to come down out on Honeysprings Road in the Deerhorn Valley area.
A mudslide closed Route 78 between Escondido and Ramona. And rain could cause more damage to the Mount Soledad landslide area.
Pollick says the county is giving away free sandbags to people in burn areas. They're available at seven fire stations in unincorporated areas.
Reporting live from the KPBS Newsroom, I'm Andrew Phelps.
